Two players hit the KICK ceiling in Round 15 — and for both, it was a first for the season.
Luke Jackson led the round with a raw 110.6 (capped at the display ceiling of 100) in Fremantle’s 9-point win over Geelong at Perth Stadium: 28 disposals, three goals, nine tackles, six clearances and 25 hit-outs, the kind of ruck-midfield hybrid line KICK rewards heavily. Nick Daicos joined him with a ceiling game of his own — 41 disposals, a goal and nine clearances in Collingwood’s 26-point win over Port Adelaide at the MCG. It’s the third round of the season to produce multiple perfect 100s, after Round 8 (two) and Round 10 (three), and it pushes the 100 Club to 16 games from 11 different players.
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 15 — 18 to 21 Jun 2026
The third four-team bye round in four weeks — Brisbane, Essendon, Sydney and West Coast rested — left seven games, none closer than Fremantle’s 9-point win over Geelong and none wider than 26 points. Hawthorn beat Gold Coast by 16 at Carrara, Adelaide kept its run going with a 17-point win over Melbourne at Adelaide Oval, Carlton accounted for GWS by 23, and Collingwood handled Port by 26 behind Daicos’s ceiling game. The story beneath the favourites was North Melbourne: three weeks after a 124-point loss to Fremantle, the Roos backed up their one-point Round 14 win with a 25-point defeat of Richmond at the MCG — back-to-back victories for a side that looked broken a fortnight ago. No player kicked five goals in the round, the first goal-less-of-a-big-bag weekend since Round 5; the round’s work was done by midfielders and rucks, with all five of the top KICK Ratings going to on-ballers or ruck-mids.
- 100
Luke Jackson 28 disposals · 3 goals · 9 tackles · 6 clearances
- 100
Nick Daicos 41 disposals · 1 goal · 4 tackles · 9 clearances
- 93
Marcus Bontempelli 34 disposals · 1 goal · 7 tackles · 13 clearances
- 91
Noah Anderson 43 disposals · 3 tackles · 4 clearances · 6 marks
- 89
Max Gawn 28 disposals · 30 hit-outs · 7 clearances · 2 tackles
The season tally — 16 weeks in
The 100 Club jumped to 16 games from 11 players, with Jackson and Daicos both joining for the first time. And the race for the season-average lead is now a quarter of a point: with Bailey Smith out of the Geelong side, Max Gawn’s KICK 89 closed the gap to 0.25, while Daicos’s ceiling game lifted him to clear third.
The 100 Club (perfect KICK 100 games, 2026 season)
Bars show raw KICK Game Score; every game here displayed as a perfect 100. The dashed line marks the raw ceiling of 100 — Daicos’s 99.9 is the first 100 Club entry of the season to round up to it rather than clear it.
- R10
- R12
- R2
- R8
- R5
- R14
- R15
- R10
- R7
- R6
- R3
- R1
- R11
- R10
- R8
- R15
Most top-five appearances across the 16 weeks
Max Gawn and Bailey Smith tied on 6 each. Next: Lachie Neale, Marcus Bontempelli, Luke Jackson with 4.
Most 90+ KICK games
Bailey Smith has 5. Marcus Bontempelli, Max Gawn, Tristan Xerri and Nick Daicos are all on 3.
Top season averages, three games minimum
| # | Player | Team | Season avg | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailey Smith | Geelong | 14 | |
| 2 | Max Gawn | Melbourne | 15 | |
| 3 | Nick Daicos | Collingwood | 13 | |
| 4 | Isaac Heeney | Sydney | 12 | |
| 5 | Marcus Bontempelli | Western Bulldogs | 15 | |
| 6 | Brodie Grundy | Sydney | 13 | |
| 7 | Tristan Xerri | North Melbourne | 11 |
The lead is now effectively a coin toss. Bailey Smith holds 81.7 over 14 games but didn’t feature in Round 15, so Max Gawn — who played, rated 89 and lifted to 81.5 over 15 — is a quarter of a point behind with a game in hand. If Smith stays out, Gawn takes the outright lead next week without Smith kicking a ball. Behind them, Nick Daicos is the one closing: his 41-disposal ceiling game pulled him to 80.4 over 13, clear in third and the only other player above 79. Isaac Heeney (78.4) held fourth on Sydney’s bye. The top three — a midfielder, a ruckman and a half-back-turned-midfielder — are separated by 1.3 points with eight rounds to play.
Where this is going
Another round-up next Tuesday after Round 16. 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 lives as its own lens — Coaches’ Eye ranks players by coach votes scaled within position. If you think the rating is wrong, tell us or check Positional KICK for the within-position view.
See you after Round 16.