What percentage of our losses over the last 5ish years have we won the Inside 50 count but lost the game?

ChatGPT can't answer this, so would take someone a lot of manual work to answer. I quickly looked over this season thus far.

We have won the inside 50 count in every match except the Gold Coast and Hawthorn matches. We lost both those matches. We only lost the inside 50 count by 1 in the Hawks match, so essentially even.

We have won the inside 50 count in 12 out of 14 matches this year.

At a glance, this tells us we generate enough opportunities to win every week, and our conversion is the issue. You could argue the quality of the entries and shots etc, but the reality is we are the most inaccurate shooting team in the league. We give ourselves enough chance every week and if we had kicked at even middle of the table accuracy we'd currently sit top 4. We should have won far more matches this year than we have.

It's too simplistic to correlate inside 50s with scores.

With repeat entries, you have an entire side defending and neutralising those entries.

Geelong and Collingwood have spent years often losing inside 50s and winning matches.

Because if you can slingshot back into a relatively empty inside 50 at the other end, you get easier chances.

So they've made their relatively poor contested winning midfields work by focusing on post clearance and winning defensive 1v1s inside D50 and then transitioning the ball up the other end with precise and fast ball movement.

Eh… it’s stats I suppose. Make of them what you will.

	Melbourne			Opposition
Round	Goals	I50s	Goal eff %		Goals	I50s	Goal eff %	Goal eff % differential
1	11	56	19.6	GWS	11	52	21.2	-1.5
2	9	56	16.1	NM	19	53	35.8	-19.8
3	8	40	20.0	GCS	18	65	27.7	-7.7
4	6	50	12.0	GEE	12	49	24.5	-12.5
5	8	51	15.7	ESS	15	43	34.9	-19.2
6	16	56	28.6	FREO	14	49	28.6	0.0
7	12	46	26.1	RICH	9	43	20.9	5.2
8	16	59	27.1	WCE	11	43	25.6	1.5
9	7	48	14.6	HAW	13	50	26.0	-11.4
10	14	58	24.1	BRIS	13	53	24.5	-0.4
11	19	64	29.7	SYD	12	44	27.3	2.4
12	7	57	12.3	STK	14	40	35.0	-22.7
13	10	54	18.5	COLL	11	45	24.4	-5.9
14	9	54	16.7	PORT	14	48	29.2	-12.5
Average	10.9	53.5	20.1	Average	13.3	48.4	27.5
Average in W	15.4	56.6	27.1	Average in W	11.8	46.4	25.4
Average in L	8.3	51.8	16.2	Average in L	14.1	49.4	28.7
	Goals	I50s	Goal eff %		Goals	I50s	Goal eff %