As much as we’d love a truly balanced AFL fixture , it’s just not practical - playing everyone once is too few games, and playing everyone twice is way too many.

So instead the league attempts to equalise the competition by putting its finger on the scale when it creates the yearly draw.

With 18 teams playing 23 games across 25 weeks, all clubs must play six opponents twice, and these are their ‘double-up’ opponents. To determine these, the AFL breaks up the ladder into a trio of six-team brackets (including finals results), and teams are drawn against bracket colleagues more often.

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