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It's good clubs will be less able to use a stack of low picks to match/take elite talent. GC and other clubs have rorted that for years.

It will discourage pick trading though, which is one of our strengths.

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    • Demonland changed the title to 2025 New Academy & Father-Son Bidding & Points System
     
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    For 2024, the main changes will be:

    • Clubs having access from pick No.1 onwards for NGA prospects in a return to previous rules to align with northern Academy and the father-son bidding system. The AFL has prioritised this change, revealed by AFL.com.au last month, because it does not want to further see a decline in diverse and Indigenous talent.
    • The AFL will also continue to run its review on changing the NGA zones ahead of Tasmania's entrance into the game and the required eligibility and sign-up process for NGA draftees.
    • Free agency compensation picks will from now take into account contract length as a determining factor, however contracts less than two years, or more than five, will not be given any weight. The League will be more transparent with its free agency compensation formula using the year lengths of deals.
    • Clubs will be able to retain rookies for up to a maximum of five years, up from the current three years. This is to help give clubs more time to develop key position and taller talents as well as players from different backgrounds. Stipulations will mean the player cannot have played more than 10 games at the end of his fourth or fifth season to retain rookie status.
    • More flexibility in the drafting of father-son prospects as primary-listed players or rookie-listed players. Current rules mean clubs have to nominate before the national draft if a player will be a national or rookie father-son, with the tweak giving more scope to make decisions during the live draft.

    For 2025, the main changes will be:

    • The revised draft value index and bidding system will be introduced. The new DVI will make it harder for clubs to stockpile draft selections to match multiple bids on Academy and father-son selections.
    • As part of this, the 20 per cent points discount applied to matched bids will be reduced to 10 per cent. However, the AFL will continue to review this and assess whether it should apply to all or some of father-son, NGA and northern Academy players.
    • The new DVI will see points attached to only the first 54 picks (down from the current system of the first 73 picks). There will be more than 10,000 points shaved off the value of the next DVI.
    • Future trading of picks will be extended to two years in advance.

    For 2026, the main change will be:

    • Live trading will be introduced for the 2026 mid-season rookie draft, allowing clubs to move up and down in the order or trade into the draft using end of year selections.
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    35 minutes ago, Demonland said:

     

    Goddammit!

    Anyways, with the DVI changes not coming in till next year, there’s still a good opportunity to use our 2 picks in the 30’s and early 40’s pick to wrangle a first rounder out of one of those teams with f/s or academy players set to go in the 1st rd (looking at you Brisbane, GC and now Essendon).

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    20 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

    be interesting to see how highly rated tairon ah-mu and kalani white are in 2025 and how much it 'costs' us to get them

    Hopefully he'll be clear the GC that he going to us and they don't try to bid on him... 

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    From next year a new system will be introduced.  draft-bidding-revamp-and-future-pick-trades

    Broadly there is a scaling down of pick values and no points after ND 54 ie nominally end of round 3 (was ND 73)

    The smarter clubs will trade their 2025 4th round picks to clubs who need points this year because they will be next to useless in 2025.  This is especially so for mfc as Taylor rarely uses a pick after ND40.  Conversely, clubs who need points in 2025 will value 3rd round picks.

    It will be an interesting watch as to how the points changes affect the trading of 2025 picks.

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