34.7 a game: Nick Daicos against every AFL player

The crowd

Every AFL player with 10 or more games in 2026 is one bar in Figure 1, sorted by disposals a gameTotal disposals divided by games with disposals recorded. Derived; the feed records disposals game by game., most first. Nick Daicos is the first bar, on 34.7. Bailey Smith is next, 2.4 fewer a game, then Errol Gulden on 31.7 from only 12 games. Five players averaged 30 or more.

The middle of the crowd is much lower. The medianThe average of the middle player once all 472 are sorted, so half sit above it and half below. Derived from the averages. is 15.4 disposals a game. Daicos had 2.3 times that.

Every game

Figure 2 draws all 23 games, filled where Daicos had 35 or more. That happened 13 times. Nobody else in the league did it more than six times: Lachie Neale, Bailey Smith and Clayton Oliver each managed six. Across every player there were 109 games of 35 or more, and 13 of them were Daicos's.

The longest run was five games in a row, Rounds 19 to 23. Daicos missed Round 4, and Collingwood had the bye in Rounds 2 and 14. Their season ended in the wildcard final, a three-point loss to the Western Bulldogs, where Daicos had 30.

Floor and ceiling

The highest was 42, against Essendon in Round 7. The lowest was 26, against Brisbane in Round 24, the last home-and-away game. Only four of the 23 games finished under 30: 29 in Round 9, 28 in Rounds 10 and 18, and that 26. No player with 10 or more games had a higher lowest game than 26.