Many years ago Fan Footy created Depth Charts for AFL football clubs in a similar vein to the NFL Depth Charts.
The depth chart is a list of players sorted by position, and then sorted again by likelihood of playing in the next game for their AFL team, without reference to injury status. Thus the first player mentioned in each list is guaranteed of a game and is the best player that the club has in that position, whereas the last player is a fringe player at best, will rarely if ever get a game and is only on the club's list as a development player or veteran backup
If you wonder over to Fan Footy (Click HERE) you will now see that their depth charts are hideously out of date. They still have players the like of Shane O'Bree & Jaxson Barham running around for the black & white!
Key Defender
Ben Reid
Nathan Brown
Nick Maxwell
Lachlan Keeffe
Jack Frost
Adam Oxley
Michael Hartley
Small Defender
Heath Shaw
Alan Toovey
Jordan Russell
Marty Clarke
Marley Williams
Caolan Mooney
Peter Yagmoor
Jackson Ramsay
Key Forwards
Travis Cloke
Quinten Lynch (RCK)
Tyson Goldsack
Jackson Paine
Small Forwards
Jarryd Blair
Alex Fasolo
Andrew Krakouer
Alan Didak
Brent Macaffer
Ben Sinclair
Ben Kennedy
Inside Midfielders
Dayne Swan
Dayne Beams
Luke Ball
Kyle Martin
Josh Thomas
Outside Midfielders
Scott Pendlebury
Dale Thomas
Steele Sidebotton
Clinton Young
Harry O'Brien (SD)
Paul Seedsman
Sam Dwyer
Ben Johnson (SD)
Tim Broomhead
Rucks
Darren Jolly
Ben Hudson
Jarrod Witts (KF)
Brodie Grundy
Corey Gault
Taggers
Brent Macaffer
Ben Sinclair
Ben Johnson
*** The two hardest things creating depth charts are trying to decide if a player is a Key Position or Small Position player and deciding if a player is an Outside Midfielder or Small Forward. Many of the outside midfielder are equally adapt to playing either a small forward or small defender roll. Players like Maxwell, Oxley and Goldsack, whilst are not traditional Key Position players, they are more adapt to playing deep forward/back roles, rather than pushing up into the high forward/back roles. Then the contraction comes when you start have players like Toovey who are not tall but never venture too high up the ground......
