• Geelong joins 8 teams that have won more Grand Finals than they have lost 9/17 (52.94%).
• Collingwood's match/win% from Grand Finals is now 37.21%.
• In the period since Geelong and Collingwood last met in a Grand Final, 1954-2011, Geelong has won 4 and lost 6 Grand Finals (40%) and Collingwood has won 3, lost 13 and drawn 2 Grand Finals (22,22%).
• One of three most even winning Grand Final scores - all of Geelong's quarter scores were under 4% off 25% of the total score. Previous: Geelong 2007 and St Kilda 1966.  Match Details.
• Geelong's 95th win v Collingwood from 222 matches with 1 drawn.
• Geelong's 8th win from their  last 11 matches v Collingwood - 2007-2011.
• Geelong's 18th win from their last 30 v Collingwood - 1992-2011
• Geelong's 36th win from their last 71 v Collingwood - 1972-2011.
• This win gives Geelong the highest match/win percentage for 5 consecutive seasons.  Full Table.
• Combined scores for the season (3 matches):
  Geelong 48.45-333 v Collingwood 29.22-196. (Geelong's percentage - 169.9%)
• Geelong's 11th finals win from 23 finals matches v Collingwood and 5th from the last 8 - 1967-2011.
• This win puts Geelong (46.26%) ahead of Collingwood (45.38%) in finals matches won from finals matches played.
• 99,537: Highest attendance at any Collingwood v Geelong match.
• The third occasion in their 9 Premierships wins that Geelong has defeated the runner-up in all meetings. Previous: 1925 all 3 matches v Collingwood. 1952 all 3 matches v Collingwood.  Full Table  
• Geelong in 2011 is the first Premier since Essendon in 1984 to defeat the runner-up in all meetings where the total of matches was 3 or more. (Essendon defeated Hawthorn in all 4 meetings in 1984.)  Full Table.
• Collingwood in 2011 are the first runner-up to only lose to one team during the season.
• Geelong's 146th win from their last 200 matches - a new club record from 200 consecutive matches.  Full Table.  
• Collingwood lost their 1,000th first quarter in this match.
• 26th time that Collingwood has been runner-up - 22.61% of the 115 seasons they have contested. 
• Collingwood's average losing margin in Grand Finals is 27.7 points.
• Geelong's average winning margin in Grand Finals is 37.4 points.
• The 9th time Collingwood has been goalless in the last quarter of a Grand Final. Previous: 1901 (lost), 1905 (lost), 1918 (lost), 1927 (won), 1952 (lost), 1958 (won), 1960 (lost), 1981 (lost).
• The 4th time Geelong has kept their opponent goalless in the last quarter of a Grand Final. Previous: 1952 (won), 1963 (won), 2009 (won.)
• 13 pts: Geelong's highest losing margin for 2011 was their lowest for any season. Previous: 15 points in 1925.
• Only the 2nd time that a team has won 3 Premierships in 5 seasons without winning consecutive flags. Previous: Carlton 1968, 1970, 1972.
• Geelong's 9th win at the MCG (from 9 matches) - their most in 1 year. Previous: 7 in 2007.
• Collingwood won 14 of their first 18 final quarters scoring an average of just under 38 points each quarter while conceding an average of just under 15 points. They only won 1 of their last 7 final quarters (the Preliminary Final) scoring an average of 16 points and conceding an average of of 28 points.
• Collingwood's percentage for the complete season of 157.3% is the highest recorded by a runner-up. Previous: Geelong 157.2% in 2008.
• Geelong remains the runner-up with highest match/win% for a complete season - 92.0% in 2008 while Collingwood 2011 joins St Kilda 2009 with a season m/w% of 88.0% as next two highest placed.
• Collingwood's percentage on the final ladder after the home and away matches of 167.66 ranked 14th highest and was the highest since 171.71% by Collingwood in 1929. Collingwood's percentage for the whole season of 157.3% ranks 19th overall behind recent percentages of 163.86 by Essendon 2000 (11th overall) and Geelong 2007 - 160.05% (14th overall).
• After 22 rounds Collingwood 2011 was tied with Essendon 2000 in having the greatest points for surplus over points against - 1,046. After 25 matches the highest are:
  

  Essendon	2000	+1,276
  Geelong	2007	+1,108
  Geelong	2008	+1,082
  Geelong	2011	+ 1,046
  Collingwood	2011	+1,031

    
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Match/Win ratio and points for and against percentage compared to each club's every other season. (Excluding Gold Coast Suns)

** All seasons

Each team's century scores - for and against, scores under 70 points - for and against and wins and losses - 40 points or more are totalled for 2011.

Scoring: Each category is given a percentage derived from the number of matches played. These are then totalled to give a score by which teams are ranked. E.G. West Coast scores 50 for scoring a century in half their games so far, Geelong and Carlton score 100 for never losing by 40 points or more..