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Sydney vs Adelaide This is perhaps the match that we’ve been looking forward to all finals, a battle between the best (relative) attack of the last 18 years and the best (relative) defence of the last 18 years. When they can get the ball forward, the Crows are an absolute

Note: we were originally going to call this post “there’s more than one way to skin a cat”, but is there? We don’t even know of one way to do so. Why would you skin a cat anyway? Who would do such a thing? At HPN we are firm believers

It’s not often that you lead an article by saying that you wish that you weren’t a former Australian fast bowler who gets paid to write about football and cricket. It’s strange for us too, so bear with us. On this weeks edition of Bloggers Gone Mad, Nick and Arwon

It’s VFL, SANFL, WAFL and NEAFL finals season as well as AFL season and for several teams, their reserves are the only team still in the hunt for premierships. Fremantle’s Peel Thunder feeder club rolled West Coast’s East Perth this weekend just gone, while in Victoria the reserves of Melbourne

On Monday we looked at the strength of schedule of different teams, based on the teams they faced twice and their Pythagorean win-loss record for 2016. While we wait for finals footy to start, we thought it would be fun to have an extended look at this: Pythagorean win-loss, as

The season is over and the finals is (checks wrist, realises no-one wears watches, races to computer, starts up computer, checks calendar, writes apology to clock wearers) just two days away. So, what did we learn from the 2016 AFL season, and more importantly what did the HPN system think

In the run up to the 2016 finals, HPN will do a post every day this week. Such #content. Many #charts. At the start of every year, HPN does some basic ladder and schedule predictions based on past performance, predicted list improvement and expected strength of schedule based on the

With the 2016 regular season almost wrapped up we thought we would take a look at how it fits into the context of the ongoing statistical evolution of our game. The recent era has been one of flux, driven by the delicate interplay of improved conditioning, tactical innovation and rule changes.

As the season winds down we begin to reduce ourselves to the hackneyed “cop-in-cheap-film saying of “nothing to see here”. The Pies make a big move after smashing Gold Coast last week, but we really shouldn’t be singing the praises of teams who beat the severely injury hit Suns. The

Highlight of the day Athletics – Men’s marathon In all of the hubris about iconic Olympic events, there’s really one that stands out alone – the marathon. The first Olympic games pushed hard to tie the modern Olympic Games to the Greece of old. The tale of Philippides, the solider