Three perfect KICK 100s in Round 10 — the biggest single round of the 2026 season, and the round that re-arranged the consistency leaderboard.
Brodie Grundy’s 119.9 raw KICK against his old Collingwood teammates at the SCG is the highest raw Game Score of the season — 34 disposals, 12 clearances, 46 hit-outs, a goal — and Sydney edged a 6-point win out of it. Grundy played 175 games for Collingwood between 2013 and 2022; this one came against the club he left after 2022, with the kind of ruck performance that anchored Collingwood’s 2018-19 era. Bailey Smith hit a 100 of his own — 34 disposals, 11 tackles, two goals, 7 clearances in Geelong’s 41-point win over Brisbane at the Gabba — his third perfect 100 of the year, drawing him level with Tristan Xerri at the top of the 100 Club. Harley Reid added the third — 34 disposals, 10 clearances, 8 tackles, two goals for West Coast in a 17-point win over GWS — the first KICK 100 of his 49-game career.
A quick refresher: KICK Rating is our open, reproducible player rating — one score out of 100 for every player in every game, computed from the public box score, formula published, code public. A game score of 70 means a quality senior contribution. 85+ puts a player in All-Australian territory. A perfect 100 is the ceiling — once-a-season form. The full methodology is on the site, including where v1 falls short.
Round 10 — 14 to 17 May 2026
A round split between the contests and the routs. Three matches finished inside three goals — Sydney def. Collingwood by 6 at the SCG (Grundy’s 100), Carlton def. Western Bulldogs by 12 at Docklands, West Coast def. GWS by 17 at Perth Stadium (Reid’s 100). The other six were either comfortable or one-sided: Adelaide put 133 on North Melbourne (68-point margin at Adelaide Oval), St Kilda 109-73 Richmond, Geelong 117-76 Brisbane at the Gabba, Fremantle 104-61 Essendon at the MCG, Melbourne 120-81 Hawthorn, Gold Coast 98-73 Port Adelaide. Geelong’s win in Brisbane was its third straight 100+ score (135, 122, 117 across R8-R10) — they’ve now hit triple figures in six of their ten games this season. The week’s biggest goal-kicking haul belonged to Shaun Mannagh, five for Geelong from 30 disposals at KICK 86 — the season’s highest-rated exactly-five-goal game, though Cameron’s 10-goal R6 (KICK 95), Naughton’s six in R1 (91) and Curnow’s seven in R7 (89) sit higher on 6+ goals.
- 100
Brodie Grundy 34 disposals · 12 clearances · 46 hit-outs · 1 goal
- 100
Bailey Smith 34 disposals · 2 goals · 11 tackles · 7 clearances
- 100
Harley Reid 34 disposals · 2 goals · 8 tackles · 10 clearances
- 93
Bailey Williams 16 disposals · 9 tackles · 41 hit-outs · 2 goals
- 91
Nick Blakey 39 disposals · 1 goal · 2 tackles · 3 clearances
The season tally — 11 weeks in
The 100 Club jumped from eight to eleven in a single round. Bailey Smith joined Tristan Xerri at three perfect 100s each. Brodie Grundy and Harley Reid landed their first. And the season averages — for the first time this year — have a player with ten games on the board sitting at the top.
The 100 Club (perfect KICK 100 games, 2026 season)
Bars show raw KICK Game Score; every game here exceeded the display ceiling of 100. The dashed line is the ceiling.
- R10
- R2
- R8
- R5
- R10
- R7
- R6
- R3
- R1
- R10
- R8
Most top-five appearances across the 11 weeks
Bailey Smith leads on 6. Max Gawn next on 4. Five players tied on 3: Tristan Xerri, Brodie Grundy, Lachie Neale, Marcus Bontempelli and Luke Jackson.
Most 90+ KICK games
Bailey Smith has 5. Max Gawn, Tristan Xerri and Brodie Grundy all on 3 (Grundy added his this round).
Top season averages, three games minimum
| # | Player | Team | Season avg | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailey Smith | Geelong | 10 | |
| 2 | Tristan Xerri | North Melbourne | 7 | |
| 3 | Max Gawn | Melbourne | 10 | |
| 4 | Nick Daicos | Collingwood | 9 | |
| 5 | Brodie Grundy | Sydney | 10 | |
| 6 | Isaac Heeney | Sydney | 8 | |
| 7 | Marcus Bontempelli | Western Bulldogs | 10 |
Bailey Smith is now the season-average leader on top of leading 90+ games (5, two clear), leading top-five appearances outright (6, two clear), and tying for most perfect 100s (3, with Tristan Xerri). At ten games, the sample size objection that hovered over Xerri’s earlier lead has gone — Smith’s 85.0 average is over a full ten games, not six, and he’s the only player in the top seven averages with double-digit games and an 85+ average. The Brownlow case is the easy way to read this; the longer-form case is that Smith is the most regularly elite midfielder on KICK across the first ten weeks. The runner-up case sits with Xerri (3-from-7 on perfect 100s, 82.6 average) and the dark-horse case sits with Brodie Grundy, now on three 90+ games, his first perfect 100, and the season’s highest raw KICK at 119.9.
Where this is going
Another round-up next Tuesday after Round 11. One match of the round, one season tally refresh, same format. If you want the current form at any time, the live leaderboard re-ranks after every build.
As always: formula here, failures published too, code open-source, no paywall. The current shipped version is v1.1; v1.2–1.4 were held after sweeps (results in the methodology page) and the next lever for positional fairness is more likely to be a separate AFLCA-aligned lens than a single composite. If you think the rating is wrong, tell us or check Positional KICK for the within-position view.
See you after Round 11.