KB finals averaged just under 22 disposals, 2.3 goals.
Grand Finals he averaged 22.5 disposals, 2.1 goals.
Matthews corresonding figures were:
All finals 20 disposals, 2.5 goals.
Grand Finals he averaged just under 20 disposals and 2.4 goals.
I saw loads of both of these players and these stats probably reflect their finals performances fairly. Bartlett got about 10% more disposals, Matthews had about 10% more scoreboard impact. Bartlett imo can be a bit under-rated in some circles but to my way of thinking Matthews was a better player. Neither would have had a significant amount of goal assists, certainly not near as many as someone like Dusty, who averaged over 1.1 per final, which is really high.
When you consider goals + assists & then adjust for the sigificantly lower scoring in Dusty's finals, I would think Dusty would shade Matthews for scoreboard impact if anything(just in finals.) And then if you also adjusted disposals to the era, Dusty is probably also shading Matthews.
In Grand Finals there isn't anyone who can match Dusty, as has been said.
Where Matthews elevates himself above Dusty statistically is in kicking loads of goals in home & away matches.
So when comparing Dusty to any of these players I think it mainly comes down to whether you want the better home & away player(many more games of much lesser importance) or finals(much fewer games but of much greater importance.)
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