Looking at the eighteen clubs coming into the NAB Challenge pre-season games over the next four weeks, we'd like to share the starting point for each club, PLUS the adjustments we're looking at in these five areas: trade/draft, injuries, stability, maturity/aging, and schedule, totaled up in a plus/minus form that we're NOT going to simply add into their rating - after all, the important thing isn't what happens off the field, but rather how it all comes together ON the pitch...
Hawthorn (81.6, net +/- of 0)
Sydney (77.7, net +/- of -1)
Port Adelaide (71.7, net +/- of +3)
Fremantle (70.3, net +/- of +1)
Adelaide (63.4, net +/- of -1)
North Melbourne (62.8, net +/- of -2)
West Coast (62.3, net +/- of 0)
Geelong (61.8, net +/- of 0)
Richmond (55.1, net +/- of -2)
Essendon (53.7, net +/- of -3)
Gold Coast (43.9, net +/- of +2)
Carlton (40.7, net +/- of -1)
Collingwood (40.2, net +/- of -2)
Western (31.4, net +/- of +2)
Brisbane (26.4, net +/- of +3)
GWS (26.3, net +/- of +3)
Melbourne (20.2, net +/- of +1)
St. Kilda (10.5, net +/- of 0)
So...watch Brisbane and GWS moving upwards with a bullet, with the Western Bulldogs right behind them...look at Gold Coast, Adelaide, and West Coast making finals this coming year after failing to in 2014, watch Port move farther forward, and look for Hawthorn to start the year where they finished last year: leading the pack.
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