MatterOfStats 2023 : Team Dashboard for Round 7

The latest Ranking on Dashboard metrics data appears below, and shows that the strongest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

  • The MoS Win Production Function (+0.91)

  • Scoring Shots Conceded (+0.89)

  • Percentage of Quarters Won (+0.79)

  • Opponent Scoring: Points (+0.74)

  • Own Scoring: Goals (+0.77)

  • Own Scoring: Points (+0.75)

  • Q4 Performances (+0.74)

  • Opponent Scoring: Goals (+0.73)

The weakest rank correlations with ladder position are associated with:

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.1)

  • Q1 Performances (+0.41)

At this stage, Port Adelaide looks perhaps the most out of place as a Top 8 team, based solely on their scoring metrics, and Sydney looks perhaps the most out of place as a team outside the Top 8.

Next, we have the full Team Dashboard below, which shows that:

  • Collingwood have doubled their opponents’ scores in Q4s, as have Essendon in Q3s, and Melbourne in Q4s.

  • Geelong have scored only 17% of their points in Q4s

  • St Kilda have scored only 18% of their points in Q2s

  • Brisbane Lions have scored only 20% of their points in Q4s

  • Hawthorn have scored only 14% of their points in Q3s. Their percentage for that quarter is 30.

  • Adelaide have scored 31% of their points in Q1s.

  • Collingwood have scored 32% of their points in Q4s

  • North Melbourne have scored 31% of their points in Q4s

  • Western Bulldogs have scored 31% of their points in Q2s

  • Melbourne have scored 32% of their points in Q4s

  • Carlton have yet to lose a Q2, and Melbourne a Q4

  • Fremantle have yet to win a Q1

  • St Kilda, who sit 3rd on the Ladder have won only 15 of 28 of their quarters, which is 6 fewer than Melbourne, and 2 fewer than Adelaide, Essendon and Carlton.

  • West Coast, in 17th, has kicked only 9 goals fewer than St Kilda, in 1st.

  • Essendon, in 9th, has kicked 9 more goals than Collingwood, in 1st

  • St Kilda has conceded 16 goals fewer than any other team in the competition

  • The bottom five teams have, between them, won only one game in the last four rounds