Five Crows have been ranked among the top 30 players in the competition to the halfway mark of Season 2015, according to the AFL’s Official Player Ratings.

Patrick Dangerfield is Adelaide’s highest-ranked player at No.4. The two-time All Australian has maintained his standing as one of the League’s most damaging players with a superb start to the season.

Dangerfield is second in the AFL for contested possessions, equal third for tackles and seventh for hard-ball gets and clearances. He also leads the Crows for total disposals, contested marks and inside 50ms.

He’s been ranked as high as No.2 on the Player Ratings table in previous seasons.

Recently re-signed midfielder Rory Sloane has also maintained his top-five standing so far this season.

Despite an injury-interrupted start to the year, Sloane is ranked No.5 among his peers and crept as high as fourth position earlier in the year before sustaining a fractured cheekbone.

The 2013 Club Champion has averaged 23 disposals per game, ranks third at the Crows for contested possessions and is fifth for hard-ball gets despite missing three matches.

Ruckman Sam Jacobs has soared up the Player Ratings ladder this year and currently sits in 14^th place.

Jacobs began the season at No.40, but the 202cm Crow has cemented his standing as one of the premier big men in the competition in the first half of 2015.

‘Sauce’ has played every game, is ranked fifth in the AFL for hit-outs to advantage and seventh for total hit-outs. He also averages the second-best disposal numbers of all recognised ruckmen in the AFL.

Jacobs is the second-highest ruckman in the Player Ratings ladder behind North Melbourne big man Todd Goldstein (No.11).

Another Crow who has rocketed up the Player Ratings rankings is livewire forward Eddie Betts. The former Blue began the season at No.63, but is now the best-placed small/medium forward in the game at a career-best 21^st position.

Betts is fourth in this year’s Coleman Medal race with 21 goals, and is also 10^th for total score involvements.

Brodie Smith is the fifth Crow inside the Player Ratings top 30, despite missing two games with concussion this season.

North Melbourne and Port Adelaide are the next best represented clubs in the Player Ratings list behind Adelaide with three players each inside the top 30.

Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury heads the rankings ahead of Brownlow Medal favourite Nat Fyfe and Geelong captain Joel Selwood.

The AFL’s Official Player Ratings system is based on a complex algorithm combining official statistics, where the player wins the ball on the ground, the pressure they are under and the individual’s overall impact on each passage of play.

AFL Official Player Ratings Top 30 – Adelaide

4 – Patrick Dangerfield (587 points)
5 – Rory Sloane (584 points)
14 – Sam Jacobs (524 points)
21 – Eddie Betts (502 points)
28 – Brodie Smith (489 points)

See the full Player Ratings list