Pick Ownership Data — Sourced from the official AFL Future Picks page published by the AFL. This is the authoritative record of which club holds each future draft pick, including traded picks and conditional holdings.
Capture Pipeline — The AFL Future Picks page is rendered and captured every 6 hours via a self-hosted Crawl4AI service. Each capture snapshot is stored as evidence in a movement-candidates ledger.
Review Gate — Raw captures are not applied directly. A human reviewer compares each capture against the previous snapshot, verifies changes against known trade announcements, and approves or rejects the update before it enters the canonical pick ledger.
Draft Order Projection — The predicted draft order uses Squiggle's reverse final home-and-away ladder projection for the current season to assign finishing positions, which determine base pick order. Caveat: this is a projection only — the actual ladder is not final until the H&A season concludes. The projection does not account for future free-agency compensation picks, academy or father-son bid matching, or unannounced future trade considerations.
Future Years (Round-Level) — For future seasons (2027, 2028), pick data is available at round-level granularity only. Individual pick numbers are assigned when the season's final ladder is known. All 72 picks (18 clubs × 4 rounds) for each future year are included when available.
Status Definitions
● Confirmed — The pick holding has been ratified by the AFL and appears on the official future picks register.
● Provisional — A trade or condition has been agreed in principle but awaits AFL sign-off or a pending trigger.
● Hypothetical — A speculative placement based on media reporting, list-need analysis, or trade-period conjecture. Not yet lodged with the AFL.
Source & Generated Timestamp — Each data payload includes a source field identifying the capture run and a generatedAt ISO-8601 UTC timestamp displayed in the header.
Upcoming: Player Directory — A player directory is in development. The methodology will cross-reference the official AFL Free Agency list (published annually by the AFL) with each club's primary listed roster and 2026 season senior appearances. Contract status will be marked as known (under contract, restricted free agent, unrestricted free agent, delisted) or unknown where a contract length is not publicly reported. Data sources: official AFL free agency list, club primary lists, and season-appearance records.