The latest table of Rankings on Dashboard Metrics appears below.

Based on rank correlation the metrics most highly correlated with the current competition ladder ordering are the orderings based on:

• the MoS Win Production Function (+0.93)

• Points Scored (+0.93)

• Goals Scored (+0.92)

• % of Quarters Won (+0.87)

• Points Conceded (+0.82)

Those metrics least correlated are:

• Q2 performances (+0.34)

• Opponents’ Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.43)

• Q3 performances (+0.57)

• Q4 performances (+0.61)

• Q1 performances (+0.65)

The relatively low correlations between ladder positions and performances in individual quarters I think reflects the fact that no team - Geelong aside - has been able to dominate in every quarter. All of the teams in positions 2 through 8 on the competition ladder are ranked 9th or lower for at least one quarter, most of them for two quarters.

The full Team Dashboard appears below, a few of the interesting features of which are:

• Richmond’s 10 and 6 record paired with a 105 percentage

• The fact that the Top 14 teams now have percentages of about 95 or higher

• The fact that the teams currently in the Top 8 are only 24 and 16 since Round 12

• The fact that five teams outside the Top 8 are only 1 or 2 wins outside it, and two more teams only 3 wins outside it

• The fact that Carlton, in 17th, have recorded less than a goal a game fewer than Essendon, in 8th

• The fact that Brisbane Lions, in 3rd, have conceded as many goals as Sydney, in 14th