Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which suggests that the Saints 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:

Percentage of Quarters Won: +0.95
MoS Win Production Function: +0.95
Own Points per Game: +0.88
Own Goals per Game: +0.85
Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.84
Q2 Performances: +0.80
Q4 Performances: +0.80
Opponent Goals per Game: +0.76
Opponent Points per Game: +0.76
Own Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.75
Opponent Scoring Shots per Game: +0.75
Q3 Performances: +0.73

Those least rank correlated with ladder position are:

Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.27

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

Three teams have a winning streak of three games or more
Three teams have a losing streak of three games or more
Brisbane Lions have generated 29 scoring shots per game and Richmond 19.1
Fremantle have conceded just 20.2 scoring shots per game and Essendon 29.3
According to the MoS Win Production Function
- Western Bulldogs have won 2.7 games more than expected based on their scoring statistics
- Melbourne have won 2 games more than expected
- Port Adelaide have won 2.2 games fewer than expected
- St Kilda have won 1.8 games fewer than expected
- Gold Coast have won 1.5 games fewer than expected

Next, here’s the bottom half, with quarter-by-quarter statistics that reveal:

St Kilda have won 81% of Q1s, but only 36% of Q3s
Geelong have won 81% of Q4s, but only 43% of Q3s
Essendon have won 48% of Q4s, but only 14% of Q1s
Collingwood joins Adelaide, Brisbane Lions, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Melbourne, and Sydney as the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters
Port Adelaide joins Essendon, Richmond and West Coast as the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in all four quarters
Essendon have scored 35% of their points in Q4s.
St Kilda have conceded only 18% of their points in Q1s.
Essendon have converted at only 40% in Q1s
Gold Coast has converted at 62% in Q1s, but only 45% in Q4s
Brisbane Lions has converted at 62% in Q3s, but only 46% in Q2s
Adelaide has converted at 62% in Q1s
Richmond has converted at 37% in Q3s
Port Adelaide’s opponents have converted at 62% in Q1s
Melbourne’s opponents have converted at 61% in Q1s
Brisbane Lion’s opponents have converted at 61% in Q4s
Sydney’s opponents have converted at 41% in Q2s.