Below is the Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data, which this week reveals that Scoring Shot Conversion - a team’s own and its opponents’ - remains relatively unimportant. Six of the teams currently in the Top 8 on the competition ladder are ranked 10th or lower on Own Scoring Shot Conversion, and six of the teams currently in the Bottom 8 on the competition ladder are ranked 9th or higher on Own Scoring Shot Conversion. That is, truly, quite odd.

What’s been far more important has been the sheer ability to generate Scoring Shots, as evidenced by the +0.9 correlation between the ranking of the teams on this metric and their ordering on the competition ladder.

Q4 performances remain fairly unimportant, too, with four of the teams in the Top 8 on the competition ladder ranked 11th or worse on this metric.

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

• Brisbane Lions, Melbourne, and Richmond are still yet to lose a Q4

• Geelong and Port Adelaide are still yet to lose a Q3

• Sydney are also yet to lose a Q2

• Western Bulldogs are yet to lose a Q1

• St Kilda are yet to win a Q1

• Adelaide and Richmond are yet to win a Q3

• Sydney, in 3rd, have conceded 47.52 across the four games

• Hawthorn, in 3rd, have conceded 47.52 across the four games

• Richmond (8th) have conceded 325 points

• Fremantle (9th) have conceded 326 points

• West Coast (6th) have conceded 331 points

• Geelong (10th) have conceded 332 points

• Sydney (3rd), Carlton (7th), and Hawthorn (17th) have conceded 334 points

• GWS (15th) have conceded 335 points