So now we've a team that's 5 and 0 and atop the competition ladder with a percentage that ranks it 5th-best, and another team that's 0 and 5 at the foot of the ladder with a percentage that ranks it only 4th-last. Curious times.
Read MoreSo the Roos are now the only team with an unbeaten record, yet have only the 8th-best percentage in the League and have conceded the 4th-highest number of Scoring Shots per game.
Read MoreSo we now have a gloriously symmetric competition ladder with three undefeated teams, six teams with 2 and 1 records, six more with 1 and 2 records, and three teams yet to register a victory.
Read MoreStill not a lot to talk about after just two rounds of the season.
Read MoreIf you're new to MoS and this is the first Team Dashboard you're reading, you might want to check out this post from 2011, which explains what was was in the original Dashboard, as well as this post from later in that same year, which explains the Win Production Function that I added to the Dashboard a little later.
Since we've had just the one round, there's not a lot to talk about from the Dashboard, so I'll limit myself to noting that only three teams are yet to lose a quarter (Gold Coast, Sydney and West Coast) and only three teams, their opponents, are yet to win a quarter (Essendon, Collingwood and Brisbane Lions).
This being the final Team Dashboard for the season there'll be extended analysis.
Read MoreAs the Home-and-Away portion of the season nears its end, team winning rates are becoming generally more aligned with what their Scoring statistics suggest they should be, according to the MatterOfStats Win Production Function (WPF).
Read MoreCarlton's win this week means that we now have only one team with a losing streak that extends beyond three games: Essendon, who've now strung six together.
Read MoreThis week, seven of the eight teams currently filling Finals positions won, the most we could have expected since 1st and 2nd were paired off.
Read MoreFremantle continues to do enough to snare the four competition points but not improve its scoring statistics sufficiently to bring them into line with their enviable winning percentage.
Read MoreThe top 12 teams on the competition ladder all now have percentages over 100, and the team with the 7th-best of those percentages, Collingwood, now sits in 11th. Small wonder then that the MoS Win Production Function has 8 teams as having won or lost at least one game more or one game fewer than they "should" have (15 teams if we round up half games and over.)
Read MoreTime again this week I think to look at the metrics on which each team is most anomalous relative to its ladder position, summarised here in the form of a table.
Read MoreYou'd think, by now, with six wins on the trot, Hawthorn's winning rate would have moved into alignment with what the MoS Win Production Function (WPF) says it ought to be.
Read MoreWins to Port Adelaide, Essendon and GWS this week ended all but one of the competition's longest losing runs, leaving the Brisbane Lions (7 in a row) and Collingwood (3 in a row) as the only teams with losing sequences now extending beyond two games.
Read MoreNo deep analysis of the Team Dashboard this week, just a few quirky things that have caught my eye
Read MoreThe regular Team Dashboard appears at the end of this blog but I want to present today a new table, based solely on teams' Scoring Shot production on a game-by-game basis.
Read MoreThe teams playing after a bye went 3 and 3 this week, among the losers Richmond, whose defeat leaves just three teams with winning streaks extending beyond two games
Read MoreAfter 11 rounds of the competition, comprising 11 games for two-thirds of the teams and 10 games for the other one-third, this week I thought we might look at teams with exceptional performances - good and bad - in particular quarters.
Read MoreFremantle's loss and another Hawthorn win have brought their winning rates more into line with their scoring statistics, but Fremantle remains about 1 game ahead of what those statistics imply and Hawthorn remains about 2.5 games behind.
Read MoreThis week, the Eagles became the first team to crack 1,000 points for the season though for large parts of Sunday's game they seemed determined to follow George Hirst's advice to Wilfred Rhodes from over 100 years ago that they might "do it in singles".
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