Its back for Round 5! Zero Hangerโ€™s weekly โ€˜five useless statsโ€™.

Every week Aaron Delaporte fromย Useless AFL Statsย will take a look at the top five most useless, but captivating, statistics from the weekend.

Round 5 once again had us searching for the record books to see what stats had been toppled and here are the best of them.

2. Tall timber

West Coast and Collingwood fielded the tallest combined line-ups of the season on Friday night with both sides measuring up at an average height of 189cm.

The Eagles made some interesting moves at the selection table coming into the clash, most notably the addition of second ruckman Nathan Vardy at 200cm, whilst Collingwood dropped Mason Cox, the tallest player in the league at 211cm, but bought in Darcy Cameron (204cm) and Mark Keane (194cm).

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 08: Nathan Vardy of the Eagles and Brodie Grundy of the Magpies contest the ruck during the AFL Second Qualifying Final match between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Magpies at Optus Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

However, the Pies may have rued playing 203cm Darcy Moore forward who, albeit kicking three goals, may have been better used in defence as Oscar Allen (192cm), Jack Darling (191cm) and Josh Kennedy (196cm) combined for 12 goals between them. West Coast certainly won the battle in the air taking 13 contested marks to Collingwoodโ€™s nine.

The tallest AFL team ever fielded was 191.2cm average by Geelong in Round 8, 2017 who despite a 4.7cm per-player advantage lost to Essendon by 17pts.