AFLW Top 50: Lauren Wood names the best players in the game ahead of season 2024

The AFLW Top 50 is here – ahead of the new season, we rank the competition’s best players. Is Collingwood’s Bri Davey unlucky? And what more does a star Roo have to do? See the full list.

What more does Jasmine Garner have to do?

The North Melbourne superstar has six All-Australian jumpers, four club best-and-fairest awards and some suggest she’s the best player the competition has seen in its short history.

But the true all-rounder is yet to be rewarded with a league best and fairest medal.

Baffling. She’s No. 1.

What it does prove, though, is the depth of talent in the AFLW has never been so good.

Every year, new stars emerge as the next generation of talent looks to take over the competition heading into its ninth season.

North Melbourne Jasmine Garner is Lauren Wood’s No. 1 player in the AFLW. Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images

Monique Conti was named the league’s best and fairest last year, and the Tigers gun sits at No. 4 in the Top 50 players for 2024.

Two-premiership Lion Ally Anderson, the league medallist the previous season, is one spot ahead.

But where does Bri Davey sit among the game’s best?

The captain courageous at Collingwood has endured her fair share of injury woes in recent years after sharing the award with Docker star Kiara Bowers in 2021.

A foundation star of the game, Davey does plenty of the hard stuff in the middle – but there’s no place for her in the top 40.

Another clean run and that might all change.

THE TOP 10

1. Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)

2. Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide)

3. Ally Anderson (Brisbane)

4. Monique Conti (Richmond)

5. Chloe Molloy (Sydney)

6. Kate Hore (Melbourne)

7. Ash Riddell (North Melbourne)

8. Bonnie Toogood (Essendon)

9. Anne Hatchard (Adelaide)

10. Laura Gardiner (Sydney)

STIFF TO MISS

Tilly Lucas-Rodd (Hawthorn)

Aine Tighe (Fremantle)

Emma Swanson (West Coast)

Georgia Patrikios (St Kilda)

Georgia Nanscawen (Essendon)

SEE THE FULL TOP 50 LIST AND IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS ON EVERY PLAYER HERE

Originally published as AFLW Top 50: Lauren Wood names the best players in the game ahead of season 2024