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Daicos or Bontempelli? Gawn or Grundy? Wanganeen-Milera? Heeney? There’s a number of players who could lay claim to being the competition’s finest.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Zero Hanger’s AFL Player Ratings<\/a>, we have an answer.<\/p>\n The fan-voted AFL Player Rater<\/a> pits two players against each other based on their position, using a proven Elo rating algorithm – the same system used in global sports rankings – to produce the live and real-time results.<\/p>\n So who is the best player in the AFL<\/a> right now?<\/p>\n The footy public says it is Western Bulldogs<\/a> superstar, Marcus Bontempelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n Following 144 match-ups against fellow AFL<\/a> midfielders – of which “the Bont” won just over 92 percent – he amassed 2,129.5 ratings points.<\/p>\n Remarkably, Melbourne captain Max Gawn<\/a> has an even better 98 percent win rate, but – given the smaller pool of ruckmen and the genuine lack of competition at the position for his 145 matchups – received 1,951.5 ratings points.<\/p>\n 1The 10 best AFL players right now\u00a0<\/p>\n The same question gets asked every year, every week: Who is the best AFL<\/a> player?<\/p>\n Well, Zero Hanger has the answer, based on fans’ opinion, performances and their ability to beat opponents, literally, according to our new AFL Player Rating.<\/a><\/p>\n