Scoring this year

[Sainter_Dad]

I have considered less points to be better than more if the teams are even and I have Increased Essendon and Melbourne by their average for the fact that they have only played 6 times, however:

Team	Goals	Behinds
St Kilda	75	39
Geelong	75	41
Port Adelaide	74	62
Brisbane	72	73
Carlton	71	47
Gold Coast	70	43
Greater Western Sydney	68	38
Essendon	64	41
Melbourne	64	42
Western Bulldogs	64	42
Richmond	63	46
Collingwood	62	45
West Coast	60	45
Fremantle	57	32
Hawthorn	57	35
Sydney	55	49
North Melbourne	50	50
Adelaide	44	29

We are actually equal top with the most goals this season - long may it continue.

[The_Dud]

It would be interesting if it was broken down into first and second halves of games, I’d say we might then be at opposite ends of that ladder!

[SaintPav]

It's a big improvement.

Happy with that.

[ace]

Seems the players are kicking more accurately from set shots.
But many more shots from right in front or running through the goals.
65% accuracy sure helps

[Sainter_Dad]

It would be interesting if it was broken down into first and second halves of games, I’d say we might then be at opposite ends of that ladder!

You are correct:

Team	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			First Half			Second Half			Percentage
Geelong	18	15		10	16		28	12		19	9		28	31		47	21		1.52
North Melbourne	10	13		9	20		13	18		18	13		19	33		31	31		1.48
Greater Western Sydney	14	14		13	12		25	15		16	12		27	26		41	27		1.45
Adelaide	11	7		9	7		12	15		12	11		20	14		24	26		1.27
Carlton	20	9		14	22		16	14		21	13		34	31		37	27		1.06
Western Bulldogs	16	15		17	9		19	15		12	15		33	24		31	30		0.97
Melbourne	13	11		15	12		12	12		15	7		28	23		27	19		0.95
Sydney	13	9		17	14		18	15		7	18		30	23		25	33		0.9
West Coast	16	14		16	14		19	17		9	10		32	28		28	27		0.89
Gold Coast	13	14		25	10		21	17		11	11		38	24		32	28		0.87
Hawthorn	16	12		15	11		16	9		10	16		31	23		26	25		0.87
Brisbane Lions	18	21		22	21		17	20		15	25		40	42		32	45		0.84
Essendon	20	13		11	10		13	12		11	9		31	23		24	21		0.79
Port Adelaide	21	18		22	19		15	19		16	20		43	37		31	39		0.76
Fremantle	18	4		16	9		9	13		14	15		34	13		23	28		0.76
Richmond	21	13		17	8		15	15		10	23		38	21		25	38		0.76
Collingwood	26	11		14	15		9	17		13	16		40	26		22	33		0.62
St Kilda	27	14		20	13		13	10		15	9		47	27		28	19		0.61
Grand Total	311	227		282	242		290	265		244	252		593	469		534	517

[Enrico_Misso]

We are the first quarter Kings and third quarter Queens!

What will happen if Brisbane and Port kick straight?

[Moods]

Wow! Not only are we the equal best scorers but we are the most accurate team in the competition. Talk about a turnaround. We're 11th for being scored against and obviously that's an area of our game that we need to tidy up.

[CQ SAINT]

In a shorter season, with shorter quarters, from a team that hasn't played together much and makes more of its I50 entries than everyone bar the most experienced midfield in the comp. I'm not too concerned. Teething pains.
What happens when we learn to shut down on the press.
Collingwood, Port, WC and Geelong are the only teams we should fear.
Brisbane will want a shootout I reckon we can shut them down and score from rebounds.

[vacuous space]

We are actually equal top with the most goals this season - long may it continue.

We're also the second most accurate team, behind GWS, and have generated the fourth most shots at goal. So, we're doing pretty well in attack.

I was curious what the outright miss situation looked like, so I spent some time digging around the official site to see what the goalkicking looked like with outright misses included. Here's what I got:

Geelong - 75.41.31 (11 rushed). 147 shots, 51% accuracy.
St Kilda - 75.39.29 (7 rushed). 143 shots, 52.4% accuracy
Port Adelaide - 74.62.31 (14 rushed) 167 shots 44.3% accuracy
Brisbane - 72.73.25 (14 rushed) 170 shots 42.4% accuracy
Carlton - 71.47.24 (11 rushed) 142 shots 50% accuracy
Gold Coast - 70.43.24 (9 rushed) 137 shots, 51.1% accuracy
GWS - 68.38.16 (15 rushed) 122 shots, 55.7% accuracy
Essendon - 55.35.20 (9 rushed) 110 shots, 50% accuracy
Melbourne - 55.36.16 (6 rushed) 107 shots, 51.4% accuracy
Western Bulldogs 64.42.29 (12 rushed) 135 shots, 47.4% accuracy
Richmond 63.46.25 (13 rushed) 134 shots 47% accuracy
Collingwood 62.45.22 (14 rushed) 129 shots 48.4% accuracy
West Coast 60.45.28 (10 rushed) 133 shots 45.1% accuracy
Fremantle 57.32.25 (9 rushed) 114 shots, 50% accuracy
Hawthorn 57.35.29 (13 rushed) 121 shots, 47.1% accuracy
Sydney 55.49.15 (7 rushed) 119 shots, 46.2% accuracy
North Melbourne 50.50.19 (14 rushed) 119 shots, 42% accuracy
Adelaide 44.29.18 (11 rushed) 91 shots, 48.4% accuracy

I was not encouraged to see that Port are second behind Brisbane and have a 20 shot gap between themselves and Geelong, who are in third. At least they've been inaccurate, so far.

I also had a look at our goalkickers to see who had been missing the lot. I don't think it will surprise many that Lonie is the worst culprit. 5 goals from 16 shots is pretty bad:

Butler - 13.6.2
Membrey - 10.4.3
King - 10.5.1
Billings - 7.1.0
Kent - 6.3.2
Lonie - 5.4.7
Marshall - 4.1.0
Jones - 3.4.2
Gresham - 3.6.3
Steele - 3.1.0
Battle - 2.2.2
Marsh - 2.1.1
Geary 2.0.2
Howard - 1.0.0
Hind - 1.0.0
Hill - 1.0.1
Hannebery - 1.1.0
Ryder - 1.0.0
Dunstan - 0.0.2
Ross - 0.0.1
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Total 75.39.29

We're pretty fun to watch when we're flying. We sure do leak some goals, though. All the teams that concede more goals than us have more losses than wins and are outside the eight. So, I'm a bit worried about this weekend, but encouraged by the direction of the team.

[Enrico_Misso]

Yes, quantifies what we all knew - Lonie and Gresh miss too many.

[Munga]

We are the first quarter Kings and third quarter Queens!

What will happen if Brisbane and Port kick straight?

Yeah geez, if Brisbane and Port tidy up a little they'll steam ahead even more. Shots galore for them.