Free Agency and the Australian Football League by Chris Davies, Justin Cook

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Optionality in Australian Football League draftee contracts. by Jemuel Chandrakumaran, Paul Larkin, Sam McIntosh, Sam Robertson

“…Within the Australian Football League (AFL) some have called for the increase of the initial draftee contract from two to three seasons, which further pushes the envelope on monopsony power. …”
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Valuing Australian football league draft picks by Jemuel Chandrakumaran, Mark Stewart, Preety Srivastava

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Valuing Australian football league draft picks. by Jemuel Chandrakumaran, Mark Stewart, Preety Srivastava

“…To ensure uncertainty in match outcomes, professional sporting leagues have used various competitive balance policies, including player salary caps, revenue sharing among teams and player drafts. The Australian Football League (AFL) introduced a player draft in 1986, and to refine its operation, a draft value index (DVI) was introduced in 2015. …”
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Optionality in Australian Football League draftee contracts by Jemuel Chandrakumaran, Paul Larkin, Sam McIntosh, Sam Robertson

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Preparing for an Australian Football League Women's League Season by Heidi Rose Thornton, Cameron R. Armstrong, Alex Rigby, Clare L. Minahan, Rich D. Johnston, Grant Malcolm Duthie

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Multifactorial Benchmarking of Longitudinal Player Performance in the Australian Football League by Sam McIntosh, Sam McIntosh, Stephanie Kovalchik, Sam Robertson, Sam Robertson

“…This study aimed to develop a model to objectively benchmark professional Australian Rules football (AF) player performance based on age, experience, positional role and both draft type and round in the Australian Football League (AFL). The secondary aims were to identify the stage of peak performance and specific breakpoints in AF player performance longitudinally. …”
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Managed Play: The Media’s Impact on Play in the Australian Football League by Duncan Samuel Keith

“…No industry has influenced the transformation of the Australian Football League (AFL) into a professional, commercial business more than the media. …”
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Competition parity and the Australian football league: 2000 – 2010 / Chris Davies by Davies, Chris

“…Like many professional leagues around the world, the Australian Football League (AFL) has implemented labour market controls in order to try and create a more even competition. …”
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Discovery and Characterisation of Forward Line Formations at Centre Bounces in the Australian Football League by Daylon Seakins, Paul B. Gastin, Karl Jackson, Matthew Gloster, Aaron Brougham, David L. Carey

“…Using player location data from all centre bounces in the 2021 Australian Football League season; this study described the spatial characteristics and roles of players in the forward line. …”
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AFLW and the gender gap: an analysis of public attitudes towards the Women’s Australian Football League by Mackenzie Rose Glazbrook, Stephanie Newton Webb

“…Objective The introduction of the Women’s Australian Football League (AFLW) has highlighted the inequality faced by women football players (e.g., season length), with the consumerism and fanbase of the women’s AFL lacking comparatively with the men’s league. …”
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Coaching legacies: influence propagation through temporal social networks in the Australian Football League by Gordana Marmulla, Geoff Dickson, Hagen Wäsche, Ulrik Brandes

“…We study the lineage network of coaches in the Australian Football League (AFL) using a novel process of influence propagation through temporal social networks. …”
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Anticipatory effects on side-step cutting biomechanics in Women’s Australian Football League players by Brett Johnson, Richard Page, Aaron Fox, Jason Bonacci, Stephen D Gill, Tess Rolley, Meghan Keast, Tom Reade, Julian Stella

“…Objectives Reactive side-step cutting manoeuvres are linked to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in Women’s Australian Football League (AFLW) matches. We explored knee joint moments and ground reaction forces (GRFs) in AFLW players when performing anticipated and unanticipated side-stepping.Methods Sixteen AFLW players (age=25.3±4.2 years; height=1.71±0.06 m; mass=68.4±4.7 kg) completed anticipated and unanticipated side-stepping trials during which full-body three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics were recorded. …”
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Physical characteristics of players within the Australian Football League participation pathways: a systematic review by Jade A. Z. Haycraft, Stephanie Kovalchik, David B. Pyne, Sam Robertson

“…Tests assessing physical characteristics are commonly used for talent identification; however, their ability to differentiate between players across the Australian Football League’s (AFL) participation pathway remains unclear. …”
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Case Report: An Application of Wellbeing Science for the Development of Adolescent High-Performance Athletes in the Australian Football League by Erin Hoare, Erin Hoare, Nicky Couston, Kate Hall, Kate Hall

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A Comparison between Australian Football League (AFL) Injuries in Australian Indigenous versus Non-indigenous Players by Jessica Orchard, John Orchard, Hugh Seward

“…The aim of this study was to review the Australian Football League (AFL) injury database to determine whether there were any injuries where indigenous players had different relative risks to non-indigenous players. …”
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Combine performance, draft position and playing position are poor predictors of player career outcomes in the Australian Football League. by Benjamin J Gogos, Paul Larkin, Jade A Z Haycraft, Neil French Collier, Sam Robertson

“…To determine the explanatory power of the Australian football league (AFL) draft combine, participants drafted between 1999-2016 (n = 1488) were assessed. …”
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Sports betting marketing during sporting events: a stadium and broadcast census of Australian Football League matches by Samantha Thomas, Sophie Lewis, Jenny Duong, Colin McLeod

“…Abstract Objective: Using Australian Football League (AFL) matches as a case study, we investigated the frequency, length and content of marketing strategies for sports betting during two specific settings: 1) at stadiums during four live matches; and 2) during eight televised broadcasts of matches. …”
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A Kickstart to Life: Australian Football League as a Medium for Promoting Lifeskills in Cape York Indigenous Communities by Maree Dinanthompson, Juanita Sellwood, Felicity Carless

“…Abstract This paper presents evidence collected from an evaluatory study of the Kickstart program conducted by Australian Football League (AFL) Cape York in far North Queensland. …”
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Pre-season body composition has minimal influence on in-season match availability, and match performance in female Australian Football League (AFLW) players by Callum J. McCaskie, Callum J. McCaskie, Marc Sim, Marc Sim, Robert U. Newton, Robert U. Newton, Jarryd Heasman, Brent Rogalski, Nicolas H. Hart, Nicolas H. Hart, Nicolas H. Hart, Nicolas H. Hart

“…This study examined the relationship between pre-season body composition, in-season match performance, and match availability in female players competing in the Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) competition. With the outlawing of body composition assessments as part of pre-draft player evaluations in the AFLW, this study seeks to examine whether this is justified. …”
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