Gold Coast Suns: Team of the Decade (2010-2019)
Last updated: Apr 8, 2020, 2:43AM | Published: Apr 7, 2020, 7:07AM
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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