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This round the only movement in the overall rankings was Collingwood jumping Fremantle. The nature of rating entire seasons is that movement tends to settle down towards the end of the year with weight of information already collected. By round 23, the expected movements should be small as the week will contribute just 4.5% of

Continuity is always key A common football truism is that a stable team does better than a chaotic one. But does this hold true when looking at actual results? HPN has looked at the number of players that missed less than two players across the last three years (2014 to

Geelong are once again on top of our team ratings thanks to a strong performance over the Bulldogs. Also contributing was a pretty poor effort by GWS against a very spirited Essendon. That game may have denied us the sort of hilarious record-breaking scores we were predicting last week, but instead it

This column wouldn’t have been written if not for the hard work of the Outer Sanctum podcast, Josh Pinn, Footy Maths Institute, Andy Maher and Erin Riley. Their work has been invaluable and they get all the credit for bringing this whole episode onto the footy world’s agenda. If you’re

Josh Jenkins is your opponent-adjusted Coleman leader Never ones to miss a chance (justly and unjustly) to call Josh Kennedy a flat-track bully, we’ve taken a look at this season’s 15 leading goalkickers. We’ve looked at who they’ve kicked their goals against in order to see who’s really providing the most value

  After the announcement of the creation of a national women’s Australian Rules competition, HPN thought we’d look at the known knowns and the known unknowns of the new competition. Knowns The Teams On Wednesday 15 June 2016, the eight teams of the inaugural season were announced. They are, along

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