2016 mock draft – final edition

The final edition of my full mock draft is here.

Ahead of one of the biggest days on the football calendar, every 18-year-old around the country is looking for his shot at the biggest game in Australia.

I have completed this mock draft with the academy bidding system and each team’s needs in mind.

The academy system and the rules of the draft are complex, so I have written down a few tips that will help you understand this mock draft.

Any club can bid on any academy player.

The club that the academy player is with then has a choice to match the bid or leave it to the club that has bid on that player. If the academy club chooses to ‘match’ the bid, then they will need to use a certain amount of ‘points’ to match the clubs bid. The club that bid then gets the next pick in the draft. Simple right?

When an academy club matches an offer, they are obliged to use their next pick, and if required, their next available pick after that. For instance, they cannot use their first and fourth round picks to match an offer.

There is a 20 per cent discount on academy kids and father-son picks in the first round. After that, there is a 197 point subtraction on points.

Clubs usually won’t take their own academy or father-son selections because of the 20 per cent discount on points. However, they will take their own father-sons or academy kids if they have fewer points left, to avoid being in deficit.

Teams with mid-range picks will bid on academy kids to move their own mid-range picks up the order.

All clubs must pick at least three players.

In this draft, a lot of picks look out of place. This is because if a club has left over points while matching a bid on a player then their amount of leftover points will slot into where it should belong in the draft.

Once again I must note that this is done on what each team needs, not randomly.

Below are the academy picks. Enjoy.

Academy and father-son bids
Pick 3 – Brisbane Lions bid on Jack Bowes – matched with pick 4
Pick 11 – North Melbourne bid on Will Setterfield – matched with pick 13
Pick 14 – Adelaide bid on Harry Perryman – matched with picks 37, 38, 45
Pick 25 – Geelong bid on Zachary Sproule – matched with picks 53, 56, 58
Pick 28 – Western Bulldogs bid on Harrison Macreadie bid – not matched by GWS
Pick 29 – Richmond bid on Kobe Mutch – not matched by GWS
Pick 31 – Essendon bid on Callum Brown – matched with picks 44, 51
Pick 41 – Fremantle bid on Brad Scheer – matched with pick 52
Pick 63 – Essendon bid on Lachlan Tizani – not matched by GWS
Pick 67 – Geelong bid on Ryan Garthwaite – not matched by GWS

Round one
1. ESS – Hugh McCluggage
2. GWS – Andrew McGrath
3. GCFC – Jack Bowes
4. BL – Ben Ainsworth
5. CARL – Sam Petrevski Seton
6. GCFC – Will Brodie
7. FREM – Griffin Logue
8. GCFC – Tim Taranto
9. SYD – Jarrod Berry
10. GCFC – Tim English
11. GWS – Will Setterfield
12. NMFC – Jack Scrimshaw
13. WC – Jy Simpkin
14. GWS – Harry Perryman
15. ADEL – Will Hayward
16. PORT – Josh Battle
17. BL – Oliver Florent
18. PORT – Alex Witherden
19. WB – Todd Marshall
20. SYD – Cedric Cox

Round two
21. ESS – Sam Powell Pepper
22. BL – Daniel Venables
23. BL – Brennan Cox
24. STK – Shai Bolton
25. GWS – Zachary Sproule
26. GEEL – Jordan Ridley
27. CARL – Patrick Kerr
28. WB – Harrison Macreadie (GWS don’t match bid)
29. RICH – Kobe Mutch (GWS don’t match bid)
30. COLL – Jordan Gallucci
31. COLL – Callum Brown
32. ESS – Jonty Scharenberg
33. PORT – Sam Walker
34. PORT – Jack Maibum
35. NMFC – Dylan Clarke
36. NMFC – Luke Ryan
37. WC – Jake Waterman
38. FREM – Ben Long
39. STK – Isaac Cumming
40. GEEL – Sam Walker
41. GCFC – Brad Scheer
42. FREM – Zac Fisher

Round three
43. ESS – Brandon Parfitt
44. GEEL – Jack Graham
45. ADEL- Jamie Hampton
46. SYD – Kym LeBois
47. MELB – Willem Drew
48. GWS – Isaac Cumming
49. CARL – Taylin Duman
50. SYD – Joe Atley
51. WB – Tony Olango
54. ADEL – Ben Jarman
55. WC – Josh Rotham
56. RICH – Hamish Brayshaw

Round four
57. COLL – Josh Daicos
58. STK – Josh Begley
59. COLL – Max Lynch
60. CARL – Sam McLarty
61. GEEL – Myles Poholke
62. ADEL – Ben Ronke
63. ESS – Lachlan Tizani (GWS don’t match bid)
64. MELB – Patrick Lipinski
65. FREM – Matt Guelfi
66. GEEL – Tom Williamson
67. GEEL – Ryan Garthwaite (GWS don’t match bid)
68. BL – Jacob Allison

Round five
69. RICH – Brodie Romensky
70. CARL – Josh Williams
71. MELB – Jake Pitman
72. CARL – Connor Noonan
73. STK – Judah Dundon
74. HAW – Esava Ratugolea

Round six
75. ADEL – Arie Sarkenson
76. HAW – Mitchell Hinge
77. GEEL – Elliot Himmelberg
78. NMFC – Oliver Hanrahan
79. RICH – Jeremy Goddard
80. MELB – Reece Piper
81. STK – Harrison Burt

Round seven
82. WC – Tyson Stengle
83. HAW – Corey Lyons

Any thoughts, questions or queries? Be sure to leave them below!