We’ve all made a big error of some kind this year, what’s yours?
Mine is starting Andrew Brayshaw, rage trading him to Ben Long after round 1 (who looked very fantasy relevant on a HBF after that game), only for him to put up a few stinker scores and then be suspended, traded Long to Simpkin who went down hill from that point onward, meanwhile Brayshaw being a fantasy monster the last 10 weeks.... now he will probably find his way back into my team this week. 3 trades and a lot of points lost out of it. Likely would have had me sitting comfortably in the top 100 overall rather than 3000ish.
Learning curve: be confident in your initial starting team and give them at least 5 weeks and only trade if injured.
Traded out Crisp for Hurn after round 1. I mean Crisp hasn’t been amazing but Hurn has been god damn diabolically bad.
Heaps of errors to many to list but as soon as this season looked like it was going to be far from normal I decided to have some fun and take some risks , not going to worry to much about that just hope it returns to normal next year.
Yep, traded out Brayshaw after 1 round.
Starting SC this year
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 10:48:25 AM
Yep, traded out Brayshaw after 1 round.
This week I also had to trade early so brought Tobe Watson in...then I had to trade him to Sholl... >:(
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 11:46:13 AM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 10:48:25 AM
Yep, traded out Brayshaw after 1 round.
This week I also had to trade early so brought Tobe Watson in...then I had to trade him to Sholl... >:(
Didn’t someone clarify in a seperate thread that this only registered as a single trade rather than 2?
Quote from: bkimm32 on August 11, 2020, 12:21:24 PM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 11:46:13 AM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 10:48:25 AM
Yep, traded out Brayshaw after 1 round.
This week I also had to trade early so brought Tobe Watson in...then I had to trade him to Sholl... >:(
Didn’t someone clarify in a seperate thread that this only registered as a single trade rather than 2?
Well I'm down 2 trades for the round so no... :'(
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 12:28:35 PM
Quote from: bkimm32 on August 11, 2020, 12:21:24 PM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 11:46:13 AM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 11, 2020, 10:48:25 AM
Yep, traded out Brayshaw after 1 round.
This week I also had to trade early so brought Tobe Watson in...then I had to trade him to Sholl... >:(
Didn’t someone clarify in a seperate thread that this only registered as a single trade rather than 2?
Well I'm down 2 trades for the round so no... :'(
Hang on, I think you might be right actually! I've used 3 trades including that one but it still shows 1 trade left! :o ;D
Brayshaw for me as well, although in fairness up until Rd.5 I was happy with the trade. I traded him to Bewley which made 130K and they had scored roughly the same total points after 4 rounds. Then Fyfe got injured and the rest is history.
Picking Hill over Serong in Rd.5 didn't turn out too well.
Also, bringing in Sturt in Rd.3, trading him out Rd.4, then watching him pump out a big score in Rd.5 was a bit of a debacle.
Now I look at it, there seems to be a common theme here.....
Quote from: Rusty00 on August 11, 2020, 12:41:23 PM
Brayshaw for me as well, although in fairness up until Rd.5 I was happy with the trade. I traded him to Bewley which made 130K and they had scored roughly the same total points after 4 rounds. Then Fyfe got injured and the rest is history.
Picking Hill over Serong in Rd.5 didn't turn out too well.
Also, bringing in Sturt in Rd.3, trading him out Rd.4, then watching him pump out a big score in Rd.5 was a bit of a debacle.
Now I look at it, there seems to be a common theme here.....
I think a lot of people who have got flowered around in the Sturt fiasco lol I certainly did. Still riding my pine.
It would be out of:
1) Starting MacPherson and then trading him for Long, or;
2) Getting Gawn in a few weeks ago at his peak price.
I still have Brayshaw and I also kept Doedee, which helps.
I'm another 'Brayshaw trader', which was only a bad move in hindsight now.
Traded him to Wingard, who had a massive start to the season, so the trade was looking great. Rocketed me up into the top 100, but have since crashed and burned.
This year has been such a strange one, it's hard to take anything too seriously.
Yeah i'm another Brayshaw trader.
Its all because we had the 5 trades after round 1, otherwise everyone would have probably kept him as rookie corrections would be priority.
Another thing to blame Corona for..
Not having Neale :'(
1. Didnt start with Neale and still dont have Lloyd, Sicily, Petracca and Greenwood
2. Every year i start Fyfe over Neale yet Neale has outscored Fyfe for the last 6 years
3. Traded Brayshaw after round 1.
4. Trading in value picks Simpkin and Baz smith
5. Never considering Greenwood and Petracca at the start of the year.
6. Trading in Viney. Although he has averaged close to 99 which is good for his price, him missing 2 games has hurt.
7. have used 6 trades on rookies who have made close to $0 and have another 4 dead rookies still in my team :'(
Although all of those mistakes i have still made some good decisions such as starting with Gawndy, Macrae and getting Ridley (450K) and doedee for 273k
Quote from: Samsturmfels on August 11, 2020, 03:38:29 PM
1. Didnt start with Neale and still dont have Lloyd, Sicily, Petracca and Greenwood
2. Every year i start Fyfe over Neale yet Neale has outscored Fyfe for the last 6 years
3. Traded Brayshaw after round 1.
4. Trading in value picks Simpkin and Baz smith
5. Never considering Greenwood and Petracca at the start of the year.
6. Trading in Viney. Although he has averaged close to 99 which is good for his price, him missing 2 games has hurt.
7. have used 6 trades on rookies who have made close to $0 and have another 4 dead rookies still in my team :'(
Although all of those mistakes i have still made some good decisions such as starting with Gawndy, Macrae and getting Ridley (450K) and doedee for 273k
I’m very similar to all of these except for Neale who I started. Also didn’t get Viney, but thankfully got Oliver in just before his 200 which was HUGE for me
Quote from: Ringo on August 11, 2020, 11:21:00 AM
Starting SC this year
and to add to this bringing in rookies after 1 game and getting stuck with him. Loathe to waste trade on them. Latest being Keane from Pies who is not even emergency, add to Butler. Skinner and co. Hoping Shienberg keepls playing and reports Simpson only rested are true,
Trading in Viney after Rd 1 high score but starting to put up reasonable scores now.
Trading in Baz Smith
Jury still out on Trading out Bont as part of Viney trade,
Getting wrong rookies.
Quote from: Ringo on August 11, 2020, 05:01:47 PM
Quote from: Ringo on August 11, 2020, 11:21:00 AM
Starting SC this year
and to add to this bringing in rookies after 1 game and getting stuck with him. Loathe to waste trade on them. Latest being Keane from Pies who is not even emergency, add to Butler. Skinner and co. Hoping Shienberg keepls playing and reports Simpson only rested are true,
Trading in Viney after Rd 1 high score but starting to put up reasonable scores now.
Trading in Baz Smith
Jury still out on Trading out Bont as part of Viney trade,
Getting wrong rookies.
The trade probably isnt worth it in the end since trading out Bont he has averaged nearly 107 sc points (about 273 points) compared to about Vineys 99 points a game. The one positive is that its about $190k saved/made when looking at both of their prices at the current round.
And the latest big mistake is trading out Darcy Cameron for Draper instead of Rankine... whilst having Gawn. RIP
Quote from: bkimm32 on August 11, 2020, 10:23:50 PM
And the latest big mistake is trading out Darcy Cameron for Draper instead of Rankine... whilst having Gawn. RIP
Keeping Rankine for now isnt a bad idea. There was a huge uncertainty if Cameron would even play this week. Its just a bit unlucky that both Draper and Gawn are out.
Trading in Rozee after two massive scores holding for 7 weeks for a 40 average and a $180k loss
Well where to begin!
Even though I think I got most of my decisions accurate there have been many that I do regret.
1. Not starting with Lloyd, eventually bought him in but cost me a bit.
2. Overlooking Macrae for Cripps.
3. Thinking Petracca was a trap so eventually paid overs to bring him in.
4. Bought in Sturt after his 100 and only got 12 more points out of him.
5. Made some poor decisions on rookies at the start, Cavarra & T Brown.
6. Completely got burnt by Dylan Roberton.
7. Traded in Stephen Hill who was always going to be a trap and he was.
8. Held onto Starcevich for 3 weeks to long.
But I was tempted to trade out Brayshaw after Rd 2 but had other issues to deal with & the same with Whitfield after his injury.
I did get it right with Serong as a rookie and thought Noah Anderson was going to be similar to Rowell but didn’t work out that way and he went for Steele this week :-\
Quote from: Hazza09 on August 12, 2020, 01:11:48 AM
Well where to begin!
Even though I think I got most of my decisions accurate there have been many that I do regret.
1. Not starting with Lloyd, eventually bought him in but cost me a bit.
2. Overlooking Macrae for Cripps.
3. Thinking Petracca was a trap so eventually paid overs to bring him in.
4. Bought in Sturt after his 100 and only got 12 more points out of him.
5. Made some poor decisions on rookies at the start, Cavarra & T Brown.
6. Completely got burnt by Dylan Roberton.
7. Traded in Stephen Hill who was always going to be a trap and he was.
8. Held onto Starcevich for 3 weeks to long.
But I was tempted to trade out Brayshaw after Rd 2 but had other issues to deal with & the same with Whitfield after his injury.
I did get it right with Serong as a rookie and thought Noah Anderson was going to be similar to Rowell but didn’t work out that way and he went for Steele this week :-\
1-6&7 Same boat for me
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 12, 2020, 12:32:53 PM
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
On he contrary for me not listening to the pre season hype and selecting “proven†supercoach players like Dustin Martin and Devon Smith over the likes of greenwood and petracca
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 12, 2020, 12:32:53 PM
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
Did the same thing. Bont underwhelming and we've all seen what Oliver has done...
Eating that f$&king bat!!!! ;D
Quote from: fanTCfool on August 12, 2020, 04:45:52 PM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 12, 2020, 12:32:53 PM
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
Did the same thing. Bont underwhelming and we've all seen what Oliver has done...
I feel your pain. Love the Bont as a player but does my head in from a SC point of view
Playing SC in 2020 without a crystal ball :)
Quote from: shaker on August 11, 2020, 10:31:22 AM
Heaps of errors to many to list but as soon as this season looked like it was going to be far from normal I decided to have some fun and take some risks , not going to worry to much about that just hope it returns to normal next year.
You and me both.
Trading the Bont after Rd 1 not looking good now (aswell as Brayshaw).
:'(
Started with Nicnat, D Brayshaw, D Smith, D Houston B Smith and went sideways with all. Was rated 26997 after 5 rds but now 2134 after a pretty rough start.
;)
Quote from: Sabretooth Tigers on August 23, 2020, 02:08:04 PM
:'(
Started with Nicnat, D Brayshaw, D Smith, D Houston B Smith and went sideways with all. Was rated 26997 after 5 rds but now 2134 after a pretty rough start.
;)
Well done on that rank
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 12, 2020, 12:32:53 PM
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
Try Neale and Oliver for Bont and Danger :-X
Making Neale captain this week.
This has to be the biggest season ever for sideways trades, and the coaches that have resisted this, stand to be way ahead come seasons end.
My main sideways trade was:
OUT Bontempelli ($623,000)
IN Howe ($431,900)
The other sideways trade was in round 10:-
OUT Sicily ($603,900)
IN Zac Williams ($460,700)
OUT Steven Hill ($266,400)
IN Schoenberg ($117,300)
OUT McInerney ($232,900)
IN Tom Stewart ($443,000
My only real regret is not jumping on a player before their first price increase, but it's so hard to jump on someone after just one game. The only time I have done this was picking up Schoenberg when he was selected to play his first game. When you hear that he was playing senior football @ the age of 14, it was one I jumped on.
Fairly happy so far, but it is a hard season when we have to jump on players to grab cash, not knowing if after just one game they get to continue to make decent cash.
Quote from: sidvicious on August 23, 2020, 05:04:43 PM
Quote from: Sabretooth Tigers on August 23, 2020, 02:08:04 PM
:'(
Started with Nicnat, D Brayshaw, D Smith, D Houston B Smith and went sideways with all. Was rated 26997 after 5 rds but now 2134 after a pretty rough start.
;)
Well done on that rank
Thanks SV.
:o
Geez I'm really having one of those weeks in SC. Thought I was sitting pretty with Macrae as VC and Xerri
as captain but just saw that Xerri is Playing. Thankfully I can swap Grundy to captain. Don't think he sets
the world on fire v Goldstein but definitely better than Xerri. Was expecting a 2500 plus score but ... ... .. ?
::)
Quote from: Sabretooth Tigers on August 23, 2020, 11:17:05 PM
Quote from: sidvicious on August 23, 2020, 05:04:43 PM
Quote from: Sabretooth Tigers on August 23, 2020, 02:08:04 PM
:'(
Started with Nicnat, D Brayshaw, D Smith, D Houston B Smith and went sideways with all. Was rated 26997 after 5 rds but now 2134 after a pretty rough start.
;)
Well done on that rank
Thanks SV.
:o
Geez I'm really having one of those weeks in SC. Thought I was sitting pretty with Macrae as VC and Xerri
as captain but just saw that Xerri is Playing. Thankfully I can swap Grundy to captain. Don't think he sets
the world on fire v Goldstein but definitely better than Xerri. Was expecting a 2500 plus score but ... ... .. ?
::)
Yeah, bad luck mate.
I was worried about Xerri playing. My only other rookies that I knew weren’t playing were Swans, so I had to roll the dice on someone in the Dogs/Dees game, or hope that Xerri was dropped.
I wasn’t confident with so many gun mids in the same game, but went Macrae, which is about the only thing I’ve got right this week and it was by default.
;)
Great default ned, good to see someone getting on the right side of the luck gods.
Hopefully it is as contagious as c19. Cheers mate.
:)
Rozee - never again
Quote from: Mat0369 on August 23, 2020, 06:33:58 PM
Quote from: jvalles69 on August 12, 2020, 12:32:53 PM
Another mistake was listening to the pre-season hype and switching Oliver to Bont last minute, never again list.
Try Neale and Oliver for Bont and Danger :-X
Hi mat, where do I send the brick? For hitting your head against? Jeez it must have been a long season for you. I just want to curl up and die every time I see Lloyd's score and I still dont have him. It must be horrible see olly and neales score each week.
Quote from: crowls on August 26, 2020, 01:37:10 PM
Hi mat, where do I send the brick? For hitting your head against? Jeez it must have been a long season for you. I just want to curl up and die every time I see Lloyd's score and I still dont have him. It must be horrible see olly and neales score each week.
Both seem to have come good over the last 4 of 5 weeks but jeez they've been slaughtering me when I look at the other two.
I've smashed the last two weeks and those two guys have been a part of it. Same goes for Nic Nat who I also started with.
Other moves that have hurt/failed.
*Bringing in Rivers and Harley round 2. Both have been flops
*Dusty and McAsey to Pitto and Selwood. Was looking great up until the Selwood injury killed his cash gen before I could trade him out. Dusty has gone nuts since the Selwood injury as well.
*Trading Noble instead of Brander to Stephen Hill
*Bringing in Yeo
*Selwood and Pittonet out to Treloar and Egg instead of Rampe and Zorko in a last second swap.
*Tobe Watson instead of Sholl
*No Rankine
*Walters and Parker the jury is still out on. They were brought in over simultaneous weeks and had poor scores the first week in my team. Walters bounced back with a 90 though.
Having said all that, I managed to start with Howe, Trac Nic Nat and Macrae. So it's not an entire crapshow.
Quote from: Mat0369 on August 26, 2020, 04:09:18 PM
Quote from: crowls on August 26, 2020, 01:37:10 PM
Hi mat, where do I send the brick? For hitting your head against? Jeez it must have been a long season for you. I just want to curl up and die every time I see Lloyd's score and I still dont have him. It must be horrible see olly and neales score each week.
Both seem to have come good over the last 4 of 5 weeks but jeez they've been slaughtering me when I look at the other two.
I've smashed the last two weeks and those two guys have been a part of it. Same goes for Nic Nat who I also started with.
Other moves that have hurt/failed.
*Bringing in Rivers and Harley round 2. Both have been flops
*Dusty and McAsey to Pitto and Selwood. Was looking great up until the Selwood injury killed his cash gen before I could trade him out. Dusty has gone nuts since the Selwood injury as well.
*Trading Noble instead of Brander to Stephen Hill
*Bringing in Yeo
*Selwood and Pittonet out to Treloar and Egg instead of Rampe and Zorko in a last second swap.
*Tobe Watson instead of Sholl
*No Rankine
*Walters and Parker the jury is still out on. They were brought in over simultaneous weeks and had poor scores the first week in my team. Walters bounced back with a 90 though.
Having said all that, I managed to start with Howe, Trac Nic Nat and Macrae. So it's not an entire crapshow.
Started Neale and Oliver,
traded whitfield to trac round 4,
No Gawn -started English then traded him down just before he started scoring to Pitt. Got Draper as R2.
Traded in Viney rd2 and traded him week before he started scoring again.
Pitt to Ladhams Rnd 9, then ladhams to fwds to bring in Draper was a genius move until he Covid out.
Please can someone remind doc how to play he is killing me at d6
Need about another 200k to get Draper to prem Ruck and Doc into Lloyd. 4 trades left.
Different game when you dont see teams until 24hrs before hand. Finals is going to be tough.
The stretching out of games has probably changed a few of my trades as well. I would have traded Starcevich after the 38 in round 5. Instead I kept him and dumped him at a 50k loss round 10. I wasn't sure if Williamson was going to get named those weeks and held him because I knew Starcevich was named. I basically didn't want to risk the potential donut with Hill being a possible late out at any minute and Brander a rolling donut. In hindsight I was better off copping the donut
Quote from: Mat0369 on August 26, 2020, 04:52:14 PM
The stretching out of games has probably changed a few of my trades as well. I would have traded Starcevich after the 38 in round 5. Instead I kept him and dumped him at a 50k loss round 10. I wasn't sure if Williamson was going to get named those weeks and held him because I knew Starcevich was named. I basically didn't want to risk the potential donut with Hill being a possible late out at any minute and Brander a rolling donut. In hindsight I was better off copping the donut
What are your expectations at start of the season. I normally expect 4 of my final fwd/def to be top 6 avg for the year. Ruck needs to be top 2 of top 3 rucks as drop can be up to 500+ points over a season.
Mids at least 6 of top 10 mids. Selection is based on expectation of 2000 min points total for starting keepers in def and fwds, 2400 Plus for mids and 2500+ for rucks. (over 22 game season)
Almost time to start looking at 2021 rookies.
Rowells starting price will be interesting for 2021 given he only played 4 games.
Rowell M6 at 550k less 30% discount equals 400K approx.
Quote from: crowls on August 26, 2020, 05:57:17 PM
Rowell M6 at 550k less 30% discount equals 400K approx.
I was hoping for 300/350k listed at 470k.
Quote from: Ringo on August 26, 2020, 06:00:30 PM
Quote from: crowls on August 26, 2020, 05:57:17 PM
Rowell M6 at 550k less 30% discount equals 400K approx.
I was hoping for 300/350k listed at 470k.
Dont see it Ringo, starting price this year for 100-101 avg was 550k. My initial though was in line with yours but on looking at it closer unless there is something else on top of 30% discount be closer to 400k.
Not going to stop me having him even if he has a dud 2nd year, the risk is too great. 5 weeks into the season he could be at 600K.
Trading in Simpkin for 555k when he was averaging 120.lost over 150k and averaged about 70 since. Hopefully coming good now though
Quote from: quinny88 on August 26, 2020, 06:26:30 PM
Trading in Simpkin for 555k when he was averaging 120.lost over 150k and averaged about 70 since. Hopefully coming good now though
year it has hurt my team so bad picking Simpkin/Baz over Trac, Greenwood and Brayshaw (who i traded out) at the time.
Quote from: Samsturmfels on August 26, 2020, 09:29:23 PM
Quote from: quinny88 on August 26, 2020, 06:26:30 PM
Trading in Simpkin for 555k when he was averaging 120.lost over 150k and averaged about 70 since. Hopefully coming good now though
year it has hurt my team so bad picking Simpkin/Baz over Trac, Greenwood and Brayshaw (who i traded out) at the time.
man, the number of coaches who traded Brayshaw is higher than I realised. Went close to bringing him back in just couldnt find the trade at the right time to make it happen. Would have been better than trading cripps back in after i traded him out in r2 with brayshaw.
:-[
Rd.17 SC preliminary Final.
Made Gawn VC and was going to take his score. Left a loop hole but named all emergencies which closed it. Decided to take Rivers score and leave out Docherty who was under a cloud. Checked to see what trades were available for Riccardi and decided to carry the doughnut. Put everything back the way it was and missed out on Rivers. Still fluked 5 of my leagues including the money league but lost my own league by a mere 5 points. Was suffering domestic interference during these events but no excuses as I stuffed up most royally. Oh what the hell 5 GF's and 2 trades to go. Cheers all.
::)
R17, kept Docherty on field instead of taking Rivers score and lost a final by 10 points and 2 other finals by less than 25.
It also stopped me from entering the top 1000.
Biggest mistake this year which has costed me a place in the Top 100 would have to be trading:
Neale - J Kelly (Rd 14) Kelly gets Ko'd
J Kelly - Oliver (Rd 16) Oliver has gone sub 100 in both games since
Gawn - Goldstein (When he got injured)
Goldstein - Gawn (When he came back the week after)
Was debating between Doedee and Ridley in Rd 3 and chose Doedee
Traded in Simpson, Hill, Ling, Ruscoe over other rookies which cost me 4-5 trades
Traded out Rivers instead of Pickett in Rd 10
Fielding Rankine instead of Coleman in the last round - cost me a spot in my cash league grand final >:( :'(
I've done a lot of things right this season, but Rd.13 really stuffed my me up on the run home.
Sicily and McPherson injured, and Houston Covided, meant I needed to bring in 2 defenders.
Picking Z Williams and Witherden ahead of guys like Crisp, Daniel, Haynes, Saad, Maynard, May, Sheppard has been a horror show.
To top it off, I then chickened out of Captaining NicNat (146) and stuck with Neale (72) and it just killed my season's momentum.
I got to a season high ranking of 303, but have battling to stay inside the Top 1000 coming home.
Not counting my trades, hell, Covid was a bit of a distraction but I have 5 trades left coming into this round :o :o
Using my last trade on Cogs to Lyon last week
Because of Neale’s flop I could have copped a donut and still won (just)
Now I have doch the donut. Fingers crossed Gould finally gets a run (praying hard)
I have two don't know which one is the biggest mistake
1: Picking Michael Walters
2: Making ff silver grand final and not having selected a fwd emergency player with Keidean Coleman on the bench scoring 59 pnts
Hope I don't lose by 58