Weโre back for Round 15 of Zero Hangerโs weekly โfiveย 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.
Round 15 did not disappoint with a plethora of Useless Stats to choose from however these are the most captivatinglyย Useless Statsย from the round just gone.
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5. Triple Doubles
With the NBL finals having wrapped up and the NBA playoffs in full swing, the UAS team took a deep dive into AFL triple doubles. The AFL equivalent being a player who can record double digit stats in three or more of the basic categories of kicks, handballs, mark, tackles and goals, and we found some amazing results.
Just two players have recorded four consecutive games of triple doubles and they are Tom Rockliff and Beau Waters. Only six players have recorded a quadruple double, with 10+ kicks, handballs, marks and tackles being Scott Thompson, Joel Selwood, Brent Stanton, Ben McGlynn, Tom Rockliff and Corey Enright, surprisingly only Selwood picked up the three Brownlow votes.
A triple double of 10 handballs, 10 marks and 10 tackles but less than 10 kicks has never been recorded. Similarly 10 kicks, 10 marks and 10 tackles but less than 10 handballs is extremely rare - in fact it had only happened once in AFL history - that being by Jimmy Bartel until the last few weeks. Tim Taranto for GWS in Round 14 did it and then Dayne Zorko on Thursday against Geelong. Both had very similar stat lines with just the 6 handballs and 18 kicks to go with 12 tackles, with Taranto 11 marks and Zorko 10.
