A history lesson is needed. When the DDHP rules were lifted from The Age's Dream Team competition in the mid-1990s, an AFL team laid around 28 tackles a game. Today they lay about 60. The DDHP still pays six points per tackle - the same as a goal - which means a stat that was once a modest contributor to scoring has, without anyone voting on it, doubled its share of the pie. Round 12 was again rich in evidence: Tom Atkins, James Rowbottom and Cameron McKenzie all posted 36-plus from the tackle slot, while Charlie Curnow's 49 for Coolbellup - the actual point of the sport, putting the ball through the actual sticks - looked positively quaint by comparison. Speaking of Curnow: Coolbellup Cazzu Grandes beat the Cheats. A low-down side rolling the top side, on the back of Curnow's forward heroics and Sam Walsh's 42 as - you guessed it - the over-valued tackler. Rhea Ripley losing the women's title would feel similar; favourites lose all the time and it never stops being interesting. The Pirates beat Western Suburbs Walkabout despite Brodie Grundy not contributing a single point - Lachlan Ash's 34 and Jye Amiss's 28 quietly carrying them home. North Suburban Boner edged Bethnal Green Village in the round's lowest-scoring match, James Rowbottom posting his 42 from - once again - the tackle slot.