MatterOfStats 2026 : Team Dashboard for Round 4

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Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which shows that the teams currently in the Top 10 deserve to be there based on the metrics shown here (note that I order teams based firstly on the percentage of available competition points they have accrued and then on percentage).

Outside the 10, Adelaide is the only team with metrics that would also justify a spot for them, albeit probably only in 10th.

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • Own Points per Game: +0.94

  • MoS Win Production Function: +0.94

  • Own Goals per Game: +0.93

  • Percent of Quarters Won: +0.89

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.84

  • Opponent Scoring Shots per Game: +0.8

  • Opponent Points per Game: +0.78

Those least rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.31

  • Q4 Performances: +0.44

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

  • Carlton have yet to lose a Q1 or to win a Q4

  • Essendon have yet to win a Q1 or Q2

  • Fremantle have yet to lose a Q1

  • Geelong have yet to lose a Q4

  • Melbourne have yet to win a Q1 or lose a Q2 or Q4

  • St Kilda have yet to win a Q3

  • West Coast have yet to win a Q1 or a Q4

  • Adelaide have won 93% of Q2s but only 50% of Q3s.

  • Gold Coast and Sydney are the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters

  • GWS and Richmond are the only teams to have been outscored by their opponents in all four quarters

  • GWS and Richmond apart, very few teams have similar percentages across all four quarters