21st century Mock Draft

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So this is my thinking. I am thinking this could be an all encompassing 21st century mock draft. This is we line up every player drafted in the 21st century as an 18 year old, knowing the players they became and we decide who goes where.

For the draft order I am thinking the current ladder

So

Pick 1 - North Melbourne
Pick 2 - Richmond
Pick 3 - West Coast
Pick 4 - Adelaide
Pick 5 - St Kilda
Pick 6 - Brisbane
Pick 7 - Hawthorn
Pick 8 - Western Bulldogs
Pick 9 - Melbourne
Pick 10 - Gold Coast
Pick 11 - GWS
Pick 12 - Fremantle
Pick 13 - Collingwood
Pick 14 - Geelong
Pick 15 - Port Adelaide
Pick 16 - Essendon
Pick 17 - Carlton
Pick 18 - Sydney

and so on for 3 rounds.

The rules are to treat this like an actual mock draft, so pick the player who is either best available or best suits your list.

So my general idea is people will nominate a club they want to pick for, and hopefully we get enough people who want to participate so we don't have any double ups. I hope to go for 3 rounds but we will see how it goes.

Now the rule here is that you are only able to pick players who were drafted in the 2000 draft or later, I know technically 2000 is not the 21st century but these players would have only started playing in 2001 which is the 21st century. I have also made some lists of players who have won the All Australian at least 3 times, but also included some other awards too, but by no means do you only need to select from the list.

You are also free to nominate someone who has been retired for 5 years, or if you feel really confident, happy to include a player who is only in their second year, if you believe they have enough talent to be ahead of more established players. For instance it would not surprise me if Nick Daicos or Harley Reid end up in the first or second rounds despite having very little experience compared to a lot of players on this list.

So here we go

Key Forwards
8 – Lance Franklin | 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
5 - Tom Hawkins | 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
5 - Nick Riewoldt | 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014
3 - Jeremy Cameron | 2013, 2019, 2022
3 - Josh Kennedy | 2015, 2016, 2017
3 - Jack Riewoldt | 2010, 2015, 2018

Key Defenders
5 - Alex Rance | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
4 - Jeremy McGovern | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Ruckmen
6 - Dean Cox | 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
6 - Max Gawn | 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
4 - Aaron Sandilands | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014
3 - Nick Naitanui | 2012, 2020, 2021

Midfielder
8 – Gary Ablett Jr. | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
8 – Patrick Dangerfield | 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
6 - Chris Judd | 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
6 - Joel Selwood | 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
6 - Scott Pendlebury | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
5 - Dane Swan | 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
5 - Marcus Bontempelli | 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
4 - Dustin Martin | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
4 - Christian Petracca | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
3 - Clayton Oliver | 2018, 2021, 2022
3 - Patrick Cripps | 2018, 2019, 2022
3 - Travis Boak | 2013, 2014, 2020
3 - Josh Kennedy | 2012, 2014, 2016
3 - Sam Mitchell | 2011, 2013, 2015

Other Defenders
5 - Tom Stewart | 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
3 - Luke Hodge | 2005, 2008, 2010

Other Forwards
4 - Cyril Rioli | 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
3 - Eddie Betts | 2015, 2016, 2017
3 - Tom Greene | 2016, 2021, 2023
3 - Robby Grey | 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018

Coleman Medal
4 - Lance Franklin | 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017
3 - Jack Riewoldt | 2010, 2012, 2018
2 - Josh Kennedy | 2015, 2016
2 - Charlie Curnow | 2022, 2023
1 - Tom Hawkins | 2021
1 - Jeremy Carmeron | 2019
1 - Jarryd Roughead | 2013

Norm Smith Medal
3 - Dustin Martin | 2017, 2019, 2020
2 - Luke Hodge | 2008, 2014

Brownlow Medal
2 - Gary Ablett Jnr | 2009, 2013
2 - Nate Fyfe | 2015, 2019
2 - Lachie Neale | 2020, 2023
2 - Chris Judd | 2004, 2010

If I have missed anyone who has 3 All Australians or more feel very free to tell me.

For anyone who wants to refresh their memories



North Melbourne Sphynx
Richmond reggie
West Coast ArdentEagle
Adelaide eth-dog
St Kilda Mr Meow
Brisbane eth-dog
Hawthorn Guardian Hawk
Western Bulldogs PhoenixBonez
Melbourne MarcMaverick
Gold Coast WilloTree
GWS boncer34
Fremantle Purple7x08_24
Collingwood Fadge
Geelong Lingsface
Port Adelaide whatwhatsaywhat
Essendon RedmanWasHere
Carlton MC Bad Genius
Sydney theasian

If anyone wants to be assigned a specific team please say so. Lets see if this works :p

and so far

Pick 1 - North Melbourne - Lance Franklin
Pick 2 - Richmond - Gary Ablett Jnr
Pick 3 - West Coast - Max Gawn
Pick 4 - Adelaide - Chris Judd
Pick 5 - St Kilda - Patrick Dangerfield
Pick 6 - Brisbane - Dean Cox
Pick 7 - Hawthorn - Nick Riewoldt
Pick 8 - Western Bulldogs - Marcus Bontempelli
Pick 9 - Melbourne - Dustin Martin
Pick 10 - Gold Coast - Josh Kennedy (KPF)
Pick 11 - GWS - Alex Rance
Pick 12 - Fremantle - Charlie Curnow
Pick 13 - Collingwood - Joel Selwood
Pick 14 - Geelong - Nate Fyfe
Pick 15 - Port Adelaide - Tom Stewart
Pick 16 - Essendon - Mark Coughlan
Pick 17 - Carlton - Aaron Sandilands
Pick 18 - Sydney - Brian Lake

Round 2
Pick 19 - North Melbourne - Scott Pendlebury
Pick 20 - Richmond - Jeremy Cameron
Pick 21 - West Coast - Luke Hodge
Pick 22 - Adelaide - Brodie Grundy
Pick 23 - St Kilda - Dane Swan
Pick 24 - Brisbane - Harry Taylor
Pick 25 - Hawthorn - Christian Petracca
Pick 26 - Western Bulldogs - Jeremy McGovern
Pick 27 - Melbourne - Jack Riewoldt
Pick 28 - Gold Coast - Shannon Hurn
Pick 29 - GWS - Jaryd Roughead
Pick 30 - Fremantle - Brendon Goddard
Pick 31 - Collingwood - Tom Hawkins
Pick 32 - Geelong- Zach Merrett
Pick 33 - Port Adelaide - Tom Lynch
Pick 34 - Essendon - Ben McEvoy
Pick 35 - Carlton - Stephen Milne
Pick 36 - Sydney - Taylor Walker

Round 3
Pick 37 - North Melboune - Steve Johnson
Pick 38 - Richmond - Nic Naitanui
Pick 39 - West Coast - Cyril Rioli
Pick 40 - Adelaide - Michael Hurley
Pick 41 - St Kilda - Toby Greene
Pick 42 - Brisbane - Andrew Mackie
Pick 43 - Hawthorn - Harris Andrews
Pick 44 - Western Bulldogs - Eddie Betts
Pick 45 - Melbourne - Lachie Neale
Pick 46 - Gold Coast - Harley Reid
Pick 47 - GWS - Nick Daicos
Pick 48 - Fremantle - Leigh Montagna
Pick 49 - Collingwood - Jacob Weitering
Pick 50 - Geelong - Daniel Kerr
Pick 51 - Port Adelaide - Kysaiah Pickett
Pick 52 - Essendon - Drew Petrie
Pick 53 - Carlton - Nick Blakey
Pick 54 - Sydney - Sam Mitchell

Round 4
Pick 55 - North Melbourne - Darcy Moore
Pick 56 - Richmond - Jimmy Bartel
Pick 57 - West Coast - Patrick Cripps
Pick 58 - Adelaide - Luke Breust
Pick 59 - St Kilda - Shaun Burgoyne
Pick 60 - Brisbane - Steele Sidebottom
Pick 61 - Hawthorn - Steven May
Pick 62 - Western Bulldogs - Josh Gibson
Pick 63 - Melbourne - Mark Blitcavs
Pick 64 - Gold Coast - Michael Walters
Pick 65 - GWS - Bradley Hill
Pick 66 - Fremantle - Izak Rankine
Pick 67 - Collingwood - Josh Kennedy (mid)
Pick 68 - Geelong - Joe Daniher
Pick 69 - Port Adelaide - Clayton Oliver
Pick 70 - Essendon - Daniel Talia
Pick 71 - Carlton - Sam Taylor
Pick 72 - Sydney - Robbie Gray
 
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True. I would love to take Sydney if it is available but if not I will happily take anyone.
No reason why we cant add more teams if we get more than 18 especially if we include 90s but needs to be organized well with time limits and pre organized lists to keep rolling.
 
Yes, it will be a 'snake' draft so no real advantage what point of the draft you select from. I will put 1990 or 2000-2023 (depending if we include the 90's or not) in an online random number calculator. Whatever year it picks will determine the order of the draft (starting at last place). Actually, I may have to start later to ensure GC and GWS are included.
 

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I'm going to start with everyone who participated in this draft, tag them, and add you (in place of eth-dog's double up) as nearly everyone here wanted to do the full 22 rounds - so I don't think recruitment will take all that long.

(Will set it up tonight as I'm at work now and am running a bit behind after too much time on Bigfooty :))


Mods.

Please roll this over to GH's thread and send a notification my way once created.

Thanks.
 
Yes, it will be a 'snake' draft so no real advantage what point of the draft you select from. I will put 1990 or 2000-2023 (depending if we include the 90's or not) in an online random number calculator. Whatever year it picks will determine the order of the draft (starting at last place). Actually, I may have to start later to ensure GC and GWS are included.


Sorry to potentially muddy things but does this mock draft take place after the Brisbane Lions takeover?
 
Is it really necessary to take teams? I mean it's a complete redraft. The teams are kinda irrelevant. Just put all our names in the randomizer and use that order
 
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I'd love the Eagles again if okay?

I might take longer as I'll have to make out really comprehensive lists of player types/rankings
Deserve it mate. Great selections

I Still think if we get 20 people keen we add Tassie and Peel Thunder
 
Is it really necessary to take teams? I mean it's a complete redraft. The teams are kinda irrelevant. Just put all our names in the randomizer and use that order
DIsagree. It adds an element to draft to your club.
 

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Is it really necessary to take teams? I mean it's a complete redraft. The teams are kinda irrelevant. Just put all our names in the randomizer and use that order
I vote for randomisation as it appears it may actually unsettle a few of my competitors. ;)

Happy to take St Kilda to glory again too, of course.

And despite the points made by others I vote for '90's recruited players included (Pav, Goodes, Hird, Voss, Buckley, Enright, McLeod, Scarlett, Ricciuto, Hall, Boomer - how can we shut the door on these champions?) - but this appears an unpopular choice and I'm happy to participate in '00's onwards only.
 
Guardian Hawk with so many teams and so many rounds can we perhaps make a rule where we at least semi-routinely send in a list of preferred targets (in order), and after some sort of time limit the next player in line would automatically be selected?

4 rounds has taken 8-9 days but I fear some rounds further on would take even longer, so it could end up a 3 month project.

A round per day (guaranteed) would be ideal, that would set it at 3 weeks.
 
I vote for randomisation as it appears it may actually unsettle a few of my competitors. ;)

Happy to take St Kilda to glory again too, of course.

And despite the points made by others I vote for '90's recruited players included (Pav, Goodes, Hird, Voss, Buckley, Enright, McLeod, Scarlett, Ricciuto, Hall, Boomer - how can we shut the door on these champions?) - but this appears an unpopular choice and I'm happy to participate in '00's onwards only.
Happy to take Geelong and draft Trent Hentschell
 
Guardian Hawk with so many teams and so many rounds can we perhaps make a rule where we at least semi-routinely send in a list of preferred targets (in order), and after some sort of time limit the next player in line would automatically be selected?

4 rounds has taken 8-9 days but I fear some rounds further on would take even longer, so it could end up a 3 month project.

A round per day (guaranteed) would be ideal, that would set it at 3 weeks.
My thoughts. So for me at pick 12 I would pick 12 players in order. Although ill be around I think if we all do that we can have a timer and after the time you get your pre listed player.
 
Bartel is one of my favourite ever players and ultra versatile but there is no way that he was a better player than Mitchell.

Mitchell was far more consistently elite, week in week out, season in, season out. I mean, if you lined up the 10 best seasons between them, Mitchell would have at least 8 of the 10. Mitchell was a top 10 player in the league nearly every season for a decade whereas Bartel was at that level for 1-2 seasons.

Mitchell has nearly double the Brownlow votes Bartel does (Mitchell is top 3 all time and Bartel is not in the top 80). Mitchell finished top 2 in the Brownlow 3 times and Bartel finished top 12 once.

Mitchell won 5 best and fairests and Bartel won 0. In fact, Mitchell won the best and fairest more times than Bartel finished top 3.

Clarkson loved giving Coaches votes to role players which is why no Hawthorn player ever won the award under Clarko despite an era of dominance but even then, Mitchell has more than 300 Coaches votes more than Bartel (basically double).

Even Bartel's best feature (his performances in finals), Mitchell still probably trumps him. Mitchell easily won 'best finals player' in 2 of the threepeat years. Mitchell holds the record for most disposals in a finals series by a long way and when I last checked, had the highest disposal average (29) of any player in finals ever. Mitchell had 29+ touches and was BOG (or very close to) in 17 of his 26 finals, despite being the first tagged player (by the likes of Ling, Crowley, etc) in nearly every final where a hard tag was deployed (commonplace at the time). He was easily the key to stopping Hawthorn in September. Bartel had some amazing finals (including where he was used as the tagger and won a Norm Smith) but even then, no coach has used their best player as a tagger and Mitchell has more Norm Smith votes than Bartel does (18-13), having been very unlucky not to win it twice.

In this article (https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=HSWEB_WRE170_a_BIN&dest=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/herald-suns-top-25-afl-players-how-the-experts-voted-on-greatest-players-of-past-50-years/news-story/0a4455473c06ea9ee946bb43807989c1&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=HIGH-Segment-1-SCORE), a panel of expert judges all ranked their best players of the last 50 years. Sam Mitchell was voted the 23rd best of the last 50, whilst Bartel didn't receive a single vote.

? Ok bro...
 
GWS take Bradley Hill

Purple7x08_24
Fremantle: We have been on the lookout for an electric small forward with midfield capabilities to replace Lachie Scultz. We feel while Cyril has shown enormous potential we have found the perfect replacement where the ceiling can't hold his enormous talent; a talent where we are still yet to see his peak.

With that said. Fremantle select with pick 66.
 

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