Alex Ishchenko

Alex Ishchenko played 142 senior VFL/AFL games chiefly for North Melbourne, as well as Brisbane Bears and West Coast between 1987 and 1995, lining up most often as a ruckman. On 23-0, Alex Ishchenko's career spans 2 decades, from the 1980s to the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Alex Ishchenko at a peak of 87 out of 100, reached in the 1990s. That figure measures Alex Ishchenko only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1990s ruckman can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Alex Ishchenko polled 24 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Alex Ishchenko with a best season of 260 disposals in 1990, 37 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 6 votes in 1988. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.