Australian Football Explained

Click here for a brief video explaining the basics of Australian Football or Ozzie Rules.

Basics-

Player's can kick or punch (handball) the ball forwards or backwards, they CAN'T throw the ball like Rugby.

If a player catches the ball from a kick that is called a Mark, they can stop and take an unimpeded kick.

One of the highlights of Ozzie Rules is that players can use other players as springboards to rise in the air and Mark (catch) the ball - 

Click here for more pictures.

Some other good AFL Stats sites -

http://www.matterofstats.com/

http://www.tedsport.com.au/

http://makingthenut.com/

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19348021/footy-forensics-afl-changing-game-trends-2017

http://afltables.com/afl/afl_index.html