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

Percentage of Quarters Won (+0.96)
The MoS Win Production Function (+0.94)
Scoring Shots Conceded (+0.93)
Opponent Scoring: Points (+0.84)
Opponent Scoring: Goals (+0.71)
Own Scoring: Goals (+0.76)
Own Scoring per Game (+0.73)
Q2 Performances (+0.72)
Own Scoring: Points (+0.71)

The weakest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

Perhaps never has it been less true that “bad kicking is bad football”. Right now, it’s a lot about generating and preventing scoring shots.

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

Collingwood have scored over 15 points per game fewer than Melbourne and conceded only 4 points per game fewer.
Collingwood have doubled their opponents’ scores in Q4s, as have Melbourne in Q4s
West Coast have scored less than half what their opponents have scored in Q2s
Geelong have scored only 19% of their points in Q4s
Hawthorn have scored only 18% of their points in Q3s. Their percentage for that quarter is 37.
Collingwood have scored 32% of their points in Q4s
Sydney, in 14th, has kicked more goals than five of the teams above them on the ladder, including two in the Top 8.
The bottom five teams have, between them, won only four game in the last seven rounds
There are five teams with a winning streak of three games or longer, and they all sit in the Top 8.
There are five teams with a losing streak of three games or longer, and four of them occupy one of the Bottom 5 positions.