The 2013 draft features perhaps the best top-end talent of any count since 2010.

The top three selections of this re-draft astonishingly hold well over 400 Brownlow votes between them, accompanied by multiple All-Australians and top-tier awards including a Brownlow Medal and premiership medallions.

Hindsight updates to this draft create a plethora of exciting changes and strange fits, and you can decide whether your club benefits or goes backwards.

But first, here is the original first round of picks:

  1. Tom Boyd (GWS)
  2. Josh Kelly (GWS)
  3. Jack Billings (St Kilda)
  4. Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
  5. Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
  6. Matt Scharenberg (Collingwood)
  7. James Aish (Brisbane)
  8. Luke McDonald (North Melbourne)ย f/s
  9. Christian Salem (Melbourne)
  10. Nathan Freeman (Collingwood)
  11. Dom Sheed (West Coast)
  12. Ben Lennon (Ben Lennon)
  13. Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
  14. Cam McCarthy (GWS)
  15. Zak Jones (Sydney)
  16. Darcy Lang (Geelong)
  17. Michael Apeness (Fremantle)
  18. Luke Dunstan (St Kilda)
  19. Blake Acres (St Kilda)
  20. Jack Leslie (Gold Coast)

Note: All matched bids for Academy and Next Generation Academy prospects in this re-draft are based on what we know about how those players' careers have panned out, to date.

7. Aliir Aliir - Brisbane (Originally: Pick 44, Sydney)

This change significantly lifts Brisbane's premiership credentials in their window from 2019 onwards.

In a side that has lost big finals thanks in part to a lacklustre defence, the addition of Aliir Aliir alongside Harris Andrews and Brandon Starcevich leaves Brisbane's list without an exploitable hole.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 08: Aliir Aliir of Port Adelaide celebrates at full time during the round four AFL match between Sydney Swans and Port Adelaide Power at Sydney Cricket Ground, on April 08, 2023, in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/AFL Photos/via Getty Images )

He becomes a secondary intercepter behind Andrews, who can thrive in the air with the confidence of having Aliir there to support.

This list change is likely the difference in the 2023 Grand Final, but could even change the fortunes of their previous seasons, having bowed out narrowly to the Bulldogs in 2021, the Giants in 2019 and the Cats in the 2020 prelim.