Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data, which continues to show some relatively small rank correlations between ladder position and what would seem like important metrics, in particular:

• Own Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.35

• Q4 Performances: +0.55

• Q1 Performances: +0.60

• Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.63

• Q3 Performances: +0.64

On average, the teams doing best have:

• Won more quarters (not entirely surprising)

• Conceded fewer goals and points

• Won more Q2s

The full Team Dashboard appears below, a few of the interesting things from which are that:

• Port Adelaide have recorded 56.8% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Fremantle only 46.4%

• Hawthorn’s opponents have registered 55.9% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Geelong’s only 46.1%

• Carlton, Hawthorn, and North Melbourne are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in each of the four quarters considered separately

• Brisbane Lions, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Sydney, and the Western Bulldogs are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters considered separately

• Western Bulldogs have outscored their opponents by 1.8:1 in Q4s, 1.5:1 in Q1s, and 1.4:1 in Q2s, but only 1.01:1 in Q3s. Their performance is in the Top 2 for Q1, Q2, and Q4, but is only 12th for Q3

• Hawthorn have still won only 19 quarters all season. Brisbane Lions, Melbourne and Western Bulldogs have each won more than twice as many

• Essendon have scored more goals than eight of the 10 teams above them on the ladder