Weโ€™re back for Round 14 of Zero Hangerโ€™s weekly โ€˜five useless statsโ€™ series.

Every week Aaron Delaporte fromย Useless AFL Statsย will take a look at the most useless statistics from the weekend just gone, the absurd, the ridiculous and just the plain outrageous.

With the shortened round it's just four stats this week but these are the most captivatingly Useless Statsย from the week just gone.

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3. Footy Shorts

Earlier in the week we posted a stat about games won by teams wearing different colour footy shorts, updating to include Round 14 were white shorts won four of the five matches. White now has 47 wins a draw ahead of black on 17 wins and from what we termed midnight blue, worn by the Crows, Melbourne, Geelong and Carlton, on 14 ahead of Red 13 and traditional blue worn by the Eagles and Dogs on 11 wins a draw.

Purple, Grey/Charcoal, Maroon and Brown all with a handful of wins or less making up the numbers. We presented that info as a nifty little pie chart on our Facebook page if you want to check it out.

AFL Rd 6 - Collingwood v Essendon
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 25: Nick Hind of the Bombers runs with the ball during the round six AFL match between the Collingwood Magpies and the Essendon Bombers at Melbourne Cricket Ground on April 25, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/AFL Photos/via Getty Images )

Interestingly, Essendon, who were the last team to win in white shorts, were also the first to wear them in 1902, whilst every club had either worn blue or black until that point.

Other clubs over the following years then started to wear white shorts until the 1930 season, when the VFL as it was way back then made it a rule to bring in black (or dark) shorts for home games and white shorts for away - one of the rare rules which hasnโ€™t been changed for the AFL for a very long time.