AFL 2011: Winning from behind in the regular season

This is a companion post to NRL 2011: Winning from behind in the regular season.
I am interested in the ability to win in invasive team games.
This season I have looked at winning behaviours in association football, Australian rules football, rugby league and rugby union.
In this post I list those teams in this year’s AFL fixtures in Australia who were able to overcome a deficit within a game to win in the regular season (before the finals’ rounds). The measure of a deficit was at the end of a quarter and does not reflect in every case the scale of a come back within a quarter.
In the table below the first named team overcame a deficit to win. There were three drawn games in the regular season.

To Win Team Opponent Round
36 Suns v Tigers Round 17
32 Hawthorn v Saints Round 8
30 Magpies v Crows Round 9
28 Suns v Port Adelaide Round 5
27 Port Adelaide v Crows Round 4
25 Melbourne v Lions Round 3
24 Kangaroos v Demons Round 8
23 Magpies v Essenden Round 19
22 Bulldogs v Crows Round 13
22 Richmond v N Melbourne Round 5
20 Geelong v Suns Round 10
19 Crows v Hawthorn Round 1
19 Hawthorn v Melbourne Round 2
18 Hawthorn v Dockers Round 11
17 Geelong v Hawks Round 12
17 Swans v Essenden Round 2
16 Essenden v Port Adelaide Round 23
16 Tigers v Crows Round 23
15 Saints v Carlton Round 24
15 Essenden v Eagles Round 7
14 Crows v Suns Round 8
14 Carlton v Swans Round 6
14 Carlton v Richmond Round 1
13 Eagles v Lions Round 23
13 Crows v Lions Round 20
13 Essenden v Swans Round 20
13 Brisbane v N Melbourne Round 9
13 Geelong v St Kilda Round 1
12 Kangaroos v Richmond Round 24
12 Hawthorn v N Melbourne Round 20
12 Kangaroos v Bulldogs Round 17
12 Swans v N Melbourne Round 10
12 Geelong v Carlton Round 9
11 Hawthorn v Suns Round 24
11 Carlton v Kangaroos Round 19
11 Freemantle v Brisbane Round 14
11 Lions v Crows Round 10
11 Geelong v Magpies Round 8
10 Swans v St Kilda Round 22
10 Eagles v Crows Round 12
10 Collingwood v Bulldogs Round 6
10 Hawthorn v Eagles Round 4
10 Freemantle v Brisbane Round 1
9 Essenden v Tigers Round 16
9 Richmond v Brisbane Round 13
8 Richmond v Demons Round 22
8 Richmond v Swans Round 21
8 Geelong v Brisbane Round 17
8 Lions v Port Adelaide Round 15
8 Hawthorn v Port Adelaide Round 7
8 Geelong v Hawks Round 5
7 Geelong v Magpies Round 24
7 Collingwood v Lions Round 22
7 Crows v Swans Roung 15
7 Demons v Essenden Round 11
7 Geelong v Swans Round 4
6 Swans v Lions Round 24
6 Richmond v Lions Round 6
6 Swans v Eagles Round 3
5 Freemantle v Suns Round 15
5 Carlton v Port Adelaide Round 11
5 Hawks v Swans Round 9
5 Saints v Lions Round 5
4 Port Adelaide v Demons Round 24
4 Carlton v St Kilda Round 7
4 Swans v Bulldogs Round 7
3 Eagles v Dockers Round 18
3 Bulldogs v Carlton Round 16
3 Kangaroos v Port Adelaide Round 14
3 Geelong v Saints Round 13
3 Essenden v Lions Round 8
3 Essenden v Bulldogs Round 1
2 Tigers v Dockers Round 7
2 Eagles v N Melbourne Round 1
1 Eagles v Essenden Round 22
1 Tigers v Essenden Round 9
1 Magpies v Carlton Round 3
To Draw
18 Carlton v Essenden Round 4
14 Melbourne v Swans Round 1
14 Richmond v Saints Round 2
7 Saints v Richmond Round 2

Photo Credit
AFL Kangaroos v Magpies

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