MatterOfStats 2023 : Team Dashboard for Round 8
/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 (+0.94)
Scoring Shots Conceded (+0.91)
The MoS Win Production Function (+0.91)
Opponent Scoring: Points (+0.79)
Own Scoring: Points (+0.73)
Own Scoring: Goals (+0.73)
Q4 Performances (+0.73)
Own Scoring per Game (+0.71)
Opponent Scoring: Goals (+0.71)
The weakest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:
Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.1)
Q1 Performances (+0.51)
At this stage, Port Adelaide looks perhaps the most out of place as a Top 8 team, based solely on their scoring metrics, and Essendon looks perhaps the most out of place as a team outside the Top 8.
Next, we have the full Team Dashboard below, which shows that:
Collingwood have doubled their opponents’ scores in Q4s, as have Melbourne in Q4s.
Geelong have scored only 18% of their points in Q4s
St Kilda have scored only 18% of their points in Q2s
Brisbane Lions have scored only 20% of their points in Q4s
Richmond have scored only 20% of their points in Q1s
Hawthorn have scored only 13% of their points in Q3s. Their percentage for that quarter is 27.
North Melbourne have scored 31% of their points in Q4s
Collingwood have scored 33% of their points in Q4s
Hawthorn have scored 31% of their points in Q1s
St Kilda, who sit 3rd on the Ladder have won only 19 of 32 of their quarters, which is 4 fewer than Melbourne.
West Coast, in 17th, has kicked only 9 goals fewer than St Kilda, in 1st.
Essendon, in 9th, has kicked 9 more goals than five of the teams higher on the ladder
St Kilda has conceded 18 goals fewer than any other team in the competition - only 65 gols in 8 games
The bottom four teams have, between them, won only two game in the last six rounds