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Western BulldogsPut every act in football next to what a club pays to produce it, and a hidden market appears — one that prices the rare, scoreboard moment at a fortune and the work in between at almost nothing.
Read the full story →Not voted by umpires — measured in every game. Ranked by contribution across all 166 matches so far, three points to the best player on the ground each week. Nick Daicos leads it, four clear; the round-by-round and club tables tell the rest.
The goalkickers got the headlines, but the round's four elite defenders are the reason there was anything to finish.
Talor Byrne's number is one we should all be talking about — and there's even more to find, because Round 20's biggest young performances are a story in themselves.
After Round 20 the medicare ladder has two clubs beyond 200 estimated games for the first time — Port Adelaide on 240 and Essendon on 200 — while Richmond had three seasons end in a single week and the competition's bill grew by roughly 150 games, to an estimated 2,296. Fifty seasons have now ended league-wide. Every figure is a modelled estimate, not an official club count.
Every October the conversation is about who's coming in. It's the wrong half of the equation — and the half that decides seasons is the half nobody prices.
A reigning best-and-fairest, an All-Australian defence, one player prised from all 18 rivals — and the whole 40-man Tasmania Devils list still slides under the salary cap, with the $5m signing bonus untouched. So could you build a better one?
How Fremantle earned it: 52 inside 50s to 35; 34 scoring shots to 13. The 112–42 was the fair end of it.
How Geelong Cats earned it: 62 inside 50s to 51; 32 scoring shots to 31. The 117–97 was the fair end of it.
How Collingwood earned it: 49 inside 50s to 47; 33 scoring shots to 23. The 108–74 was the fair end of it.
Noah Mraz, Jagga Smith and Hugo Garcia — the engine's three risers, one per career stage, picked by the numbers alone. All three built their case in the same place: at the contested ball, in a different part of the game to where their team's result actually lived.
The Rising team's standout has played three games of AFL football and just produced the best key-defender round of anyone — senior team included. Around him: three career bests, a debutant, and two names playing their final week under fifty games.