34 players who were at Essendon in 2012 have been suspended for a doping offence. On Monday we looked at what the suspensions of Essendon’s remaining 12 players from that group do in terms of Essendon’s expected output in 2016. Today, we’re going to look at another group of 12 Essendon players –
Continue reading »A quick look at the 2015 output of Essendon’s 2016 playing list
In the wake of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s decision to suspend Essendon players for the full 2016 season, we thought we’d take a preliminary look at just how much this impacts Essendon’s onfield prospects. The CAS has decided to enforce the full two-year anti-doping rule violation suspension against the
Continue reading »The Truth About Jarryd Hayne’s Spot On The 49ers
We’ll cut to the chase. We’re fairly certain the reason Jarryd Hayne hasn’t been called up to the 53 man active roster for the 49ers has little to do with talent, and all to do with practice squad rules and flexibility in his current contract. If Hayne were called up to
Continue reading »Phantom Drafts – the washup and how the experts did #afldraft
The glorious subdued chaos of the AFL National Draft has come and gone, so let’s look at how the phantom drafts did. And the winner is To start with, let’s take a look at how the different phantom drafts did. We’ve looked firstly at the first round in isolation: A big
Continue reading »The Final HPN Consensus Phantom Draft #AFL #AFLDraft
With the main event almost upon us, the last phantom drafts have been released into the wide world and we are able to release the final HPN Consensus Phantom Draft of 2015. At the end of the day, the heavy hitters who have dropped late mock drafts are in near total
Continue reading »2015 HPN Consensus Phantom Draft V2 #AFL
With the draft drawing ever closer there appears to be movement in the predicted draft order, with a few later movers, and the requisite sliders. For those who missed HPN’s first version of the Consensus Phantom Draft (and the methodology behind it), please check it out here. Remember that this
Continue reading »Introducing the 2015 HPN Consensus Phantom Draft #AFL
At Hurling People Now we do not watch a lot of under-18 football. While we love a good bit of local footy, we have neither the time, the money, or the interest to travel 600km to see the nations’ best juniors. What we do have is a spreadsheet. Several in fact.
Continue reading »Strength of Schedule in the 2016 AFL Fixture
It’s AFL fixture time again, and that means plenty of attempts to evaluate the unbalanced AFL fixture and work out who’s got the soft ride and who’s being screwed by a tough draw. This post is our analysis based on a number of Strength of Schedule calculations. If you want
Continue reading »It’s OVER – Saying goodbye to the 2015 AFL Trade Period
After a hectic last day, the 2015 AFL Trade Period is officially over! Here’s a quick “by-the-numbers” look: 37 trades were lodged; 4 Free Agents moved clubs; 3 Compensation picks were generated; 15 trades involved future draft picks; 7 trades involved draft picks alone; 3 trades were made involving more
Continue reading »In Yarran Richmond Trusts #afltrades
Richmond fill one of their most glaring needs at the deadline, and Carlton accumulate another high pick. Carlton value in = 980 points – Pick 19. Richmond value in = 1312 points – Chris Yarran. Verdict – Unfair trade (Richmond gains 332 points of pick and player value, or 1.34
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