2017 - Team Ratings After Round 25 (Week 2 of the Finals)

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Sydney slipped back into 2nd on MoSSBODS this week, leaving the two MoS Systems now in perfect agreement about the order of the Top 6 teams. That result required MoSHBODS to make its only adjustment of the week, swapping GWS into 4th for Port Adelaide.

West Coast finish the season ranked 12th on MoSSBODS and 11th on MoSHBODS.

MoSSBODS also slipped the Western Bulldogs back into 7th this week as it promoted Geelong ahead of them, which means that no team is now ranked more than two places differently on both Systems.

On Offensive Ratings, only two teams moved multiple places this week, GWS climbing two spots on MoSSBODS and three spots on MoSHBODS, and West Coast slipping two spots on both Systems.

Defensively, no team moved multiple places on both Systems.

On offence, MoSHBODS has the Top 3 as Adelaide, Sydney, and then Essendon, while MoSSBODS, with the decline of Sydney, has the ordering as Adelaide, Essendon and St Kilda (though with GWS and Sydney only 0.1 and 0.2 scoring shots adrift).

Defensively, MoSHBODS still has the Top 3 as Sydney, Richmond and then Adelaide while MoSSBODS has the same Top 2, but prefers GWS for 3rd.

The latest round-by-round MoSSBODS Rating journey animation appears below and shows, most notably, the slight decline of the Swans and rise of the Giants.

As things stand:

  • nine teams have positive offensive and defensive MoSSBODS Ratings (Adelaide, Sydney, Richmond, GWS, Collingwood, Port Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, and St Kilda)
  • one team has a positive offensive and negative defensive rating (Essendon)
  • three teams have a positive defensive and negative offensive rating (Hawthorn, West Coast, and Melbourne)
  • five teams have a negative offensive and defensive rating (Carlton, Fremantle, North Melbourne, Brisbane Lions, and Gold Coast)

ChiPS AND MARS

ChiPS moved only two teams this week, dropping West Coast into 8th below Collingwood. MARS reshuffled its entire Top 6, which made its new Top 3 Adelaide, Sydney, and then Geelong. 

That means ChiPS and MARS have an entirely different ordering now for each of the Top 13 teams and very different opinions in particular about the merits of Richmond and Geelong.

Across the four Systems, only Adelaide and Sydney continue to appear in the Top 4 of each and Adelaide now sits 1st on every System except ChiPS.

The largest disparities in the rankings across the four Systems are now for:

  • Essendon (ranked 8th on MoSHBODS and 13th on MARS)
  • West Coast (ranked 7th on MARS and 12th on MoSSBODS)
  • Melbourne (ranked 8th on MARS, and 13th on MoSSBODS and MoSHBODS)
  • Western Bulldogs (ranked 7th on MoSSBODS and 12th on ChiPS)
  • St Kilda (ranked 7th on MoSHBODS, and 13th on ChiPS)

No other team is ranked more than four places differently across the Systems.