Anderson said despite media reports claiming there were a number of incidents where clubs did not follow the procedures correctly during last weekend's "trial" round, the AFL will commence the enforcement of the penalty as of Friday night's Collingwood v Geelong clash at the MCG.
"[Infringements] weren't rife. That might be how it's been reported today, but I think there was five clubs that may have had a free kick," Anderson said on SEN on Tuesday morning.
"Bear in mind that on the weekend, there obviously wasn't a free kick, but the majority of clubs did it really well.
"The interchange was much better, much cleaner and better controlled. And we saw on the weekend that the clubs are quite capable of following the procedure and doing it properly, and preventing a situation where we have 19 men on the field."
Anderson said the league will make an effort to contact clubs that offended during the first weekend of the altered proceedings before the rules become official this round.
He also said the AFL had little choice but to introduce the changes after clubs called for the old rule involving the captain calling a headcount to be reviewed.
"The old procedure of a count, where a captain has to call a count and the score goes back to zero, clearly didn't cut it," he said.
"That's why we've got a much more proportioned and efficient response of a free kick and 50m [penalty] now."
Anderson said aspects of the much-talked about rulings are not unheard of, with players previously required to have their rotation approved by the interchange steward before it occurs.
"The requirement to notify an interchange before it happens, with a note to the interchange steward, is not new," he said.
"It's been the case for years and years that the interchange steward is given a number of who's on and who's off before the player comes onto the field.
"We're not talking about a new procedure here either."
He said the need for stricter enforcement of the correct use of the interchange bench came to light after the North Melbourne-Sydney drawn result in round six, where the Swans were found to have an extra man on the ground in the crucial final moments.
"A number of clubs, and our guys, have become a bit slack in terms of not enforcing that as the interchanges increased and continued to increase," he said.
"We've allocated one interchange steward to each club now to make sure they can give those approvals in a quick fashion so it shouldn't slow them down at all.
"But they do need to know who's coming on and off so the interchange steward can keep control, and we don't see the sort of farcical situation where we've got an extra man on the ground."
Anderson quashed suggestions the League has cracked down on correct interchanges and introduced the player "holding area" in an attempt to slow the game down by restricting the number of rotations a side makes.
"I think if you look at the numbers of interchanges on the weekend, you'll see it was hardly different from what it's been for the previous rounds," he said.
"Each club has got their own AFL-allocated interchange steward now to make sure that the changes can happen, and the numbers of interchanges on the weekend were up there with what they've been all year.
"That's a false conspiracy theory."
He also said the AFL will continue to explore other options, including the suggested use of microchips to simplify proceedings further.
"We'll be looking to see if there's a better way with the technology available these days to help the interchange stewards out," he said.
"Certainly it's something we'll be looking at, and we'll be seeking some ideas and feedback from the clubs too on how we can use technology to make their job easier."
