2017/18 H&A Season Player Average Comparison: Nth Melbourne

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).

Nth Melbourne

It was a relatively slow start to the year for Todd Goldstein (2018 Ave: 93.4) averaging 83.9pts from his opening 12 games of the 2018 H&A season, he scored 100pts or more in only 16.7% of those games. Post Bye Goldstein was a different story and even a viable option as a starting Ruck, he averaged 104.7pts from his final 10 games scoring 100pts or more in 60.0% of games.

With the potential departure of Braydon Preuss in the upcoming Trade Period it appears Goldstein will be free to solo Ruck in 2019, based on his finish to the 2018 H&A season Goldy may be a value option at Round 1. Goldstein is quite durable, he has played in 41 of a possible 44 games since the beginning of 2017.

It appears Nth Melbourne will be quite aggressive during the upcoming Trade & Free Agency period which could result in a relatively new midfield group, they will be a must watch during the pre-season for any options and a potential game plan change which could increasing fantasy scoring.

Article by @aflratingsPete

2018 AFL Fantasy Stats

PLAYER	POS	GMS	PTS	AVG
Cunnington, Ben	MID	22	2066	93.9
Higgins, Shaun	MID	20	1878	93.9
Goldstein, Todd	RUC	22	2055	93.4
Waite, Jarrad	FWD	13	1110	85.4
Ziebell, Jack	MID/FWD	22	1822	82.8
Dumont, Trent	MID	22	1813	82.4
Jacobs, Ben	MID	13	1008	77.5
Anderson, Jed	MID/FWD	21	1598	76.1
MacMillan, Jamie	DEF	22	1608	73.1
Clarke, Ryan	DEF	19	1338	70.4
McDonald, Luke	DEF/MID	22	1547	70.3
Ahern, Paul	MID/FWD	11	754	68.5
Brown, Ben	FWD	22	1496	68
Hartung, Billy	MID	13	866	66.6
Tarrant, Robbie	DEF	21	1394	66.4
Wright, Sam	DEF	16	1054	65.9
Wood, Mason	FWD	13	838	64.5
D. Thompson, Scott	DEF	22	1410	64.1
Daw, Majak	RUC/FWD	18	1154	64.1
Atley, Shaun	FWD	22	1353	61.5
Simpkin, Jy	FWD	22	1309	59.5
Williams, Marley	DEF	22	1179	53.6
Vickers-Willis, Ed	DEF	7	361	51.6
Hrovat, Nathan	FWD	12	613	51.1
Walker, Will	MID	4	199	49.8
Morgan, Alex	DEF	2	99	49.5
Turner, Kayne	FWD	22	1063	48.3
Zurhaar, Cameron	FWD	5	211	42.2
Murphy, Tom	DEF/MID	4	167	41.8
Davies-Uniacke, Luke	MID	7	282	40.3
Durdin, Sam	DEF	1	22	22
Mountford, Declan	DEF/MID	0	0	0
Nielson, Daniel	DEF	0	0	0
Hayden, Kyron	MID	0	0	0
Jeffries, Tom	RUC	0	0	0
Narrier, Gordon	FWD	0	0	0
Xerri, Tristan	RUC	0	0	0
Hibberd, Mitchell	DEF	0	0	0
Garner, Taylor	FWD	0	0	0
Preuss, Braydon	RUC	0	0	0
Junker, Oscar	MID	0	0	0
Larkey, Nick	FWD	0	0	0
Watson, Declan	DEF	0	0	0
McKay, Ben	DEF/FWD	0	0	0
Williams, Josh	MID	0	0	0