Keith Forbes

Keith Forbes played 187 senior VFL games chiefly for Essendon, as well as North Melbourne and Fitzroy between 1928 and 1940, lining up most often as a forward. On 23-0, Keith Forbes's career spans 3 decades, from the 1920s to the 1940s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Keith Forbes at a peak of 87 out of 100, reached in the 1930s. That figure measures Keith Forbes only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1930s forward can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Keith Forbes polled 53 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Keith Forbes with 475 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 11 votes in 1934. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.