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MatterOfStats 2023 : Team Dashboard for Round 4

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 (+0.84)

  • Percentage of Quarters Won (+0.84)

  • Own Scoring: Goals (+0.73) and Behinds (+0.71)

  • Scoring Shots Conceded (+0.69) and Points Conceded (+0.68)

  • Q3 Performances (+0.66)

The weakest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.21)

  • Q1 Performances (+0.44)

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

  • St Kilda have outscored their opponents by almost 3:1 in Q1s

  • Melbourne have outscored their opponents by just over 5:2 in Q4s

  • Essendon have scored only 17% of their points in Q1s

  • GWS have scored only 17% of their points in Q2s

  • Hawthorn have scored only 5% of their points in Q3s. Their percentage for that quarter is 7.

  • Brisbane Lions have scored only 17% of their points in Q4s

  • Hawthorn have scored 37% of their points in Q1s

  • Geelong have scored 36% of their points in Q3s

  • Carlton have yet to lose a Q2, and Essendon and Melbourne a Q4

  • Fremantle have yet to win a Q1, and Hawthorn a Q3

  • St Kilda, who sit 1st on the Ladder have won only 10 of 16 of their quarters, which is 3 fewer than Melbourne, 1 fewer than Sydney, and only equal to Carlton and Essendon.