MatterOfStats 2022 : Team Dashboard for Round 16

The Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data appears below and suggests that the teams most out of place on the competition ladder, according to the MoS Win Production Function are:

More wins and/or higher on the ladder than expected

  • Collingwood: +1.9 wins, enough only for 11th

  • Fremantle: +1.2 wins

  • Carlton: +0.9 wins, enough only for 8th

Fewer wins and/or lower on the ladder than expected

  • Gold Coast: -1.8 wins

  • GWS: -1.6 wins

  • Western Bulldogs: -1.5 wins, enough for 7th

  • Hawthorn: -1.1 wins

  • Richmond: -1.1 wins, enough for 4th

  • Port Adelaide: -1.0 wins

The full Team Dashboard appears below and shows that, amongst other things:

  • GWS have scored 59% and Carlton 58% of their points in the 1st half of games

  • West Coast have a percentage of only 46 in Q1s, and 51 in Q2s

  • Fremantle, who sit 4th on the ladder, have registered fewer goals than the teams in 5th through 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th, and have only matched the team in 15th. They have also conceded fewer goals than every other team except Melbourne.

  • Brisbane Lions, Fremantle, Geelong, Melbourne, and Western Bulldogs are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters taken separately

  • Adelaide, North Melbourne and West Coast are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in each of the four quarters taken separately

  • Melbourne have won more quarters than any other team in the competition. Geelong and Richmond have won second-most

  • West Coast have won only 13 quarters, and drawn two all season. North Melbourne have won only 12 quarters and drawn none.

  • Carlton, despite sitting 5th on the ladder have only won the same number of quarters as they’ve lost. Gold Coast, despite sitting 11th on the ladder have only lost three more quarters than they’ve won.