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A recent article from FiveThirtyEight explored an issue almost dead centre to the interests of HPN – would a team of players traded away from a side be good enough to make the playoffs? In their case, 538 explored whether the ex-Miami Marlins were good enough to play October baseball

We have two thirds of the the AFL regular season in the rear view mirror, and as the year has progressed, the fortunes and form of some clubs have waxed and waned. This week HPN will look at changes in HPN Team Ratings over the last few weeks to see

Australian Football is an outdoors game played in winter, and as such, weather plays a major role in how the game is played. Generally, adverse weather conditions like rain and wind are assumed to reduce scoring by making it more difficult to gather and use the ball effectively. This week,

At the halfway point in the year, attention starts to turn to what we’ve seen so far, and how the season will shake out at the end of the year. Last week HPN looked at how the teams were looking so far, so this week attention naturally turns to the

As HPN has stated in the past, and as is illustrated by the commonly given “score sources” statistic in television broadcasts of the AFL, there are three primary modes of score origins. Turnovers. Clearances (centre and stoppage). Kick-outs. Turnovers generally make up about two-thirds of all scores, and this is

With about two-fifths of the season behind us, some nuggets of knowledge are starting to emerge across the league. This week, HPN will take a look at some of the emerging trends for different players so far this year. As the headline sort of spoiled, according to HPN’s system of

It was a slaughter. Everywhere Port wanted to go, Collingwood were already there. Every foray up forward was dangerous, and the ball was moving with so much speed that the most vaunted of Port tough nuts couldn’t keep up. When Port tried to get out of the pack, it felt