Jake Carlisle is worth pick 5

Jake Carlisle points value: 1600 (20.3 games per year, age 24, 12 Brownlow votes 2013-15, 62.7% career remaining) One of the biggest looming player movements this off-season is St Kilda’s attempt to bring in Jake Carlisle. There has been debate about what he’s worth, with Essendon convinced he’s worth pick

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What is Leuenberger worth?

Matthew Leuenberger player value: 647 points (pick 52) (37% of career resources, 5 seasons left, 13 games per season, 108% Brownlow loading) We’ve written before about free agency compensation, its impact on other club’s draft value, and on the argument for just ditching it altogether on the basis that if

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Jack Redden Goes West

Jack Redden’s Player Value – 1241 points Brisbane value in = 1000 points (Pick 17). West Coast value in = 1241 points (Jack Redden). Verdict – Fair trade (West Coast gains 241 points of pick and player value, or 1.241 points back for every point given up).   Of all

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The Jake Melksham Problem

Jake Melksham’s Player Value – 1378 points Essendon value in = 920 points (Pick 25). Melbourne value in = 1378 points (Jake Melksham). Verdict – Unfair trade (Melbourne gains 458 points of pick and player value, or 1.497 points back for every point given up). Jake Melksham, from five years

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2015 AFL Trade Period

And we’re back. After another long and tumultuous season, ending in another now-inevitable Hawthorn premiership victory, the AFL Trade Period is with us again. Over the next few weeks HPN will be breaking down potential and actual trades as they happen, and also will glance our eyes over the forthcoming

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