According to NRL.com, with almost 22 rounds complete, high-flyers the Sharks, Storm and Raiders boast the most places in the top fives of the ten key individual stats categories: points, tries, line breaks, all runs, try assists, all run metres, kicks in play, hit-ups, offloads and tackles.

Melbourne, Cronulla and Canberra, the current top three teams on the NRL ladder, each have six players in total camped in top-fives across those categories.

The Storm boasts the fourth-highest points scorer, the one and only Cameron Smith (142), as well as the leading tryscorer for 2016,  Suliasi Vunivalu, who has crossed for 17 four pointers so far. Marika Koroibete is fifth in linebreaks and all run metres, while Cooper Cronk is third in try assists, with 17. Smith has also produced 793 tackles to sit fourth in the NRL.

Meanwhile, the Cronulla Sharks’ biggest stars are producing the numbers to back-up their elite status.

Speedster Valentine Holmes sits second in each of the tries scored (16) and linebreaks categories (18), while big man Andrew Fifita is third in offloads and runs made. Ben Barba sits on the edge of the top five try assists list with 16.

The Canberra Raiders, this season’s bolters, are keeping pace with the Storm and Sharks, producing six top-five players of their own.

Captain Jarrod Croker is this season’s leading pointscorer by a mile with 230 points (the closest to him is James Maloney with 164). The Raiders also boast two players in the top-five of try scorers: Croker has collected 15, along with the very inform Jordan Rapana. The latter also leads the NRL in linebreaks with 20, while Joseph Leilua leads offloads with 57. Elliott Whitehead is their sixth top-five player, sitting fifth in tackles with 791.