One thing the HPN Team ratings tends to do by the end of a season is to break teams into different levels by the end of the season, diplomatically sorting the haves from the have-nots in a somewhat graphically pleasing manner. Using the magic of “the Snipping tool”, we can clearly
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The HPN Second Trimester (ish) Awards (plus Round 17 Team Ratings)
There’s not much movement on the HPN Team Ratings this week, with GWS and Geelong continuing their week-to-week tango for 3rd and 4th, and the Dons jumping up into 6th. The rest is steady, and the weekly movements should get more subtle as time moves forward. To fill out a
Continue reading »Is Patrick Dangerfield having a better 2017 than 2016?
Before we get to the title of the post, and the meat of the content, let’s have a look at how the HPN Team Ratings are looking after sixteen thrilling rounds of football. This year is chaos; and chaos is beautiful. It was a big week for the “S” teams,
Continue reading »Injury lists, surging teams and staving off failure – nine tales from midseason AFL
Let’s be honest: it’s a tiny bit after the true middle of the season, but we are firmly in the part of the footy year where (in most seasons) most teams have started to sort into their layers amongst the league. This is evidenced in this week’s HPN Team Ratings,
Continue reading »Can Sydney and Essendon’s form upheaval drag them into the finals?
The last bye round saw a fair bit of movement but no change to the overall picture – also presented by the real world ladder – of an even season. This week we’re going to focus on shorter term trend-lines to see which teams are on the move or are
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