The latest Ranking on Dashboard metrics data appears below, and shows that the strongest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

• The MoS Win Production Function (+0.95)

• Percentage of Quarters Won (+0.93)

• Scoring Shots Conceded (+0.9)

• Opponent Scoring: Points (+0.8)

• Scoring Shots Generated (+0.8)

• Own Scoring: Goals (+0.77)

• Q4 Performances (+0.76)

• Opponent Scoring: Goals (+0.75)

The weakest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

• Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.15)

• Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.49)

Next, we have the full Team Dashboard below, which shows that:

• Collingwood have scored about 10 points per game fewer than Brisbane Lions and conceded only 8 points per game fewer.

• Collingwood have doubled their opponents’ scores in Q4s

• West Coast have scored less than half what their opponents have scored in Q2s and in Q4s

• Geelong have scored only 18% of their points in Q4s

• Hawthorn have scored only 17% of their points in Q3s. Their percentage for that quarter is 46.

• The bottom three teams have, between them, won only one game in the last seven rounds (and two in the last eight, both wins down to Hawthorn)

• There are five teams with a winning streak of three games or longer, and four of them sit in the Top 8.

• There are four teams with a losing streak of three games or longer, and three of them occupy one of the Bottom 4 positions.