MatterOfStats 2025 : Team Dashboard for Round 24

Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table (note that I order teams based firstly on the percentage of available competition points they have accrued and then on percentage).

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • Opponent Goals per Game: +0.93

  • Opponent Points per Game: +0.92

  • MoS Win Production Function: +0.9

  • Opponent Scoring Shots per Game: +0.88

  • Q1 Performances: +0.87

  • Percent of Quarters Won: +0.86

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.85

  • Own Points per Game: +0.84

  • Q4 Performances: +0.82

  • Own Goals per Game: +0.81

  • Q2 Performances: +0.75

The only metric that is currently rank correlated less than +0.5 with ladder position is

  • Opponent Conversion Rate: +0.43

Next, here’s the latest Team Dashboard, which shows, among other things, that:

  • Adelaide have won 83% of Q2s but only 52% of Q3s.

  • Brisbane Lions have won 65% of Q1s and Q3s but only 46% of Q4s.

  • Carlton have won 61% of Q1s but only 22% of Q3s.

  • Collingwood have won 76% of Q3s but only 43% of Q4s.

  • Essendon have won 45% of Q2s but only 23% of Q1s.

  • Fremantle have won 61% of Q1s but only 37% of Q2s.

  • Geelong have won 70% of Q4s but only 50% of Q2s.

  • Gold Coast have won 64% of Q1s but only 45% of Q2s.

  • Hawthorn have won 70% of Q3s but only 48% of Q4s.

  • Melbourne have won 54% of Q3s but only 33% of Q1s.

  • Port Adelaide have won 52% of Q3s but only 20% of Q4s.

  • Western Bulldogs have won 76% of Q4s but only 48% of Q1s.

  • Adelaide, Collingwood, Geelong, Gold Coast, GWS, Hawthorn, and Western Bulldogs are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters

  • Essendon, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Richmond, and West Coast are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in all four quarters

  • Adelaide, Brisbane Lions, Collingwood, Fremantle, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hawthorn, and Western Bulldogs are still the only teams to have generated, on average, more scoring shots than their opponents in every quarter.

  • Essendon, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Richmond, St Kilda, and West Coast are still the only teams to have generated, on average, fewer scoring shots than their opponents in every quarter.

  • Carlton have scored 33% of their points in Q1s

  • Melbourne have scored 32% and Essendon 31% of their points in Q3s

  • Collingwood have conceded 19% of the total points they have in Q3s

  • Adelaide have converted at 62% in Q2s and Q4s

  • Hawthorn have converted at 62% in Q2s, as have Western Bulldogs in Q3s, and North Melbourne in Q4s.

  • Melbourne’s opponents have converted at 65% in Q4s

  • Fremantle’s opponents have converted at 62% in Q2s and 43% in Q3s

  • Adelaide’s opponents have converted at 43% in Q4s