It’s a bit of a cliché to rely on this early in the footballing year, but we’ve started to run out of superlatives to describe the dominance of the Crows’ all-conquering forward line. Last week, against a formidable Giants side, the Crows struggled for a quarter or so before flicking
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What does winning in round 1 mean?
HPN has previously established that the predictive powers of the preseason are minimal at best, but after yet another crazy week of football to open up the season but we thought it’d be useful to look at how telling the first round of results would be in determining the make-up
Continue reading »Seven trades, innumerable rumours – A recap of the first week of #AFLTrades
In this post HPN looks back at the action that took place in the first week of the AFL trade period. For a full recap of all movement on an easy to read webpage, check out Draft Guru. NOTE: We do not use the AFL draft points system to rate
Continue reading »St Kilda get a Steele #AFLTrades
The interesting thing about GWS trading Jack Steele for St Kilda’s 2017 pick is that both clubs will likely extract more value from their newly acquired asset than the original owner would have. For Steele this is obviously because the Canberran has struggled to crack a deep midfield at GWS.
Continue reading »The Cats up the ante with Zach Tuohy #AFLTrades
Zach Tuohy is an odd player to both value and spell. Tuohy has come on with a relative flourish in the past couple of years. The Irishman has firmly moved from being a solid contributor, to perhaps one of the Blues best half-dozen players, with his play off half-back a
Continue reading »TRADE: The Sunshine Sets In The West #AFLTrades
This is the first ACTUAL trade of the 2016 Trade Period. HPN is very excited about this! For more information about our trade formula and draft pick values, read this post. Last year HPN published a post on a potential Cam McCarthy trade entitled: GWS should take two first round
Continue reading »With Hibberd, Melbourne tries to catch ’em all #AFLTrades
This piece opens up HPN’s day 2 coverage of the AFL offseason. If you’ve missed it already, go check out the HPN Draft Pick Trade Value Chart – compiled with help from Draft Guru. After grabbing Jake Melksham at the end of last season, Melbourne has seemingly decided that the
Continue reading »In Bryce Gibbs, Adelaide could find their missing piece #afltrades
Earlier today Bryce Gibbs stated his intention to move to Adelaide, potentially ending the former number 1 pick’s time at Carlton. Gibbs remains a very good player, however at 27 probably doesn’t want to stick around Carlton for a full rebuild. In 2014 Gibbs committed to the Blues until the
Continue reading »What chance does an AFL bottom 4 side have of rising up the ladder?
The entire theory of a closed-entry league like the AFL, with salary caps, with a draft, is that success should be roughly cyclical. The clubs down the bottom of the ladder have the tools available to improve faster than clubs near the top. The hope bottom clubs can realistically sell
Continue reading »What predictive power do AFL pre-season results have for the regular season? #NABChallenge
Footy is back! Sort of! Pre-season trial games have started at obscure ovals where cricket isn’t still getting in the way. It’s a time of great hope, when every team’s draftees and fringe players and returning injured players are showing good signs, and fans and pundits try to identify which teams might have good
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