The latest Rankings on Dashboard Metrics graphic appears below, and reveals that team rankings on the following metrics are most highly correlated with ladder position:

• Percent of Quarters Won (+0.94)

• Q3 Performances (+0.89)

• MoS Win Production Function Expected Wins (+0.88) - back in the Top 3, where it should be!

• Own Points per Game (+0.86)

• Own Goals per Game (+0.83)

• Own Scoring Shots per Game (+0.82)

Least highly correlated are:

• Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.07)

• Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.40)

It’s very much been about generating scoring shots this season.

A review of this table and the detailed Team Dashboard below reveals:

• All eight of the Top 8 teams on the MoS Win Production Function still sit in the Top 8 spots on the competition ladder. The same is true of the Top 8 teams on Quarters Won.

• Four teams outside the Top 8 have percentages above 100, including Adelaide in 15th.

The larger Team Dashboard also reveals that:

• Only three teams have a winning streak extending beyond two games: Port Adelaide, GWS, and Geelong.

• Only three teams have a losing streak extending beyond two games: Carlton, Melbourne, and Richmond.

• North Melbourne have converted at 61% across all four quarters

• Richmond have converted at only 46% across all four quarters

• GWS’s opponents have converted at only 48% across all four quarters, West Coast’s at 57%.

• Richmond, North Melbourne, and West Coast have been outscored by their opponents in every quarter

• The only teams to have outscored their opponents in every quarter are Brisbane Lions, Fremantle, GWS, and Western Bulldogs.

• Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide, and Western Bulldogs are the only teams to have registered more scoring shots than their opponents in all four quarters. North Melbourne, Richmond, and West Coast are the only teams to have registered fewer scoring shots than their opponents in all four quarters.

• Port Adelaide have converted at only 42% in Q4s and Richmond at 35% (and 44% in Q2s). Brisbane Lions have converted at only 44% in Q3s and Sydney in Q1s.

• Carlton have converted at 62% in Q4s, and North Melbourne at 63% in Q1s and 64% in Q2s. GWS have converted at 61% in Q2s.

• Sydney’s opponents have converted at only 37% in Q2s whilst they themselves have converted at 62%.

• West Coast’s and Carlton’s opponents have converted at 63% in Q2s.