John Lewis

John Lewis played 196 senior VFL games chiefly for North Melbourne, as well as Melbourne between 1925 and 1938, lining up most often as a midfielder. On 23-0, John Lewis's career spans 2 decades, from the 1920s to the 1930s of football.

Our era-fair model rates John Lewis at a peak of 88 out of 100, reached in the 1930s. That figure measures John Lewis only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1930s midfielder can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

John Lewis polled 57 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits John Lewis with 160 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 17 votes in 1931. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.