Ultimate Footy News
The Hunch Report, round 12
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four R's Round 11
Rob Douth, Footy Prophet Already sitting comfortably atop the ladder, the Kangaroos further solidified their premiership credentials with a dominant win over the Tigers. Although Richmond have managed only four wins this year, they are still to be respected – particularly after their customary early season slump.
Cheer, cheer the red and the white
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet We're nearly halfway through the season and it is clear which players are fantasy champions this season, and which ones have failed to deliver.
The Hunch Report, round 11
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 10
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Ridiculous and Regrettable from round 10 of the AFL season.
Ultimate Footy player rankings: Heath a Shaw thing
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet North Melbourne continue to fly under the radar, even though they're undefeated, and GWS are up and about after another good win against quality opposition.
Ultimate Footy: The Round 10 Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Blue revival reflected in defensive supremacy
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet Two months into an AFL season full of twists, turns and surprises, have made it into one of the best in recent memory.
The Hunch Report, round 9
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round eight
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round eight of the AFL season.
Veteran defenders headline round eight rankings
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet Normality is restored in Round 8's set of fixtures, as we return to five games on Saturday and three games on Sunday, spreading our fantasy players out further across the weekend.
The Hunch Report, round eight
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs, to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round seven
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from Round 7 of the AFL season.
Ultimate Footy: Sydney ball magnets top rankings
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet We are already six rounds into the season and it seems fairly clear which players are reliable for our fantasy teams and who are the pretenders.
The Hunch report, round seven
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week the team at Footy Prophet casts its eye across the AFL's 18 clubs, to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round six
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round six of the season.
The Hunch Report, round six
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
The Four Rs, round five
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous form round five of the 2016 AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report, round five
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round four
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round four of the 2016 AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Round four rankings
Dem Panopoulos One of the most entertaining starts to an AFL season in recent memory has brought along some excellent fantasy scores for our teams. There have been a lot of high scorers over the first three rounds and our Footy Prophet Weekly Rankings will identify who will thrive in round four.
The Hunch Report, round four
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round three
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous of round three.
Four Rs, Round Two
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Ridiculous and Regrettable from Round Two of the AFL premiership season.
The Hunch Report, round three
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: The round one Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs for round one
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet Perhaps no club has had it as bad as the Dees over the past decade.
Bombers' defenders lead the way
Dem Panopoulos, Footy Prophet The 2016 season has finally arrived and it's full of blockbuster matches to kick off an exciting year in the AFL, giving us plenty of high-scoring fantasy options.
The Hunch Report, round one
Anthony WIngard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts an eye across each of the AFL’s 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs: NAB Challenge review
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Ridiculous and Regrettable from the 2016 pre-season competition.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report - NAB Challenge in review
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs – NAB Challenge #3
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The real footy is nearly here. As happy as we all are when pre-season footy starts, deep down we know it is not because we actually like pre-season footy. Nobody does. It is, solely and wholly, because we are getting closer to the real stuff.
The Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: The four Rs for the NAB Challenge
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Bombers have come under plenty of scrutiny over the pre-season, with many forecasting an ugly year for the red and the black. With the caveat that pre-season games are always to be taken with a grain of salt, Essendon's patchwork side put on an impressive performance in their 10-goal win over Carlton.
Ultimate Footy: The Week two NAB Challenge Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs - NAB Challenge
Jake Stringer has rapidly established himself as one of the game's brightest young stars, showing a unique ability to produce remarkable feats of skill and turn games seemingly at will.
The Hunch Report: NAB Challenge, week one
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs, NAB Challenge week one
Alex Paull, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Ridiculous and Regrettable from week one of the pre-season.
The Hunch Report: Pre-NAB Challenge edition
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs as pre-season kicks into gear
Alex Paull, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous of the AFL world on the eve of the NAB Challenge.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report – Pre-Season edition
Each week, the team at Footy Prophet cast a glance across each of the 18 AFL clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Bigger and better in 2016
Australia's premier fantasy sports game, Ultimate Footy, is back for another year. Brimming with new features and the best fantasy draft platform available, it promises to be the best season yet.
How will the Essendon suspensions affect Ultimate Footy?
Josh Elliott, Footy Prophet Tuesday's news that 34 past and present Essendon players – 17 of them still on AFL lists - have been banned for the 2016 season sent shockwaves throughout the AFL community.
AFL players lawsuit the stuff of fantasy
Daniel Cherny A lawsuit taken out on behalf of all NFL players against a fantasy-sports website is unlikely to be repeated in Australia, says an expert in the legality of sports betting.
Finding the fantasy gems after a frenetic trade period
Jamie Radford, Footy Prophet After almost two weeks of intense speculation, difficult negotiations and the odd controversy, at least 40 players will be lining up for different teams next season – the most since 1995.
Four Rs for Round 23
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet Between frequent injuries and a general form slump, he was nowhere near the lofty heights of last year until a late purple patch which saw him average nearly 140 points over the last six games.
Ultimate Footy: Rest causing unrest
Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
The Hunch Report, round 23
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 22
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous of round 22.
Footy Prophet: It's make or break in round 22
Josh Elliott, Footy Prophet The penultimate week of the fantasy season has arrived, and as always it's a big one. Maybe you're already in your grand final next week, maybe you're battling for a spot this week – maybe you're already out of the running.
Ultimate Footy: Rockliff showing the way yet again
Matt McGrath, Footy Prophet Tom Rockliff is Tom Rockliff again, and by that we mean he's the consensus No.1 fantasy player. The 2014 MVP is atop our midfield chart this week, after averaging over 130 points this past month.
The Hunch Report, round 22
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs, round 21
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 21 of the AFL season.
Ultimate Footy: Planning for success
John Feeney, Footy Prophet If you are in an Ultimate Footy dynasty league, you will no doubt be facing the same conundrum that Geelong faces at season's end – how many veterans are to be kept on your list?
The Hunch Report, round 21
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 20
Matthew James, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 20 of the 2015 AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Goldstein's magic run
Footy Prophet Ultimate Footy coaches were spoilt last week with a triple-treat of 155-point fantasy scores. Todd Goldstein, Dane Swan and Leigh Montagna all managed this monster total, helping their respective owners to crucial victories.
Ultimate Footy: The best and worst draft picks - in hindsight
Matt McGrath, Footy Prophet Just like the AFL, Ultimate Footy and its coaches undertake a vigorous and high-pressure draft prior to the commencement of every season. As with any group of talented players, there will always be some booms and busts when it comes to selections.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report, round 20
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Four Rs for Round 19
Alex Paull, Footy Prophet History was surely made in Round 19, when not one, not two, but three players produced 155 Ultimate Footy fantasy points each.
Ultimate Footy: The changing of the guard
Alex Paull Many Ultimate Footy coaches are gathering steam ahead of a finals tilt, but for others their thoughts will drift towards 2016 and, more importantly, the draft.
Ultimate Footy: Swan Dan is the man
Footy Prophet Finals start in many Ultimate Footy leagues this week, meaning it's do or die for our fantasy teams.
Ellis, Deledio lead Richmond charge
John Feeney, Footy Prophet Friday night's match was set to determine whether Richmond was going to be a contender for 2015, and in Richmond's win over Hawthorn two men led the way – Brandon Ellis and Brett Deledio.
Four Rs for Round 18
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Tiger bandwagon is growing rapidly and their triumph over the rampant Hawks will contribute significantly to that.
Ultimate Footy Round 18 preview
Josh Elliott, Footy Prophet There's no bigger worry for fantasy coaches right now than the position of Sydney's Tom Mitchell as we near fantasy finals.
The Hunch Report, round 18
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL’s 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
A who's who of free agency
Matt McGrath, Footy Prophet We've all been there before – it's part and parcel of the Ultimate Footy fantasy format that we know and love.
Four Rs for Round 17
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Doggies have been a revelation this season. Their outlook for the season was bleak.
Ultimate Footy: Marley and Me, Magpies defence repaying the faith
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet Marley & Me: Magpies defence repaying the faith
Fantasy coaches ride the bumps as finals draw near
Alex Paull, Footy Prophet The wares of AFL coaches weigh heavily on their fantasy counterparts, and while they devise a way to success, Ultimate Footy fantasy coaches hope against hope that it suggests a strong fantasy performance.
Ultimate Footy: Gold maintains value
Footy Prophet Todd Goldstein tore the Bombers to pieces last Friday night, proving he was more than deserving of our top ranking.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report, round 17
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance across each of the AFL’s 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Anything Nat Fyfe can do, Gary Ablett can do better
John Feeney, Footy Prophet The absence of Gary Ablett Jnr for most of this year has allowed others on the verge of stardom to have their time in the sun.
Ultimate Footy: Fours Rs, round 16
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 16 of the 2015 AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Goldstein a safe bet
Footy Prophet The biggest story in our rankings this week is at the ruck position.
The Hunch Report, round 16
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet The team at Footy Prophet casts a glance over each of the AFL’s 18 clubs to help coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Innocuous incident derails brilliant season
Matthew James, Footy Prophet I was sitting on the couch on Sunday afternoon, refreshing my Ultimate Footy app, when a significant fantasy and football event slipped by.
Four Rs for Round 14
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophert For years they were the top two players to own in Ultimate Footy: Gary Ablett and Dane Swan.
Ultimate Footy: We're confused, too
John Feeney, Footy Prophet Following Port Adelaide forward Jay Schulz being cleared for his tackle on Ted Richards, which knocked out the Sydney defender, was a subtle tweet by Carlton midfielder Bryce Gibbs — "I'm confused".
Four Rs for Round 14
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet Any doubts about Collingwood's youth policy have been well and truly allayed by now, with their spirited performance against the Hawks on Friday night one of their finest in 2015.
Byes navigated, now let's get serious
Josh Elliott, Footy Prophet With the treacherous bye rounds successful navigated, footy is finally back in the full-on sense and for the first time in nearly a month, Ultimate Footy coaches will have a full complement of players to choose from.
Ultimate Footy: Fantasy stalwarts still going strong
Footy Prophet We resume normal duties this week, with all 18 teams taking the field. This means we have a full complement to draw our rankings from, and there are some familiar names in the mix.
The Round 14 Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: Reaping rewards from big trades
Matt Palfreman, Footy Prophet When it comes to off-season player movement in the AFL you'd be hard pushed to pick a bigger
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 13
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 13 of the 2015 AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Bye round upsets balance but the sun might shine for some
Footy Prophet Our Ultimate Footy rankings are again depleted this week. With six teams on a bye and a further two in Fremantle and Collingwood playing on Thursday night, a number of usual top-five candidates are ineligible.
Ultimate Footy: The Hunch Report, round 13
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet runs an eye over the 18 clubs to benefit Ultimate Footy coaches and their teams.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 12
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 12 of the AFL premiership season.
Bye rounds throw up strange possibilities
Josh Elliott, Footy Prophet The bye rounds are always a little strange, and while that'll no doubt be the case again this weekend, we've also got some tantalising fantasy match-ups to look at.
Ultimate Footy: Lions and Doggies defenders stand out in a small crowd
Footy Prophet With Hawthorn and Adelaide having already played and a further six teams on a bye, our rankings this week can only draw from 10 AFL clubs.
The Round 12 Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
Ultimate Footy: The injury report
Matt McGrath, Footy Prophet Our footy heroes time and time again recover from injury to grace us with their football skill and fantasy contributions.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 11
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 11 of the AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Farewell Juddy
Conrad McDonald When champion Chris Judd announced his retirement earlier this week, it was not the way anyone would have liked it to happen. Judd's untimely ACL rupture on the weekend denied the public a chance to give Judd a victorious farewell.
Ultimate Footy: New faces get chance to star
Footy Prophet This week there are six teams on a bye, with star Hawks Jordan Lewis and Luke Hodge just some of the fantasy stars missing in action.
Ultimate Footy: The Round 11 Hunch Report
Anthony Wingard Each week, the team at Footy Prophet will cast a glance across each of the AFL's 18 clubs to help benefit coaches and their Ultimate Footy teams.
New coach helps Carlton fantasy spike
Matt Palfreman, Footy Prophet Footy and a public holiday, two ingredients for a perfect weekend.
Ultimate Footy: Four Rs, round 10
Rob Dauth, Footy Prophet The Right, wRong, Regrettable and Ridiculous from round 10 of the AFL premiership season.
Ultimate Footy: Duo’s prime-time ascendency
Anthony Wingard, Footy Prophet There's nothing better for an Ultimate Footy coach to hear that your star player won't be shut down by the opposition team. While taggers have an undoubted role to play in modern football, they are the bane of fantasy coaches, leeching the scoring output from the best prospects.
