Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which now suggests that GWS are unlucky to not be in the Top 10, and that the Dogs are perhaps lucky to be there.

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

MoS Win Production Function: +0.90
Own Goals per Game: +0.87
Percentage of Quarters Won: +0.86
Own Points per Game: +0.86
Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.82
Q2 Performances: +0.76
Q1 Performances: +0.73

Those least rank correlated with ladder position are:

Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.31

It must be quite some time since the team 5th-best in Q4s sat last on the competition ladder.

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

Only two teams have a winning streak of three games or more
Sydney have converted at a rate over 8% points higher than their opponents
West Coast have converted at a rate just under 9% points lower than their opponents
Sydney have generated 28.5 scoring shots per game and Richmond 19.1
Fremantle have conceded just 20.5 scoring shots per game and Richmond 29.3
According to the MoS Win Production Function
- Western Bulldogs have won 2.8 games more than expected based on their scoring statistics
- Fremantle have won 1.4 games more than expected
- Port Adelaide have won 2.5 games fewer than expected
- Geelong have won 1.9 games fewer than expected
- Essendon have won 1.7 games fewer than expected
- St Kilda have won 1.5 games fewer than expected

Next, here’s the bottom half, with quarter-by-quarter stati

St Kilda have won 88% of Q1s, but only 38% of Q3s
Essendon have won 59% of Q4s, but only 12% of Q1s, and 21% of Q2s
GWS have won 71% of Q3s, but only 44% of Q2s, and Q4s
Hawthorn joins Adelaide, Brisbane Lions, Fremantle and Sydney as the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters (Melbourne are close: their percentage in Q1s is exactly 100)
Richmond and West Coast remain the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in all four quarters
West Coast have scored 31% of their points in Q3s, but only 18% in Q1s. They’ve converted at only 38% in Q1s
Essendon have scored 36% of their points in Q4s.
St Kilda have conceded only 17% of their points in Q1s where their opponents have converted at only 47%. They’ve conceded 31% in Q2s, however.
Gold Coast has converted at 65% in Q1s, but only 44% in Q4s
Adelaide has converted at 63% in Q1s, 60% in Q2s, but only 48% in Q4s
Brisbane Lions and Carlton are both noteworthy for the difference between their opponents’ conversion rates in Q3 and Q4 compared to Q1 and Q2
Hawthorn’s opponents have converted at 62% in Q1s and Q3s.
Port Adelaide’s opponents have converted at 63% in Q1s.
Sydney’s opponents have converted at 39% in Q2s.