Australian Rules Football
Owing to the short schedules and restricted talent pool of Australian rules football leagues, winless seasons (the term “imperfect season” never being used in Australia) are more common and better documented than in any other professional or semi-professional team sport. In the major state leagues of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, the home-and-away season was originally between twelve and sixteen games long, and is now between twenty and twenty-two games, so a very poor team could easily fail to win any games.
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