Weโre back for Round 11 of Zero Hangerโs weekly โfive useless statsโ series.
Every week Aaron Delaporte fromย Useless AFL Statsย will take a look at the most useless statistics from the weekend, the ones you never knew you needed to know until now.
Courtesy of some very close matches Round 11 again provided us with another five weird yet captivating and ultimately Useless Stats.
3. Freoโs poor kicking
Once again Fremantle failed to kick more majors than behinds, making it the tenth time in eleven games this year that has happened.
They have now kicked 117 goals and 146 behinds for the season. To put that into context, they have had just two less scoring shots than ladder-leaders Melbourne.
The conversion rate of 44% is so bad that it has been 32 years since a team was that bad at kicking for goal and that was Richmond who took the wooden spoon in 1989.
The team at Useless AFL Stats recreated the AFL ladder swapping goals for behinds and behinds for goals for each match this season - the new ladder would see Fremantle climb to 4th spot and their percentage improve from 90.2% to 122.6% and of course Nat Fyfe would be the most accurate shot for goal in the competition.
