Sport / Brisbane, QLD

Brisbane Lions win AFL Grand Final

The Sydney Morning Herald

26 Sept 2026 20:04 AEST Summary

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From the report

Lions stun Dockers to win their third straight AFL premiership.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian rules football match, used to illustrate it. Melbourne, Australia betsyweber / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian rules football match, used to illustrate it. Melbourne, Australia betsyweber / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 12.1 mundaneloaded

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win2

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on The Sydney Morning Herald’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

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Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The Sydney Morning Herald Brisbane Lions win AFL Grand Final plain
SBS News 2026 AFL Grand Final: When is it, who's playing and how to watch plain
ABC News (Sport) Talking points, teams and times for today's AFL grand final plain
SBS News Brisbane lions win AFL Grand Final in nail-biting finish against Fremantle Dockers plain
The Age AFL Grand Final 2026 plain
The Age AFL grand final 2026 plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The Age, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Gender	Happiness
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	12.1	1	42	0	0	50
SBS News	8.9	6	26	-0.2	3.4	39.8
ABC News (Sport)	9.7	0	0	-0.1	0	57.2
SBS News	13.3	10	1	0.1	0	57.5

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The same event elsewhere

8 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

SBS News 2026 AFL Grand Final: When is it, who's playing and how to watch Niral 8.9 political 0 ABC News (Sport) Talking points, teams and times for today's AFL grand final Niral 9.7 political 0 SBS News Brisbane lions win AFL Grand Final in nail-biting finish against Fremantle Dockers Niral 13.3 political 0 The Age AFL Grand Final 2026 Niral 3.1 political 0 Brisbane Times AFL Grand Final 2026 Niral 3.1 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald AFL Grand Final 2026 Niral 3.1 political 0 The Age AFL grand final 2026 Niral 10 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald AFL grand final 2026 Niral 10 political 0