Below is the final Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data, which suggests that the eight finalists includes:

• The Top 7 teams on Own Scoring Shots (GWS the exception)

• Seven of the Top 8 teams on Opponent Scoring Shots (GWS the exception)

• Six of the Top 8 teams on Own Scoring Shot Conversion (Melbourne and Western Bulldogs the exceptions)

• Six of the Top 8 teams on Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (Melbourne and Essendon the exceptions)

• The Top 8 teams on Own Goals and Points

• Seven of the Top 8 teams on Opponent Goals and Points (Essendon the exception twice)

• Six of the Top 8 teams on Q1 Performances (Port Adelaide and Geelong the exceptions)

• Six of the Top 8 teams on Q2 Performances (Melbourne and GWS the exceptions)

• Six of the Top 8 teams on Q3 Performances (Western Bulldogs and Essendon the exceptions)

• Seven of the Top 8 teams on Q4 Performances (GWS the exception)

• All of the Top 8 teams on Quarters Won

• All of the Top 8 teams on the MoS Win Production Function

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

• Sydney have recorded 56.2% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Fremantle only 45.3%

• Collingwood’s opponents have registered 56.9% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Port Adelaide’s only 47.5%

• Adelaide, Carlton, Gold Coast, 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, and Sydney are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters considered separately

• Geelong have scored only 19% of their points in Q1s

• Essendon have scored more points than the three teams atop the competition ladder (but also conceded about 300 points more than all of them)

• Western Bulldogs have won 84% of Q1s, but only 39% of Q3s

• GWS have won 64% of Q1s and 61% of Q3s, but only 45% of Q2s and 36% of Q4s