10,000: Geelong’s 17th goal of the season at GHMBA Stadium will be the 10,000th Cats goal at their long-time home venue

7670: The number of days it will have been between Essendon’s most recent finals victory and the first day of this September’s finals series

1522: The combined games’ experience lost off West Coast’s list in the past year-and-a-half through the exits of just six players: Shannon Hurn, Luke Shuey, Nic Naitanui, Jack Darling, Andrew Gaff and Tom Barrass

648: The number of career goals for Geelong’s Jeremy Cameron, now the most in the AFL by an active player following the retirement of Tom Hawkins (796)

550: The Cats’ opening game will be the 550th as a coach and player combined for Chris Scott, the 17th man to hit that mark in league history

305: The amount of matches Magpies duo Scott Pendlebury and Steele Sidebottom have played in together, two shy of equalling the AFL/VFL record set by Adelaide’s Andrew McLeod and Tyson Edwards

255: St Kilda veteran Bradley Hill has played 255 matches without ever registering a hitout, which now leads all active players after Gaff’s retirement

237: The current consecutive games tally for Collingwood’s Jack Crisp, just seven short of the all-time record held by Melbourne great Jim Stynes

161: The number of times Richmond and the Bulldogs have played one another without ever meeting in an AFL/VFL finals game

147: The amount of home-and-away rounds since West Coast last sat atop the ladder – the longest such streak in club history

127: Former Docker turned dual Suns club champion Sam Collins has never kicked a goal in his 127 AFL matches, and is closing in on Jamie Shanahan’s AFL-era record of 162 goalless matches

106: The total of players in the AFL/VFL’s ‘300 club’ once Darling plays his second game of the season for new club North Melbourne

73: Gold Coast’s Jarrod Witts has played 73 straight matches with at least 20 hitouts in each, the third-longest streak of all time behind Todd Goldstein’s 95 and Gary Dempsey’s 75

63: North Melbourne have lost their past 63 games when trailing at three-quarter time, dating back to mid 2021

61: The average number of games played by each list member for West Coast, with only Richmond (53) less experienced entering the season

59: The number of seasons since St Kilda’s most recent (and only) premiership, 13 shy of the Swans as the longest-ever AFL/VFL flag drought

55: Fremantle was the league’s most effective stoppage side last season, winning 55 per cent of clearances

34: The number of consecutive matches where Jesse Hogan has booted at least one goal, the league’s longest active streak

29: The number of years since Geelong featured in the very first game of the year. The Cats will clash with Brisbane to open the season on March 6

25: Ross Lyon is 25 games shy of equalling Rodney Eade for most AFL/VFL games coached without winning a premiership

14: Collingwood will play at the MCG 14 times this year, the most of any club

12: In a bad trend for Sydney, the past 12 beaten grand finalists have failed to reach the following season’s decider

11.9: The winning percentage for North Melbourne’s Paul Curtis, which currently stands as the worst clip by someone to have played 50+ AFL/VFL games since 1951

11: The amount of Brownlow votes Patrick Dangerfield needs to poll to draw level with former teammate Gary Ablett Jr for the most in the medal’s history

8: The amount of Thursday and Friday games in the first 16 rounds of the season for Essendon, the most of any club

8: The number of active players who made at least one appearance in the decade of the 2000s: Pendlebury, Dangerfield, Goldstein, Sidebottom, Travis Boak, Callan Ward, Taylor Walker and Michael Walters

7.5: Brisbane open the season as $7.50 flag favourites with bookmakers as they look to become the first non-Victorian side to win consecutive premierships since the 2001-02-03 Lions

7: The amount of 2020 premiership players who have departed Richmond since the end of last season: Dustin Martin, Dylan Grimes, Marlion Pickett (all retired), Liam Baker, Jack Graham (both West Coast), Shai Bolton (Fremantle), Daniel Rioli (Gold Coast)

5: Hawthorn will face clubs who played finals last year in five of their first six games of the season, including facing each of last year’s top four in that stretch

3: A trio of clubs made logo changes during the off-season, with Adelaide, Gold Coast and St Kilda all unveiling fresh designs

2: The number of new venues that will host an AFL/VFL game for the first time this year: Bunbury’s Hands Oval, and Barossa Valley’s Lyndoch Recreation Park

1.57: The average number of Brownlow votes Patrick Cripps has polled each game across the past three seasons

1: Dean Cox will be the only man without a single game of AFL head coaching experience to lead a club this season, after John Longmire’s off-season exit

0: The amount of home-and-away matches Collingwood have played at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium this century – a drought that’s set to continue. Fremantle will this year play their 15th game there, while West Coast have played 16