Review 2012 - by the numbers

[POBT]

Most Goals

47 Brown
26 Merrett
20 Rich
18 Rockliff
18 Bewick

Most Disposals

549 Redden
536 Rockliff
461 Hanley
434 Rich
427 Black

Most Kicks

314 Hanley
280 Rockliff
269 Rich
263 Redden
244 Adcock

Most Handballs

286 Redden
256 Rockliff
247 Black
174 Hudson
165 Rich

Most Marks

143 Brown
119 Hanley
113 Merrett
108 Redden
104 Adcock

Most Contested Marks

31 Brown
25 Merrett
16 Patfull
15 Rockliff
12 Redden/Maguire

Most Free Kicks For

34 Redden
26 Brown
25 Adcock
22 Rich
20 Merrett & Black

Most Free Kicks Against

37 Merrett
33 Redden
29 Hudson
27 Raines
27 Polkinghorne

Most Tackles

143 Redden
103 Zorko
96 Rockliff
85 Adcock
74 Raines

Most Contested Possessions

250 Redden
233 Rockliff
206 Black
196 Rich
185 Hudson

Most Uncontested Possessions

305 Hanley
303 Redden
302 Rockliff
274 Adcock
244 Rich

Clearances

113 Redden
93 Rockliff
86 Rich
83 Hudson
81 Black
Inside 50s

97 Rich
80 Zorko
70 Rockliff
62 Redden
57 Adcock

Rebound 50s

91 Hanley
81 Adcock
72 Maguire
59 Drummond
52 Patfull

1%ers

153 Patfull
132 Merrett
122 Maguire
70 McKeever
69 Hanley

Goal Assists

18 Black
14 Zorko
13 Brown
12 Redden
11 Adcock/Polkinghorne

Clangers

75 Redden
74 Merrett
62 Polkinghorne
60 Rockliff
58 Rich

Lions Players in Top 20 in AFL

Disposals - Redden 19th

Kicks - Hanley 17th

Handballs - Redden 10th

Goals - Brown 10th

Marks - Brown 6th

Contested Marks - Brown 15th

Tackles - Redden 2nd

Free Kicks For - Redden 14th

Free Kicks Against - Merrett 4th, Redden 7th

Hitouts - Hudson 11th

Clearances - Redden 19th

Inside 50s - Rich 13th

Rebound 50s - Hanley 3rd, Adcock 9th, Maguire 19th

Contested Possessions - Redden 15th

Uncontested Possessions - Nil

1%ers - Patfull 6th

 

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TEAM STATS


Disposals 13th

Kicks 14th

Handballs - 10th

Tackles - 9th

Goals - 13th

Free Kicks For - 13th

Free Kicks Against - 3rd

Hitouts - 16th

Marks - 13th

Contested Marking - 17th

Clearances - 13th

Inside 50s - 14th

Rebound 50s - 2nd

Contested Possessions - 12th

Uncontested Possessions - 12th

1%ers - 1st (yippee!)

 

[whatboutbob]

Some amazing stats there for Zorko, especially given he only played 15.25 games.

 

[POBT]

Some amazing stats there for Zorko, especially given he only played 15.25 games.

Yep - you can also see why Redden is most people's favourite for the M-M Medal.

 

[dlanod]

I just loved reading through them and just seeing "Redden. Rockliff. Rich." over and over again.

 

[POBT]

Rich's 20 goals means he's a goal a game midfielder. Valuable. Throw in the 97 x inside 50s and he's becoming the forward of centre midfielder that we'd hoped he could be. Only had 9 goal assists though - possibly due to the fact that, when in range, he has a ping rather than looking for a leading target.

 

[jjami15]

Rich's 20 goals means he's a goal a game midfielder. Valuable. Throw in the 97 x inside 50s and he's becoming the forward of centre midfielder that we'd hoped he could be. Only had 9 goal assists though - possibly due to the fact that, when in range, he has a ping rather than looking for a leading target.

As seen on the weekend when he it Brownie with that LUVERLY pass his range for goal assists are from the wing and middle of the ground, if there 1 to 2 more leading forwards you would see that number go up. Did like his last goal when he took the bloke on, took the shepherd and it went straight through the middle. Has the power and know adding that bit of finesse.

 

[matwt73]

I wa impressed to see Hanley's 1% ers. We've always known he can find the ball and rebound with it, but seeing him high on the team first stats is great.

 

[Caiphus]

Our efficiency in scoring would only go up if we could improve our contested marking.

Would our contested making being so low be a side effect of our delivery or a lack of capable contested marks? What is the figure for our average cm differential?

would that be from Hudson not clunking many from our kick-ins? It is the stat that stands out like dog-balls.

 

[PTizzle]

Just another fun stat, Hudson had the most clearances of any ruckman in the AFL. By a pretty big margin too (10 or so on Roughead if he counts, 20+ on Minson and Giles).

 

[thoselionslads]

How many goals would Rog have kicked if he had played forward all year?

 

[irel]

Is it possible to post, time spent on ground, most to least?

 

[POBT]

Is it possible to post, time spent on ground, most to least?

I'll see what I can do.

I can tell you that, based on league wide average TOG%, the following Lions are high in the rankings:

4th - McKeever (97.9%)
21st - Patfull (94.4%)
31st - Brown (93.2%)
33rd - Golby (92.7%)
42nd - Merrett (92.4%)

 

[POBT]

Having trouble with TOG rankings for the club. The Lions website doesn't have it and I'm getting errors from the AFL website, prostats and footywire.

 

[Rally]

Redden's tackling numbers are astounding.

 

[Tairy Greene]

I've been meaning to ask, what constitutes a Goal Assist and would an Inside 50 count as a GA if it led to a goal? For example, would Rich's "kick of the year" that led to an uncontested mark and goal to Brown be an I50 & GA? Or because Brown marked it and went back and had a shot it's "all Brown"?

 

[blynd_freddie]

Is it possible to post, time spent on ground, most to least?

I'll see what I can do.

I can tell you that, based on league wide average TOG%, the following Lions are high in the rankings:

4th - McKeever (97.9%)
21st - Patfull (94.4%)
31st - Brown (93.2%)
33rd - Golby (92.7%)
42nd - Merrett (92.4%)

These are the numbers from last weeks public [end of round 22] supercoach/Champion Data PDF. [not the end of H&A actuals but imo, still gives a pretty clear indication]

1 - Niall McKeever 98%
2 - Jonathan Brown 95%
3 - Joel Patfull 95%
4 - Mitchell Golby 93%
5 - Stephen Wrigley 93%
6 - Daniel Merrett 92%
7 - Cheynee Stiller 91%
8 - Jed Adcock 89%
9 - James Hawksley 86%
10 - Jordan Lisle 85%
11 - Ryan Lester 85%
12 - Tom Rockliff 84%
13 - Jack Redden 84%
14 - Matt Maguire 84%
15 - James Polkinghorne 84%
16 - Andrew Raines 84%
17 - Pearce Hanley 82%
18 - Ashley McGrath 82%
19 - Josh Drummond 81%
20 - Jack Crisp 81%
21 - Ben Hudson 80%
22 - Ryan Harwood 80%
23 - Aaron Cornelius 80%
24 - Daniel Rich 79%
25 - Dayne Zorko 78%
26 - Simon Black 77%
27 - Billy Longer 76%
28 - Todd Banfield 75%
29 - Joshua Green 74%
30 - Elliot Yeo 73%
31 - Rohan Bewick 72%
32 - Jared Polec 69%
33 - Matthew Leuenberger 67%
34 - Claye Beams 61%
35 - Sam Sheldon 57%
36 - Patrick Karnezis 54%
37 - Jesse O'Brien 52%

 

[POBT]

I've been meaning to ask, what constitutes a Goal Assist and would an Inside 50 count as a GA if it led to a goal? For example, would Rich's "kick of the year" that led to an uncontested mark and goal to Brown be an I50 & GA? Or because Brown marked it and went back and had a shot it's "all Brown"?

Goal Assist

Awarded to a player who creates a goal by getting the ball to a teammate in a scoring position.

Try this Link TG - some of the descriptions are a bit basic but it does give you an idea.

 

[knaf]

"Rebound 50s - 2nd" Interesting we are second in rebounding from the defensive 50.

It is almost like Vossy sets the side up to ensure any clearence won by the opposition is under pressure so that the defence has a better chance of rebounding. The half back line appears to be really important in our set up as we launch attacks from that line.

This strategy (given my limited ability to analysis team structures) seems to be more important than winning centre clearences. For those that watch the game more closely do you think our staistical weakness in centre clearence could have something to do with a defensive mind set of midfielders?

The strategy of setting up to pick off poorly direct clearences from the opposition (if it is a strategy) appeared to work well against weaker teams, but when stronger teams dominated our mid-field we got slaughtered. Anyway I would be interested in comments.

 

[josephs_79]

After looking over those we might have a defender possibly take out the MM Medal!! Patful and Maguire would have to be up there but feel Redden will take it out!

 

[Brisbane2013]

never knew redden was this good tbh, stats don't lie though

 

[Mayestro]

Just another fun stat, Hudson had the most clearances of any ruckman in the AFL. By a pretty big margin too (10 or so on Roughead if he counts, 20+ on Minson and Giles).

He's been enormous for us this year. His tap work around the boundary is apparently one of the best in the league (one of the commentators mentioned it this week) where he can body up and use his strength against the other ruckman. I feel however that he's struggled at the centre bounces where other ruckmen can leap and then direct their taps at will. Hudson's normal stratagem here is obstruct the other ruckman's leap and then help win the clearance himself.

So while he has collected a fair few clearances himself, our mids at the centre bounces aren't often getting first use, as indicated by us being 13th for clearances and 16th for hitouts. So I think as a team we've been missing Leuey. This is not a massive criticism, and I really hope he goes around again for us next year.