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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-20/fact-check-five-mcgs-of-native-forests-logged-in-victoria/10780846***MCGWatch GOLD STAR*** A fact check that provides a deep dive into using MCGs as measurement! This is the best!

“Environmentalists frequently talk about logging in terms of how many "football fields" or "soccer pitches" are felled.

But in the lead up to last year's Victorian state election, the Greens released a policy paper that measured logging in a slightly different way: MCGs."Five MCG's worth of native forest are being logged in Victoria every day," the paper claimed.

It is unclear exactly what the party meant though: was it referring to the size of the MCG's playing field, the area of the stadium or its volume? The size of the MCG has very different dimensions depending on how define it.

“The playing field of the MCG is significantly different in size to those of other venues used for cricket or Australian football (AFL).

The area of the playing field is approximately two hectares, a spokesperson for the MCG said.A more specific measurement can be found on the website of the Port Adelaide Football Club.

The AFL side compiled a list of playing field dimensions of grounds used in the competition.It puts the size of the MCG's playing field at 20,233 square metres: that equates to 2.0233 hectares.

That makes it easily the biggest playing field in the AFL: the next biggest oval on the list — Tasmania's sparsely used York Park — is less than 18,700 square metres.The SCG, Gabba and Adelaide Oval — which are all used for both cricket and AFL — are each around 16,000 to 17,000 square meters.At 15,354 square metres, the playing field of Geelong's home ground is about three-quarters the size of the MCG.“

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-20/fact-check-five-mcgs-of-native-forests-logged-in-victoria/10780846