For every AFL Grand Final, an off-field narrative emerges. The fairytale of the Bulldogs in 2016 still captures hearts and minds as one of the most poignant, but 2019 sees a captivating story at the other end of the scale. One of a big, big sound – and its emergence
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HPN Team Ratings Geelong still sit at the top of the heap according to the HPN Team Ratings, but their spot is about someone necessarily being number 1 due to the way ordinal numbers work rather than representing dominance over the competition. As mentioned in previous weeks, it’s the efficiency
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For this finals series HPN will be running brief final previews using some of the stats we have at hand. This is the first in that series. West Coast v Essendon HPN Team Strengths Team Mid Score Off Score Def Score Avg score Opp Mid Opp Off Opp Def Avg
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As a mandatory requirement for having a website about Australian Football in 2019, HPN is obliged to provide one (1) All Australian Team for the 2019 AFL season, if not more. Unlike other fine journals of record, HPN has decided to wait until the team was announced to compare and
Continue reading »Trust is something easy to feel, but hard to explain or quantify. People feel trust that their houses won’t fall in (with the possible exception of new Sydney apartment owners), or that the sun will rise in the morning. Generally, powerful organisations are surrounded by trust issues with those on
Continue reading »In 2018, West Coast were able to navigate through a wild finals series to claim the flag, minimising the relative weakness of their midfield to get enough ball to their dominant forward line. More than any other side in the league, the Eagles chose to move the ball by foot
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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
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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
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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
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With five rounds of the AFL season behind us, very little has been cleared up by what has been shown on the field. At this early stage, the competition appears more even than ever, with no side undefeated or winless, and any team potentially competitive with any other on their
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