Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data, which shows, as it has done to about the same extent across the entire season, that ladder position is:

Highly related to:

Percent of Quarters Won
Expected Wins according to the MoS Win Production Function
Scoring Shots, Goals, and Points Generated
Scoring Shots, Goals, and Points Conceded
Q2 and Q4 Perfomances

Moderately related to:

Q1 and Q3 Performances
Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion

Weakly related to:

Own Scoring Shot Conversion

The full Team Dashboard appears below, a few of the interesting things from which are that:

Sydney have recorded 55.8% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Fremantle only 45.2%
Hawthorn’s opponents have registered 56.7% of their Scoring Shots as goals, Geelong’s only 46.2%
Adelaide, Gold Coast, Hawthorn, and North Melbourne are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in each of the four quarters considered separately
Brisbane Lions, Melbourne, and Port Adelaide are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters considered separately
West Coast have scored 56% of their points in Q2s and Q3s
Geelong have scored only 19% of their points in Q1s
Only four of the teams currently in the Top 8 registered wins this week
Essendon and Richmond sit outside the Top 8 with a percentage above 100, and West Coast and GWS sit inside it with a percentage below 100
Essendon have scored 200 more points than GWS and 50 more than Melbourne
Port Adelaide and Melbourne are the only teams in the Top 8 who are on at least a two-game winning streak
Hawthorn has the second equal-longest winning streak in the competition
The teams currently in the Top 8 have a collective 9 and 7 record across the last two rounds