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Midfielders — KICK Rating leaderboard

The top midfielders right now, ranked by rolling 40-game KICK-M (positional KICK). For midfielders the positional and overall numbers are close — inside-mids are what the Brownlow/AA voting rewards, which overall KICK is tuned to. 147 midfielders rated, top 100 shown.

Same rating formula as the overall leaderboard — just filtered to this position. See why we split by position.

# Player Team GP KICK-M R40 KICK-M career KICK
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1 Marcus Bontempelli Western Bulldogs 262 83 74 73
2 Nick Daicos Collingwood 99 76 70 69
3 Tom Green Greater Western Sydney 114 73 66 65
4 Caleb Serong Fremantle 132 73 67 66
5 Lachie Neale Brisbane Lions 291 73 70 69
6 Dane Swan Collingwood 249 72 72 71
7 Matt Rowell Gold Coast 110 72 66 66
8 Harry Sheezel North Melbourne 72 72 68 67
9 Noah Anderson Gold Coast 134 71 65 64
10 Zak Butters Port Adelaide 142 71 59 58
11 Adam Treloar Western Bulldogs 255 71 67 66
12 Dayne Beams Collingwood 176 71 67 67
13 Patrick Cripps Carlton 232 70 71 71
14 Andrew Brayshaw Fremantle 174 70 62 61
15 Hugh McCluggage Brisbane Lions 209 70 60 60
16 Zach Merrett Essendon 250 70 69 68
17 Shane Tuck Richmond 162 69 63 63
18 Luke Davies-Uniacke North Melbourne 133 69 60 59
19 Matt Priddis West Coast 235 69 71 71
20 Bailey Smith Geelong 130 69 59 59
21 Jarryd Lyons Brisbane Lions 169 69 65 64
22 Max Holmes Geelong 106 69 56 54
23 Jack Steele Melbourne 205 69 67 66
24 Tom Liberatore Western Bulldogs 254 68 65 65
25 Brad Crouch St Kilda 160 68 65 65
26 Josh Dunkley Brisbane Lions 199 68 66 65
27 Tim Taranto Richmond 177 67 65 65
28 Scott West Western Bulldogs 323 67 57 54
29 Brett Ratten Carlton 254 67 52 46
30 George Hewett Carlton 197 67 54 53
31 Darcy Parish Essendon 169 67 59 59
32 Jai Newcombe Hawthorn 105 66 62 61
33 Christian Petracca Gold Coast 214 66 64 63
34 Will Ashcroft Brisbane Lions 63 66 61 60
35 Scott Thompson Adelaide 300 66 63 63
36 Sam Walsh Carlton 137 66 64 64
37 Dayne Zorko Brisbane Lions 301 65 65 64
38 Touk Miller Gold Coast 217 64 63 62
39 Jason Horne-Francis Port Adelaide 84 64 56 55
40 Matthew Kennedy Western Bulldogs 137 64 53 52
41 Michael Barlow Gold Coast 137 64 67 66
42 Lenny Hayes St Kilda 295 64 60 60
43 Luke Ball Collingwood 212 63 61 61
44 Jye Caldwell Essendon 90 63 54 53
45 Sam Mitchell West Coast 323 63 67 66
46 Finn Callaghan Greater Western Sydney 76 63 53 52
47 Elliot Yeo West Coast 208 62 60 58
48 Ollie Wines Port Adelaide 271 62 64 63
49 Tom Mitchell Collingwood 203 62 70 70
50 Simon Black Brisbane Lions 318 62 63 62
51 Jobe Watson Essendon 213 62 64 63
52 Jack Redden West Coast 262 61 60 59
53 Bryce Gibbs Adelaide 266 61 62 62
54 Ben Cunnington North Melbourne 233 61 59 58
55 Brock McLean Carlton 147 61 55 55
56 Matt Crouch Adelaide 154 61 64 63
57 Chad Warner Sydney 113 61 60 59
58 Chris Judd Carlton 276 60 66 66
59 Tom Rockliff Port Adelaide 203 60 68 68
60 Joel Selwood Geelong 351 60 69 68
61 Adam Cerra Carlton 145 60 53 52
62 Brent Moloney Brisbane Lions 153 59 53 53
63 Jack Viney Melbourne 233 59 61 61
64 Anthony Miles Gold Coast 86 59 61 60
65 Andrew Swallow North Melbourne 216 59 63 63
66 Leigh Montagna St Kilda 280 59 62 62
67 Peter Bell Fremantle 283 59 58 55
68 Clayton Oliver Greater Western Sydney 210 59 72 71
69 Matthew Boyd Western Bulldogs 284 59 64 63
70 Luke Dunstan Melbourne 118 59 54 53
71 Adam Simpson North Melbourne 306 59 55 53
72 Daniel Cross Melbourne 238 58 61 60
73 Nick Stevens Carlton 231 58 56 54
74 Josh Kelly Greater Western Sydney 221 58 64 63
75 Jack Steven Geelong 191 58 61 61
76 Luke Shuey West Coast 242 57 66 65
77 Rory Sloane Adelaide 247 57 66 65
78 Daniel Kerr West Coast 217 57 55 55
79 Jack Macrae St Kilda 262 57 69 68
80 Nick Dal Santo North Melbourne 321 57 61 60
81 Scott Pendlebury Collingwood 416 57 67 67
82 Brad Sewell Hawthorn 189 57 56 56
83 Jy Simpkin North Melbourne 173 57 54 53
84 Joel Corey Geelong 272 57 59 59
85 Stephen Coniglio Greater Western Sydney 220 56 63 63
86 Mark Coughlan Richmond 91 56 54 54
87 Dylan Shiel Essendon 224 56 59 59
88 David Mundy Fremantle 372 56 57 57
89 Will Brodie Fremantle 52 56 54 53
90 Simon Goodwin Adelaide 268 55 55 54
91 Jason Johnson Essendon 184 55 55 55
92 Daniel Wells Collingwood 250 55 53 53
93 Peter Burgoyne Port Adelaide 238 55 52 51
94 Jed Anderson North Melbourne 89 55 51 51
95 Luke Parker North Melbourne 308 55 66 65
96 Dom Sheed West Coast 158 55 53 53
97 Jacob Hopper Richmond 167 55 55 55
98 James Worpel Geelong 147 54 55 55
99 Andrew Carrazzo Carlton 187 54 56 56
100 Gary Ablett Geelong 353 54 70 70

Why a separate midfielders leaderboard?

KICK Rating's overall leaderboard is award-aligned — Brownlow votes, All-Australian squads, and AFLCA Champion Player selections all heavily favour midfielders, and KICK tracks them. That's the right number when you want "who does everyone agree is the best player going around?".

But if you're looking for the best midfielders, that mid-heavy bias is the wrong lens. Filtering by position strips it out. Midfielders here are ranked against each other, by the same formula, over the same data since 1897. No re-weighting, no Champion Data licences, no guesswork — just the subset of the same leaderboard that played in the same role.

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