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.

2. Patrick Cripps - GWS (Originally: Pick 13, Carlton)

Most footy fans would agree that this change would hurt the competition, removing a Brownlow medallist from the most discussed team in the AFL and placing him in an expansion club.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 29: Patrick Cripps of the Blues runs with the ball during the 2023 AFL Round 07 match between the West Coast Eagles and the Carlton Blues at Optus Stadium on April 29, 2023 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Carson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

It may hurt, but for Cripps, his chances of reaching premiership success drastically improve, joining a stacked list with superstars on all lines and a fellow generational talent taken at Pick 1 in this redraft.

This change alone is probably enough to flip the result of the 2016 preliminary final between GWS and the Western Bulldogs, shockingly giving us a Sydney derby at the MCG as the decider.

As for Cripps' Brownlow Medal chances, it's hard to conclude whether his chances are worsened, given the excessive talent by his side, or better, given the likely top four finishes and winning seasons.