Dean Irving

Dean Irving played 66 senior AFL games chiefly for West Coast, as well as Melbourne between 1990 and 1997, lining up most often as a ruckman. On 23-0, Dean Irving's career spans the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Dean Irving at a peak of 84 out of 100, reached in the 1990s. That figure measures Dean Irving 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.

Dean Irving polled 12 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Dean Irving with a best season of 266 disposals in 1991, 13 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 10 votes in 1991. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.