Author: Sean

Football clubs often have shadow units, not looking as much to the current on field but instead to the future. They focus more on what the team will look like in 12 months, or five years, time rather than right now. Draft day is their time to shine. Draft day

This year HPN will cover the trade and free agency period slightly differently than in past years. Key trades will be covered at ABC news at this link with rolling updates. HPN will provide a recap of the each day’s action, with other breakdowns happening periodically. Trade 5: Gold Coast

This year HPN will cover the trade and free agency period slightly differently than in past years. Key trades will be covered at ABC news at this link with rolling updates. HPN will provide a recap of the each day’s action, with other breakdowns happening periodically. Trade 2: Collingwood acquire

This week, HPN has taken a look at the AFL Preliminary Finals for the ABC (The key factors for Melbourne, Geelong, Port Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs heading into the AFL preliminary finals), and doubled down for The Breakdown. The Breakdown largely looks at a prototype of a Advanced Stats

This week, HPN looked at three of the most improved players in the league on the ABC. Those three players were chosen for a variety of reasons, including their impact on their sides, their journeys to their current highpoint and the fact that it wasn’t a return to form, but

With the regular season of the AFLW in the books (along with week one of the finals), thought turns to who deserved nods in the All-Australian team. While most analysts take a primarily subjective view on these honours, HPN has taken a more data-driven view, based on Player Approximate Value

Over at the ABC today, HPN has contributed its AFL men’s season preview for the national broadcaster. Of course, there’s some stuff that is best kept for the dark backalleys of private websites. That’s right, it’s HPN AFL Men’s preview time. After dark.* *may not be after dark in your

There’s a million ways to win a game of football, but only three broad ways to win the ball. The potential of football is only truly unlocked when a team gains control of the ball. Without the ball, you can’t score. As HPN has written in the past, football is

If the concept of the draft brings renewal to a sporting team, then having the number one pick provides immediate hope. In the history of the AFLW to date, the Western Bulldogs have lived at the top end of the draft more than any club, selecting two players at number