Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson played 156 senior VFL/AFL games chiefly for Brisbane Bears, as well as Collingwood and Essendon between 1983 and 1990, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Michael Richardson's career spans 2 decades, from the 1980s to the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Michael Richardson at a peak of 82 out of 100, reached in the 1980s. That figure measures Michael Richardson only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1980s defender can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Michael Richardson polled 27 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Michael Richardson with a best season of 483 disposals in 1990, 174 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 8 votes in 1985. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.