Introducing Zero Hanger's new weekly 'five useless stats' series.
Every week Aaron Delaporte from Useless AFL Stats will take a look at the top five most useless, but captivating, statistics from the weekend.
Kicking off with Round 3!
1. Ruck and Rolled
Round 3 started with an amazing kick-after-the-siren win by Brisbane over Collingwood, but the biggest fascination stats-wise came from the hit-out column, which Brisbane lost 4-63.
Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley later labelled hit out stats as a “furphy,” and Buckley would know, given the fact that Collingwood lost the 2019 Preliminary Final to GWS on a day where Brodie Grundy had 73 hit outs, which is the most by any ruckman in a losing side.
His team's tally on that day was 78-16', which at +62 is the biggest differential in a losing effort. The slim total of 4 hit outs by Brisbane on Thursday night is the equal lowest for a winning side, and the fourth time it has occurred. Interestingly, every occasion featured Brisbane - albeit twice as the Brisbane Bears in Rd 22 1989 and Rd 11 1991 - the only time they were the losing side was against GWS in Rd 6 2018.
Ruck
Hitouts
Marks
Disposals
