It was a trick of the numbers that Billy Hartung's trailing fantasy rate is exactly the same as the baseline for midfielders in last year's draft kit, but it tells a story as he is the most average of players at this point, which is a clue as to why Hawthorn offloaded him and North picked him up. More than 80% of his possessions are uncontested, and his stat lines paint him as a poor man's Bradley Hill. The Roos got him for nothing, and what is Hartung worth above a replacement-level player? Well... let's not be too unfair to him, since he has breakaway speed which is an underappreciated asset for an AFL-level player and one that not a lot of them possess. The main knock on him is a lack of decision-making, but how hard is it to just bomb it to big Ben Brown? He should go at the end of your draft just like he did last November.
Billy, please lose that number
It was a trick of the numbers that Billy Hartung's trailing fantasy rate is exactly the same as the baseline for midfielders in last year's draft kit, but it tells a story as he is the most average of players at this point, which is a clue as to why Hawthorn offloaded him and North picked him up. More than 80% of his possessions are uncontested, and his stat lines paint him as a poor man's Bradley Hill. The Roos got him for nothing, and what is Hartung worth above a replacement-level player? Well... let's not be too unfair to him, since he has breakaway speed which is an underappreciated asset for an AFL-level player and one that not a lot of them possess. The main knock on him is a lack of decision-making, but how hard is it to just bomb it to big Ben Brown? He should go at the end of your draft just like he did last November.
