2018/19 H&A Season Player Average Comparison: Essendon

The 2019 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 2018/19 H&A season player average comparison for each team (Minimum 10 games played each season).

Warnie, Calvin & Roy discussed some of the numbers on the final Traders podcast of the season, it is worth another listen again to hear their thoughts on certain players heading into season 2020. (Starts at 53:35).

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ESSENDON

The 2019 H&A season began well for Dylan Shiel (2019 Ave: 98.3), he averaged 105.3 from his opening 9 games before being injured in Round 10 for 81pts. Shiel did slow down in the second half of the season averaging 94.2pts from his final 11 H&A games.

Despite yet another slow start to a season Zach Merrett (2019 Ave: 108.2) easily exceeded his season 2018 average of 101.5pts, Merrett scored 100pts or more in 68.2% of games in the 2019 H&A season.

After averaging 90.9pts in the opening 9 games David Zaharakis (2019 Ave: 79.5) slowed down dramatically in the second half of the season, he averaged 76.9pts between Rounds 10-21 before his season ending injury in Round 22 (17pts).

 

Article by @aflratingsPete

2019 AFL FANTASY STATS

PLAYER	POSITION	GAMES	AVERAGE
Merrett, Zach	MID	22	108.2
Shiel, Dylan	MID	21	98.3
Heppell, Dyson	MID	17	93.8
Zaharakis, David	MID	20	79.5
Smith, Devon	MID/FWD	7	79.4
Parish, Darcy	MID/FWD	20	79.4
Hurley, Michael	DEF	18	77.4
McGrath, Andrew	DEF/MID	22	74.7
Hooker, Cale	DEF	17	74.5
Snelling, William	MID	3	71.7
Bellchambers, Tom	RUC	15	71.6
Langford, Kyle	MID/FWD	17	70.6
McKenna, Conor	DEF	21	70.3
Daniher, Joe	FWD	4	69
Redman, Mason	DEF	19	68.9
Brown, Mitch	FWD	15	68.4
McKernan, Shaun	FWD	15	68
Ridley, Jordan	DEF	6	68
Saad, Adam	DEF	21	67.3
Clarke, Dylan	MID	11	66.2
Stringer, Jake	FWD	18	65.3
McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	FWD	22	62.9
Laverde, Jayden	FWD	9	58.6
Gleeson, Martin	DEF	9	58.4
Jok, Thomas	MID	1	58
Clarke, Zac	RUC/FWD	9	57.9
Hartley, Michael	DEF	3	57.3
Guelfi, Matt	DEF/MID	17	56.4
Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon	DEF	1	56
Fantasia, Orazio	FWD	14	54.4
Myers, David	MID	7	54.1
Francis, Aaron	DEF/FWD	16	53.9
Begley, Joshua	FWD	8	51.8
Ham, Brayden	FWD	4	49.8
Baguley, Mark	FWD	10	48.1
Ambrose, Patrick	DEF	19	44
McNiece, Ben	DEF	5	36
Stewart, James	FWD	0	0
Dea, Matt	DEF	0	0
Long, Jake	MID	0	0
Draper, Sam	RUC	0	0
Mutch, Kobe	MID	1	0
Houlahan, Jordan	FWD	0	0
Lavender, Luke	FWD	0	0
Mynott, Trent	MID	0	0
Gown, Noah	FWD	0	0
Mosquito, Irving	MID/FWD	0	0