Ryan Griffen arrives at the GIANTS as a 200-game player, club captain, dual Best and Fairest winner and All Australian representative. But the new GIANT also now takes the mantle of the club’s highest-ranked player in the Official AFL Player Ratings.
Griffen is ranked as the fifth best player in the competition behind Gary Ablett Jr, Scott Pendlebury, Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield.
The GIANTS now have six players in the top 100 of the Official AFL Player Ratings as they stand at the end of 2014, with Griffen closely followed by co-captain and former teammate Callan Ward who comes in at number 22.
Young guns Adam Treloar and Devon Smith are ranked numbers 61 and 86 respectively, before 2014’s big recruits Shane Mumford (number 94) and Heath Shaw (number 99) round out the GIANTS’ representatives in the top 100 players in the league.
The five GIANTS from 2014 were also the top five place-getters in the Kevin Sheedy Medal.
The Official AFL Player Ratings were introduced in 2013 using a sophisticated algorithm to rank every player across every club in the competition.
The system assesses every single action of every player, determining the impact of that action, and providing points – either positive or negative – toward that player's rating compared to his peers.
Along with the obvious acts such as goals, marks and disposals, it also includes intercepts, spoils, kicking to a contest, smothers, chasing, corralling and many other 'one-percenters' - along with where and when they occurred - to paint a complete picture of ever player's impact on a game.
The ratings are based on a player's past 40 games, creating a buffer for players missing matches through injury, suspension, omission or by not being involved in finals.
A player's most recent 20 matches are given greater weight in determining his rating. Matches 21 through 40 are progressively reduced in weighting, from 100 per cent down to five per cent for the earliest game in the window.
Check out the full ratings of all GIANTS players at the end of 2014
