SuperCoach stat attack: How score assists help boost your score
GOALKICKERS get the glory but players who create scoring chances can assist us to big SuperCoach scores. Here are the names you need to know.
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GOALKICKERS get the glory but players who create scoring chances can assist us to big SuperCoach scores.
Every week of the 2016 season Champion Data will lift the lid on the SuperCoach scoring system to unpack a stat that contributes to player scores.
This week the focus is on scoreboard impact.
Hitting the scoreboard provides a major boost to SuperCoach scoring no matter what position you play.
Scoreboard impact isn’t a measure of just goals and behinds, with a players’ ability to assist in a score also recognised.
Overall, scoreboard impact is the measure of a player’s total amount of points scored from goals and behinds plus points scored from score assists. Goal and goal assists are worth six points each in a player’ scoreboard impact total, with behinds and behind assists each worth one point.
From a SuperCoach perspective the goal is the ultimate reward, earning the player eight points in total. A behind is worth one point.
Assists are also extremely valuable. A player is rewarded with 3.5 points for both goal and score assists, so you’re not disadvantaged from a SuperCoach aspect if the player your man gave the ball to misses the goal.
To be rewarded for a score assist a player has to deliver the ball to a teammate with an effective disposal with the possession immediately prior to the score. That can be via a kick, handball, knock-on or effective hitout.
If we look at the leading players in the competition for scoreboard impact after two rounds it’s key forwards that dominate the top five rankings, led by Josh J. Kennedy who has a combined contribution of 81 points. Of that tally, 74 were recorded in the season opener against Brisbane on the back of an eight-goal haul.
Adelaide’s Josh Jenkins has overshadowed skipper Taylor Walker this season, recording a contribution of 80 points, 51 more than Walker. Jenkins’ goal conversion has been a major highlight, recording a shot at goal accuracy of 82 per cent, which is the second-best strike rate of the top 10.
(of players to have played two matches)
The best ranked general forwards are Alex Fasolo and Jack Martin with a contribution of 61 points. In the case of Fasolo, he has booted seven goals straight already this season and looks set to record career-best numbers across the board.
As well as his seven goals Fasolo has three goal assists and one behind assist in the first two rounds.
In terms of scoring shots, Kennedy and Franklin ranked equal No.1 with 14 apiece. Franklin’s goal conversion continues to elude him, recording the worst shot at goal accuracy of the top 10 (57 per cent).
Originally published as SuperCoach stat attack: How score assists help boost your score
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