This year HPN will cover the trade and free agency period slightly differently than in past years. HPN will provide a recap of the each day’s action, with other breakdowns happening periodically. There might be more work elsewhere as well. Trade 1: Collingwood and Gold Coast pick swap It’s always
Continue reading »Is Caleb Serong the most valuable player in the AFL? Introducing 2021’s PAPLEY projections
After a furious 2021 season, featuring a drought breaking premiership for Melbourne, attention of fans of the other 17 clubs turns firmly to the second season – the offseason. The ink is barely dry on the pages detailing the season, but preparations for 2022 are firmly underway. Already there have
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 »HPN on ABC: Christian Petracca and the best players of 2021 (so far)
This week on the ABC, HPN had a look at what makes Christian Petracca great and whether it was wise to sign Petracca to such a long contract. It’s a good piece, and well worth a read. As is normally the case, there’s some overflow information that didn’t make it
Continue reading »Star power against depth – a quick(ish) 2021 AFLW GF preview
Adelaide. Brisbane. Facing off in the AFLW Grand Final. Stop us if you’ve heard that one before. In the AFLW’s short history the Crows and Lions have made three grand finals each. No other side has made more than one. Of course, Adelaide has two premierships to show for it,
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
Continue reading »Can they keep it up? Quick thoughts on limited football
HPN on ABC This week on ABC, HPN looked at how the battle of tall forwards and defenders has changed over the past few decades. It’s worth a read! The above video looks at Darcy Moore’s opponents against Carlton last week. It’s clear from watching the game, and the vision
Continue reading »The HPN AFL Men’s season preview – the tiers of contention
Over at the ABC today, HPN has contributed its AFL men’s season preview for the national broadcaster. Of course, there’s some stuff that is best kept for the dark backalleys of private websites. That’s right, it’s HPN AFL Men’s preview time. After dark.* *may not be after dark in your
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