Stats insider: Full round 11 centre bounce numbers, key SuperCoach intel
Luke Ryan has cracked the SuperCoach scoring code. See the stats that reveal how he does it plus all the numbers you need to know this week.
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It’s no accident Luke Ryan has become the king of SuperCoach.
A huge day out from Max Gawn on Sunday launched the Demons skipper to No.1 on the SuperCoach leaderboard for 2024, but Ryan isn’t far behind.
He is an rare air averaging 130.5 points a game, 10 points clear of the second-best defender Nick Daicos.
Ryan never seems to play a bad game, which means his price never comes down. Priced at $611k to start the season, he jumped to $644k in the first price movement of the season, and hasn’t looked back.
Scroll down for full CBA numbers plus kick-in movers and sliders
Ryan has cracked the code for SuperCoach scoring as a defender with his game built on long, effective kicks, one of the best scoring actions in the game. He has had 80 effective long kicks for the season, ranked No.2 in the competition behind Hawk Karl Amon.
And the Dockers game plan maximises Ryan’s strengths.
The Dockers have had the second-most backwards kicks of any team this season, but Ryan isn’t doing too many of those himself – he’s the one marking them, then launching the ball forward.
A kick over 40m to a 50-50 contest or better is classified as effective – worth four SuperCoach points.
He is also helped by taking bulk kick-ins from opposition behinds – against Collingwood he took 10 and played on from all 10.
In other key stat moves from round 11:
RYAN’s kick-in dominance is being rivalled by Eagle Jeremy McGovern, who has taken 18 kick-ins over the past two rounds and played on from 17 of them. Nick Blakey also went nine from nine last weekend.
JORDAN Ridley took three kick-ins in his return game on Saturday night, but the Bombers shared the job around with Andy McGrath (five), Dyson Heppell (two), Mason Redman (two) and Nic Martin (2) all taking a turn.
NICK Daicos hasn’t taken a kick-in for month and has only six for the season.
HARRY Sheezel attended 88 per cent of North Melbourne’s centre bounces, clearly his highest percentage for the season as his transformation into a midfielder continues.
JORDAN Dawson attended 41 per cent of Adelaide’s CBAs, his lowest figure for the season. It didn’t stop him powering to 158 SuperCoach points.
RILEY Sanders attended 41 per cent of CBAs for the Bulldogs after starting as the sub and replacing Ed Richards.
KYSAIAH Pickett was at a season-high 74 per cent CBAs against St Kilda.
NOTE: Movers and sliders table is based of player’s most recent performance. Minimum two games in 2024 to qualify, but the two games can be weeks apart.
Secret SuperCoach stats
Each week Champion Data guru Fantasy Freako lifts the lid on the SuperCoach scoring system by analysing key moments from the weekend games. Here are the numbers you need to know from round 11.
ZORKO’S BAD START
Fresh off 161 points against Richmond, Dayne Zorko had just -4 points to his name at the first change against Hawthorn. Four of his final five acts for the quarter resulted in negative points – losing 16.6 in total made up of two frees against, one 50-metre penalty and one clanger kick.
GRUNDY’S WORSE START
The bad Brodie Grundy of the early rounds was back on Thursday night. It was a disastrous start as five of his first six acts of the match resulted in negative points – with his first a costly 50-metre penalty, followed by two direct turnovers by foot. In total he lost 17.4 points from negative acts in the first term.
He lost 25.4 points from negative acts across the game.
ROOKIE BRAIN FADE
Lachie Sullivan found himself in the middle of an umpiring controversy after being penalised for not returning the ball to the umpire in the dying minutes against Fremantle, In SuperCoach the act cost him 4.1 points.
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Originally published as Stats insider: Full round 11 centre bounce numbers, key SuperCoach intel
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