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Sideways movement for most teams this week, but not Geelong! The Cats had a great week by disposing of West Coast by 44 points and revealing some attacking power in the process. That’s enough to edge them out in front of that big pack of flag contenders, to become the #1 team as measured by H&A form. Just.

This puts a bit of a sour note on what should have been a pretty good week for the Hawks, since they did better than most of their rivals, except for Geelong. That’s their least favourite one!

Melbourne gained a lot of ground by delivering an away thumping of Gold Coast. After a promising start, the Suns are sliding back to where they started the year. So too North, although their starting position is a lot better. The close wins are suspicious, though. With just a little bad luck, North could be 5-2 or even 4-3 instead of 7-0.

St. Kilda continue to squiggle in a different direction every week. Their 2016 looks like a console cheat code: UP-DOWN-UP-RIGHT-LEFT-UP-RIGHT.

And Sydney just keep getting it done. Their 2016 movement has been slow but it’s a pretty good trend.

And Richmond almost had their first positive game of the year! ALMOST. Luckily the bar will soon be so low they won’t be able to help tripping over it.

Also the attacking bias of 2016 is still there. Average scores are about 57 Attack and 55 Defence, while this time last year it was the other way around: 55 Attack and 57 Defence.

Ladder Predictor! The Top 8 are still so close it’s a bit of a raffle to separate them, although Geelong are getting snug up the top there.

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Flagpole! The Cats still have a bit to prove here (although if they keep up current form, that won’t take long). That’s because historically, teams don’t improve from 10th to 1st very often. So this algorithm is still backing teams with a longer history of being able to hand out shellackings.

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