MatterOfStats 2025 : Team Dashboard for Round 5

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Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which continues to show that the teams currently in the Top 8 mostly deserve to be there based on the metrics shown here (note that I order teams based firstly on the percentage of available competition points they have accrued and then on percentage).

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • MoS Win Production Function: +0.92

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.87

  • Percent of Quarters Won: +0.84

  • Own Points per Game: +0.81

  • Q3 Performances: +0.79

  • Opponent Points per Game: +0.77

  • Opponent Goals per Game: +0.75

  • Opponent Scoring Shots per Game: +0.75

  • Own Goals per Game: +0.75

Those least rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • Q2 Performances: +0.35

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.42

  • Own Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.45

It seems right now that it’s more about volume than quality in the generation of scoring shots.

Next, here’s the latest Team Dashboard, which shows, among other things, that:

  • Speaking of scoring shots, Melbourne, Richmond and West Coast have, on average, generated fewer than five per quarter per game but have conceded between about six-and-a-half to eight per quarter.

  • GWS and Gold Coast are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters

  • Richmond and West Coast are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in all four quarters

  • Very few teams have similar percentages across all four quarters

  • Brisbane Lions (Q3), Carlton (Q1), Collingwood (Q3), Essendon (Q4), Geelong (Q4), GWS (Q1) all have particularly strong records in the quarters noted.