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 2021 AFL trade period: day 1 recap
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
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