{"id":266895,"date":"2025-11-06T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:40:32","slug":"explaining-the-afl-draft-academies-father-son-bids-points-eligibility-pick-swaps-rookie-lists-and-more-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266895\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the AFL Draft: Academies, father-son, bids, points, eligibility, pick swaps, rookie lists and more! &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> making constant changes to how the draft works, we&#8217;ve looked to break down all of the mechanisms&#8217; intricacies and more ahead of this month&#8217;s count.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve looked to find answers to all kinds of draft-related questions, including all of the below:<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between a Northern Academy and a Next Generation Academy?<br \/>\nWho is eligible for Northern and Next Generation Academies?<br \/>\nWho is eligible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/afl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL Draft<\/a>?<br \/>\nWhat are draft points?<br \/>\nHow does father-son and Academy bidding work?<br \/>\nWhy are veteran players being placed on the rookie list?<br \/>\nHow is the draft order decided, and why does it change?<br \/>\nCan clubs swap picks, and when can they swap picks?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s a category B rookie?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the difference between the National, Pre-Season and Rookie Drafts?<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the full video of our draft explainer below, or head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ZeroHangerAFL\/videos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zero Hanger&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a> for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; With the AFL making constant changes to how the draft works, we&#8217;ve looked to break down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-266895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}