Weโre back for Round 14 of Zero Hangerโs weekly โfive useless statsโ series.
Every week Aaron Delaporte fromย Useless AFL Statsย will take a look at the most useless statistics from the weekend just gone, the absurd, the ridiculous and just the plain outrageous.
With the shortened round it's just four stats this week but these are the most captivatingly Useless Statsย from the week just gone.
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4. Five-match round
The five matches played over Round 14 was the lowest tally of games seen on an AFL weekend for quite some time.
You need to go way back to Round 6 1994 to find a round with less and on that occasion just four games were played as seven teams were given a bye.
To find a week where exactly five games were played you need to go back to 1987, when a very strange anomaly occurred with the then-VFL playing Rounds 16 and 17 over three separate weeks.
The weird situation saw five matches played on the weekend starting July 10th, three of these were Round 16 fixtures and two were from Round 17. The following week saw another five games with again three from Round 16 and two from Round 17, whilst the last week saw the remaining Round 16 game and three Round 17 games played.
It would be interesting to speak to see someone who was around to witness this, but it surely would have been a confusing time for those who followed the game.
