Richmond and Hawthorn Shared Nine Finals Series Before 2018. How Did They Avoid Each Other Every Single Time?
Richmond and Hawthorn finally met in a final in 2018. By then the clubs had already spent decades building histories full of premierships, famous players and September appearances.
The strange part is not merely that their first final took so long to arrive. Before 2018, Richmond and Hawthorn had both participated in the same finals series nine different times — and still never crossed paths once.
How can two clubs share September nine times and avoid each other every single time?
It sounds like a statistical curiosity until the finals systems, ladder positions and paths through September are laid on top of one another. The member feature reconstructs those near-misses and asks whether this was extraordinary luck, a quirk of changing finals formats, or something hiding in the way the two clubs rose and fell through the same eras.
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