We’re indebted to Footystats for the skinny on
this unique league table appearing for the first time today which looks at the
winning or losing performance of all teams since the AFL became a 16-team league in 1995 – including Fitzroy’s final two
seasons.

Two years later Fitzroy was gone or “swallowed” by
Brisbane, while Port Adelaide entered the picture from 1997 to maintain the 16-club ledger. But what the table most
graphically shows is just what a bunch of losers the most hyped football club in
Australia, Collingwood, has been.

As the table shows, they are now the second worst
performed current club in the AFL and perhaps to the surprise of everyone but
their own long suffering supporters, they’ve only won 101 games and lost
142.

Brisbane’s dominance since 2001 will probably see them overtake
Essendon soon enough. The Kangaroos also knocking on the door for top
spot and perhaps the most surprising stat in this table is the steady
consistency of Sydney over the last decade to come in fourth. It rather
makes a lie of the club’s historical gripes during that period about
being disadvantaged or why it needs greater assistance with drafting
concessions to be competitive?

Also how many of us would have put up our hands to
say the likes of twice premiers Adelaide (1997-98) would’ve been more
successful than the Swans in that time; while Fremantle’s dismal record lags
behind only that of Collingwood to be bottom!

The ladder embraces all AFL matches played from 1995
to the end of last weekend’s round 19.