RM, also, some weeks back, I did an excercise of looking at the relationship between the 2015 first quarter free kicks and results of Freo games. There was a relationship, but it was hard for me to easily show the results on Dockerland.
I'll give it a go, our worst starts in the first quarter (NB: the Frees shown are at some point either before/end of Q1);
R15 HA (Away) Frees For Freo 1 Frees Against Freo 8, Freo Lost, Score end of Q1: 8-27.
R20 WC (Home) 4-11, Lost, 9-44.
R13 CO (Home) 1-6, Won, 20-22.
R7 WB (Away) 2-6, Won, 33-6.
R10 RI (Home) 2-5, Lost, 19-49.
(NB: notice anything there? ie. No surprise all teams are the usual suspects)
Our best starts;
R4 SY (Home) 7-0, Won, 26-7.
R2 GE (Away) 5-1, Won, 21-14.