It is a function of any comparative exercise, from sport to food to beer to literature, that some things are good and others are not so good. Indeed, some things in any category of thing are bad. Many professional sporting competitions try to limit the extremes of excellence and shithousessness
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The Showdown might be the most pivotal game of the season (to date)
Before the year started, HPN predicted that Adelaide and Port Adelaide were likely to be the best two sides in the competition. Things have not exactly gone to plan for either side so far this year; both sides have been hit by injuries, and other issues around incoming/outgoing talent. Both
Continue reading »Do People Underrate The 2004 Port Adelaide Side? Introducing HPN Team Statistics
This is week three in HPN’s series on new metrics to evaluate the performance of AFL players and teams. Last week we looked at the Player Team Contribution Statistics, and the week before we introduced the Player Rate Statistics. This week, instead of looking at player based performance measures, we thought
Continue reading »Are the Swans too reliant on Franklin up forward? Introducing the HPN Player Team Contribution Statistics
This is week two in HPN’s series on new metrics to evaluate the performance of AFL players and teams. Last week we looked at the Player Rate Statistics. Raw statistics, such as kicks, handballs and marks, have a easy understanding at face level for most punters. However, different teams play
Continue reading »Introducing the HPN Player Rate Statistics
This post is the first of a series where we reveal a bunch of new methods to evaluate the performance of players (and teams), and to better contextualise what you see on the field each weekend. These measures will use a basic kit of statistics to dive down a little
Continue reading »The 2018 HPN AFL Preview – Part Three
This year HPN will do a brief club-by-club season preview of the upcoming AFL season. HPN will break down the teams both subjectively, and will predict how they will go on both our standard prediction method based on Pythagorean Expectation and Strength of Schedule, and a more detailed player based
Continue reading »The 2018 HPN AFL Preview – Part Two
This year HPN will do a brief club-by-club season preview of the upcoming AFL season. HPN will break down the teams both subjectively, and will predict how they will go on both our standard prediction method based on Pythagorean Expectation and Strength of Schedule, and a more detailed player based
Continue reading »The 2018 HPN AFL Preview – Part One
This year HPN will do a brief club-by-club season preview of the upcoming AFL season. HPN will break down the teams both subjectively, and will predict how they will go on both our standard prediction method based on Pythagorean Expectation and Strength of Schedule, and a more detailed player based
Continue reading »A look forward to AFLW Round 7
The breakneck end to the short sprint that is the AFLW season is amongst us, and like last year many teams remain in at least mathematical contention for the Grand Final. Instead of our normal power rankings, we will rank the teams on what we think their chances to make
Continue reading »The Mid-Season AFLW All-Australian Team
We’ll get to our customary (and rough) power rankings at the end of the post, but we thought we’d run through who stands out as the HPN Midseason AA side – as determined by our PAV ranking system. Here’s where PAV ranks the AFLW at the end of four weeks
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