MatterOfStats 2022 : Team Dashboard for Round 6

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The Ranking on Dashboard Metrics data appears below, and currently shows that the teams’ ladder positions are most correlated with:

  • The MoS Win Production Function (+0.95)

  • Number of Quarters Won (+0.91)

  • Goals Scored per Match (+0.88)

  • Points Conceded per Match (+0.88)

  • Points Scored per Match (+0.87)

  • Own Scoring Shots per Match (+0.84)

  • Goals Conceded per Match (+0.82)

  • Q4 Performances (+0.80)

  • Opponent Scoring Shots per Match (+0.79)

Ladder positions are least correlated with:

  • Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.25)

  • Q2 Performances (+0.43)

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.49)

  • Q1 Performances (+0.57)

  • Q3 Performances (+0.64)

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

  • Geelong have converted only 49% of their scoring shots into goals, but allowed their opponents to convert at around 64%

  • Conversely, Brisbane Lions has converted at 63% but allowed their opponents to convert at only 49%, and Richmond has converted at 58% but allowed their opponents to convert at only 45%

  • Melbourne are still yet to lose a Q1 or Q3

  • Fremantle are still yet to lose a Q4

  • St Kilda are still yet to lose a Q3

  • West Coast are still yet to win a Q2

  • Carlton is still yet to win a Q3

  • GWS is still yet to win a Q4

  • Carlton have scored 64% of their points in the 1st half of games (and only 14% in Q3s)

  • GWS have scored 62% of their points in the 1st half of games

  • Port Adelaide have scored only 15% of their points in Q1s

  • Melbourne have more than doubled their opponents’ score in Q1s and Q3s, but been outscored in Q2s

  • Brisbane Lions and Geelong are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in each of the four quarters taken separately (Sydney has a percentage of exactly 100 in Q1s and would otherwise also be on the list)

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

  • Fremantle, who are 2nd on the ladder, have scored fewer goals than five other teams below them but in the Top 8

  • Richmond, in 12th, have scored only three goals fewer than Melbourne, in 1st