MatterOfStats 2024 : Team Dashboard for Round 4

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 (noting that I order the ladder based on Competition Points per Game and then Percentage, which differs from what you’ll see on the AFL and other sites).

• The MoS Win Production Function (+0.89)

• Own Points per Game (+0.88)

• Quarters Won (+0.87)

• Own Scoring Shots per Game (+0.86)

• Own Goals per Game (+0.83)

• Q3 Performances (+0.76)

• Opponent Points per Game (+0.68)

Least highly correlated are:

• Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.31)

• Q4 performances (+0.44)

Overall, the Brisbane Lions’ rankings look least congruent with their ladder position.

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And, here is the larger Team Dashboard, which reveals that:

• GWS has lost only two quarters this season

• Brisbane Lions have scored 59% of their points in 1st halfs and conceded 60% in 2nd halfs

• Gold Coast have scored 61% of their points in 1st halfs and conceded 61% in 2nd halfs

• Gold Coast’s opponents have converted at almost 90% in Q1s

• North Melbourne have converted at over 75% in 1st halfs

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