A Record Day It seems that records are tumbling just days into the Beijing Games. Until yesterday, never had Australia won more than one medal on a single day at the Winter Olympics. With Tess Coady’s bronze in the slopestyle and Jakara Anthony’s gold in the moguls, Australia has a
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Curling People Now – Day 2, Sunday Feb 6
Welcome to Curling People Now Day 2. From today on, HPN will do a preview of the events of the day before launching into the Alternative Medal Tally. The Medal Events There’s seven medals on offer today spread widely across different forms of skiing, luge, skating and snowboard. Snowboarding –
Continue reading »Curling People Now – 2022 Olympics Day 1
Welcome to Curling People Now’s series on the 2022 Winter Olympics. On a (hopefully) daily basis HPN will take a look at the events of the day before, and the day ahead. The warm ups As the schedule of the Olympics has increased over the years, as has the competition
Continue reading »The 2021 HPN Consensus Phantom Draft
Football clubs often have shadow units, not looking as much to the current on field but instead to the future. They focus more on what the team will look like in 12 months, or five years, time rather than right now. Draft day is their time to shine. Draft day
Continue reading »The 2021 AFL trade period: day 4 recap
This year HPN will cover the trade and free agency period slightly differently than in past years. Key trades will be covered at ABC news at this link with rolling updates. HPN will provide a recap of the each day’s action, with other breakdowns happening periodically. Trade 5: Gold Coast
Continue reading »The 2021 AFL trade period: day 2 and 3 recap
This year HPN will cover the trade and free agency period slightly differently than in past years. Key trades will be covered at ABC news at this link with rolling updates. HPN will provide a recap of the each day’s action, with other breakdowns happening periodically. Trade 2: Collingwood acquire
Continue reading »The Breakdown – AFL Preliminary Finals
This week, HPN has taken a look at the AFL Preliminary Finals for the ABC (The key factors for Melbourne, Geelong, Port Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs heading into the AFL preliminary finals), and doubled down for The Breakdown. The Breakdown largely looks at a prototype of a Advanced Stats
Continue reading »Introducing HPN’s The Breakdown
As always, HPN likes to stay a solid seven years behind the trend. As such, Cody and Sean have started a new podcast on video series for the finals or as long as it stays going. In this week’s episode, attempts at keeping the length to 10 minutes were abandoned
Continue reading »HPN on ABC: how to measure improved players?
This week, HPN looked at three of the most improved players in the league on the ABC. Those three players were chosen for a variety of reasons, including their impact on their sides, their journeys to their current highpoint and the fact that it wasn’t a return to form, but
Continue reading »The 2021 HPN AFLW All-Australian team
With the regular season of the AFLW in the books (along with week one of the finals), thought turns to who deserved nods in the All-Australian team. While most analysts take a primarily subjective view on these honours, HPN has taken a more data-driven view, based on Player Approximate Value
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