2017/18 H&A Season Player Average Comparison: Adelaide

The 2018 H&A season is complete which means the Fantasy research for next season has already begun, over the next few weeks we’ll take a look at a 2017/18 H&A season player average comparison for each team (Minimum 10 games played each season).

Warnie & Roy discussed some of the numbers on the final Traders podcast of the season, it is worth another listen again to hear their thoughts about some of the players that will be listed in each team (Starts at 41:25).

ADELAIDE

Rory Laird (2018 Ave: 107.8) was a positive for fantasy coaches this year increasing his H&A season average by 7.4pts, he did miss 2 games during the Bye weeks that hurt many without decent cover. Laird averaged 125.0pts from his opening 4 games of 2018 & averaged 98.5pts over his next 14 games before finishing with back to back 138pt games to finish out his year, with the return of Sam Docherty it will be interesting to see how many coaches will start with both Laird & Doch at Round 1 in DEF.

After a very bright beginning Bryce Gibbs (2018 Ave: 103.8) averaged 123.5pts from his opening 4 games of the year, he then proceeded to score 100pts or more in 10 of his last 18 games averaging 99.4pts. We never we able to see the quartet of Sloane, Gibbs & the Crouch brothers in 2018 meaning the impact will be unknown again at Round 1 next season, at best Gibbs is likely a borderline selection to begin the year which may come with a very low ownership.

Rory Sloane (2018 Ave: 89.9.) is under-priced heading into the 2019 H&A season having missed 9 games through injury in the early part of the season, he averaged 98.9pts from his final 7 games of the year. Sloane managed just a season high of 115pts in Round 2, given a full pre-season and a full strength Adelaide midfield next year then he could be a very good value selection.

Article by @aflratingsPete

2018 AFL Fantasy Stats

PLAYER	POS	Own%	GMS	PTS	AVG
Laird, Rory	DEF	68	20	2156	107.8
Crouch, Matt	MID	12.7	18	1888	104.9
Gibbs, Bryce	MID	20.3	22	2284	103.8
Sloane, Rory	MID	4.5	12	1079	89.9
Gibson, Sam	MID	0.1	5	434	86.8
Greenwood, Hugh	MID	1.6	22	1808	82.2
Jacobs, Sam	RUC	11	22	1793	81.5
Ellis-Yolmen, Cameron	MID	1.9	15	1222	81.5
Lynch, Tom T.	FWD	1.5	17	1357	79.8
Atkins, Rory	MID	1.6	20	1592	79.6
Seedsman, Paul	DEF/MID	12.2	19	1510	79.5
Smith, Brodie	DEF	0.4	2	155	77.5
Jenkins, Josh	FWD	1.5	22	1703	77.4
Milera, Wayne	MID/FWD	1.9	19	1431	75.3
Douglas, Richard	MID	0.4	17	1256	73.9
Doedee, Tom	DEF	24.7	20	1450	72.5
McGovern, Mitch	FWD	0.7	12	853	71.1
Knight, Riley	FWD	0.1	8	541	67.6
Otten, Andy	DEF/FWD	0.2	8	532	66.5
Himmelberg, Elliott	FWD	3.4	1	65	65
Mackay, David	MID,DEF	0.8	17	1090	64.1
Kelly, Jake	DEF	1	19	1216	64
Betts, Eddie	FWD	3.3	18	1120	62.2
Brown, Luke	DEF	0.6	20	1238	61.9
Walker, Taylor	FWD	1.3	14	867	61.9
Talia, Daniel	DEF	1.7	18	1037	57.6
Cheney, Kyle	DEF	0.4	8	452	56.5
Keath, Alex	DEF	0.4	6	337	56.2
Gallucci, Jordan	MID/FWD	3	16	882	55.1
Wilson, Patrick	MID/FWD	26	1	51	51
Hartigan, Kyle	DEF	1	13	646	49.7
Murphy, Lachlan	DEF/FWD	7.6	11	543	49.4
Poholke, Myles	MID/FWD	5.3	9	432	48
Hampton, Curtly	MID	0.1	3	141	47
Fogarty, Darcy	MID/FWD	13.5	10	420	42
Crouch, Brad	MID	0.2	0	0	0
Edwards, Jackson	MID	0.6	0	0	0
McPherson, Andrew	DEF	0.2	0	0	0
Hunter, Paul	RUC	7.2	0	0	0
Dear, Harry	DEF/FWD	1.3	0	0	0
O'Brien, Reilly	RUC	0.1	0	0	0
Davis, Ben	DEF/FWD	4.5	0	0	0
Jarman, Ben	FWD	1.1	0	0	0
Signorello, Matthew	MID/FWD	3	0	0	0