MatterOfStats 2026 : Team Dashboard for Round 8

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Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which shows that Port Adelaide remain unlucky to not be in the Top 10, with Melbourne perhaps undeservedly taking their places.

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • MoS Win Production Function: +0.94

  • Percent of Quarters Won: +0.89

  • Own Points per Game: +0.87

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.87

  • Own Goals per Game: +0.87

  • Q2 Performances: +0.78

  • Opponent Points per Game: +0.77

  • Opponent Scoring Shots per Game: +0.76

  • Opponent Goals per Game: +0.74

  • Q3 Performances: +0.73

Those least rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.44

  • Own Scoring Shot Conversion: +0.48

  • Q1 Performances: +0.49

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

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

  • Fremantle, Hawthorn, and Sydney are now the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters (Brisbane Lions have a percentage of exactly 100 in Q1s)

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

  • GWS, Port Adelaide, Richmond and Sydney apart, all teams have at least a 49 percentage point range in their percentages across all four quarters

  • Carlton have scored 32% of their points in Q1s. They’ve also conceded 64% of their points in 2nd halves, including 33% in Q4s.

  • Richmond have scored 34% of their points in Q2s, and only 20% in Q1s

  • West Coast have scored 37% of their points in Q3s, but only 16% in Q1s and 18% in Q4s. They’ve converted at only 32% in Q1s

  • Essendon have scored 35% of their points in Q4s and converted at 71%

  • St Kilda have conceded only 15% of their points in Q1s, but 34% in Q3s