Rod Lester-Smith

Rod Lester-Smith played 109 senior VFL/AFL games chiefly for Hawthorn, as well as Brisbane Bears between 1984 and 1991, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Rod Lester-Smith's career spans 2 decades, from the 1980s to the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Rod Lester-Smith at a peak of 80 out of 100, reached in the 1980s. That figure measures Rod Lester-Smith 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.

Rod Lester-Smith polled 20 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Rod Lester-Smith with a best season of 490 disposals in 1985, 38 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 9 votes in 1985. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.