Melbourne v Essendon

Adelaide Oval
8.9
57
15.6
96

Essendon won by 39 points

IN
Lindsay
Turner
OUT
IN
Setterfield
Perkins
Caldwell
Edwards
OUT
TipWin %Margin MAEBits
s10
Melbourne
52% 2 points 41.4-0.07
Aggregate
Essendon
52% 2 points 37.00.07
What Snoo Thinks
Essendon
66% 13 points 25.70.40
AFL Lab
Essendon
64% 12 points 26.90.34
Hyperion
Essendon
62% 8 points 31.00.32
Stattraction
Essendon
62% 12 points 27.20.31
footycharts
Essendon
59% 9 points 30.00.24
AFL Scorigami
Essendon
58% 5 points 33.70.22
Cheap Stats
Essendon
58% 7 points 32.00.21
The Wooden Finger
Essendon
58% 7 points 32.00.21
Drop Kick Data
Essendon
57% 6 points 32.80.19
Don't Blame the Data
Essendon
55% 5 points 34.10.13
Glicko Ratings
Essendon
54% 4 points 35.20.12
Matter of Stats
Essendon
54% 4 points 35.40.11
Live Ladders
Essendon
54% 3 points 36.00.10
Informed Stats
Essendon
53% 3 points 36.00.08
Winnable
Essendon
53% 2 points 37.10.07
Graft
Essendon
52% 3 points 36.00.05
Squiggle
Essendon
52% 2 points 37.30.05
Elo Predicts!
Melbourne
50% 1 point 40.0-0.01
Punters
Melbourne
51% 1 point 39.7-0.03
AFLalytics
Melbourne
52% 2 points 40.7-0.06
The Cruncher
Melbourne
53% 2 points 41.5-0.10
PlusSixOne
Melbourne
54% 4 points 42.5-0.10
Wheelo Ratings
Melbourne
55% 4 points 43.4-0.16
Massey Ratings
Melbourne
61% 9 points 47.5-0.34
The Footycast
Melbourne
64% 14 points 52.6-0.48
ZaphBot
Melbourne
66% 17 points 56.0-0.56

"Bits" from Monash University Probabilistic Footy Tipping rewards tipsters for saying a win was more likely and punishes them for saying it was unlikely. Higher is better.

"MAE" is Mean Absolute Error, the average difference between predicted and actual margins. Lower is better.

Drawn games are counted as correct tips.

Round 5, 2025