The Geelong Cats have enjoyed an era of great success thanks largely in part to recruiting boss Stephen Wells. Source: Herald Sun
A DETAILED investigation into recruiting success has reaffirmed Geelong as the king of the national draft.
The AFL's official statistician Champion Data this week reviewed every pick since 2000 - and it further highlighted the Cats' consistency in getting it right.
Led by chief recruiter Stephen Wells, Geelong is clearly rated No.1 for cashing in with top-10 picks.
The Cats are also rated No.3 for picks in the 11-20 zone, No.9 in the 21-40 band, No.10 for 41-60 and No.3 for picks beyond 61.
The key criteria to judge recruiting was simple: average games played in each band.
Geelong has had only four top-10 picks since 2000, but the combined selections average 148 games.
Triple premiership stars Jimmy Bartel, Andrew Mackie and Joel Selwood are obvious winners, with Kane Tenace (pick No.7 in 2003) a blooper, given he played only 59 games.
The Cats have had six picks in the 11-20 range for an average of 78 games.
In the key 21-40 band they are mid-table with a respectable 40 games per player.
Geelong's recruiting has been the cornerstone of an amazing era of sustained success, the greatest period in the club's history.
Using data from all five draft bands, the Herald Sun has created a formula to rate each club's drafting since 2000.
Each of the clubs in existence for the entire post-2000 period was given a ladder order from 1 to 16 for each band. The club with the lowest score was considered the best performed at national drafts.
Geelong's record of first, third, ninth, 10th and third in each band totalled 26 points - comfortably ahead of its main challengers.
The fact that its closest rivals on the "drafting ladder" were Hawthorn, Collingwood, West Coast and St Kilda, who have all enjoyed success in the period, underlines the importance of choosing well in tonight's national draft on the Gold Coast.
Collingwood's ample resources helped it post a top-10 finish in each draft band - the only club to achieve the feat.
Hawthorn was rated fifth, fourth and second in the first three bands, where premiership lists are built.
St Kilda was also a specialist in the first three bands under pick 40, ranked second, first and fourth.
The Saints could have beaten Geelong if not let down by a 14th ranking in the 41-60 and 61-plus bands.
They have recruited 22 players beyond 61 in the national draft since 2000 for a meagre average of 14 games per player.
Premiers Sydney, widely regarded as the masters of trade period, were strong in the 1-10 range, poor in the 11-20 category and the best in the competition in the 21-40 grouping. The Swans fall away after that.
Remarkably, Sydney has had just seven top-20 picks since 2000 yet has won two premierships.
Fremantle, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs - three of the four clubs not to have played in a Grand Final since the 2000 draft - are at the lower end of the recruiting scale using games average as the gauge.
The Dockers have had six top-10 draft selections for a games average of only 44 - ranked 15th in the prime zone that is supposed to be a treasure trove of blue-chip, 150-plus game players.
They did not finish higher than seventh in any category.
The Bulldogs are ranked seventh for picking talent in the 1-10 range, but are near the bottom for picks in the 11-20, 21-40 and 41-60 brackets.
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