It’s very hard to be the best in your position in the AFL. Brad Hill is very close to that. What is even harder to work out is how much that is worth. Triple premiership player Brad Hill departs Fremantle for St Kilda in a trade that sees him valued
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St Kilda lose Jack Steven, retain seven Jacks
Of all the Jacks at St Kilda, and there’s a lot, J. Steven filled the mantle as the best Jack at the club. He wasn’t a Jack of all trades, but he was close to a master at one. Jack Steven at his best is quite an effective pure inside
Continue reading »Taylor to Begin Again with Sydney
Something of an undeserved punchline after winning the notorious crapshoot that is the Rising Star Award ahead of Marcus Bontempelli, Lewis Taylor’s career has stalled at Brisbane. He is quite a small-bodied forwardish type who during 2019 fell comprehensively out of favour during the Lions’ ascent to the top 4. Taylor
Continue reading »Darcy Cameron goes to Collingwood for basically nothing
Darcy Cameron, drafted in 2016, has sat deep enough in Sydney’s ruck pecking order that they used both the preseason signing period and midseason draft to acquire alternative ruck options from South Adelaide, in Hayden McLean and Michael Knoll respectively. Poorly timed injuries prevented him from senior gametime this year,
Continue reading »Gold Coast leverage their concession package to acquire Hugh Greenwood
The Crows continue to trade on the second last day before the deadline, moving Tasmanian basketball convert (drink) Hugh Greenwood the to Gold Coast where he will contribute immediately. The 27 year old will form another part of the solid mature brigade the Suns started building last year to develop
Continue reading »St Dougal and St Patrick are beatified
One of St Kilda’s key secondary bits of business has fallen neatly into place in a swap seemingly tailored to Port Adelaide’s penchant for swapping around the draft order each year. Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate
Continue reading »Patton, Jacobs and Frampton trade places for the same price
Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate trades for fairness and balance. Elsewhere, you can read much more about the method and theory behind PAV. You can also read about PAPLEY, the projection method used to derive expected future PAVs, which
Continue reading »Carlton Betts on Eddie
Eddie Betts has been one of the most exciting and most beloved players in the league for a while now, and remains one of the more dangerous small forwards in the competition. A pre-season draftee after being overlooked in the national draft, he fairly quickly became a reliable goal-a-game small
Continue reading »Tomorrow comes today as Langdon commences his Demon days
Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate trades for fairness and balance. Elsewhere, you can read much more about the method and theory behind PAV. You can also read about PAPLEY, the projection method used to derive expected future PAVs, which
Continue reading »The 2019 Draft, Trade and Free Agency Period
With the 2019 AFL season rapidly falling from sight, the attention of the league’s media and fans turns to who will be at each club in 2020 and beyond. The career HPN Trade Calculator has now been updated for 2019 values, so go and have a look! Also, we’ve introduced a
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