Pearce Hanley

Pearce Hanley played 169 senior AFL games chiefly for Brisbane Lions, as well as Gold Coast between 2008 and 2020, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Pearce Hanley's career spans 3 decades, from the 2000s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Pearce Hanley at a peak of 79 out of 100, reached in the 2010s. That figure measures Pearce Hanley only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2010s defender can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Pearce Hanley polled 29 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Pearce Hanley with a best season of 504 disposals in 2014, 60 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 9 votes in 2014. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.