This being the final Team Dashboard for the season there'll be extended analysis.

As 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).

Carlton'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.

This week, seven of the eight teams currently filling Finals positions won, the most we could have expected since 1st and 2nd were paired off.

Fremantle 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.

The 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.)

Time 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.

You'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.

Wins 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.

No deep analysis of the Team Dashboard this week, just a few quirky things that have caught my eye

The 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.

The 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

After 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.

Fremantle'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.

This 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". 

MatterOfStats' own Win Production Function now has it that eight teams have won or lost about a game or more than their Scoring Shot data would justify

A Top 8 position on the competition ladder this week requires a better than 50% win-loss record and a percentage above 100. All eight teams meeting those criteria have a spot in the Top 8, and all 10 teams not meeting the criteria do not.

Only three teams now have Scoring data that suggests, according to the MatterOfStats' Win Production Function, that they've won a whole game more or less than they "should"  have.

This week, as we review the Team Dashboard for Round 5, we'll analyse the correlations between the teams' competition ladder positions and their ranking on various metrics from the Dashboard. 

Fremantle now heads the competition ladder as the only undefeated team, but sports a percentage of only 135, which is more in keeping with those teams below it on 3 and 1 records.