| 1996 Trade for Mick McGuane | |||
| Carlton | McGuane (3 games) | expected 23 |
actual 3 |
| Collingwood | #19 (Tuckey - 22 games) + #65 (Cassidy - 2 games) | expected 81 |
actual 24 |
| 1996 Trade for Simon Minton-Connell | |||
| Hawthorn | #29 (Turvey - 10 games) | expected 46 |
actual 10 |
| Western Bulldogs | Minton-Connell (25 games) | expected 39 |
actual 25 |
| 1996 Trade for Scott Cummings | |||
| Essendon | #5 (McAlister - 6 games) + #28 (Johnson - 184 games) | expected 174 |
actual 190 |
| Port Adelaide | Cummings (37 games) | expected 23 |
actual 37 |
| 1996 Trade for Barry Standfield | |||
| Adelaide | Standfield (13 games) | expected 23 |
actual 13 |
| Western Bulldogs | #32 (Plunkett - 47 games) + #47 (Montgomery - 204 games) | expected 58 |
actual 251 |
| 1996 Trade for Troy Gray | |||
| St Kilda | Gray (9 games) | expected 20 |
actual 9 |
| Sydney | #34 (Corcoran - 2 games) | expected 39 |
actual 2 |
| 1996 Trade for John Barnett | |||
| Collingwood | Barnett (8 games) | expected 72 |
actual 8 |
| North Melbourne | #70 (Hay - 0 games) | expected 5 |
actual 0 |
| 1996 Trade for Trent Ormond-Allen | |||
| Adelaide | Ormond-Allen (42 games) | expected 151 |
actual 42 |
| Melbourne | #83 (Gehling - 0 games) | expected 8 |
actual 0 |
| 1996 Trade for Shayne Breuer, Cameron Roberts and Hamish Simpson | |||
| Geelong | Roberts (11 games) + Simpson (18 games) + #8 (Brockman - 12 games) + #43 (Corrigan - 53 games) | expected 298 |
actual 94 |
| Port Adelaide | Breuer (54 games) + #37 (Kingsley - 170 games) | expected 77 |
actual 224 |
| 1996 Trade for Trent Nichols | |||
| North Melbourne | #50 (McCormick - 0 games) | expected 17 |
actual 0 |
| Richmond | Nichols (19 games) | expected 39 |
actual 19 |
| 1996 Trade for Shane Bond and Brayden Lyle | |||
| Port Adelaide | Bond (57 games) + Lyle (90 games) | expected 43 |
actual 147 |
| West Coast | #57 (Cummings - 2 games) | expected 14 |
actual 2 |
| 1996 Trade for Richard Osborne | |||
| Collingwood | Osborne (29 games) | expected 19 |
actual 29 |
| Western Bulldogs | #61 (Powell - 142 games) | expected 13 |
actual 142 |
| 1996 Trade for Tim Cook, Scott Hodges and Aaron Keating | |||
| Adelaide | Cook (8 games) + Keating (6 games) | expected 148 |
actual 14 |
| Port Adelaide | Hodges (0 games) | expected 28 |
actual 0 |
| 1996 Trade for Tim Hargreaves and Aaron Lord | |||
| Geelong | Hargreaves (20 games) | expected 14 |
actual 20 |
| Hawthorn | Lord (93 games) | expected 14 |
actual 93 |
| 1996 Trade for Mark Orchard, Anthony Rocca and Ben Wilson | |||
| Collingwood | Rocca (220 games) | expected 157 |
actual 220 |
| Sydney | Orchard (41 games) + Wilson (4 games) + #14 (O'Farrell - 21 games) + #33 (Sangster - 2 games) | expected 295 |
actual 68 |
| 1996 Trade for Andrew Balkwill, Brent Heaver and Ben Nelson | |||
| Carlton | Balkwill (1 games) + Nelson (40 games) | expected 153 |
actual 41 |
| Port Adelaide | Heaver (16 games) | expected 23 |
actual 16 |
| 1996 Trade for Brett James and Jonathon Ross | |||
| Adelaide | James (76 games) | expected 29 |
actual 76 |
| Collingwood | Ross (0 games) | expected 23 |
actual 0 |
| 1996 Trade for Nick Pesch and Clay Sampson | |||
| Adelaide | Sampson (24 games) | expected 16 |
actual 24 |
| Melbourne | Pesch (4 games) | expected 23 |
actual 4 |
| 1996 Trade for David Brown and Nick Laidlaw | |||
| Adelaide | Laidlaw (0 games) | expected 77 |
actual 0 |
| Port Adelaide | Brown (22 games) | expected 39 |
actual 22 |
| 1996 Trade for Justin Crawford and David McEwan | |||
| Hawthorn | Crawford (29 games) | expected 76 |
actual 29 |
| Sydney | McEwan (0 games) + #17 (Warfe - 84 games) | expected 147 |
actual 84 |
| 1996 Trade for Ilija Grgic and Luke Trew | |||
| West Coast | Grgic (23 games) | expected 21 |
actual 23 |
| Western Bulldogs | Trew (0 games) + #20 (Dent - 71 games) | expected 146 |
actual 71 |
| 1996 Trade for Paul Geister, Kent Kingsley and Wade Kingsley | |||
| North Melbourne | Kingsley (12 games) + Kingsley (0 games) | expected 154 |
actual 12 |
| Port Adelaide | Geister (1 games) | expected 38 |
actual 1 |
| 1996 Trade for Matthew Primus | |||
| Brisbane | #3 (Hilton - 91 games) + #26 (Notting - 208 games) | expected 219 |
actual 299 |
| Port Adelaide | Primus (137 games) | expected 138 |
actual 137 |
| 1996 Trade for Ian Downsborough | |||
| Port Adelaide | Downsborough (7 games) | expected 52 |
actual 7 |
| West Coast | #1 (Gardiner - 181 games) + #24 (Wooden - 96 games) | expected 277 |
actual 277 |
| 1996 Trade for Gavin Wanganeen | |||
| Essendon | #2 (Heffernan - 170 games) + #25 (Bomford - 28 games) | expected 247 |
actual 198 |
| Port Adelaide | Wanganeen (173 games) | expected 29 |
actual 173 |
| 1996 Trade for Adam Heuskes | |||
| Port Adelaide | Heuskes (37 games) | expected 151 |
actual 37 |
| Sydney | #4 (Kinnear - 6 games) + #27 (Cook - 193 games) | expected 196 |
actual 199 |