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

Kicking off with Round 3!

2. Bruce Almighty

As reported on Useless AFL Stats, Josh Bruce became the first player with a pink hair lackey in his man bun to kick 10 goals. However, he also outscored North Melbourne by himself, his 10.2 (62) demolishing the Roos team effort of 5.9 (39).

A player outscoring an opposition side is not as rare as people may think, and you would need to go back to 2004 to find a season where this hasnโ€™t occurred at least once in the year. In fact, it has now occurred 99 times since 1990, and 217 times since 1946. What is a bit rarer is Bruce kicking 10 goals to the oppositions five โ€“ effectively doubling their goal total.

Looking at games were a team kicked at least five goals, the last time this happened was in Rd 10, 2014, when Jack Riewoldt kicked 11 in a Tigers 113-point win over GWS. Riewoldtโ€™s point difference of +27 is also the last time anyone went better than Bruceโ€™s +23. So what is the all-time record you may ask?

Well, it is of course held by the greatest goal kicker ever, Tony Lockett, whose 16.0 (96) against Fitzroy (who scored 6.8 (44)) in Round 19, 1995 - a difference of 52 points - may never be beaten. Tony Modra is the only player who has ever seriously challenged, kicking 13.4 (82) to Richmond 4.8 (32) as the only other +50 difference recorded.