MAFL 2013 : Team Dashboard for Round 5

No drive-by commentary this week, just the Dashboard.

MAFL 2013 : Team Dashboard for Round 4

A handful of things that caught my eye as I reviewed this week's Team Dashboard:

• The first 11 teams on the ladder have percentages over 100. When was the last time that was true, I wonder
• Adelaide, in 8th, have scored only about 10 points per game more than GWS, in 18th. Of course they've conceded over 18 points per game fewer as well, which is what explains their more-elevated status
• Geelong's combined victory margins across its four wins is just 48 points
• Port Adelaide have registered almost 12 scoring shots per game more than their opponents. Melbourne have conceded almost 19 more per game than their opponents
• Geelong have the best record of any team in the 3rd quarter, but are 14th and 15th-best in 1st and 2nd terms
• Hawthorn, the Roos and Richmond all have the opposite pattern, faring relatively poorly in 3rd terms and much better in the rest of the game
• Both the Gold Coast in 2nd terms and Melbourne in 3rd terms score only 18 points for every 100 points scored by their opponents in these respective quarters

MAFL 2013 : Team Dashboard for Round 3

Five teams remain equal on competition points, undefeated and at the head of the competition ladder, but their percentages range from the Dons' 200 to the Cats' 109.

The Roos wish games didn't have a third quarter, Fremantle wishes they didn't have a fourth, the Dons and Port would be happy if games only had third and fourth quarters, while Melbourne wishes games didn't have any quarters at all.

Whilst it's only early days in the competition, the Lions' coaching staff must be a bit concerned with their team's conversion rate, which currently sits at just 37.5% (30 from 80). The Lions have been generating about 27 scoring shots per game - which while it isn't top-drawer, is acceptable - but their appalling conversion rate has seen them average just 10 goals a game. That makes it hard to win.

Fremantle makes for an interesting comparison. They've generated one fewer scoring shot per game, on average, but their conversion rate of over 53% has allowed them to average over 14 goals per game, 4 more than the Lions. 

MAFL 2013 : Team Dashboard for Round 2

After just two rounds there's not a lot to comment on in the latest Team Dashboard other than, perhaps, to note that Melbourne are now the only team not to have won a quarter in either of their games and that they have a percentage of 8 in third terms and 14 in fourth terms; that the Cats have lost all four quarters from the first half of their two games and won all four quarters from the second half; and that Essendon, Port Adelaide and Sydney have outscored their opponents, in aggregate, in all four quarters.

MAFL 2013 : Team Dashboard for Round 1

Right now, only four of last season's finalists find themselves amongst the competition's Top 8, and none fill any of the top 3 ladder positions.