Table 1.
Definitions of the Australian rules football performance indicators used in this study.
Table 2.
Champions data’s descriptions of the seven player roles used in this study.
Fig 1.
Standardised density distribution (%) of each player role.
(A) Inside Football Player Ratings and (B) AFL Player Ratings, across the 2013–2017 AFL seasons. Vertical lines indicate mean and ± one standard deviation.
Fig 2.
Correlogram outlining the Pearson correlation coefficients (r) between all features used within the study.
Fig 3.
Standardised density distribution (%) of AFL Player Ratings across levels of Inside Football Player Ratings.
Vertical lines indicate mean and ± one standard deviation.
Table 3.
Results of the linear mixed model (dependent variable is “Inside Football Player Ratings”).
Fig 4.
Recursive partitioning and regression tree model explaining Inside Football Player Ratings from match performance indicators.
Terminal node variables outline the model-expected Inside Football Player Rating. Decimals indicate the absolute classification rate at the node.
Fig 5.
Difference in actual and model-expected Inside Football Player Ratings.
Fig 6.
Density of ratings given for all players based on match outcome (Wins and Losses).
(A) Inside Football Player Ratings and (B) AFL Player Ratings, across the 2013–2017 AFL seasons.
Fig 7.
Paul Puopolo’s average season ratings in comparison to the distribution of all player’s average ratings.
(A) Inside Football Player Ratings and (B) AFL Player Ratings, across the 2013–2017 AFL seasons. Dark grey indicates mean ± SD, medium grey indicates one to two SD, and light grey indicates two plus SD.
Fig 8.
Ben Jacobs’ average season ratings in comparison to the distribution of all player’s average ratings.
(A) Inside Football Player Ratings and (B) AFL Player Ratings, across the 2013–2017 AFL seasons. Dark grey indicates mean ± SD, medium grey indicates one to two SD, and light grey indicates two plus SD.
Table 4.
Variation of seasonal mean ratings from the overall sample mean ratings for Paul Puopolo and Ben Jacobs.