Over the next two days HPN will look at the wash-up of the 2016 AFL Draft. Today we will look at how each individual phantom draft went, and tomorrow we will look at how each club did, and which players slid from contention. Analysing the experts (and ammos) In order
Continue reading »The Final 2016 #AFL Consensus Phantom Draft
AFL Draft Day is upon us, and it appears that the draft picture is finally clearing up. As a quick refresher, the HPN Consensus Phantom Draft (CPD) takes a bunch of phantom drafts from different sources, combines the rankings and sorts the players accordingly. HPN also looks at the “mode”
Continue reading »The Australian Cricket Team Need To Start Loving Turtles More
It’s the offseason, so HPN thought we’d branch out a bit while the AFL world is slowing down. Here’s the first of our cricket articles of the year. Summer has barely started, but the Australian Cricket Team has seemingly already lost the faith (but gained the attention) of the general
Continue reading »Introducing the 2016 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. So, for the third year in a row, we have produced a Consensus Phantom Draft (CPD), attempting to use
Continue reading »AFLW Power Rankings – November 2016
Earlier this week, we took a look at the composition of the AFLW inaugural lists by state and using All-Star status as a measure of the distribution of elite talent. Here, we’re going to update our earlier power ranking to factor in actual team selections. This is the power ranking
Continue reading »Which AFLW clubs have the most elite talent?
Back in June we attempted an initial power ranking of the AFLW teams based on the strength of their state-based recruitment zones. As a quick reminder we came up with the following based on elite talent distribution and results in representative games: 1 – Fremantle 2 – Brisbane 3/4 – Melbourne/Bulldogs
Continue reading »Strength of Schedule of the 2017 AFL fixture
As with previous years, we’ve taken a look at the AFL fixture in terms of how the lopsided match-ups impact on strength of schedule. Here’s the summary: North Melbourne have the easiest fixture while GWS have the most difficult set of double-up opponents. The Bulldogs’ effort winning the premiership as 7th
Continue reading »Winners and Losers of the 2016 #AFLTrades Period
Earlier today HPN recapped every trade that happened across the free agency period. If you want to recap that thrilling two weeks of your life in about 15 minutes, that’s the place to go. Using those numbers, we’ve calculated who are the ultimate winners and losers of the trade period.
Continue reading »Every trade that happened during #AFLTrades 2016
Phew! After a slow start to the trade period, the pace seemed to intensify as the deadline drew closer. As this post will cover all 39 trades, and the HPN valuations of the trades, we’ll keep the intro brief. For a full recap of all movement on an easy to
Continue reading »TRADE: Deledio heads to GWS, not Geelong #AFLTrades
At the start of the trade period one of the bigger “bombshells” was around Brett Deledio’s potential move to Kardinia Park. After going through several permutations, the deal to get Deledio to Geelong appeared dead. And then GWS stepped in, and used Geelong’s pick for them. HPN is still confirming the
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