If you look at the last 4 season you can see West Coast have won 8 of there last 65 and North Melbourne have won 13 games in those 4 seasons, Is this the first time since the VFL turned to AFL that we have the two same teams this bad at the same time for a extended period of time?
How common is it to have two teams historically bad at the same time?
In 2011 there was a 3 week stretch were Melbourne lost a game by 186, Port lost 2 games in a row by a combined margin of 303 (138 and 165) and Gold Coast lost by 150 a very brief amount of time but all those games broke several records.
186: Biggest margin of the AFL era, Biggest winning margin by Geelong, Biggest winning margin at GMHBA. (Somehow it isn’t Melbourne’s largest losing margin)
138: Port Adelaide’s lowest score, Port Adelaide’s biggest losing margin.
165 Hawthorn’s biggest ever winning margin, biggest margin at the MCG, Port’s biggest losing margin (yes they broke it 2 weeks in a row), biggest combined losing margin in a 2 consecutive games (303).
150: Gold Coast’s biggest losing margin, Biggest combined winning margin over 2 consecutive games (336).
Edit: Could make it a 4 week stretch because the week before all of this chaos happened Adelaide lost St Kilda by 103.
GWS had a year where lost basically every game by over 10 goals and only beat Gold Coast and Melbourne who were also all time bad teams.
Having 2 all time bad teams is actually an outlier as usually there is more.
They only won 1 game in 2013
You're right, it was Melbourne I was thinking of who only beat the two expansion teams one year in that era.