The AFL Can Finally Find Its Own Stuff
There are 42 pages on the AFL site and, until today, exactly one way to reach most of them: remember they exist. The magnifying glass in the header now opens a searchable index of every one — type "bracket", "keeper", "who owns" and it surfaces.
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The League has had a search page for a year. The AFL has had a nav drawer and a good memory. That was fine when there were a dozen pages; there are now 42, and the honest truth is that some of the best ones — the pecking order, the schedule strength report, the head-to-head rivalries — were effectively invisible unless someone linked you.
So the magnifying glass is now in the AFL header too, on every page, right where it is on the other site. It opens a card for every page the AFL has, each with its own description and tags. Type a word and it filters as you go — by title, by description, by tag, by category — and it sorts what is left by how much people actually use it. You do not have to know what a page is called. "Money", "bracket", "trade", "who won in 2014" all land somewhere sensible.
The five chips across the top — Popular, My Team, Reports, Tools, Info — filter without typing anything, which is the better move when you are browsing rather than hunting. And the “All pages” link on the AFL homepage now goes here instead of bouncing you back to the homepage you were already on.
One thing it will never do is show you TheLeague's pages. The page index is a single shared list across both sites, so the AFL's copy is scoped to AFL routes only — no contracts, no salary cap, no dead money, none of the things this league does not have. What you see is what you can click.
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