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Victorian venue caps
internal:venue.SM-CLUB-VENUE-MAXCatalogue name: Victorian tenancy caps
What it means
A Victorian club plays at most a set number of ordinary home games at a named ground, Gather RoundThe round in which every game is played in one host city. Every club appears once.Read more in the glossary excluded. Richmond, Melbourne and Collingwood are capped at Docklands; St Kilda, the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne are capped at the MCGMelbourne Cricket Ground.Read more in the glossary.
Why it exists
Keeps each club's home-ground split close to real life. Earlier versions gave Richmond three Docklands home games and the Bulldogs four at the MCG.
For example
Richmond plays at most one ordinary home game at Docklands.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow. The caps are owner-approved modelled settings for 2027. Checked from the 18 September release.
Where to see it
Who plays where shows how this plays out across the season.
How it played out across versions
One cell per release, oldest first. Each shows the verdict that release recorded for this rule; a release with no row for the rule says so.
- Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
Met, met
- B011 nominal2027 · Generated
Met, met
- B012 Wednesday opening2027 · Generated
Met, met
- 20252025 season as played2025 · As played
Off, switched off by these settings
rule source not recorded
First checked independently in TV slots added, 18 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
internal:venue.SM-CLUB-VENUE-MAX- Catalogue text
- A Victorian club plays at most a declared number of ordinary home games at a named venue, Gather Round excluded; for example Richmond, Melbourne and Collingwood are capped at the MCG and St Kilda, the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne at Docklands.
- Catalogue type
- modelled rule (not a catalogue row)
- Catalogue family
- internal
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S3· Step 4: home ground and venue- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated- Catalogue reason
- Keeps each club's home-ground split close to its real tenancy; earlier releases had given Richmond three Docklands home games and the Bulldogs four at the MCG.