GVL Data | Adding special ‘source’ to scoring recipe

The numbers on the scoreboard may differ from week to week depending on a myriad of factors, but scoring trends are much more resolute.

A full suite of matches was staged at the weekend following on from a split-round, allowing for a closer look at how all six finals-incumbents are shaping up with the post-season looming large on the horizon.

Scoring sources in the GVL Data-base are broken down into turnovers, stoppages or kick-ins — and the analysis can be shaped further by citing where on the field those chains began.

For the purposes of this exercise we’ll look at the data from the current top six on the table — leaving Rochester out on percentage alone for now.

Seymour managed to begin three scoring chains from a kick-in at the weekend — for three majors, representing 19 per cent of its overall score — and Kyabram garnered a behind.

The other four sides did not go the length of the field from an opposition miss, so we’ll park that section to the side for now as well.

What can quickly be deduced is that Mansfield’s pressure was high in round 14, producing 69% of its score by way of an opposition turnover.

We can also see that Seymour’s ability to score from three kick-ins has hurt it in the other two categories, but the Lions favour scores from turnovers as well.

In fact, all six teams do their best work from an opposition mistake — but Euroa was the most balanced in its approach at the weekend.

Only 53 per cent of the Magpies’ total score came from turnovers, leaving it atop the stoppage category with 47 per cent.

Kyabram was also relatively even in its scoring chains, sourcing 56 per cent from turnovers and 44 per cent from stoppages — with the solitary kick-in behind falling into a rounding crevice somewhere along the way.

Look out for more analysis on scoring sources at https://www.sheppnews.com.au/gvl-data/