SuperCoach AFL 2024: Full centre bounce attendances for round 5

Adelaide’s midfield has been tipped upside-down, and it wasn’t the only big onball change last weekend. See full centre bounce numbers for every club – and what they mean for SuperCoach.

Move aside Jordan Dawson and Rory Laird. The new-look Crows midfield is here.

Change was needed after a 0-4 start and Matthew Nicks sent his reliable onball brigade packing.

Laird’s midfield time fell from 98 per cent over the first four rounds to 70 per cent against Carlton, and Dawson’s crashed from 89 per cent to 54 per cent. Meanwhile, Izak Rankine shot up from 15 per cent midfield time in the first month of the season to 55 per cent against the Blues.

That is reflected in the centre bounce numbers with Rankine’s jumping by a round-high 34 per cent while Dawson attended 48 per cent, down from over 80 per cent in the first three rounds.

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE FULL CBA NUMBERS FOR EVERY CLUB

It’s no coincidence the electric Rankine scored 121 SuperCoach points – his first ton of the year – while Dawson (64) and Laird (80) posted season-low returns.

Rankine and Jack Soligo led the Crows for centre bounce attendances in Adelaide’s first win of the season, and the old guard might have to get used to life outside the centre square.

Other key takeouts from this week’s CBA numbers include:

SAM Walsh went straight to the centre square in his first game for the year, attending 23 centre bounces.

JACK Bowes was Geelong’s No.1 centre bounce midfielder against North Melbourne, continuing his exclusive midfield role since his return in round 3.

WILL Graham attended 12 centre bounces, fourth-most of Gold Coast’s midfielders. Sam Flanders had zero CBAs.

WITH its entire first-choice midfield wiped out by injury, Richmond’s top centre bounce players were Liam Baker and Thomson Dow. Second-gamer Kane McAuliffe attended 13.

TEN Hawthorn players attended at least one centre bounce, including James Sicily (one).

See every club’s full CBA numbers for the round here (note Collingwood and Sydney had the bye) and scroll down for more key SuperCoach numbers from round 5.

See the big movers and sliders in CBAs and kick-ins last round here:

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 5.

STEELE v GREEN

Jack Steele and Tom Green went head-to-head in their home town of Canberra on Saturday and Steele was the clear winner.

The Saints skipper’s 29 disposals were worth 143 SuperCoach points, while Green scored 72 SuperCoach points from his 24 touches.

Apart from volume and better efficiency from disposals, the difference between their scores came down to the final term as Steele scored 43 points compared to just eight for Green. Given the closeness of the match, Steele’s acts were rewarded handsomely. Steele had nine disposals (eight effective) for the term whereas Green had just three.

Steele also had six tackles for the match to Green’s one, while also posting two score assists. Both players hit the scoreboard with one goal each.

It was an efficient display from Steele, losing just 3.6 points from one clanger kick, while Green lost 11.8 points from his four negative acts.

Jack Steele almost willed St Kilda to an unlikely win. Picture: Michael Klein

CASH KING

Gold Coast rookie Sam Clohesy is a chance to set a new record for the biggest price rise by a rookie in his third game, a title currently held by Errol Gulden’s $123,000 jump in 2021.

Clohesy has scored 231 SuperCoach points in his opening two games, which places him just outside the top three all time for points in a player’s first two matches.

That title is held by Michael Barlow with a remarkable 283, ahead of Gulden and Matt Rowell.

SHARK ALERT

Max Gawn put up another big SuperCoach score to open the round but he cost himself 12.1 points with 15 sharked hitouts against the Lions.

BRINGING IT HOME

The importance of standing up in match-defining moments was on full display last round.

Luke Ryan scored a round-high 82 points in the final term. That was on the back of his kicking as he racked up 47.6 points from kicks alone.

Matt Crouch scored 45 points in the final term to save his score, with his last eight acts of the match netting him 30.1 points. That included one hardball-get (5.9 points) and one looseball-get (6.3 points) in the nailbiting finish.

Luke Ryan dominated the last quarter against Port Adelaide. Picture: Daniel Carson/AFL Photos via Getty Images

Meanwhile, the matchwinning play from Jason Horne-Francis was worth 24.6 points, made up of one contested mark, one effective short kick and the goal itself.

Sam Berry’s matchwinning goal against the Blues was worth 11 points while his effective kick netted him 5.3 points.

Stat of the Week – Kick-ins

A kick-ins are when a player kicks the ball back into play after an opposition behind. They are regarded as a function of the team and do not count as kicks on the stat sheet, although they are similarly graded for quality. However, a play-on from a kick-in does count as a kick, and picking these players in SuperCoach is more than rewarding.

We often find ourselves barracking for our players to play on from a kick-in, and when they don’t, we ask ourselves – why not?

Kick-ins can have a positive or negative impact to SuperCoach scoring, depending on the result. An effective kick-in from inside the goal square, whether it be deemed short or long, is worth one point, but an ineffective kick-in is worth zero points.

If a player directly turns the ball over from a kick-in, then he loses four points from his score. If a kick-in (without playing on) goes directly out of bounds without anyone touching the ball, then this is also classified as a kick-in clanger and points are deducted accordingly. This is a SuperCoach killer!

Once the designated kick-in player plays on from a kick-in, then as a kick in general play will be judged accordingly, that is effective kicks (short or long) are worth four points, ineffective kicks are worth zero points and clanger kicks are worth -4 points.

If we look at the top-25 kick-in players, only three have a 100 per cent play on rate – Kane Farrell, Mitchell Hinge and Lachie Bramble. Jayden Short, now injured, has the lowest play on rate (66.7 per cent) which has contributed to his poor start to the season.

If we look at disposals per game from kick-ins, it’s Harry Sheezel that leads that measure with 9.2 per game, narrowly ahead of Luke Ryan with 8.4.

Originally published as SuperCoach AFL 2024: Full centre bounce attendances for round 5