The Registry Called Sell on Bradley Hill in Round 12. He Scored 98 in a Two-Point Thriller. Now It's Calling Buy.

A player averaging 47 against a 59 BE just posted 98 in the highest-pressure game of Round 13. Is one ceiling score enough to act on?

Bradley Hill had one of the better mid-season stories in the competition until Round 9. Four straight 100s — 102, 106, 103, 106 — from Rounds 6 to 9 had him sitting at $465k-ish as a genuine lock. Then came a 36-point blowout against Richmond and a rotation-induced 47. Three rounds later, the registry had called sell. Most coaches had moved on.

Then he went 98 in a two-point thriller at the SCG.

Was the Round 12 Sell Call Right?

Yes and no.

The sell verdict was defensible on the numbers: a season average of 47 against a 59 BE at $394.8k is a genuinely bad place to be. Cash gen had basically flatlined at $129/wk. If you'd been holding from the $465k peak, you'd already bled $70k with nothing to show for it across three rounds.

Where the call gets complicated is timing. By Round 12, Hill was already at $394.8k — the same price he'd been sitting at for two rounds. Selling at $395k-ish in R12 gives you the same exit as selling in R11. The sell call arrived at the same price coaches could have acted on a round earlier.

That's not an argument against selling. It's an argument for moving faster when the signal flips to hold.

What the 98 in Round 13 Actually Means

Not all 98s are the same. A 98 in a 40-point blowout where the game is done by quarter time tells you almost nothing. A 98 in a 2-point thriller at the SCG is an honest number — midfielders don't accumulate that kind of output in a genuine contest without earning it disposal by disposal.

The registry's read on the R13 flip: this is the ceiling showing itself again. The R6–R9 run wasn't a hot streak that arrived from nowhere — it was a player in form doing what a player in form does. The R10 miss tracked to rotation in garbage time (Hill played reduced minutes with the game done by Q3 against a weak Richmond side). R11 and R12 weren't form collapses — 68 and 68, clearing his BE both times, just not by enough to reverse the price bleed.

One 98 in the highest-pressure game of the round reopens the conversation.

Should You Be Buying Hill at $394k?

Here's the actual SC math.

At $394.8k, Hill is $70k below his Round 9 peak. His BE of 59 means he needs to average 59-plus from here to stop the price bleeding. Cash gen at $464/wk is positive but slow — nowhere near the $3k+/wk he was generating during the hot streak.

The buy case: If Round 13 is the first of a genuine form return — and the R6–9 run shows what "form" means for Hill — then $394.8k is $70k cheaper than where most coaches bought in. The ceiling is proven. The entry price is better.

The caution: His season average is still 47. One 98 doesn't move that needle quickly. At $464/wk cash gen, meaningful price appreciation is weeks away even in the best case. And there's no community thread driving a buy call — this is a registry call based on one performance.

For me it's a hold-and-watch rather than an immediate buy. Back it up with 85-plus in Round 14 and the window is real — you'd be entering below his R12 sell price with confirmed form. But if he posts 55 in a home loss next week, you've missed nothing.

The ceiling's there. It showed again in Round 13. Wait for it to show twice before you commit.

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Updated: 4 July 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.

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Hill's already in the registry. If you want to see his current BE trajectory, ownership trend, and what the registry is saying about his R14 outlook — his profile has it. Pre-briefed. Opinionated. The more you challenge it, the sharper it gets.