After four rounds of the Suncorp Super Netball League in Australia, Jamaican players Jhanielle Fowler, Romelda Aiken and Shamera Sterling are among the statistical leaders in several key categories.

Chief among them is Fowler, who leads in three key categories – Net Points, Goals and Goal Attempts.

Net Points are a measure of a player’s performance.

Every time a player scores a goal, blocks a pass, gets a defensive rebound and so on, they get points. The bigger the impact, the bigger the points. If players make mistakes or cause turnovers, they lose points. At the end of each game, each player receives an individual Nissan Net Points score, which represents their contribution to the match.

Fowler, who is the defending scoring champion, who plays for last season’s finalist, West Coast Fever, leads in Net Points having so far amassed 368 points. Her tally is almost 80 points better than the Giants’ Maddie Hay, who has so far accumulated 288.5 points.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Samantha Wallace, who play for the New South Wales Swifts, has so far earned 275.5 points and is fourth in the standings.

The Giants’ Jamie-Lee Price and West Coast Fever’s, with 284 and 264 points, respectively are third and fifth, respectively.

Fowler also leads in the number of goals scored, with 224 and in the number of goal attempts, 240 as she continues to tower over all other shooters in the tournament.

The next best shooter is Fowler’s compatriot, Shimona Nelson of the Collingwood Magpies, who has 169 goals, one more than Wallace who is third in the standings with 168. Cara Koenen of the Sunshine Coast Lightning (147) and Jo Harten of the Giants (136) round out the top-five.

Nelson, who scored 54 goals for her team on the weekend, is also second in the number of goal attempts with 179, with Wallace four attempts back on 175.

Harten with 169 and Koenen on 161, are fourth and fifth, respectively.

The Queensland Firebirds’ star, Aiken, who surprisingly is not among the top-five scorers in the league, leads in offensive rebounds with 23. Fowler lies second with 16. Nelson is fifth with 9, the same as Koenen. Harten also has 16 rebounds.

Standout defensive player for both Jamaica and the Adelaide Thunderbirds, Shamera Sterling is tied with the Magies’ Jacque Newman with eight defensive rebounds, eight fewer than leader Sam Poolman of the Giants.

Sterlings’ compatriot Jodi-Ann Ward of the Magpies lies fourth with seven. Jo Weston of the Melbourne Vixens, who has six, rounds out the top-five.

When it comes to deflections, Sterling has no equal with 31 so far this season. Ward and Courtney Bruce of the West Coast Fever are next tied on 27.

The Swifts’ Sarah Klau has 20 while April Brandley of the Giants has 19 for fifth in the standings.

No Caribbean woman is in the top five of Super Shots scored or Super Shots attempted.

The Giants lead the team standings with 16 points after four games in which they remain unbeaten. The Lightning are second with 12 points with the Swifts third with 8, the same as the Magpies, which are fourth.

Fifth-place Fever have just begun to accumulate points after their 12-point sanction for salary-cap violations. This means that after four games they have four points, even though they have yet to lose this season.

The Firebirds also have four points and are fifth in the standings.

Despite Sterlings’ outstanding defensive displays, the Adelaide Thunderbirds have lost all four games this season for is one place above bottom-of-the-table side Melbourne Vixens.