West Coast Eagles left 30 points on the field against Fremantle — and still couldn't have won it

Fremantle 112, West Coast Eagles 42 — the first scoreboard, the one you already have. Below is the second: the 50 funnel, how each side turned the ball going forward into a scoreboard — inside 50s, then marks inside 50, then scoring shots, then the goals that count. It is where this game was actually decided.

It is tempting to hang this on West Coast Eagles's 6 behinds, and the 30 points that went with them are real. But it is the wrong autopsy. West Coast Eagles never built enough football to win: 13 scoring shots to 34 is a chances deficit no conversion rate covers. Fremantle won the territory 52 inside 50s to 35 and the scoreboard followed it down the funnel. The goalkicking is what everyone will remember; the funnel is what actually decided it.