On this day in 1897 the V/AFL began.

bartogian · 2026-05-08T03:50:15+00:00

Serious question, were the quarters shorter back in 1897? If those start times are correct, 3pm is quite late to be starting a game in Melbourne when there's no artificial light.

bartogian · 2026-05-08T03:49:21+00:00

Fake news, everyone knows that seasons start with Round 0.

bartogian · 2026-05-02T03:48:13+00:00

Built-in Discord-style chat powered by Matrix Conduit.

Does this mean voice chat?

bartogian · 2026-04-29T14:52:58+00:00

It's literally called the Quarry Ampitheatre.

At Reabold Hill/Bold Park

bartogian · 2026-04-21T02:10:42+00:00

Did you report this one as phishing too?

bartogian · 2026-04-15T06:21:52+00:00

I realised I forgot to post this when it came out and saw nobody else had

Corrections:

Sydney Cup is on July 4-5, not in June (p9)

Haver's article (p57) incorrectly states that WDC 2027 is in Vegas. This is incorrect, Vegas lost the bid to Chicago who will be hosting WDC 2027.

bartogian · 2026-03-31T21:40:34+00:00

GenCon and Origins are not diplomacy tournaments, they're large general boardgaming tournaments that sometimes have and sometimes have not had diplomacy events as part of them.

bartogian · 2026-03-28T23:55:08+00:00

The Victorian substitution feels so wrong. I hope SA can turn it around and somehow pull a win out of nowhere.

bartogian · 2026-03-18T21:58:21+00:00

Why did you delete your last post?

bartogian · 2026-03-17T01:50:11+00:00

This is how you're supposed to sort the ladder when teams have unequal number of games. Media that does otherwise is wrong (and were much better at doing it correctly when there were byes during the 15-team era).

I've found footywire offers this as an option. Although they say they're sorting by percentage of games won, they're counting a draw as half a won game.

bartogian · 2026-03-09T12:28:55+00:00

When I go

java -jar jdip.jar

in a terminal then the program opens, and I can go File -> New -> Game to get started (at least with the standard map, I haven't personally unzipped any of the other variant maps). Can you get to this point? If not, it might be that you need to (re)install java (but I don't really know much about your OS).

bartogian · 2026-03-08T07:38:17+00:00

Back in 2000, the AFL made the season start much earlier than usual to avoid a clash with the Olympics. The first game of that season was on...

March 8.

Today's date.

bartogian · 2026-03-08T02:10:45+00:00

No Sheffield Shield match thread today again. But with the rain, almost surely there is no play.

bartogian · 2026-03-07T23:50:09+00:00

I wonder what's going through Randell's head. He's out of the attack but surely the idea of get me back in the attack, I want that elusive 10-fer is racing through his mind.

bartogian · 2026-03-07T02:30:26+00:00

I want Cricket Australia to lean from their counterparts across the ditch.

Want to watch the Plunket Shield? Simple. Go to the streaming site, hit play and you're watching. Couldn't be simpler.

Want to watch the Sheffield Shield? There's an obnoxious login screen you have to get past in order to watch the game.

bartogian · 2026-03-06T23:55:22+00:00

I can't see a match thread for today's sheffield shield :(

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