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It’s VFL, SANFL, WAFL and NEAFL finals season as well as AFL season and for several teams, their reserves are the only team still in the hunt for premierships. Fremantle’s Peel Thunder feeder club rolled West Coast’s East Perth this weekend just gone, while in Victoria the reserves of Melbourne

On Monday we looked at the strength of schedule of different teams, based on the teams they faced twice and their Pythagorean win-loss record for 2016. While we wait for finals footy to start, we thought it would be fun to have an extended look at this: Pythagorean win-loss, as

The season is over and the finals is (checks wrist, realises no-one wears watches, races to computer, starts up computer, checks calendar, writes apology to clock wearers) just two days away. So, what did we learn from the 2016 AFL season, and more importantly what did the HPN system think

In the run up to the 2016 finals, HPN will do a post every day this week. Such #content. Many #charts. At the start of every year, HPN does some basic ladder and schedule predictions based on past performance, predicted list improvement and expected strength of schedule based on the

With the 2016 regular season almost wrapped up we thought we would take a look at how it fits into the context of the ongoing statistical evolution of our game. The recent era has been one of flux, driven by the delicate interplay of improved conditioning, tactical innovation and rule changes.

As the season winds down we begin to reduce ourselves to the hackneyed “cop-in-cheap-film saying of “nothing to see here”. The Pies make a big move after smashing Gold Coast last week, but we really shouldn’t be singing the praises of teams who beat the severely injury hit Suns. The

Highlight of the day Athletics – Men’s marathon In all of the hubris about iconic Olympic events, there’s really one that stands out alone – the marathon. The first Olympic games pushed hard to tie the modern Olympic Games to the Greece of old. The tale of Philippides, the solider

Highlight of the day Handball – Women’s Of all the Olympic sports, handball might be the most neglected. Handball has the speed of basketball, the tactics of water polo and the scoring of volleyball. Two time defending champions Norway were knocked out in the semi-finals in overtime, by a plucky

Highlight of the day Cycling – Women’s individual BMX, Men’s individual BMX OK – we’ve gone heavy on cycling so far, but we promise you that the BMX is worth it. After the qualifying run, three quarterfinals and three semifinals, the whole thing comes down to one freaking run over