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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,

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

Two of the most common predictions before the 2019 season kicked off in earnest were, in no particular order: Melbourne are locks to finish top 4; and Gold Coast are locks to finish with the spoon (or at best bottom 2). There were immediate issues with both predictions, although this

A constant topic of discussion among football watchers is how much money each club gets, and why. For the last three years HPN has tried to break through the web of footy related financial reports, and break down each club’s financial allotments. The AFL recently released its Annual Report for

With about five minutes to go in the third quarter of AFL football in 2019, one of the worst nightmares of Richmond fans came to pass. Coming down after a contested marking contest, Alex Rance landed badly and tore his Anterior Cruciate Ligament, requiring season-ending surgery. Rance may or may

With the AFL season now hours away, the attention of fans and pundits everywhere turns to not only the action in week one, but who will sit on top of the ladder after the next 23. For the fifth year, HPN is attempting to answer the latter question, trying to

Despite starting the season almost exactly to script, the last month of football has thrown up a number of unexpected results that has left finals spots in season 3 of the AFLW up for grabs into the last week. No side has locked away their top two slot yet, with