Harris Andrews is on track to write himself into the AFL record books as the number one spoiler in the game’s history.

Having recently broken the League record for spoils and one percenters in a game, Andrews is on track to record more one percenters in a season than any other player since the introduction of this statistic by the AFL in 1999.

This mark stands at 242 to the credit of Richmond’s All-Australian captain Alex Rance last year. And that was from 25 games, including 32 one percenters in three finals.

At the midway point of the 2018 season, Andrews has recorded 131 one percenters in 11 games.

If the 21-year-old Lions vice-captain can stay fit and maintain anything like his imposing form of the first half of the season he will better the Rance record.

This comes after Andrews finished fourth in aggregate one percenters in the League last year behind Rance, Adelaide’s Daniel Talia and GWS’s Phil Davis, and third behind Rance and Talia in the home-and-away season.

By AFL definition, one percenters relate to 'a variety of actions which benefit the team but are infrequent or defensive'. They are knock-ons, spoils, smothers and shepherds.

Originally Andrews was credited with 26 one percenters against Hawthorn in Round 10 to break the previous best of 22 by Port Adelaide’s Dougal Howard, although this was later amended to 25.

On a game-by-game basis this season, Andrews has recorded one percenter counts of 5-13-6-11-14-13-8-10-16-25-10 to head the AFL in this statistical category from Carlton’s Liam Jones (121), Howard (112) and Rance (101).

If he maintains his spot at the top of the list Andrews will become the third Lions player to win the AFL one percenter title and will claim the Club’s seventh title overall after triple premiership fullback Mal Michael won it four years in a row from 2002-05, and Dan Merrett topped the list in 2007-08.

Merrett holds the Club record for most one-percenters in a season at 184, set in 2007.

Lions ruckman Stefan Martin and new captain Dayne Zorko are also on target to post Club statistical records this season – Martin in hit-outs and free kicks for, and Zorko for tackles.

At the midpoint of the season, Martin has recorded 402 hit-outs to rank fourth in the League behind Melbourne’s Max Gawn (534), Collingwood’s Brodie Grundy (419) and Fremantle’s Aaron Sandilands (405).

He is set to better his own Club record of 770, set last year, and win the hit-outs title for the fifth year in a row, pushing up towards the six hit-out titles of Matthew Clarke and Jamie Charman.

The big ruckman has also received 36 free-kicks in the first half of the season, behind only Carlton’s Patrick Cripps (39), and is on track to better the previous highest tally by a Brisbane player, which stands at 57 to Allen Christensen in 2015.

Zorko ranks equal fourth in the AFL in tackles after 11 rounds with 81, behind Essendon’s Devon Smith (94), Carlton’s Ed Curnow (84) and Adelaide’s Hugh Greenwood (82), and level with North Melbourne’s Ben Jacobs (81).

But he has a bit of work to do in the second half of the season to top the Club record of 166 tackles, set in 2011 by Jack Redden.

In other Lions highlights of the mid-season stats report, Alex Witherden is 10th in the League in marks, Zorko is equal fifth in inside 50s, and Jarrod Berry is equal seventh in goal assists, and Charlie Cameron equal 10th.