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.

16. Daniel McStay - Fremantle (Originally: Pick 25, Brisbane)

This is the player Fremantle are searching for on their current list, and in this re-do they draft the eventual replacement for the soon-to-be-retired Matthew Pavlich.

A young Dan McStay will eventually back-up Matt Taberner and Jye Amiss in the distant future, improving a forward line severely lacking key targets.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 10: Daniel McStay of the Lions handballs during the round 12 AFL match between the Brisbane Lions and the Fremantle Dockers at The Gabba on June 10, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

This change probably doesn't impact future results like the 2015 prelim or the 2022 semi-final, but it gives Justin Longmuir much more to work with entering 2024, adding a capable clunker with goal-per-game potential.