David Bain

David Bain played 98 senior VFL/AFL games chiefly for Brisbane Bears, as well as Fitzroy between 1989 and 1994, lining up most often as a midfielder. On 23-0, David Bain's career spans 2 decades, from the 1980s to the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates David Bain at a peak of 82 out of 100, reached in the 1990s. That figure measures David Bain only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1990s midfielder can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

David Bain polled 36 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits David Bain with a best season of 545 disposals in 1990, 48 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 15 votes in 1990. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.