With respect, you are a stats whore with a limited capacity to actually understand how football works.
I used 50% as a benchmark just to make a point, the point being that even the most inside of inside mids get at least 50% of their ball uncontested. On the weekend Priddis had 17 uncontested possessions, thats possessions where our best attacking mid had a chance to really influence play with ball in hand. He didnt, he rarely does.
As to giving him 5, again, stats whores. He was so far from our best according to anyone who actually watched the game and isnt lazy and looks down the stats. He works hard, he gets the ball and then he does absolutely nothing with it. Zero hurt factor. I am hopeful that your "incisive" handball comment was meant as some sort of deeply ironic comment - I didnt get it if so, but if you meant it seriously than you are beyond help. Completely.
On this issue of 80 minutes a game and all that, the reality is that teams build chemistry, identity and win games from the starting midfield. We are playing starting attacking mids out of position to accommodate players with lesser ceilings. Swift, for example, had more creative ball use than Priddis on the weekend, but only got 59% game time and had to tag ... this is because of Priddis. He cant tag, he cant play forward, he cant play wide, he cant defend, he has one string to his bow, getting the ball in close. But he does that 10 or so times a game, handy but it achieves little because he has no vision, he creates rarely AND he gets it more often uncontested, in space... which is ALWAYS terrifying.
Also on the weekend, S Selwood had long stretches away from the middle to accommodate the fact that Priddis was in there ... Scooter was arguably our most effective mid on the weekend but barely played mid in the third quarter when the Pies rolled over us ... Masten too, again, had to start as a half forward ... he was 20 times the player Priddis was at age 18 playing as an inside mid who released others to space .... he rarely gets to play that role for us because players like Priddis, A Selwood and even Ebert seem preferred at times ...
Priddis will be 26 when next season starts and he isnt getting better, he is an ordinary version of Shane Tuck (which is harsh), he is the slow version of Richie Vandenburg (not a complement). If you want to see whats required from a slowish inside mid reference Sam Mitchell ... then compare the gap to Priddis.
Perhaps one of the worst aspects of Priddis is the damage done to a guy like Kerr. Kerr should be the number 1 in and under inside attacking mid, but he has to try and play an outside role because Priddis cant. Makes him easier to tag and reduces his use of some of his best assets .... but people like yourself dont see this. You miss other teams rolling the dice and running off him in game breaking bursts... throwing kids like Hill in the middle last year and saying "just run forward" ....
He gets the ball, he is below AFL level at everything else. Again, in a midfield flood game style he can turtle tackle brilliantly. A barely useful skill. He gets run off 4 or 5 times a game (and I am being kind) at stoppages because teams roll the dice against him, knowing that the downside risk of him winning the ball is minimal but a quick player running into space with no chance of being caught is a certain goal most times ....
He has been at the core of our problems for 2 years. He is the most damaging (to our side) midfielder we have because of the key role he has and the abject lack of ability he has to do so ...
Other midfielders would improve more quickly if they had greater exposure in their proper positions, rather than trying to make them adjust, so we can keep Mr Dependable in his sole position... its so obvious and yet the stats whores cant see it ... look at his numbers ... as i have said numerous times, on stats he compares pretty well with Judd .. which tells you a lot about stats...