Pick 73

[The Hitman]

I was doing some research today for a previe I'm writing on next year's AFL season, when I was looking at some trades and the draft just gone.

One thing stood out to me, though, and I want to know if I'm going crazy, I have missed or forgotten something, or I am onto something.

On the AFL website and on the complete trade thread from this board, it says that Carlton traded pick 73 to Fremantle for Troy Longmuir. However, Carlton picked up Chris Bryan with pick 73, and I can't see trade that saw pick 73 go back to the Blues.

What the hell has happened to pick 73? What pick did Carlton really trade to Freo?

The Hitman

 

[BlueBoy83]

I was doing some research today for a previe I'm writing on next year's AFL season, when I was looking at some trades and the draft just gone.

One thing stood out to me, though, and I want to know if I'm going crazy, I have missed or forgotten something, or I am onto something.

On the AFL website and on the complete trade thread from this board, it says that Carlton traded pick 73 to Fremantle for Troy Longmuir. However, Carlton picked up Chris Bryan with pick 73, and I can't see trade that saw pick 73 go back to the Blues.

What the hell has happened to pick 73? What pick did Carlton really trade to Freo?

The Hitman

we traded our 5th round selection i think pick 73 to freo ...

but cos teams passed etc or were out of picks our 6th round pick 89 maybe was shifted to 73.

had we kept our original pick 73 it would have converted to 67 i think.

cos pick 73 was 6th round 77 7th round and 78 (which we passed on) 8th round ... we had more spots than most cos we delisted so many.

 

[theorangeapple]

well u cant trade for a pick and not use it so the only logical explaination is clubs that only had minimal selections in the draft (ie 3) caused pick 75 to become 69.

 

[The Hitman]

Thanks to The Doctor for explaining it over MSN.

Because trading occured before most of the delistings, the draft order at time of trading as assumed. When some clubs didn't delist many players or traded more picks than they received players, those clubs who had picks after the assumed picks of the clubs who didn't delist enough players or traded more picks than players received move up the order.

That explains why Fremantle used pick 69, but passed on 75, because you can't pass on a pick you traded for.

Phew... it's been a long day.

The Hitman

 

[DaveW]

Mmmm, yeah.

Perhaps in draft week it would be more correct to say:

Fremantle
gained: Carlton's natural 5th round draft pick
lost: Troy Longmuir

et cetera


Either that, or stop changing the numbers of the picks. The 6th round would look something like this:

84. Richmond: Pass
85. Hawthorn: n/a
86. Western Bulldogs: n/a

et cetera