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:

Percent of Quarters Won (+0.94)
Own Scoring Shots per Game (+0.9)
MoS Win Production Function Expected Wins (+0.89)
Own Points per Game (+0.88)
Own Goals per Game (+0.88)
Q3 Performances (+0.87)
Q1 Performances (+0.75)

Least highly correlated are:

Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.08)
Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.41)

A review of this table and the detailed Team Dashboard below reveals:

All eight of the Top 8 teams on the MoS Win Production Function sit in the Top 8 spots on the competition ladder. The same is true of the Top 8 teams on Golas Scored, Points Scored, and Quarters Won.
Essendon have the 5th-worst percentage

The larger Team Dashboard also reveals that:

Only four teams have a winning streak extending beyond two games: Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide, GWS, and Western Bulldogs.
Only four teams have a losing streak extending beyond two games: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, and Richmond.
North Melbourne have converted at 62% across all four quarters
Richmond have converted at only 46% across all four quarters
GWS’s opponents have converted at only 47.5% across all four quarters, West Coast’s at 57.5%.
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 Brisbane Lions, Fremantle and Western Bulldogs.
Brisbane Lions, Fremantle, Port Adelaide, and Western Bulldogs are the only teams to have registered more scoring shots than their opponents in all four quarters. North Melbourne, Richmond, and West Coast are the only teams to have registered fewer scoring shots than their opponents in all four quarters.
Port Adelaide have converted at only 42% in Q4s and Richmond at 36% (and 43% in Q2s). West Coast have converted at only 45% in Q3s, and Brisbane Lions at 44%.
Carlton have converted at 62% in Q4s, and North Melbourne at 61% in Q1s. North Melbourne have converted at 66% in Q2s and GWS at 60%.
Sydney’s opponents have converted at only 38% in Q2s whilst they themselves have converted at 62%.
West Coast’s and Carlton’s opponents have converted at 64% in Q2s.