Tony Buhagiar

Tony Buhagiar played 108 senior VFL games chiefly for Essendon, as well as Western Bulldogs between 1981 and 1985, lining up most often as a midfielder. On 23-0, Tony Buhagiar's career spans the 1980s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Tony Buhagiar at a peak of 89 out of 100, reached in the 1980s. That figure measures Tony Buhagiar only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1980s midfielder can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Tony Buhagiar polled 39 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Tony Buhagiar with a best season of 583 disposals in 1983, 171 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 3 votes in 1985. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.