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I'm an economist by trade, so I don't like to draw any conclusions until we have a reasonable sample size. Dolphins were topping the comp in the early rounds and were still in the four at the beginning of the origin period last year I believe. Titans were 0 from 6 before showing some good form towards the end of last year. I am by no means understating the Raider's great start to the year- they are my 2nd favorite team actually. But I just don't think we can make evaluations on who are contenders, pretenders, wooden spooners until at least the start of the origin period.
They look pretty good to me, relentless through the middle and with the personnel to sustain it - understand what you're saying but they've got to be the form team until otherwise
 
I'm an economist by trade, so I don't like to draw any conclusions until we have a reasonable sample size. Dolphins were topping the comp in the early rounds and were still in the four at the beginning of the origin period last year I believe. Titans were 0 from 6 before showing some good form towards the end of last year. I am by no means understating the Raider's great start to the year- they are my 2nd favorite team actually. But I just don't think we can make evaluations on who are contenders, pretenders, wooden spooners until at least the start of the origin period.
But sports isnt a field where you can just wait for more data points to increase the sample size. You get what, 25 games a season? We have already played 8% of our games.

We canā€™t accurately predict who will win the comp sure, but we can certainly make evaluations on a game by game basis.

Not to say those evaluations wonā€™t be wildly inaccurate in the long run šŸ˜…
 
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But sports isnt a field where you can just wait for more data points to increase the sample size. You get what, 25 games a season? We have already played 8% of our games.

We canā€™t accurately predict who will win the comp sure, but we can certainly make evaluations on a game by game basis.

Not to say those evaluations wonā€™t be wildly inaccurate in the long run šŸ˜…
Or the short term šŸ¤£
 
With raiders taking care of the Broncos so convincingly, it doesnā€™t make Vegas seem as bad. Perhaps the players were treating it as a working holiday. Iā€™ve been away on work in other cities ā€œworkingā€ and thereā€™s not much work going on

Made me lol, deffo been there haha.

Question - do you think if we played as good in the game against Manly against the Raiders in Vegas we would have won?

They've looked pretty solid, but I thought both teams (us and Broncs) looked pretty poor and made a heap of errors that the Raiders capitilised on
 
Well 1 from 5 so far šŸ¤£

Big upsets from the Warriors and Roosters haven't helped my cause and the Dragons shitting the bed. I should have picked the knights though. Always plenty of upsets in the first 6 rounds.

Easy to be a critic after the fact. šŸ˜‰ @BangBro's (still banging) the only one to make a call before the game was played and it was the right one.

Three games to go. And just like the Warriors there is always the possibility of redemption next week.
Tbf. Every season for ever we have seen upsets in the early rounds. Tipping is a trap for all.
Previous years form means very little
 
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Made me lol, deffo been there haha.

Question - do you think if we played as good in the game against Manly against the Raiders in Vegas we would have won?

They've looked pretty solid, but I thought both teams (us and Broncs) looked pretty poor and made a heap of errors that the Raiders capitilised on
After 2 games now I think we were 100% ambushed and the 2025 Raiders were a bad team for us to draw first up. As others have posted, they start the season hard and fast and this year its a level up. I think a lot of people have forgotten that in their analysis, myself included.

I think the Broncos made the mistake of thinking that it didn't mean anything because beating the Warriors isn't much to write home about. So in the end they got ambushed too.
 
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