2014 Sage Institue Carji Greeves Medal prospects based on this year’s stats

This year the Cats put up a tremendous fight throughout the season, as they came away with 17 wins and two finals appearances after pushing their way to a top four finish.

According to the stats sheets of 2014, the Cats completed the year as one of the competition leaders in more areas than one, including contested marks, marks, goal assists and tackles.  

Following Essendon’s leading total of 2470 marks, Geelong held the second highest number of marks with a grand total of 2245 marks for the year.

To better this result, the Cats ended the season as the number one team for contested marks with the highest total of 275, followed by Fremantle on 262.

Geelong also finished with the second highest amount of tackles with 1676 after the Swans on 1691.

And the Cats finished third for the number of goal assists with 227 after the Hawks finished on top with 269 and Port Adelaide came second on 245.

Before this year’s Best and Fairest Medal is awarded, see below for Geelong’s, and in some cases the league’s, highest stat winners from 2014. If you wish to purchase tickets to this year's Carji Greeves Best and Fairest Medal night at Crown, please click here.

Leading Disposal

Selwood 614 - Ranked 3^rd in the league (24 games)

Duncan 547 (24 games)

Stokes 509 (20 games)

Marks

Hawkins 161- Ranked 4^th in the league (24 games)

Duncan 151 (24 games)

Taylor 149 (23 games)

Contested Marks

Hawkins 56 – Ranked 1^st in the league

Taylor 31

Rivers 23 (22 games)

Goals

Hawkins 68 - Ranked 2^nd in the league

Bartel 27 (23 games)

Selwood 24

Tackle winners

Selwood 144 – Ranked 6^th in the league

Guthrie 124 (24 games)

Bartel 100

Inside-50s

Selwood 100 – Ranked 8^th in the league

Bartel 97

Duncan 93

Goal Assists

Bartel 21 – Ranked 7^th in the league

Stokes 21

Selwood 20

Hawkins 17

Spoils

Rivers 141

Taylor 138

Lonergan 107 (23 games)

Clearances

Selwood 153 - Ranked 2^nd in the league

Guthrie 78

Johnson 70 (18 games)

Rebound 50s

Taylor 67

Kelly 66 (23 games)

Enright 66 (22 games)

Mackie 58 (22 games)