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AFL stats update
Hi. I'm doing some mitigated live tests with my AFL Tables bot. To test this properly, sandboxing alone isn't enough. I'll try to revert things that aren't useful ASAP from now on. Electricmaster (talk) 11:33, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
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- Hi. So I've been doing some more testing with the AFL Tables stats bot and have noticed a few things that are easily missed on random player pages such as totals not adding up correctly (bottom detailed stats are usually the problem) or not being synced with the main info stats. The bot managed to detect these successfully. I have done some dry run, and it seems to be working amazingly well now. It's still not ready for prime time, but it's definitely on the way there. For technical reasons, I may need to continue doing some live edits to ensure things sync as intended, although 95% of testing will be done in a pseudo sandbox.
- However, before I start rolling out any code at scale, I'd like your input on some things. For one, it seems there's some inconsistency between whether a player who is listed in the side but hasn't played any games in a season should have that year included in that year's row. Personally, I think it makes complete sense to include blank seasons as long as the player is listed for an AFL team, but I'd like confirmation/consensus on this. Secondly, I think the inclusion of a Brownlow vote column is rather useful, although I think it only makes sense to add it if a player has registered at least one vote in their career. How do you feel about this? Also, are there any additional changes you'd like to see? I'm going to chip away at this over the week. I think I can do it. The real test will be after Round 1 is complete. Speaking of which, is there a consensus for how rounds should be written in an article? For example, I've seen Round 7, round 7, round seven. I have my opinion, but again I'd like to know what the consensus is, if one exists.
- Additionally, once I have a ready-to-run code commit, would you be open to running the code yourself at a later stage to check if I'm missing anything? Also, I have some ideas for sharking Supercoach and AFL Fantasy. Let me know if you'd be interested in contributing to that. Thanks for your patience, and well done on all the incredible work you have done to enriching Wikipedia over the years.
- Cheers. Electricmaster (talk) 13:39, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- P.S. How did you put in those badges in your profile? Also, how do I even check my credits that would even be valid? Despite doing this for over 16 years, a lot of this technical stuff goes over my head. Sorry for the wall of text! Electricmaster (talk) 13:45, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Personally, I agree that listing blank seasons makes sense if a player was listed, and that's how I make sure to keep the statistics table I update. Regarding the Brownlow, what I've seen the players who have registered at least one vote, have it included in their statistics table. Don't know about official consensus for either of those though. --SuperJew (talk) 19:26, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Btw, a bot to keep these updated sounds great! Well done working on it! :) --SuperJew (talk) 19:26, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Electricmaster, thanks for clarifying (and for the kind words). Yes, blank seasons should always be included, same with Brownlow votes (not just limited to players that receive at least one vote), and rounds shouldn't be capitalised (e.g. round 7) unless it's a title/header or used at the beginning of a sentence; all of these have been pretty set in stone for a while, even if it isn't reflected everywhere just yet (can only cover so much ground at once). If I have time, then yeah, I'll have a go at running the code; the main things to watch out for are that averages should be to one decimal point (e.g. 23.66 → 23.7; 1 → 1.0), highlighted cells (premiership, stats leader and B&F) need to factored in, and the new line should start with the games cell; for example:
|- | [[2017 AFL season|2017]] || {{AFL|Ess}} || 4 | 20 || 2 || 6 || 194 || 278 || 472 || 97 || 84 || 0.1 || 0.3 || 9.7 || 13.9 || 23.6 || 4.9 || 4.2 || 0