The breakneck end to the short sprint that is the AFLW season is amongst us, and like last year many teams remain in at least mathematical contention for the Grand Final. Instead of our normal power rankings, we will rank the teams on what we think their chances to make
Continue reading »The Race to the AFLW Finals
Let’s take a walk through the last two rounds and what each team needs to be worried about. Broadly speaking there are three main paths for the last two weeks to follow: The Bulldogs aiming to win one game and lock up a grand final spot. The Crows and Brisbane
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The Mid-Season AFLW All-Australian Team
We’ll get to our customary (and rough) power rankings at the end of the post, but we thought we’d run through who stands out as the HPN Midseason AA side – as determined by our PAV ranking system. Here’s where PAV ranks the AFLW at the end of four weeks
Continue reading »AFLW Post-Round 3 Power Ranking
As with last week, these power rankings are influenced by, but not determined, by our team strength ratings. 1. Melbourne (no change) Melbourne seems to be following down a similar path to their 2017 season, when they constantly beat the best opposition (bar Brisbane), but struggled against poor opposition in
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AFLW Post-Round 2 Power Rankings
After round 2 of the AFLW season – nearly a third of the way through the competition – HPN thought that it was fair time for reflection on the strengths and prospects of each side. These rankings are guided, but not entirely determined, by the HPN Team Ratings, which early
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Which Team Is Tanking The Hardest? – A Quick AFLX Preview
After a relatively short gestation period, some limited trials at VFL and AFL level and aborted start at the end of last year, AFLX is finally at our feet. Whether the footballing public wants it or not. Ryan Buckland at The Roar had a good take on the competition, in
Continue reading »AFLW Week 1
Given the condensed nature of the competition, and the small pool of finalists (just two, for those playing at home), even round one can have nearly catastrophic consequences if a side has an off week, or loses a close game. The standard of the four games, and the eight teams
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2018 AFLW Preview
HPN fully intended to do a long series of AFLW previews, including of each team outlining strengths and weaknessses. But, due to a project that we have been working on for the last year or so hitting deadline, we couldn’t find the time. Instead, we’re going to lay out the
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The Final 2017 HPN Consensus Phantom Draft
This is HPN’s fourth annual attempt at the Consensus Phantom Draft, combining the wisdom of multiple draft watchers and also Reddit, to find out what the consensus view is. In most years the method is within the two or three most accurate phantom drafts overall, and the final draft-day version is
Continue reading »Introducing the 2017 Consensus Phantom Draft
Since 2014 HPN has trawled the internet in order to find out which club is meant to pick which player in the upcoming draft, in lieu of our lack of knowledge about junior footy. This is HPN’s fourth annual attempt at the Consensus Phantom Draft. In most years the method
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