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Gold Coast Suns: Team of the Decade (2010-2019)

With the AFL on hiatus, enthusiasm among footy fans can best be described as… complicated.

Although the action has temporarily stopped, there’s still a lot of AFL data to play with.

We at Stats Insider are still committed to innovative content, while we’re continuing to push the boundaries in terms of creativity and data.

As soon as the AFL hibernation began, our office slack channels lit up with ideas, with the overarching question being “What can we produce for the AFL community in their time of need?”

Our answer was to add a pinch of nostalgia, along with a whole heap of stats and data.

We recently launched both our Stats Insider AFL Player Ratings along with our new, weekly statistical series - “Stats That Matter”, and today, we’re introducing yet another content series, one in which will reveal the ‘Team of the Decade (2010-19)’ for each of the 18 AFL clubs.

These teams are created using the minimum games rule (50 games - except for GWS Giants and Gold Coast Suns) while relying on Stats Insider’s total and average game rating points to guide the process for team of the decade selection.

Given the complexity of AFL positions, our custom ratings were used as a guide by the Stats Insider staff who then worked together to mold it into a team that's fair and reasonable. The ratings and stats quoted are only based on the player’s output/performance while they were at that particular club.

Based on data over the last decade (2010-19), we’ve also ranked each team according to their win% and will reveal their respective ranks as per our average expected score Elo across the decade.

We start with the 18th team on our list - Gold Coast Suns

Elo Rank: 18th 

Win% Rank: 18th

Overall rank: 18th

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GOLD COAST SUNS: TEAM OF THE DECADE (2010-19)

*Minimum 45 games played

Player Data

Name
Games
PPG
(points per game)
SI Peak
Rating
Peak Date
SI Rank Points
Gary Ablett
110
40.9
98.5
25/05/2014
4503.4
Tom J. Lynch
131
13.4
95.7
14/08/2016
1752.2
David Swallow
139
11.1
73.6
31/08/2014
1543.3
Dion Prestia
95
12.5
86.7
31/08/2014
1185.1
Harley Bennell
81
11.3
86.9
12/07/2014
915.4
Touk Miller
100
8.9
68.2
21/07/2018
894.9
Steven May
123
7.2
87.1
17/06/2017
886.6
Jarrod Harbrow
175
4.9
88.1
21/04/2019
862.1
Aaron Hall
103
8.2
75
05/08/2017
846.1
Michael Rischitelli
132
5.3
92.6
14/05/2011
706
Jack Martin
97
6.9
83.3
29/06/2019
669.3
Jarrod Witts
62
9
77.6
24/08/2019
558.1
Brayden Fiorini
47
9.5
61.3
24/08/2019
447.8
Charlie Dixon
65
6.2
53.1
05/07/2014
401.3
Alex Sexton
119
3.3
68.9
14/04/2019
392.2
Brandon Matera
101
3.8
62.9
20/04/2013
382.5
Kade Kolodjashnij
78
2.9
82.8
23/04/2016
229.4
Rory Thompson
103
2.2
63.6
31/08/2014
228.3
Jared Brennan
54
3.7
86.4
14/05/2011
200.9
Trent McKenzie
106
1.6
76.6
29/06/2013
173.9
Danny Stanley
83
1.9
76.3
04/05/2014
156
Sam Day
120
1.2
56.6
04/04/2015
149.6
Zac Smith
65
2.3
54.9
05/05/2012
149.6
Peter Wright
66
2
46.6
12/08/2017
129.6
Matt Shaw
102
1.2
54.9
29/06/2013
125.6
Adam Saad
48
1.9
55.2
08/08/2015
92.2
Tom Nicholls
45
1.8
45.3
06/08/2016
83.5
Campbell Brown
46
1.1
50.2
30/07/2011
51.0
Luke Russell
73
0.6
44
03/08/2013
42.7
Jesse Lonergan
60
0.7
48.1
31/07/2016
39.7
Jesse Joyce
63
0.6
30.2
13/07/2019
36.9
Sean Lemmens
87
0.3
23.4
12/06/2016
25.5
Callum Ah Chee
45
0.4
24.5
14/07/2018
22.2


Next up, we'll reveal the #17 ranked team on our list in our everyday countdown to #1.

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Greg Butyn

Stats Insider data analyst. All-around nice guy. Lover of all dogs, including greyhounds and the Western Bulldogs. Usually can be found stalking the lobbies at Draftstars and Moneyball on any given day.

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