Its back for Round 5! Zero Hangerโs weekly โfive 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.
4. Percentage booster
The Western Bulldogs ambushed Gold Coast setting up a 10-goal lead in the first-half, which is what they ultimately won by, increasing their percentage from 171.1% to 178.6%.
This is the highest percentage the Bulldogs have ever held after Round 5 in a V/AFL season, bettering the 173.5% in their premiership season of 2016. If the Doggies win again this Friday they should also break their Round 6 percentage record of 155.8%, however they will need another 20+ goal win to get near the Round 6 record of 234.2% set by Fitzroy in 1900.
Conversely, North Melbourneโs 30-poiny defeat to Geelong saw them with a percentage of just 45.4% (up from 43% after Round 4) and a new club low after five rounds. You need to go way back to 1931 when they had a percentage of 45.9% to find a similar start to the season for the Shinboners. They ended 1931 without a win so fingers crossed that isnโt their 2021 destiny.
