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Here’s the movements in team ratings this week: GWS, Geelong and Adelaide now comprise the top 3 after separating themselves from fellow top 4 aspirants Sydney, North Melbourne and West Coast. Sydney in particular take a hit after being outclassed in the midfield (losing the inside 50s 61-52) and in

The HPN All-Overlooked Team of 2016 Rather than naming an All-Australian side we’ve decided to take a different tack and try and identify some of the overlooked, underrated players who are unlikely to get a mention in All-Australian honour. If the All-Australian side is the team that represents the best of the

The AFL season to date has chucked up a number of surprises, but now a pattern is starting to form. Indeed, it looks like a stratification between the top half and bottom half of the league has occurred: The largest quality gap, aside from how far adrift Essendon are at the

This has been a hell of a week for arguments about the structure of the AFL, so we’re going to devote most of this week’s “preview” to casting our eye over some of them. The fixture is fine, shut up about the 17-5 plan We’re on record, having looked at

The ratings story this week is a drop for our two ladder leaders and a jump for most of the chasing pack (Adelaide, Sydney and West Coast). Adelaide and Sydney are tracking towards rare ratings territory at this stage of the season, with Adelaide having a better offensive rating and Sydney a better defensive rating than

This year is the first Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round. It’s not the first Indigenous Round, but the first one named for the very influential (and important) former Carlton player, although that undersells his achievements quite significantly. Nicholls was the first Indigenous Australian to be knighted, he was the first

The pundits are, for the moment, right about North Melbourne. For a side sitting two games clear on top of the ladder, they don’t present as an overwhelmingly strong side, and their weak schedule must be factored in when looking at where they sit. This year we’ve been rating teams after

The Suns’ list of injured players might be better than the players they have available Gold Coast are once again in a severe injury crisis and we think the hot take machine (for example this effort by Mick Malthouse) needs to take a bit of a look at just how

One of the interesting features of the inside-50 and scoring efficiency based ratings system we’ve been running this season is the way ongoing changes in each team’s opponent strength adjusts their rating. This week we’ve had two sides who lost to more highly fancied opponents rise up in their overall