MatterOfStats 2026 : Team Dashboard for Round 9

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Below is the latest Ranking on Dashboard Metrics table, which shows that St Kilda and Port Adelaide are unlucky to not be in the Top 10, with the Dogs and Pies perhaps undeservedly taking their places.

The metrics currently most rank correlated with ladder position are:

  • MoS Win Production Function: +0.87

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game: +0.86

  • Percent of Quarters Won: +0.86

  • Own Points per Game: +0.86

  • Own Goals per Game: +0.85

  • Q2 Performances: +0.75

  • Opponent Scoring Shots 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: +0.44

  • Q4 Performances: +0.47

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

  • West Coast have yet to win a Q1

  • Brisbane Lions, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, and Sydney are now the only teams to have outscored their opponents in all four quarters

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

  • Richmond have scored 35% of their points in Q2s.

  • West Coast have scored 36% of their points in Q3s, but only 16% in Q1s. They’ve converted at only 32% in Q1s

  • Essendon have scored 33% of their points in Q4s and converted at 67%. Their opponents have converted at 69% in Q1s

  • St Kilda have conceded only 14% of their points in Q1s where their opponents have converted at only 33%