Skip to content
HPN

HPN

Kicking it long since 2014

  • Player Approximate Value (PAV)
    • Years
      • 1980s
        • 1988
        • 1989
      • 1990s
        • 1990
        • 1991
        • 1992
        • 1993
        • 1994
        • 1995
        • 1996
        • 1997
        • 1998
        • 1999
      • 2000s
        • 2000
        • 2001
        • 2002
        • 2003
        • 2004
        • 2005
        • 2006
        • 2007
        • 2008
        • 2009
      • 2010s
        • 2010
        • 2011
        • 2012
        • 2013
        • 2014
        • 2015
        • 2016
        • 2017
        • 2018
        • 2019
      • 2020s
        • 2020
        • 2021
        • 2022
        • 2023
    • AFLW PAV
      • 2017 AFLW
      • 2018 AFLW
      • AFLW 2021
  • Draft/Trades
    • HPN Trade Calculator
    • Draft Pick Value Chart
    • Player Projections (PAPLEY)
  • HPN Player Statistics
    • 2014
      • AFL 2014 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2014 Player Team Contributions
    • 2015
      • AFL 2015 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2015 Player Team Contributions
    • 2016
      • AFL 2016 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2016 Player Team Contributions
    • 2017
      • AFL 2017 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2017 Player Team Contributions
    • 2018
      • AFL 2018 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2018 Player Team Contributions
    • 2019
      • AFL 2019 Player Rate Statistics
      • 2019 Player Team Contributions
  • Team Statistics
    • Team Statistics 2021
    • Team Stats – 1999 to 2017
    • Team Statistics 2019
    • Player Estimated Result Tipping (PERT) – 2019
    • Team Statistics 2018
    • Player Estimated Result Tipping (PERT) – 2018
  • About
August 1, 2024 admin

Paris 2024: Day 6 – The life of an athlete – part duex

Reports have come back from Paris breathlessly about what the Olympics is lacking. The accommodation is substandard. The food isn’t up to scratch and unsuitable for athletes. It’s hard to get around, and the city is too distracting. Paris sounds like a good idea on paper, but in practice it

Continue reading »
July 30, 2024 admin

Paris 2024: Day 4 – The forgotten precursors of the Olympic canon

While it’s fair to say recent decades have seen a fairly stable core of Olympic sports, a surprising number of now mainstay sports were pre-figured by related games which in a slightly different world could have come to be the canon, default version of those games. Whether as fully competitive

Continue reading »
July 29, 2024 admin

Paris 2024: Day 3 – How the water became the star of the Olympics

HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. The Olympics has a way of finding early stars that shape the nature of the Games. Usually it’s an athlete with a breakthrough performance, or a moment of light relief taking away

Continue reading »
July 28, 2024 admin

Paris 2024: Day 2 – Busy early, then late

HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. Australian sports fans woke up to slightly unexpected news this Sunday morning. There were hopes that Australia would do well early in Paris, but leading the medal tally after day 1 was

Continue reading »
July 27, 2024 admin

Paris 2024 – Day 1: It’s over before it starts

HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. It’s over before it starts Getting to the Olympics – and competing – is often the realization of a life’s worth of hard work. But what if an Olympic appearance is essentially

Continue reading »
November 20, 2023 Sean

The 2023 AFL Consensus Phantom Draft

Consensuses are often tough things to swing. There’s usually a few flies in the ointment that prevent a strong decision one way or another – free radicals acting against the tide. HPN has been tracking draft prospects through the thoughts of others for a decade now, trying to follow where

Continue reading »
October 18, 2023 Sean

2023 AFL Trade Period final countdown – featuring Koschitzke, Chol, Ryan, Gunston, Billings

Jacob Koschitzke to Richmond Jacob Koschitzke has played 48 games since breaking into a rebuilding Hawthorn side. In 2023 he found himself edged out of the best 22 by Mitch Lewis and Fergus Greene, playing 12 senior games and 13 at VFL level and usually only getting games when one

Continue reading »
October 18, 2023 Sean

2023 AFL Trade Period Final Day featuring Esava Ratugolea, Elijah Hollands and Jordon Sweet

Jordon Sweet to Port Adelaide Each year there’s a ruck merry-go-round where clubs switch options to fill the precious position. Jordon Sweet has played 11 games for the Dogs in three years including zero this season. But Sweet did star in the VFL in 2023, leading the league for hitouts

Continue reading »
October 18, 2023 Sean

2023 AFL Trade Period Day 9 – the day of the mini mega trade

The four team trade for Dow and Coffield Last year’s trade period saw a blockbuster four team MEGATRADE involving the first few picks of the draft and some big names who were very likely to play good senior footy every week changing hands. This year, the penultimate day saw a

Continue reading »
October 17, 2023 Sean

2023 AFL Trade Period Day 8 – Nyuon, Schultz and Henry on the move

HPN will attack this AFL Trade Period in one post a day, either as a roundup or with progressive updates through the day. It’s likely that a rapid cavalcade of interlinked deals drops any time on Tuesday or Wednesday to close out the final two days of the trade period.

Continue reading »

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 55 Next Posts»

Archives

Recent Comments

  • Raygun – Pons Asinorum on Why is Australia’s Olympic team so large? Or: How did Raygun make it to the Olympics?
  • Ross Allan on About
  • admin on Paris 2024 – Day 1: It’s over before it starts
  • Andrew on Paris 2024 – Day 1: It’s over before it starts
Powered by WordPress and Wellington.