Lance Franklin

Lance Franklin played 354 senior AFL games chiefly for Hawthorn, as well as Sydney between 2005 and 2023, lining up most often as a forward. On 23-0, Lance Franklin's career spans 3 decades, from the 2000s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Lance Franklin at a peak of 100 out of 100, reached in the 2010s. That figure measures Lance Franklin only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2010s forward can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Honours on the record for Lance Franklin include 2 premierships, 8 All-Australian selections and 5 league leading-goalkicker awards. Lance Franklin also polled 186 Brownlow votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Lance Franklin with a best season of 457 disposals in 2016, 1,066 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 22 votes in 2014. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.