Round 13 is the first round of 2026 topped by a forward.
Logan Morris kicked seven goals from 17 disposals and nine marks in Brisbane’s 31-point win over Gold Coast at Carrara — KICK 91, a career best for the 57-game Lions forward (his previous high was 71.4, set last year), and the round’s highest rating in a week where nobody reached the ceiling. It’s the lowest round-best score of the season (every other round’s top mark has been 95 or higher), and it came from exactly the kind of game the rating asks of a key forward: high-volume goals, nine marks, real possession involvement. Last week the contrast was Curnow’s 90 against Gunston’s 48; this week Morris made the same point on his own.
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 13 — 4 to 8 Jun 2026
Six of the eight games were decided by single digits — margins of 1, 2, 5, 6, 6 and 8 — in the closest round of the season. Adelaide opened it on Thursday night with a one-point escape over Geelong at Adelaide Oval, anchored by Lachlan McAndrew’s 51 hit-outs (KICK 82, in just his 13th career game). Sydney held off St Kilda by 2 at the SCG, Carlton beat Essendon by 5, the Bulldogs took Friday night over Hawthorn by 6, Port Adelaide won by the same margin at Perth Stadium, and Melbourne closed the round with an 8-point King’s Birthday win over Collingwood at the MCG — Max Gawn 46 hit-outs and KICK 85. The two exceptions to the tight-round pattern ran in opposite directions: Brisbane handled Gold Coast by 31 at Carrara (the Morris show), and Fremantle produced the round’s piece of history at Hands Oval in Bunbury — 155 to 31, a 124-point annihilation of North Melbourne that is the second-biggest margin of the season (Sydney’s 128 over West Coast in R4 still leads) and handed North the lowest team score of 2026. Liam Ryan kicked five for St Kilda in the 2-point loss to Sydney from 12 disposals — KICK 57, the low-volume forward pattern again, in the same week Morris showed what the high-volume version looks like. GWS and Richmond had the byes.
- 91
Logan Morris 17 disposals · 7 goals · 1 tackle · 9 marks
- 89
Jai Newcombe 36 disposals · 3 tackles · 9 clearances · 4 marks
- 89
Lachie Neale 37 disposals · 3 tackles · 10 clearances · 5 marks
- 86
John Noble 36 disposals · 1 tackle · 15 marks
- 85
Patrick Voss 20 disposals · 4 goals · 2 tackles · 10 marks
The season tally — 14 weeks in
The 100 Club is unchanged — Round 13 is the fourth round this season without a perfect 100, after the Opening Round, R4 and R9. The movement is all in the averages table, where the bye-and-blowout week reshuffled the top five.
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
- R12
- R2
- R8
- R5
- R10
- R7
- R6
- R3
- R1
- R11
- R10
- R8
Most top-five appearances across the 14 weeks
Bailey Smith leads on 6. Max Gawn next on 5, Lachie Neale on 4, then Marcus Bontempelli and Luke Jackson on 3.
Most 90+ KICK games
Bailey Smith has 5. Max Gawn, Tristan Xerri and Brodie Grundy all on 3.
Top season averages, three games minimum
| # | Player | Team | Season avg | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailey Smith | Geelong | 13 | |
| 2 | Max Gawn | Melbourne | 13 | |
| 3 | Isaac Heeney | Sydney | 11 | |
| 4 | Nick Daicos | Collingwood | 12 | |
| 5 | Tristan Xerri | North Melbourne | 9 | |
| 6 | Brodie Grundy | Sydney | 12 | |
| 7 | Marcus Bontempelli | Western Bulldogs | 13 |
The averages table had its biggest shuffle in a month. Tristan Xerri fell from second to fifth — his KICK 41 in the Bunbury massacre (12 disposals, 15 hit-outs in North’s 31-point night) was his lowest game of the season and dragged his average from 80.3 to 75.9 over nine games. Max Gawn moved the other way, overtaking Heeney for second at 80.6 after his 46-hit-out, KICK-85 King’s Birthday win — at 13 games his sample is as solid as Smith’s. Bailey Smith’s lead survives another quiet-ish fortnight at 82.6, two points clear, and his five 90+ games and six top-five appearances both still lead the league. One name to watch from outside the table: Logan Morris is averaging 48 this season, but a career-best 91 from a third-year forward whose previous high was 71 is a 20-point jump worth tracking through the back half of the year.
Where this is going
Another round-up next Tuesday after Round 14. 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 AFLCA-aligned view now exists as its own lens — Coaches’ Eye, launched in May, ranks players by coach votes scaled within position. This round gave the forward-rating thread its best week yet — Morris’s 91 topping the round while Ryan’s five-goal, 12-disposal day sat at 57 is the high-volume/low-volume split in a single weekend. If you think the rating is wrong, tell us or check Positional KICK for the within-position view.
See you after Round 14.