Table 3.

Ranking of the top 20 influential coaches resulting from the proposed process of influence propagation together with some statistics of the coaches’ success and coaching relationships.

Rank	Coach	Influence	Begin of coaching	Hall of Fame6 (year of induction)	Premierships	Player-coach	$\mathrm{\#}$Seasons	$\mathrm{\#}$Players	$\mathrm{\#}$Future coaches	$s_{{}_{\varnothing }}$Player	$s_{{}_{\varnothing }}$Future coach
1	Jock McHale	9.17	1912	Legends (2005)	8	x	38	361	22	3.4	7.1
2	Allan Jeans	4.28	1961	Coaches (1996)	4		26	266	18	3.2	6.6
3	Norm Smith	4.00	1949	Legends (2007)	6	x	23	290	14	2.8	5.6
4	Dan Minogue	3.92	1920	Players (1996)	2	x	20	365	26	1.9	2.7
5	Frank Hughes	3.29	1927	Coaches (1996)	5		20	256	18	2.6	3.8
6	Kevin Sheedy	3.14	1981	Coaches (2008) Legends (2018)	4		29	279	12	3.9	8.7
7	Tom Hafey	3.11	1966	Coaches (1996)	4		23	336	20	2.6	5.0
8	Ron Barassi	2.82	1964	Legends (1996)	4	x	24	349	18	2.5	4.1
9	Dick Reynolds	2.66	1939	Legends (1996)	4	x	22	209	11	3.4	6.8
10	Reg Hickey	2.20	1932	Players (1996)	3	x	17	214	13	2.6	4.7
11	John Worrall	2.03	1902	Players (1996) Coaches (1996)	5		16	257	9	2.1	4.6
12	John Kennedy	1.83	1957	Legends (2020)	3	x	20	248	13	2.8	4.9
13	Perce Bentley	1.65	1934	Players (1996)	3	x	22	244	9	2.9	4.6
14	Leigh Matthews	1.32	1986	Legends (1996)	4		20	219	10	3.3	5.7
15	Mick Malthouse	1.24	1984	Coaches (2019)	3		31	346	9	3.2	5.6
16	Denis Pagan	1.08	1993		2		15	170	9	3.1	5.2
17	Phonse Kyne	1.07	1950	Players (1996)	2	x	14	158	7	3.2	5.9
18	David Parkin	1.04	1977	Coaches (2002)	4		22	286	16	2.8	3.6
19	Norman Clark	0.97	1912		2	x	13	254	17	1.7	1.9
20	Jack Hale	0.84	1948		0		10	151	6	2.4	4.3
	Average coach	0.21			0.3		4.4	74.2	3.7	1.7	1.8
	Unexplained	180.18

The symbol $\mathrm{\#}$ refers to the number of, and $s_{{}_{\varnothing }}$ refers to the average number of seasons of coaching relationships.