The Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data appears below and shows that one metric has been negatively correlated with competition ladder position (Own Scoring Shot Conversion) and that two more have been only somewhat correlated (Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion and Q2 Performances).

Perhaps never before has there been a worse time to use the phrase “bad kicking is bad football” …

The other metrics on the Dashboard are showing correlations in the +0.7 to +0.94 range with the highest being for the MoS Win Production Function and the Percentage of Quarters Won. Perhaps surprisingly, ranking on Q1 Performances are more highly correlated with ladder position than are performances in any other quarter.

The full Team Dashboard appears below and shows that, amongst other things:

• GWS have scored 59% and Carlton 57% of their points in the 1st half of games

• West Coast have a percentage of only 47 in Q1s, 57 in Q2s, and 55 in Q4s

• Fremantle, who sit 4th on the ladder, have registered fewer goals than the three teams immediately above them, and the five teams immediately below them on the ladder, as well as the teams in 12th and 13th.

• Port Adelaide, despite sitting in 11th place on the ladder, have conceded fewer goals than every other team except Melbourne and Fremantle. They scored more goals, however, only than North Melbourne and West Coast.

• Brisbane Lions, Fremantle, Geelong, and Melbourne are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters taken separately

• Adelaide, North Melbourne and West Coast are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in each of the four quarters taken separately

• Melbourne and Geelong have won more quarters than any other teams in the competition. Geelong has also tied three quarters, and Melbourne none. Melbourne, however, has won only 53% of Q2s, and Geelong only 53% of Q3s.

• West Coast have won only 15 quarters, and drawn two all season. North Melbourne have won 16 quarters, and drawn one.

• Carlton, despite sitting 7th on the ladder have only won only the same number of quarters as they’ve lost. Hawthorn, in 13th, have only lost only two more quarters than they’ve won.