The latest Rankings on Dashboard Metrics graphic appears below, and reveals that team rankings on the following metrics are most highly correlated with ladder position:

• Q3 Performances (+0.88)

• Percent of Quarters Won (+0.85)

• Own Points per Game (+0.75)

• Own Goals per Game (+0.74)

• Expected Wins from MoS Win Production Function (+0.72)

• Own Scoring Shots per Game (+0.7)

Least highly correlated are:

• Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.22)

• Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.27)

• Q2 Performances (+0.4)

• Opponent Scoring Shots per Game (+0.43)

• Opponent Goals per Game (+0.49)

A review of this table and the detailed Team Dashboard below provides more insight:

• Essendon now has only the 13th-highest percentage

• Port Adelaide are 15th on Own Scoring Shot Conversion and 13th on Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion

• Collingwood are 12th on Own Scoring Shot Conversion and 15th on Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion

• Western Bulldogs are 3rd on Own Scoring Shot generation and 3rd on Opponent Scoring Shot generation

• Brisbane Lions are 5th on Own Scoring Shot generation and 1st on Opponent Scoring Shot generation

The larger Team Dashboard also reveals that:

• Adelaide’s and Sydney’s opponents have converted at only 44%

• Sydney have won 31 quarters this season, which is 4 more than any other team

• North Melbourne have won only 6 quarters this season (and drawn none)

• Geelong and Essendon have won only 45% of Q2s, and Carlton only 36%.

• Essendon have generated fewer scoring shots than their opponents have in Q1s and Q2s, and has a sub-100 percentage for Q2s.

• Hawthorn have outscored their opponents in Q2s, but been outscored by their opponents in every other quarter

• Richmond, North Melbourne, and West Coast have been outscored by their opponents in every quarter

• The only teams to have outscored their opponents in every quarter are Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Sydney and Western Bulldogs.

• Brisbane Lions have scored 57% of their points in 1st halfs and conceded 58% in 2nd halfs. They’ve converted at only 36% in Q3s

• Melbourne have scored 60% of their points in 2nd halfs

• Sydney’s opponents have converted at only 33% in Q2s

• Carlton’s opponents have converted at over 65% in 1st halfs