Clean Sheet Question Clarified

Another brief talking point at the get-together was around clean sheets and how long it should be before a player can earn one. Beef has had a long-standing bee in his bonnet about the 15 minute rule and would like to see that increased.

I suggested that most clean sheets in our game are for the full 90 minutes and with some spare time I've been able to back up my thinking. Here are the details of the counting* clean sheets over the last three weeks.

Week 17 - 20 clean sheets, 18 of those were full match cleans
Week 18 - 34 clean sheets, 31 of those were full match cleans
Week 19 - 46 clean sheets, 42 of those were full match cleans

I don't know what counts as a full statistical sample but 100 clean sheets and 10% of the season is as far as I'm going.

So 91 out of the last 100 counting clean sheets were achieved over the whole match. I think a result in excess of 90% is pretty clear.

Of those that weren't 90 minutes they were timed at 26, 36, 44, 45 (x2), 56, 78, 82 and 87.

I think that firmly suggests that nothing is wrong with the rule as it stands and there's nothing to be gained from tinkering with it. Release the bee Beef, release the bee.

*There were a few sub cleans that didn't count as the player didn't get on the WSFFL pitch.