Sport / Melbourne, VIC

Swans make ‘best and fairest’ call on banned players

The Age Andrew Wu

25 Sept 2026 14:57 AEST Summary

Sport AFL

Changed after publishing · 1 edit

25 Sept 2026 15:34 AEST the headline was changed: ~~Banned~~ Swans ~~eligible to win~~ make ‘best and fairest’ ~~but won’t be there to accept it if they do~~call on banned players

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From the report

The Swans have opted against scrubbing any of their five suspended players from claiming the club’s best and fairest award.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 14 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

best2fairest2players2

Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 30 unattributednamed sources Mood 52.6 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The Age Swans make ‘best and fairest’ call on banned players plain
The West Australian Suspended Swans in running for club best-and-fairest plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday, The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The Ageas they published this story	14

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The same event elsewhere

4 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

Brisbane Times Swans make ‘best and fairest’ call on banned players Niral 14 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Swans make ‘best and fairest’ call on banned players Niral 10.4 political 0 WAtoday Swans make ‘best and fairest’ call on banned players Niral 10.4 political 0 The West Australian Suspended Swans in running for club best-and-fairest Niral 5.4 political 0