The Crows continue to trade on the second last day before the deadline, moving Tasmanian basketball convert (drink) Hugh Greenwood the to Gold Coast where he will contribute immediately. The 27 year old will form another part of the solid mature brigade the Suns started building last year to develop
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St Dougal and St Patrick are beatified
One of St Kilda’s key secondary bits of business has fallen neatly into place in a swap seemingly tailored to Port Adelaide’s penchant for swapping around the draft order each year. Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate
Continue reading »Patton, Jacobs and Frampton trade places for the same price
Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate trades for fairness and balance. Elsewhere, you can read much more about the method and theory behind PAV. You can also read about PAPLEY, the projection method used to derive expected future PAVs, which
Continue reading »Carlton Betts on Eddie
Eddie Betts has been one of the most exciting and most beloved players in the league for a while now, and remains one of the more dangerous small forwards in the competition. A pre-season draftee after being overlooked in the national draft, he fairly quickly became a reliable goal-a-game small
Continue reading »The 2019 rolling pick swap update spectacular
More and more, clubs are engaging in minor pick swaps aimed at one of several goals: Swapping future picks to move draft value into the following year, or into the current year. Positioning higher in the draft by swapping multiple picks for one, sometimes to take a pick before a
Continue reading »Tomorrow comes today as Langdon commences his Demon days
Note: This article is part of a series using a valuation method called Player Approximate Value (PAV) to evaluate trades for fairness and balance. Elsewhere, you can read much more about the method and theory behind PAV. You can also read about PAPLEY, the projection method used to derive expected future PAVs, which
Continue reading »A cold change in spring sees Frost come to Hawthorn
Despite their terrible defensive numbers in recent years, Melbourne found themselves entering the 2019 offseason with a logjam down back – especially with respect to taller defenders. With Lever and May penciled into two spots, and Hore, Hibberd, Oscar McDonald all fighting for one or two others, Sam Frost was
Continue reading »Tim Kelly is from another age, and the Eagles should benefit immediately
Few players have risen as fast in the footballing public’s consciousness as former Geelong star Tim Kelly – going from apprentice sparky/WAFL standout to one of the best handful of players period in three short years. The story of Tim Kelly isn’t typical of the era of the One National
Continue reading »Where did the Grand Finalists get their players and how much did they pay?
As part of the buildup to the Grand Final, HPN thought we’d take a look at how the two list builds have occurred by looking at the value of the player acquisition opportunities. Each trade period, HPN uses its Player Approximate Value (PAV) system to evaluate the trade period and
Continue reading »The most Australian thing of all – a Giant Pie. The HPN Collingwood-GWS Preliminary Final Preview
HPN Team Ratings The Pies rate as an extremely well balanced team, with no obvious gaps in their ratings. Historically, 105% of the league average across the board is the threshold for premiers under the HPN Team Ratings system back to 1999 (give or take the 2005 Swans and 2016
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