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Rough starting team

Lloyd, Hall, Crisp, Milera, Kreuger, Kemp (O'Driscoll, De Koning)
Macrae, Miller, Oliver, Neale, Rowell, Berry, Horne-Francis, Daicos (McInnes, Roberts, Clark)
Grundy, Witts (Preuss)
Dunkley, Duncan, Rayner, Cogs, Curnow, Hollands (Skinner, Parker)

There are a number of other players I am looking at on each line. I might add them to my next post but this is what I am sitting with for the time being. Rookies are the key. I have some more expensive ones on the field and cheaper guys on the bench. While I really like some guys like Dylan Stephens and Finn Macrae, I can't justify having a Daicos/Stephens on the bench at their prices.

I am going to do my other players of interest in separate posts based off position.

Defence

Rich - Really like him as a POD and think the scoring plays into his game perfectly. He is such a damaging long kick and will take the majority of the Lions kickouts.

Ryan - Averaged 107 in 2020 which would have been good for number 1 in 2021 if he backed it up. Instead he battled injury and a changing role with all Freo's KPD's getting injured. Young is the guy that could also continue to take some of the kickouts which may also hurt him a little. When he is on, he is still a beast. The back end of 2021 he really slowed down with some poor scores which saw his average drop from a 106 to a 99.

Ridley - Was HUGE in the first half of 2021. He started the first 4 rounds averaging 133 before a concussion began his decline. If you take out the concussion score he still averaged 102 for the year. The worry with Ridley is once he returned he had Redman and Heppell eating into his kickout numbers. He also played a couple of lockdown roles like the Giants game where he scored 84 playing on Toby Greene. He is probably the best value defender based on what he is capable of with freedom to play his own game. He is one of the best kicks of the ball I have seen play. The guy can be the total package and it's a matter of do I start with him or will he be achievable as an upgrade target.

Daniel - An absolute disaster for me last year. He scored a 19 and copped a one week suspension. I made the decision to get him out of my team at that point as he had lost his role, couldn't find the pill and was bleeding cash. He was the perfect opportunity to fix my R2 situation. However, from the game after the suspension he went on to average 99 on the run home. He still was a bit of a yo-yo, but he had a great finals series and could easily average 100 next year priced at 94. My worry is still Bailey Dale who will take some kickouts and may cap his ceiling in the process.

Maynard - This one is a bit out of left field and the numbers have been cherry picked, but, I think he could be a top 6 defender if it plays out correctly. He had a breakout 2020 where he averaged 102.4 followed by a horrid start to 2021. He looked like he didn't have a defined role and when thee Collingwood backline started falling apart due to injury he stood up. Once Darcy Moore was out of that backline Maynard started taking the number 1 forward each week and killed them with his rebound. From R8-R22 he would go on to average 103.4 with his best effort on Queens Birthday where he scored 144 in Bucks last game. With a new  coach the set up could change in the backline yet again, but I feel he has some serious  upside.

Docherty - He is one I will look at mainly as an upgrade target. Doc was fantastic last year until he was moved to the wing. Carlton needed to shuffle Williams into the backline and Doc was the guy that moved and struggled to hit the form he had earlier in the season. He finished the season with an ankle injury and his cancer coming back. He has stepped down from the captaincy to focus more on his health and his footy when he hopefully returns. A fit and firing Doc in the backline could be a pretty big POD but I think it's one I am only looking to consider once he gets out on the park.

Houston - Dan Houston was a monster last year before injuring himself against the Blues in R5. In the first 4 rounds he averaged 112.3 and looked like one of their most influential players. Then he copped a knock to his shoulder and struggled with the injury for the majority of the season. It hurt his game and he looked to be protecting it on a number of occasions. If he is fit and firing this season he could be in the upper echelon of defenders and is currently priced at an 86 average. He has the history of burning people in the past, so I'm probably going to look at him as an upgrade target if I do grab him

Sicily - He has been a premium defender for a number of seasons and is currently priced at 448k. He is a bargain and he is super tempting. Having said that, the Hawks backline was there strength last year and looked settled without him. Mitchell is coming in and we have no idea how he intends to use him. With the Hawks struggling in the forward line with a bunch of young KPP, maybe Sicily moves into that part of the field to add some overhead marking and a veteran presence. His scores as a forward stink and I think this is a decision that will need to be made after watching the Hawks line up for a couple of practice matches. There is every chance he will move forward within games through the season so I'm thinking of just steering clear. 

Howe - Another Collingwood player, another potential bargain. Howe started the season with a 94.5 average before his season became derailed by injury. That is back to back seasons where Howe, who has traditionally been durable, has seen his season derailed by injury. 2020 he was an absolute beast and priced very similarly to what he is now. With his intercept marking ability he is on my watchlist. He feels like a better pick than Sicily for me priced at 427k with extreme upside. 

Haynes - Another intercept mark king of 2020 that had a horrendous 2021. I probably won't look at him, but if he looks to be in a comfortable role down back with less time put into him he may be a good upgrade target that won't break the bank.

Lukosius - I am expecting a breakout. Bowes out long term opens the path for him to move down back and use his lethal boot to his advantage. Super risky, but I think he could have a pretty big season. Still probably won't have the balls to start him though

Clark - Super talented, should see midfield time, but I feel I have heard this for the last couple of seasons. I think when Clark finally puts it all together he will be an excellent pick for those that have him. Personally I think the value is elsewhere.

Hewett - Another defender that will be in a midfield role. I unfortunately see a Williams 2.0 situation. Not that Hewett will stink it up on the field for Carlton and we change his role, but that he underwhelms from a fantasy perspective. That midfield will have Walsh, Cripps, Curnow and Cerra all getting time. I think Hewett is in there to do the selfless grunt work which the coaches will love but won't translate into Supercoach

Brad Hill - Maybe for fantasy if he moves back onto a wing and hits some long lost form, but personally staying clear.

I might do the rest of the lines tomorrow

Mids

Steele - Back to back 120+ seasons, tackles, wins contested ball and has stepped up with the Saints captaincy. He seems a pretty safe bet and is one I'm considering with Touk/Oliver

Bont - 115, 116 and 119 in the last three seasons. He has had slumps in both of the last two seasons starting slowly in 2020 and having a couple of low scores last season. He is another one that I feel could be around the 120+ mark and is priced a little cheaper than the other guys. He can also be a game changer with his massive ceiling.

Lyons - He has been elite the last two seasons. I feel he performed better with Neale out of the side, I'd probably need to double check the numbers to confirm this. From memory he had a slight dip when Neale returned part way through the year and if Neale is fit and firing that could chew into his ceiling. He could be the ultimate POD but he is another I will look at as an upgrade target

Walsh - His season last year was amazing. His ball winning ability combined with his tank make him a genuine superstar. The only worry is how does he deal with the tag. They have gone out and gotten him some support in Hewett and Cerra, but the tag got to him a couple of times last year. I really, really want to start him, but it's tough to pick a guy to drop out of Macrae, Miller and Oliver to afford him.

Parrish - This is another smokey that is high risk high reward. When he went into the midfield full time last year he was elite. From Anzac Day he averaged 121.8 with a 169 in the final against the Dogs. His ceiling is ridiculous and he didn't need a lot of the ball to impact games.

Brayshaw - Fifth year breakout on the cards. He has been on an upward trend and averaged 117 from the bye with a huge 190 in the rotation. He is now the guy in that Freo midfield, the only issues is how does he deal with the tag.

Matt Crouch - Priced at under 500k and capable of a 110 average. When you look at how much he costs vs what he can produce I feel he is a lock. Same issue where I don't know how to get him into my side. I'm hoping there is another reason why I can cross him out of my side because I keep trying to get him in and it is screwing my structure.

Yeo - See Crouch, when he is fit and firing he is the Eagles best SC player. He was eased into the back end of last season so he has some footy under his belt. I think he is on a modified program which is making it easier for me to not pick him.

Cripps - Last year was a disaster and he hasn't been good for SC since the slide began in mid 2019. New coach, more support and hopefully an injury free run could see him bounce back. After getting burnt last year I'll probably hold off.

Shuey - Another player that hasn't been able to get his body right. At 440k he probably has to be picked as a keeper which changes things. If he was a bit cheaper I think you could pick him as a stepping stone.

Lipinski - If he was a forward I'd really consider him. As a mid only he is probably off my list. Could average 90ish and maybe that's okay at 360k, but I'd rather Rowell

Dumont - Port have picked him up as depth, but he is another that could be a great stepping stone if he plays. He averaged 84 in 2019 and 101.9 in 2020. Injury killed him last year and North wanted to move in a different direction. I think he could average 90 if he plays pretty consistently in that Port midfield.

Jordan Clark - If he wasn't mid only I would consider him. I think he takes that wing role at the Dockers and steps it up. He can find the footy and has amazing running capacity. Unfortunately I don't want to screw around with my mids so it's a pass.

Constable - Another ex Geelong player that has changed clubs in the off-season. Racked up good numbers at VFL level but leg pace and ability to cover the ground probably kills him as an AFL player. He is picked to take the Greenwood role, but I think we're going to see more of a Miller, Rowell and Anderson CB set up for the Suns. Probably a pass for me at his price and the fact he isn't a lock for the 22.

Finn Macrae - Second year player with multiple sub scores. It's normally a good thing for SC rookies, however I'm not sure if he is a 100% lock to play week in, week out and at his price I'd rather Horne-Francis and Daicos who are both ready made.

Rucks

Gawn - Has been the premium ruck in years gone by and the number 1 scorer yet again. Why am I not picking him? The Luke Jackson factor. I feel the Dees are going to look to keep getting Jackson more ruck minutes and rest Gawn forward to protect him for another September run. While it is pure speculation, he also averaged 112 since his bye week last year.

Darcy - He has had one premium season and has continually struggled with his body in previous years. He was amazing in the second half of last year, but I think he could be a trap at his price.

Nic Nat - Another great season for Nic Nat and he could be a nice POD. I probably only want to start with one true premium and then look to upgrade to the best option available. I think Nic Nat will be up there, but he has had a history of missing games. Probably a pass

Marshall - Really tempted to start him at R2 for a number of reasons. He will be the Saints number 1 ruck, covers the ground amazingly and has a couple of injury scores in his average. He could also pick up DPP which would allow me to swing him forward at some point. His body is the worry as he is apparently still struggling with his foot

O'Brien - ROB had a down year last year. Having said that, he is about to hit his prime and can score. He is priced at about 500k so he has to probably be picked as a keeper. I'm probably going to pass but he could be a good option with the extra trades if he produces within 10 points of the big guns.

I'll get my forwards list done tomorrow

Forwards

Taranto - Picking him depends on his role. I had him in my team last year and he was disappointing at times, but a lot of that had to do with where he played and not how he played. The Giants moved him out of the midfield for large chunks of quarters just after he had dominated in there in preference of a Ward/Hopper combo as the inside guys. With Tom Green also coming through, Taranto could continue to see time up forward. When Toby Greene was out of the side they used him more in that role and while it worked in one game where he was a goal machine, he also saw a dip in the following games. As a pure mid I think he is close to a lock, but there is value in the forward line and both Duncan/Dunkley are better options.

Hawkins - I picked him up last year after he had a pretty good 2020 and looked like a good POD for the back end of the season. There were games where he played decoy for Cameron and it felt like the team were trying to get Cameron involved for form purposes. While Cameron drawing attention should help him, it can also hinder him when they bypass him and get tunnel vision. At his age I think it's a pass. Maybe an upgrade target

The Package - A monster in the midfield. Since his bye he averaged 110.3 which is huge and places him comfortably as the number 1 forward. He is always an injury risk, but if he holds the same role he could be the best premium pick up based on his ceiling.

Dusty - Has been a staple in forward lines but was a bit of a disaster for those that owned him last year. Injuries derailed his season, but he should come back fit and firing this season. The Tigers most important player and they will need him to play well to be a finals threat. Personally I'd rather start Duncan and Dunkley with mid eligibility. I'll look at Dusty as an upgrade target if he performs.

Treloar - If this man wasn't a walking injury he would be a lock. He took a couple games to get going last year but hit some nice form and would be a top end forward. Then the injury hit and he missed a long time. Pass with his body

English - He put up some stinkers last season, but a ruckman as a forward could be gold. He did play a lot of forward last year and could continue to do so, but if he gets a 60/40 split I'd say a 90 average or top 6 finish isn't out of the equation. I'd rather hold off.

De Goey - If he didn't have all the off-field stuff going on I had him as a lock at the end of the 2021 season. He moved into the midfield and was excellent. From Queens Birthday onwards he averaged 98.1. The Pies midfield feels very shallow. Pendles is getting up in age, Sidebottom is playing more half forward, Adams is a walking injury. It feels like Crisp and De Goey are going to be the two horses in there if De Goey plays. Probably a wait and see because he can't be trusted to have his head on straight.

Tarryn Thomas - Another one I really want to fit in but don't know how. Last year he moved into the midfield part way through the season and was excellent. Another year in the system, some more support with the other young guys growing and he could take another step. He averaged 96.5 from round 9. Has a bit of Simpkin about the situation where he could break out in the forward line and be mid only next year. Risky pick but I think he will be well worth it. I just can't pick him ahead of the 2 premiums I have and the forward line feels like the line to load up on the 200-300k range.

Shai Bolton - I picked him up last year the game where he took mark of the year. I looked like a genius, he had an amazing run of form, produced again and then went out and broke his hand. He is a bit of a yo-yo and was playing forward for large stints in game. Probably an upgrade target at best since I was burnt last season.

Butters - Started the first two rounds with a huge bang. 96 in a half against the Tigers before he got injured. Huge ceiling and could be in the top couple of forwards if he produces consistently. Once he returned from injury he didn't seem to really get going again so that consistency will be key

Gunston - Can easily produce a 90 average based on history and is priced around a 65 average. I still don't think I can fit him in my side and you're probably picking him as a keeper at his price but the value is there. It's a pass for me.

Walters - Role absolutely killed him last year. Does he shift back into the midfield? If he does at his price he is probably a must. You just have to expect him to get injured at some point.

Gresham - Reports are he is playing forward more this year. If he was playing in the midfield for the majority of games I think he is a lock, but I don't want to spend 300k on a small forward.

Bruhn - If GWS play him consistently in the midfield....actually forget I said anything, pass.

Cuningham - Was averaging 80 and improving with each game. Then he tore his ACL. He was close to BOG the week before he injured himself. I just don't know if he will be ready by round 1 and get consistent footy into him. A really good chance to make some cash if he does play.

Stengle - As a small forward it's probably a pass but I think he will be popular if he gets games with the Casts.

Riccardi - 70 average in 2020, found himself without a role in 2021 and struggled. He could make some money, but probably a pass

Liam Henry - Highly rated and is moving to the wing. If he starts winning the ball around the ground he could be another bargain at his price.

I have been screwing around with my team and my structures over the last month. Here is a bit of an evolution and some odd line ups I have come up with.

Team 1
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Team 2

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Team 3

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Team 4

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Team 5

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Team 6

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Team 7

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Team 8

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Team 9

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Team 10

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My two most recent drafts

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Something like this is also tempting me

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I'm tempted to go with Neale at M3, Rowell at M4 and grab someone like Polec to make sure my defence is set.

Just looking at my earlier drafts, I don't see Hewett in the top handful so he became expendable.

With Milera out, the only player in that price range I like is Richards but he is not a guarantee to average over 60 so he is out

The new 50 interpretation for abuse could destroy Sicily in games since he is a hothead. He may be frustrating to own with the Hawks in a rebuild. Great value but maybe not a must.

Cripps at M4 works, however I feel that he may not be a keeper. The ceiling is there, but he has been extremely poor the couple years prior. At his price he is certainly worth the risk, but he is too expensive to be a stepping stone. I would almost rather bank the cash or get a bonafide premium

I was all in on Rayner last year. My main worry is that I couldn't watch him play in the pre-season game and want to see him in the guts winning the ball. Pass for now

Polec looks like an odd pick, but I prefer him to Ward. He has a pretty good scoring history and at his price could average 80-90 to make a ton of cash. Caldwell is the other that could also average 70-80 and be a nice option in that price bracket.

Brodie I worry about due to his lack of ability to cover ground, Fyfe returning and he is not great with ball in hand. I think I would rather take the risk on Xerri if I am to pick one

Riccardi could be a nice option being the Giants focal point up forward with the DPP.

I am not a fan of paying 180k for a forward pocket so Rachele is expendable.

I honestly have no idea how I am going to go. My only locks so far are as below

Lloyd, Crisp

Macrae, Touk, Neale, Rowell, Berry

Grundy, Witts

Dunkley, Butters, Cogs

Rookies I think Hinge, McCartin, SDK and Gibcus pick themselves in the backline as they're the only ones available.

Midfield right now I have Horne-Francis, Daicos, Ward, Stephens and Hough as the only ones I am confident will play. A lot of cash will be left on the bench but you're paying for JS. Having said that, are guys like Caldwell and Polec better value as they're marginally more expensive and 1st year guys don't traditionally come out and destroy the comp. We have been spoilt with Walsh and  Rowell recently.

Xerri is the one with the highest upside. Gov is a walking injury. So is Curnow. Maybe Rioli comes into consideration. I think Martin, Baldwin and Dixon/Hayes might be the consensus F6-F8.

I'm honestly just rambling right now trying to work out where I go with my side. I might just lock in Dunks and Macrae and then work from there. 

Same structure as mine, 5 deep defence, it was a winning move in 2021 and helped me push inside the top 20 last season.

Here's some other random thoughts -

F2 - critical but cloudy, not convinced Butters can play 22 games even though he's one of my favourite footballers.
I've eventually decided on English, I figure his ruck DPP adds a bit of worth, he's 104kg now and could become the premier ruck of the comp.

F7 - Durdin plays early so he's the perfect loop candidate with Hayes/Dixon. free hits are always helpful in this game.

R2 - Witts is value but he's upgrade material, no drama but that's 10 upgrades you need from here.

F8 - Can't see Martin playing given Baldwin was the only one with the big announcement, you may need to free up some cash

Like last year DEF rookies seem to be thin so I think that any rookie that gets named and is DEF you should play them there.
In that case for me, I'd trade out one of crisp/ryan and put McCartin in DEF. Actually one of your teams you posted just before that I liked better than this one :P
Agree with Bully that Martin might not get an early debut but wait for teams I guess
Pretty good side still.

Crisp to Short looks like the path of least resistance, that should get Martin up to Durdin who I think is being tested this afternoon.

Just to reiterate, English is the one who I think represents the best upside/durability/flexibility and isn't breaking the bank.
He was 90kg wringing wet a couple of years ago but has now achieved near parity with his 207cm frame, Stef might scare some off but he is 35 and has only played 13 games in two years.

Quote from: Bully on March 16, 2022, 10:14:26 AM
Same structure as mine, 5 deep defence, it was a winning move in 2021 and helped me push inside the top 20 last season.

Here's some other random thoughts -

F2 - critical but cloudy, not convinced Butters can play 22 games even though he's one of my favourite footballers.
I've eventually decided on English, I figure his ruck DPP adds a bit of worth, he's 104kg now and could become the premier ruck of the comp.

F7 - Durdin plays early so he's the perfect loop candidate with Hayes/Dixon. free hits are always helpful in this game.

R2 - Witts is value but he's upgrade material, no drama but that's 10 upgrades you need from here.

F8 - Can't see Martin playing given Baldwin was the only one with the big announcement, you may need to free up some cash

I'm sold on Butters. He will play a lot of midfield so I am happy to lock him in. I don't mind the English pick as well but I'm happy to wait and see. I'm not sure what their plan is to cover Bruce so he may have to play the role he did early last year.

Durdin has been named so I'll pop him in at F6 with Baldwin and Dixon.

Witts is a stepping stone. I think Gawn will drop in price and the ideal scenario is use Witts during the Gawn/Grundy/Darcy bye and then grab the best available out of Gawn/Darcy

Martin is already out. Ryan to Sicily will free up the cash. I'm screwing around with structure now again

Quote from: arbel on March 16, 2022, 12:21:03 PM
Like last year DEF rookies seem to be thin so I think that any rookie that gets named and is DEF you should play them there.
In that case for me, I'd trade out one of crisp/ryan and put McCartin in DEF. Actually one of your teams you posted just before that I liked better than this one :P
Agree with Bully that Martin might not get an early debut but wait for teams I guess
Pretty good side still.

Yeah that side was more a screw around and I was batting 5 deep down back which only allowed 3 rookies. I think Hinge, SDK, McCartin and Gibcus are all options to start. The one I would pass on is Gibcus if I do go back down to 3

Quote from: Bully on March 16, 2022, 02:33:19 PM
Crisp to Short looks like the path of least resistance, that should get Martin up to Durdin who I think is being tested this afternoon.

Just to reiterate, English is the one who I think represents the best upside/durability/flexibility and isn't breaking the bank.
He was 90kg wringing wet a couple of years ago but has now achieved near parity with his 207cm frame, Stef might scare some off but he is 35 and has only played 13 games in two years.

Crisp is one of my non negotiables. I will need to look at building my structure again around my locks and then fill in the gaps. I'm tinkering with it now that I'm home from work

Think both Ward and Stephens is a bit much cash for bench.  Maybe downgrade Polec to Hough or similar who will make cash and upgrade elsewhere. Maybe Sic tp someone you can afford.  That is what I have done.

I've settled on this for tonight.

Still contemplating Ryan to Sicily and Cripps up

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I've locked in my Dogs and Dees which is the main thing. It means no Oliver but I'll work it out once the teams are released properly tomorrow.

Very nice looking side, cannot fault although I'd start Brodie ahead of Xerri, correction trade much easier by starting the more expensive player.

McGovern would be my only player of concern. Runs too hot and cold for me.

Quote from: Bully on March 16, 2022, 06:56:21 PM
Very nice looking side, cannot fault although I'd start Brodie ahead of Xerri, correction trade much easier by starting the more expensive player.

Agreed, but swap McGovern with Xerri. The idea is I can downgrade Gov if he flops.

Also thinking Xerri to Preuss is an option if he stinks it up to get the cash gen going.

Personally my two holes are Gov and Cripps. I am not sold on either. I had a mate text me that Sicily may be one of the Hawks players out so that may make the decision not to start him a little easier.

Also need to figure out my loophole for taking Macrae's score.

Quote from: arbel on March 16, 2022, 06:58:39 PM
McGovern would be my only player of concern. Runs too hot and cold for me.

With you on Gov. He is a walking injury. The idea is to try and get a couple big scores out of him floating behind the ball to get the cash gen and then flip him.

I have no faith in him but then again Brodie has issues with his running, Xerri is uncertain as R1, Bruhm isn't guaranteed in the 22, Rachele is a small forward at over 180k, Curnow is a walking injury.... they all have risks.

The two 'safest' options in that price range may be Rioli and Riccardi. Both will be best 22. Riccardi has produced as a key forward before and Rioli averaged 70 in 2019 which would be amazing at his price.

The other options are Rayner/Gresh going up in price. If Gresh was playing in the midfield he would be a lock. Rayner I wanted to see him play in the pre-season and I can't pick him blindly thinking he will improve being his 5th year.

Gresh is named in the Centre. Doesn't mean anything I know, but with Higgins and Butler there don't see him playing fwd much. With Billings out I think he takes his role for now. I dont have Gresh but its a wait and see with him and also with Gov who I have to see if he improves. Feel Gov could have got in the 80s if he didn't land awkwardly, plus the ball wasn't in the back half for the Blues.

Quote from: tommy10 on March 18, 2022, 11:20:05 AM
Gresh is named in the Centre. Doesn't mean anything I know, but with Higgins and Butler there don't see him playing fwd much. With Billings out I think he takes his role for now. I dont have Gresh but its a wait and see with him and also with Gov who I have to see if he improves. Feel Gov could have got in the 80s if he didn't land awkwardly, plus the ball wasn't in the back half for the Blues.

I noticed that. It doesn't mean much, but the Saints are also without Billings, Jones and Clark from the midfield rotation. They may need him to play more midfield minutes.

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1. Lloyd out so tossing up between Rich vs Hall vs Sicily
2. Rookies in the forward line. With Martin named. I think Martin has the best scoring potential. I am tossing up between Hayes vs Martin vs Dixon for R3/F8. With Williams and Dixon being named I think Dixon should play. Ryder may be back next week which pushes Hayes out. Same goes for Stringer and Martin.
3. Get Macrae's captain score or try and risk it with Touk
4. Still contemplating Polec at his price. It would be Horne-Francis to Polec. Risky but could pay off in the long run of Horne-Francis spends a lot of time forward.

Any advice?

I like the Rich pick, had him last year and he was rock solid.

Don't go chasing Macrae's score, Touk could get more, not like it's 160.

I just had a look at Rich's scoring. He went under 90 three times last year and one was an 89. Probably the closest thing you will get to Lloyd so he is in.

I'm risking Touk.

Thinking Martin over Hayes. Can always correct the trade later.

Also going with the POD pick of Polec over Horne-Francis. Polec could average 80ish. Horne-Francis could kill me the first couple of weeks not having him but he is another I can easily fix with a correction trade if he does burn me early.

Nice moves.

With 35 trades this year additional correctional trade Rd 3 with boost may help.

I am keeping Both Dixon and Martin. Dixon should be ok until Allen and co return and happy to sit Hayes at R3 for the floating donut when not named but suspect he will get more games with injuries at Saints.

Best of luck with Polec and hope Noble true to his word for you.

I have both Rich and Hall.

Your decision on Touk/Macrae and last year suffered twice with injury so I am taking anything over 130 this year,  Say Touk goes 150 only losing 17 points but if he gets injured who knows.

I feel Dixon has the best JS with Williams and Dixon both playing. The other two are 50/50.

Seeing Powell as an emergency and Greenwood coming into the side the Roos midfield mix seems tough to predict. I know  Polec was awful last year but he is a proven scorer.

Agree on the captain call but other than Preuss/Kreuger I don't want to risk picking a dud rookie when I already have a couple with questionable JS. I just have to risk Touk for the time being

And Polec is out. Could use him to take Macrae this week but not running the risk at his price and grabbing JHF again

My team as it stands at the end of Round 1

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Score: 2260
Rank: 31,955

Good: McCartin, Macrae, Miller, Neale, Cripps, Rowell, Daicos, JHF, Grundy, Witts, Dunkley, Buttters, Cogs, Xerri, Durdin, McGovern, Martin

Pass: Gibcus, Berry

Bad: Rich, Crisp, Ryan, Ridley, Hinge, Dixon, Hough

Ugly: Ward, Baldwin, De Koning (injured)

Of the rookies that I missed, the two that stand out are Hayes and Rachele. I was tossing up two of Dixon, Hayes and Martin and settled on Martin/Dixon because I felt Hayes JS was iffy. With the way he played I think he holds his spot even with Ryder. He is a must and Baldwin might be the one to ditch.

Rachele kicked a ton of goals in that game. I am still not a fan of forward pockets at his price, but Ward is looking like the trap I thought he would be. I felt I was paying up for his JS on the bench but Rachele may be the better option. Ward apparently injured his ankle late as well so may be worth dumping now.

I have traded rookies early before and been burnt. However I feel there is low risk in making the Baldwin>Hayes and Ward>Rachele trades this week. It gives me possibly 3 correction trades next week to sort out my back line or grab a must have player I'm missing. I will also have 90k to play with heading into the round.

Overall thoughts.

My backline is a dogs breakfast. Ridley/Ryan barely had any intercept possessions and were awful. Rich and Crisp had some of their worst scores in a long time and Rich getting injured was icing. If they scored near their projections I'm looking at 2400+. De Koning I will hold for my loophole purpose this week, I think they said it was concussion so he will miss this round

Midfield I feel I nailed other than Berry. Caldwell was the better pick this round but Berry had a huge first half. McDonald, Lipinski and Shiel are all great options in the 300k bracket. McDonald should get DPP so may be one I keep an eye on next round if I can afford him with the intention on moving him down back.

My rucks I am happy with. Grundy normally sucks against the Saints and scored well. Witts had a huge score against Nic Nat so that fills me with confidence.

Forward line is pretty solid. Butters and Dunkley were great, Xerri and Gov were solid along with Cogs and Durdin scored well. Heeney is probably the only guy that could burn me with his role. He did get a couple of cheapie goals in the last quarter but he worked for the position to kick them

I'm waiting for Monday so I can have the satisfaction of trading Gov out of my team

So I ended up deciding on Baldwin>Hayes and Hough to Rachele.

After the first two games of the round I'm thinking that Hewett and Heeney may be must haves. I'm trying to decide if it's worth reversing my Hough to Rachele trade as I would have 95k in the bank and could do possibly the following next week if certain players flop

Ridley/Ryan/Crisp>Hewett, McGovern>Heeney and Ward>Rachelle

It would require one of my defensive premiums putting up another stinker while also offloading Ward if he struggles again.

I can also assess Rachele again this week and see if he is worth grabbing. Stengle proved tonight how volatile small forward scoring is and he could put up a 30 to kill that cash gen. I also have Berry who is a wait and see prospect based off last week.

So should I make just the Hayes trade this week and hold off on the Rachele one?

I just did the math, I can't actually afford Berry to Rachelle and Gov to Heeney. I'm still short which sucks.

I like those trades, I'm thinking about ways to get Heeney/Butters myself, bearing in mind Heeney is a trading stock and will have to peak around 550k to make it worthwhile.

Heeney is looking like a top 6 forward right now. Having said that, he has kicked 8 goals over those two games. When those numbers come down how does he score then?

Hewett's score also caught me by surprise. I think it's the boost from the contested possessions but it also doesn't seem sustainable. Once Cerra is back next week that midfield mix changes again.

Quote from: Mat0369 on March 26, 2022, 02:58:45 PM
Heeney is looking like a top 6 forward right now. Having said that, he has kicked 8 goals over those two games. When those numbers come down how does he score then?

Hewett's score also caught me by surprise. I think it's the boost from the contested possessions but it also doesn't seem sustainable. Once Cerra is back next week that midfield mix changes again.

Think you are over analysing Hewett's role, that's 5 tons on the trot for him once you factor in last season, 5 game average 112, 12 game average 97.

Quote from: Bully on March 26, 2022, 03:09:17 PM
Think you are over analysing Hewett's role, that's 5 tons on the trot for him once you factor in last season, 5 game average 112, 12 game average 97.

It was more how he scored what he did. The midfield mix may not make that much of a difference, but I feel that when a player has 32 with 27 handballs they don't score 117 without filling up the stat sheet elsewhere. He had 2 marks and I think 4 tackles?

Score: 2485
Rank: 5,995
Round Rank: 1,567
Cash: $95,800

(https://i.imgur.com/wwWgnFP.png)

Good: Rich, Crisp, Ryan, Ridley, Hinge, McCartin, Macrae, Miller, Neale, Cripps, Horne-Francis, Stephens (bench), Butters, Cogs, Xerri

Pass: Berry, Witts, Grundy, Dunkley, Hayes

Bad: Daicos, Ward, Rowell

Ugly: Gov, Durdin, Gibcus

I only made the one trade in the end of Baldwin to Hayes. I want Gov out this week. Other than Gov, the next three that I see as problematic are Gibcus, Ward and Berry.

Berry scored maybe just enough to hold, but the idea was to maybe downgrade him to a cheaper player and turn Gov into Hewett. I'm 3k short of Gov>Hewett and Berry>Brodie

The other choice would be to offload Ward to maybe MacDonald, having said that, Ward scored 80ish in DT so he is winning the ball and could break big in the next couple of weeks.

Option 3, and the way I am leaning. Berry>Caldwell and Gov >Brodie. Merrett out has opened a spot up in the Dons midfield full time and Caldwell seems to have played well the first two rounds. He is what I thought Berry would be.  Gov to Brodie lets me pocket a bunch of cash and maybe push for an early upgrade with what I have in the bank.

Solid trades, Caldwell is a low risk, high return play. Berry is playing hurt, that's why I punted him last week.

Quote from: Bully on March 28, 2022, 08:38:19 PM
Solid trades, Caldwell is a low risk, high return play. Berry is playing hurt, that's why I punted him last week.

Berry was tagging Merrett after he started on fire. 75 is decent. However Caldwell will make a bunch of quick cash which is why I am looking at that sideways move.

Ended  up settling with Hewett and Rachele. Rachele and Brodie may make similar coin and Hewett is a keeper. I was also put off a little bit that we couldn't see the teams for the Eagles vs Dockers game. I don't want to risk bringing in Brodie and having him not play. End result is below

Rich, Crisp, Ryan, Ridley, Hewett, Hinge (Gibcus, De Koning (E))
Macrae (VC), Miller, Neale, Cripps, Rowell, Cogs, Horne-Francis, Daicos (Stephens (E), Ward, Hough)
Grundy, Witts (Dixon)
Dunkley, Butters, Xerri, McCartin, Martin, Hayes (Rachele (E), Durdin)

Assuming that Dixon doesn't play I am going to try and loop Rachele with Hayes. My gut says that with Williams in ISO that Dixon will play which might make that a useless move.

I really want Lloyd and Hall for my backline so in a way I feel the Hewett move may have been the wrong one. Having said that, if he comes out with a ton than I can't really complain. English is the only player that is looking like a must have that I don't. I couldn't get him in with my original structure but a Witts to English move may be on the cards pending performance over the next handful of games.

Powell-Pepper can F off for cleaning up Butters

Quote from: Mat0369 on April 01, 2022, 09:44:07 PM
Powell-Pepper can F off for cleaning up Butters

This was my concern leading into the season, he's a very accident prone player, supremely talented but still a bit of a punching bag.

Score: 2083
Rank: 14,844
Round Rank: 76,796
Cash: $36,500

(https://i.imgur.com/0Fnpaw2.png)

Good: Ridley, Hewett, Hinge, Rowell, Cogs, Daicos, Witts, Dunkley, Xerri, Martin, Durdin (bench), Gibcus, Dixon
Pass: Neale, Horne-Francis, McCartin
Bad: Rich, Crisp, Ryan, Macrae, Ward, Hayes, Grundy (possibly harsh), De Koening
Ugly: Miller captain, Hough, Stephens, Rachele, Butters

What a fricken disaster. My big 3 back prems flopped again.
My two big gun mids scored under 100 with me picking the worst of my 4 options for captain.
Butters gets cleaned up by his teammate and scores horribly.
I held Ward instead of using my boost and dumping him to a cheaper mid and grabbing Brodie instead of Rachele.
I also didn't take the cash making duo of Caldwell and Brodie over Hewett and Rachele. I wanted to stay away from Rachele all pre-season due to the small forward inconsistencies and ended up grabbing him anyway to see a pathetic 36.

I'm inclined to hold this week and hope my team bounces back. Skinner is out injured. Rioli and Dow are too expensive. I might hold out for Preuss next week. I am a little unsure of potential downgrade options otherwise and I may need a couple of price rises before I make any trades.

Join the club and as you have seen from mine similar.  We can all hope bounce back this week.

Is Rachele to Rioli worth the trade as Rioli -40 breakeven makes $60k week one assuming he plays this week

Quote from: whynot102 on April 06, 2022, 08:32:07 PM
Is Rachele to Rioli worth the trade as Rioli -40 breakeven makes $60k week one assuming he plays this week

Possibly. Rioli did kick 4 goals and play a pathetic North with a ton of mid time for his big score. I think I hold this week and look at Preuss next week as a cash gen option.

Right now I feel the weak spots in my team is M8 or F6. Rachele to Rioli may fix it. It means I play Cogs at M6 pushing Daicos to M8 with Martin at F6.

With Stephens out I'm contemplating Stephens to Rioli. Thoughts?

Quote from: Mat0369 on April 08, 2022, 10:43:50 AM
With Stephens out I'm contemplating Stephens to Rioli. Thoughts?

Rioli projected to go up 100K over the next two weeks, not a bad trade option from that perspective.

Yeah he seems like a nice cash grab and with Stephens every chance of being sub I'd be tempted for the cash gen and to not have to field Rachele

Stephens avoided being the sub which I guess is a bonus. I still don't know how he gets back into that team unless they have an injury to Florent/Heeney/McInerney who appear to be the three main guys rotating along the wings. I'd probably be inclined to just cut my losses and keep the  cash gen going. 4 trades over 4 rounds isn't horrendous, but it also isn't ideal. Preuss for Rachele seems like the move for next week but I lose my DPP link with this trade which makes it tough. Hayes may be the other option if he doesn't make it back in. I'd likely have to do a Rachele to McInnes to afford it.

Score: 2185
Rank: 16,731
Round Rank: 44,529
Cash: $13,500

(https://i.imgur.com/jHQ4VBx.png)

Good: Hewett, Rich, Crisp, Daicos, Horne-Francis, Neale, Macrae (C), Grundy, Witts, Martin, Rioli, Rachle, Dixon
Pass:  Dunkley, Miller, SDK
Bad: Ryan, Ridley, McCartin, Cogs, Rowell
Ugly: Hinge, Cripps, Xerri, Butters, Gibcus, Hough, Ward

Injuries seem to be hurting with Hinge and Cripps both being subbed off. I am thinking just the one trade this week in Hinge to O'Driscoll. I missed the original price rise but it banks some quick cash. I am holding Cripps since he is expected to only miss one week. I have had some cash gen stall with the rookies and some have kicked off again.

Rich and Grundy have already been disappointing this week. I need Ryan and Ridley to bounce back or both will be on the chopping block with Zorko and Lloyd the likely targets.

I am also thinking Hayes to Hayes when he is on the bubble. A nice little downgrade to a guy that looks to have great JS with Lycett out for 3 months.

Quote from: Mat0369 on April 15, 2022, 05:53:31 PM
I am also thinking Hayes to Hayes when he is on the bubble. A nice little downgrade to a guy that looks to have great JS with Lycett out for 3 months.

Hayes to Hayes exactly my thinking, good call.

I hate my team

Not Robinson Crusoe there Matt.  Injuries and prems up and down really making for a trying time.

Score: 2045
Rank: 31,520
Round Rank: 93,133
Cash: $112,500

(https://i.imgur.com/1vd70y0.png)

Good: Crisp, Hewett, Macrae (C), Neale, Cogs, Daicos, Ward, Butters, Xerri, Martin, McCartin, O'Driscoll, Hayes, WardW
Pass:  Ryan, Rich, Miller, Witts, Dunkley
Bad: Ridley (consistently underperforming), Rowell, Hayes and O'Driscoll's scores on the bench, Rachele
Ugly: Grundy, Horne-Francis, Rioli, SDK, Durdin, Ryan's third quarter

I have some problems with my team, some are pretty straight forward. I have underperforming or inconsistent premiums on just about every line.

My rookie situation is a bit of a crap show, especially when I am fielding the wrong ones.

I think I need to make some drastic changes. The players on the chopping block are below

Ridley - Scores of 68, 102, 115, 74 and  82. Two of those scores look good, however 3 of his 5 scores are pretty much 80 and under. With guys like Zorko, Pedndles, Stewart, Doc, Sinclair, Sicily, Houston and a handful of other scoring well above where he is at it feels like I might need to cut my losses while he still has currency

Ryan - The first half looked promising, he had close to 60 points in the first half before sitting on around 68 at 3QT. He has scores of 70, 156, 74, 77 and 91. It feels like there may be too many mouths to feed in that Freo backline, his intercepting has declined and even when he was taking the kickouts he wasn't playing on. I feel a little better about him than Ridley, but it is a worry and he may need to go for the same reasons if he is putting up a bunch of 70's each week with the odd big score.

Rowell - A massive 157 in round 1 had me thinking he would be living up to the potential we saw in his rookie year. Now I look at the opposition in WC and how his performances have followed. He has been a huge let down since that monster score with only 1 other ton and bunch of crap scores. He is out this week, the question is who can I turn him into?

JHF - It will come down to his BE, but he is another I might look at giving the chop just because he could begin to bleed cash. I'm leaning towards hold because he is a rookie and they put up these clunkers. He looks to have a good role and could make me some more cash.

Rachele - Small forwards don't score well consistently. His goal sense is ridiculous and it is why he has probably scored better than most. It will come down to his BE

Rioli - Last week was a disaster. He has earnt me some cash, but he may already be topped out. With the Eagles gun mids back in he is seeing less midfield time and he needs to hit the scoreboard to supplement his scores.

I am going to play around with my trade options and come back. But it is really, really frustrating to have back to back clunkers. Barely cracking 2k is pretty embarrassing in itself and I need to trade hard to correct my issues. 5 weeks is probably a good enough sample size to make the call on a couple of players

So I am thinking of the following trades

Ridley>Sinclair
Rioli>Kreuger
Rowell>Parish

Leaves me with 2k in the bank.

The other mid I am considering is Brayshaw which leaves me with Witherden, Zorko, Sicily or Houston.

If I grab Steele the best defender I can afford is Houston, Saad, Daniel or Brayshaw. I don't think it's worth making that trade right now.

Other option is to jump on Tom Mitchell coming of a monster score and possibly bottomed out but it would leave me the same options as Parish.

I fell like Zorko and Parker will be good options but they are a couple weeks away from being real cheap and the fact the Zorko is limping every week worries me.

Before I post my team, I am just going to post my trades for the week.

I realised at one point that if I grabbed Rosas it would have allowed me to pick up Steele and Sinclair. I had those trades pencilled in up until Friday morning when I got cold feet. I was worried that with Jones returning next week it could see Sinclair spend less time in the middle and I was thinking that GWS would send Ash to Steele in a tagging role. That would see Steele drop in price and be an option down the track.

I decided that I could move Daicos into the backline and start Daicos and O'Driscoll at D5 and D6. This would allow me to pick up two premium mids. I was tossing up the following options

600k+ - Brayshaw, Laird and Olvier

Under 600k - Trac, Parish, Mills and Mitchell

I thought Oliver would be an option for next week so I held off and grabbed Brayshaw instead. Because I planned to grab Oliver over the next week I figured Trac would eliminate himself from contention from a bye perspective. Same goes for Mitchell. That left me with Mills and Parish. I was sucked in by Parish and his performance in the ANZAC Day game last year.

While Rosas ended up being a late out (and has cooked my forward line in the process), Kreuger injured himself early so that looks like the right trade. Having said that, my two original options on the Friday, or the Oliver/Mills combo were the best bet. My team is an absolute mess and it looks like it may be due to some poor trading

Cheer up Matt, I had an absolute mare myself but I'm sticking to my process and hopefully things will fall into place.

This year is different to others, generating cash hugely problematic due to a lack of rookies. I've been trading in the centre square, focusing on BEs.
My rank horrible after this week but there's still a lot of people without future cash gen so I think you will be good, you still have most of the cows.
Hayes this week seems the only viable option, Hobbs didn't impress me and he's expensive. Don't worry about Rosas as he will most likely come into most teams.

Yep Matt you are not alone.

I stuck with my original plan and traded Rosas in. As Bully says most people may or may not have cash making rookies. Trading over the next few weeks will assist to get a lot of teams back on track. My rank is very low atm as well.  So basically go with gut over the next few weeks.

Hang in there Matt I have had a good start hopefully can hold on now ranked 44 overall

Finn Callaghan is another I would consider, 198k but he's a guy I would be happy to field.

So here it is
Score: 2179
Rank: 29,650
Round Rank: 34,722
Cash: $17,200

(https://i.imgur.com/6tYtOGc.png)

Good: Crisp, Hewett, Rich, Ryan, Daicos, Gibcus, De Koning, Parish, Cripps, Cogs, Grundy, Witts, Dunkley, Martin
Pass: Neale, Brayshaw, Xerri, Horne-Francis
Bad: Macrae, Miller
Ugly: O'Driscoll, Rachele, Ward, Butters, McCartin, Hayes, Durdin

Captain choices and rookies the killers yet again. A couple of missed starting picks are coming back to bite me. Butters is the one that worries me, he was close to not playing with gastro so he may be another to hold, however I have bigger fish to fry with F5 and F6 a mess.

Quote from: Bully on April 25, 2022, 06:55:59 PM
Cheer up Matt, I had an absolute mare myself but I'm sticking to my process and hopefully things will fall into place.

This year is different to others, generating cash hugely problematic due to a lack of rookies. I've been trading in the centre square, focusing on BEs.
My rank horrible after this week but there's still a lot of people without future cash gen so I think you will be good, you still have most of the cows.
Hayes this week seems the only viable option, Hobbs didn't impress me and he's expensive. Don't worry about Rosas as he will most likely come into most teams.

I have seen some of the other teams and they do have a horrid rookie situation. I feel I have a lot of guys that can start making some coin (Gibcus scoring well helps). I also have a couple that have topped out like Rachele and now McCartin.

The idea is to try and use my boost this week and fix as many of these issues as possible. All pre-season I wanted to avoid Ward and Rachele and got sucked in while passing up on Brodie. Touk over Steele/Oliver is another that over the last handful of weeks is also hurting.

My original trade plans have gone out the window since I don't have the cash for Oliver anyway. Key number 1 is getting Cogs back into the forward line.

Quote from: Ringo on April 25, 2022, 07:09:21 PM
Yep Matt you are not alone.

I stuck with my original plan and traded Rosas in. As Bully says most people may or may not have cash making rookies. Trading over the next few weeks will assist to get a lot of teams back on track. My rank is very low atm as well.  So basically go with gut over the next few weeks.

I tried to reverse it as well but couldn't because De Koning was locked and I couldn't swing. Kreuger injuring himself in the game makes me feel a little bit better about that decision. Being a calf I would expect him to miss a couple weeks. Same goes for Dixon.

Quote from: whynot102 on April 25, 2022, 08:06:04 PM
Hang in there Matt I have had a good start hopefully can hold on now ranked 44 overall

That's a pretty great result. Keep pushing and be smart with your trades. Someone like a Libba or a Parker could be a prime candidate for the forward line. I'd also consider holding out for the next DPP update, Bont could gain forward status and be a difference maker.

Quote from: Bully on April 25, 2022, 08:30:27 PM
Finn Callaghan is another I would consider, 198k but he's a guy I would be happy to field.

Yup, got my eye on him when I started mucking about with my trades. I moved Cogs forward and Callaghan to M8. Hobbs is the only other mid rookie on the bubble I believe.

Could have bigger fish to fry again with news that grundy may have done PCL (pending scans) and could be out for a while

Quote from: arbel on April 26, 2022, 02:09:43 PM
Could have bigger fish to fry again with news that grundy may have done PCL (pending scans) and could be out for a while

I can hold Grundy a week and run Hayes at R2. F6 is still a bigger problem than R2.

I have made these trades which aren't an immediate fix, but it may solve my problem the week after.

Rachele, McCartin and Hayes to Hayes, Callaghan and Parker.

I also have Parish in doubt for this week with his ankle although scans cleared him of structural damage.

My team will look like this with my question marks in red

Crisp, Hewett, Rich, Ryan, Daicos, O'Driscoll (Gibcus, SDK)
Macrae, Neale, Brayshaw, Parish, Miller, Cripps, Parker, Horne-Francis (Ward, Callaghan, Hough)
Witts, Hayes (Grundy)
Dunkley, Butters, Cogs, Xerri, Martin, Rosas (Durdin, Dixon)

Grundy I will use as a loop option this week and then hopefully turn him into Gawn next week. Dixon and Rosas are both listed as tests, hopefully one can get up otherwise I could be screwed with Durdin on field. Callaghan should cover Parrish if he misses with injury.

Parker vs Libba? I think both will average 100+ but I suppose Parker adds a bit of balance. Very easy to do an all Dogs forward line this year.

Dunkley, English, Libba, Treloar, Bont???

Agreed on all those Dogs. Libba I think is around 550k and Parker is 470k. I only have around 500 to play with and Parker will have a low BE with the 39 out of the rotation.

Boak is the other one to keep an eye on. Rozee into the middle is seeing him start at HF and push into the contest.

Xerri out adds another kink in my side. So far my team as it stands looks like this

Crisp, Hewett, Rich, Ryan, Daicos, O'Driscoll (Gibcus, SDK)
Macrae, Neale, Brayshaw, Parish, Miller, Cripps, Cogs, Horne-Francis (Ward, Rachele, Hough)
Witts, Grundy (Hayes)
Dunkley, Butters, Xerri, Martin, McCartin, Rosas (Durdin, Dixon)

Red are my players out
Brown are guys in doubt

My forward line is an absolute mess. R2 is the other main problem. I should have coverage on other lines.

My original trades were Rachele, McCartin and Hayes to Hayes, Callaghan and Parker. It leaves me with $37,800.  It also leaves me open to a donut if Rosas doesn't play

(https://i.imgur.com/xKhjpzZ.png)

With Xerri out I swung McCartin back, will likely have to field SDK or Durdin in the foward line and can afford Libba instead of Parker or go any mid or DPP option under Tom Mitchell in price.  Picking Libba it leaves me with $54,800 in the bank.

(https://i.imgur.com/mzCKMuJ.png)

Last option is trade out Hayes, Grundy and Rachele for Hayes, Callaghan and just about any mid I want. That would likely be Oliver or Steele. It leaves me with this and 170k in the bank
(https://i.imgur.com/N4fQdEa.png)


I think I am leaning towards option 3. It puts me in a bit of strife next week potentially with my R2, but I think it gives me the best coverage and I can loop rookies on every line. I am thinking Oliver over Steele just to save the cash.

That's a nice looking midfield, I think I'm a bit behind in the middle.

Quote from: Bully on April 28, 2022, 07:34:45 PM
That's a nice looking midfield, I think I'm a bit behind in the middle.

3 perms in a fortnight into the middle. Steele will be my last upgrade. It was at the expense of one defender (two upgrades left) and my R1. Running Hayes at R2 is a risk I have to take.

Key is fixing my forward line, in particular my F6 spot where I'm bleeding points. No Brodie has really hurt.

Score: 2249
Rank: 42,066
Round Rank: 78,645
Cash: $170,000

(https://i.imgur.com/mYrgbn8.png)

Good: Crisp, Daicos, Gibcus, Neale, Olvier, Parish, Miller, Cripps, Witts, Dunkley, Cogs, Martin, SDK
Pass: Rich, Callaghan
Bad: O'Driscoll, Brayshaw, Horne-Francis, Butters (was looking to go huge and stalled), Durdin
Ugly: Macrae Captain, Ryan, Hayes R2, Dixon, Rosas

Another week, another bad captain score and poor rookies to kill my round.

I should have stuck with my initial trades to bring in Parker instead of Oliver. It means I roll with either Cripps VC or Macrae VC dodging the captaincy bullet. Plus Parker has gone up just enough so I can't afford him with 1 trade.

Brayshaw has been a flop since I brought him in. JHF may need to go this week. Ryan and Rich are still putting up mediocre scores and I'm just about done with Ryan. My R2 could be a black hole with Hayes if he scores sub 60 while other run a Gawn/Preuss combo. I need to work out my priorities for this week.

Not alone this week with the C choice, Unfortunately so many rookies near peak and need to get them of field as soon as possible. I would use a boost this week with 2 down and one up. Or if you want to save boost one down and JHF to Parker.

I can do Ward to McComb and Xerri to Parker with 2 trades and have a chunk of change.

Next week JHF to Clark is a lock. That will allow me to upgrade McCartin.

If I use my boost this week there are no good upgrades available. Best move is to sideways Ryan out of my team or maybe turn McCartin into Preuss

Score: 2379
Rank: 28,118
Round Rank: 1804
Cash: $131,800

(https://i.imgur.com/QE2x9nV.png)

Good: Crisp, Rich, Daicos, SDK, Macrae (C), Neale, Miller, Parish, Bayshaw, McComb, Witts, Hayes, Martin, Oliver, McCartin, Cripps
Pass: O'Driscoll, Gibcus, JHF, Parker, Durdin
Bad: Ryan (gotta go), Dunkley, Cogs
Ugly: Parker's second half, Callaghan, Rosas, Butters (also has to go)

The two main issues right now are Ryan and Butters. They have been anchors and I need to get rid of them sooner rather than later. I'd almost be inclined to trade them both out over the next fortnight in preps for the byes if I can't afford an upgrade with my topped out rookies. Parker was looking like an amazing trade until he scored a whopping 10 points in the 2nd half and spent a large chunk of the last quarter on the bench. I am guessing there is more to it than straight out performance. Maybe illness or a knock around half time.

Otherwise it was a pretty good week considering. My midfield carried my team with my 3 most recent trades (Oliver, Parish and Brayshaw) all scoring over 130

So what trades am I thinking of this week? I think it is time to dump Ryan. He has produced trash more often than not and has to go.

Downgrade options are Carroll, Hamilton, Rioli, Evans, Callow, Begg, Jamieson and Reid. Rioli looks like he will make the quickest cash but small forwards are a pit. Hamilton at bargain basement and with DPP is probably my pick. I just need to figure out which player to downgrade.

Rioli also has mid/forward status, I think for the extra 20k I'll go with the guy with the extra preseason.
I actually forgot about him given he played last year, thought he would have been about Naish's price, 123k is a bargain.

Rosas is the issue - do we give him another week or do we downgrade to say Hamilton and only make 90k and cut losses,
A lot of rookies are also close to their average and like most of us need to work out which ones to cull.

Quote from: Ringo on May 09, 2022, 08:59:32 AM
Rosas is the issue - do we give him another week or do we downgrade to say Hamilton and only make 90k and cut losses,
A lot of rookies are also close to their average and like most of us need to work out which ones to cull.

Rosas is 21 and seems to have ok job security, I would be holding as I think he still has another 80k to make.

I played around with my trades last night and used a boost. Ended up with something like this which I'm not sold on but could work

Ryan>Doc
Callaghan>Hamilton
O'Driscoll>Goldstein

20k left in the bank. I'd ride Goldy while Xerri is out for the cash essentially

Quote from: Mat0369 on May 09, 2022, 01:09:04 PM
I played around with my trades last night and used a boost. Ended up with something like this which I'm not sold on but could work

Ryan>Doc
Callaghan>Hamilton
O'Driscoll>Goldstein

20k left in the bank. I'd ride Goldy while Xerri is out for the cash essentially

Good trades, Goldy has another 3 weeks in the role so worth it for a month or so.

Is the 20k important? If not, I would be grabbing Rioli but if it makes a difference then grab Hamilton.

I'm $700 short of Rioli with those current trades.

Quote from: Mat0369 on May 09, 2022, 06:29:11 PM
I'm $700 short of Rioli with those current trades.

Ok, not a biggy, I think Hamilton is still good value & the other trades very good.

I'm getting cold feet on Goldy. He should be a good cash cow over the next fortnight, but I am thinking I should try and conserve trades and grab a keeper.

Just looking at his fortnight ahead,  he has Gawn/Jackson and then Ryder/Marshall. I feel the Saints rucks, particularly Ryder, are a tough team to score against.

I am tossing up a few options including dumping JHF this week instead of Callaghan. I can actually do something like this

Ryan>Docherty
JHF>Rioli
O'Driscoll>Zorko

That actually leaves me with $0 in the bank

Those trades look good, squad will have plenty of depth heading into the byes.

Trust the byes are OK for you Matt.

Trades look good. I held off Zorko due to Rd 14 bye being a little heavy for me same with Doch so went for Dawson

So I was tossing up Libba, Zorko, Lloyd and Goldy. I had Libba in until about an hour before bounce because I was undecided and wanted time to assess my bye structure (kinda regretting that now)

My team with byes highlighted

Crisp, Doc, Hewett, Rich, Zorko, Daicos (Gibcus, SDK)
Macrae, Miller, Oliver, Cripps, Brayshaw, Neale, Parish, Hamilton (McComb, Callaghan, Hough)
Witts, Hayes (Dixon)
Dunkley, Parker, Cogs, Butters, Martin, McCartin (Durdin, Rosas)

Bye structure breaks down like this

12 - 4 premiums, 2 mid price options (Cogs and Butters), 6 rookies - 16 expected
13 - 5 premiums, 6 rookies - 18 expected
14 - 5 premiums, 1 rookie - 18 expected

So pre trades I may be better off looking at someone with the last bye. That will be one of Zorko or Goldy.  I think I am still leaning towards Zorko as long as his calf is okay. Otherwise I'll probably go with Goldy and the cash

Score: 2181
Rank: 26,994
Round Rank: 21,500
Cash: $131,800

(https://i.imgur.com/p7L8txl.png)

Good: Crips, Doc, Hewett, Zorko, SDK, Neale, Miller, Macrae, Parish, Witts, Dunks, Parker, Butters, McCartin, Durdin, Hamilton
Pass: Rich, Daicos, Oliver, Cripps, Brayshaw, Callaghan, Rosas
Bad: Martin
Ugly: McComb, Dixon, Cogs

Tossed up between Zorko, Goldy, Libba and Lloyd. All ended up being good picks, Zorko's last quarter saved disaster, but I feel Goldy may have been my best bet with Hayes being disappointing.

Cogs was awful, Butters probably holds his spot. Getting rid of Ryan was a great move at this point and I gained close to 45 points in that trade to Doc. Hamilton over Rioli also looks to be a solid decision with the extra cash coming in handy this week.

I'm leaning towards two trades right now but need to assess BE's. I am thinking Callaghan to Clark and Daicos to Sinclair. It leaves me with $15,400 in the bank.

Nice trades but can you afford another prem out in Rd 12 my only concern.

I have 11 premiums available in round 12 pre trades and I'd say 17 playing with rookies. I think it is a pretty good spot.

Score: 2373
Rank: 22,956
Round Rank: 14,850
Cash: $15,400

(https://i.imgur.com/xZfrvvW.png)

Good: Hewett, Crisp, Sinclair, Rich, De Koning, Oliver, Parish, McComb, Witts, Dunkley, Parker, Butters, Cogs, McCartin, Durdin
Pass: Zorko, Macrae, Brayshaw, Hayes, Gibcus, Rosas, Dixon
Bad: Cripps, Doc, Neale captain and second half, Clark
Ugly: Miller, Hough, Martin


I was pretty happy with Sinclair in this week. Neale's second half was horrid and saw a potential huge captaincy score turn into a basic ton. I was contemplating Oliver but was in the car for the end of the Dogs game and was thinking Macrae was a VC lock. The Dees game had started and it was too late to make that swing so I backed in Neale.

I think Martin is primed to go after a couple back to back sub 60 scores and losing 16k this week. Gibcus is close to topped out so downgrading him to Cleary also makes sense.

Issues in my team

M8 needs an upgrade
R2 needs someone consistent
I'd like to see some bigger scores from Brayshaw but not really an issue.

So my trades this week

Gibcus>Cleary
Martin>Any player under 610k

I can grab either a mid, forward or R2. Top contenders are

Mid 8 - Walsh/Josh Kelly. I really like the Walsh pick, but I want Laird to finish off my midfield. Grabbing Walsh leaves me with $0
R2 - Gawn makes the most sense but he is due to drop in price. Other potential contenders are Darcy who I really like, Preuss or English with the intention to move him forward when Gawn drops in price.
F5 - English is probably the top contender here again since the forwards don't stand out. Heeney, Taranto, Libba and Treloar are the others that I would consider.

Option D is grab a Bont/Boak knowing they will likely get DPP. I'd be more inclined to grab Bont if that is the route I go down. If I grab a mid or ruck this week that means I will have to field one of Durdin, Rosas or Dixon at F6 which could be messy.

(https://i.imgur.com/cpeVBg2.png)

That midfield looks pretty juicy. F6 not so much. $22,500 left and I would move Bont to F5 with McCartin pushed to F6 when the DPP changes come out.

Andy Brayshaw is an interesting statistical case study, he's a 50% chance to go sub 100 but his floor is solid and generally manages to hit the nineties.

I think for him to be uber premo he needs to lift that floor to 100, probably won't happen this year but his rate of improvement will see  him nudge 118 in the next couple of years.

Hows the byes Matt - Not a lot of downgrade options coming through either just hope some on the radar in the next week or two. Rd 13 is a killer with 7 of your bench having the bye,

Quote from: Ringo on May 24, 2022, 08:51:52 PM
Hows the byes Matt - Not a lot of downgrade options coming through either just hope some on the radar in the next week or two. Rd 13 is a killer with 7 of your bench having the bye,

I'll check it now

Crisp, Doc, Hewett, Rich, Zorko, Sinclair (Cleary, SDK)
Macrae, Miller, Oliver, Cripps, Brayshaw, Neale, Parish, Bont (McComb, Ward, Hough)
Witts, Hayes (Dixon)
Dunkley, Parker, Cogs, Butters, McCartin, Durdin (Hamilton, Rosas)

Bye structure breaks down like this

12 - 5 premiums, 2 mid price options (Cogs and Butters), 3 rookies - 17 expected pre trades (not counting Hough and Dixon)
13 - 6 premiums, 7 rookies - 16 expected (counting Hamilton)
14 - 6 premiums, 0 rookies - 20 expected

I can afford to move some of those rookies when their bye comes up in round 13 to either round 12 or 14 rookies. I think I should be okay and I will hold a boost for that round to make 4 trades if I need to

Just hope some pop up for you to downgrade and make some cash for upgrades  Looking nice though

I still have 15 trades so I can probably get creative with sideways trades

So Cleary out and Hayes on an extended bench is a worry. If Hayes gets named I will probably roll the dice and keep my current trades. If not I am considering two moves

Option 1

Out

Martin
Hayes

In

Stephens
English

$2,500 left in cash

Option 2

Out

Gibcus
Martin
Hayes

In

Cleary
Stephens
Darcy

$198,600 in the bank

Have you considered Wehr instead of Cleary? I'm still open to this if Hayes is named.

GWS have the bye next week. I'd rather grab him for SDK the week after if he is named

Freako saying Hayes will play

I'm reverting back to Cleary and Bont. I want Gawn at R2 so heading into the byes it benefits me to hold Hayes. I can't get Stephens if I get Bont so I'll live with the trades

Quote from: Mat0369 on May 27, 2022, 05:42:43 PM
I'm reverting back to Cleary and Bont. I want Gawn at R2 so heading into the byes it benefits me to hold Hayes. I can't get Stephens if I get Bont so I'll live with the trades

What are Cleary's chances of getting a game next week?

I've heard he was rested but the back 6 looks pretty settled. Smith probably comes in for West next week. Williams had a career best game but it may be a team balance situation. I think it's worth the risk since players appear to be routinely missing and he has good scoring and cash making potential

Quote from: Mat0369 on May 27, 2022, 06:32:47 PM
I've heard he was rested but the back 6 looks pretty settled. Smith probably comes in for West next week. Williams had a career best game but it may be a team balance situation. I think it's worth the risk since players appear to be routinely missing and he has good scoring and cash making potential

I have 1 hour to make a call if it's McCartin in the gun, De Koning can get the job done too so perhaps I should just wait for tonights game.

If Rioli puts in a big game & Mills puts in a good VC score might just go ahead with the English trade as the loop becomes gold.

If that plan fails I will look at Cleary and grab Bont, fielding Hayes for one more week.

Kind of hoping my loops make the decision easy.

Worst case if Cleary doesn't come back he becomes a loop option for me. Right now I'm hoping Dixon doesn't play so I can vice Neale

Would be wary on Neale though Matt - De Boer named and expect he will go to Neale.

Quote from: Ringo on May 27, 2022, 08:17:30 PM
Would be wary on Neale though Matt - De Boer named and expect he will go to Neale.

I saw Ash is in as well

Unfortunately I may have no other options. Maybe Oliver but I'm not sure if I can.

Score: 2409
Rank: 22,435
Round Rank: 27,843
Cash: $22,500

(https://i.imgur.com/J6eJGqV.png)

Good: Hewett, Sinclair, Docherty, SDK, Oliver, Neale (C), Parish, Cripps, Clark, Witts, Dunkley, Parker, Butters, Rosas, McCartin
Pass: Crisp, Macrae, Bont, Miller, Brayshaw, McComb, Cogs
Bad: Hayes
Ugly: Rich, Zorko, Durdin

These Brisbane defenders are killing me. I think I will assess Rich around his bye, not sure what happened with Zorko but that score is atrocious.

I should have gone ahead and grabbed English last week and Bont this week. I can still make that move at some point over the next couple of weeks but he is going to be way to expensive.

I need to decide on my trades this week but I have nothing yet. McCartin and SDK both have another week of cash to be made. I have no one to trade Durdin Hayes or Dixon to this week. I'm honestly a little stumped, maybe I hold this week since I should hopefully have 20.

Could grab Owens a week early & look at ways to get Dixon up to English

Difficult one for you given JS of rookies you have and still cash to make. Bit left Field if you want to go early McCartin to Owens and Dixon to Darcy Cameron.  Alternately could sit especially if you still have a boost left.

Best of luck through the byes

As you know have same issue with Rich Zorko and how wrong can you be with assumptions as deBoer went to Rich and Ash had a fair stint on Zorko. First time this year Rich has been accounted for.

I think when calculating cash you need to account for the fact English is sitting on a BE of 55, he's also going up in price.

Grabbing Owens early isn't such a bad move either, he's not getting dropped, don't think you need to wait for the team sheets.

Quote from: Ringo on May 31, 2022, 08:27:17 PM
Difficult one for you given JS of rookies you have and still cash to make. Bit left Field if you want to go early McCartin to Owens and Dixon to Darcy Cameron.  Alternately could sit especially if you still have a boost left.

Best of luck through the byes

As you know have same issue with Rich Zorko and how wrong can you be with assumptions as deBoer went to Rich and Ash had a fair stint on Zorko. First time this year Rich has been accounted for.

I have two boosts left. Plan was to use one next week and one in case of emergency down the track.

I think I would rather hold McCartin this week from a cash gen perspective. It is an option using Durdin, Dixon and Hayes to bring in Gawn and a DPP donut this week. That is kinda tempting me and leaves me with about 75k

Quote from: Bully on May 31, 2022, 08:37:40 PM
I think when calculating cash you need to account for the fact English is sitting on a BE of 55, he's also going up in price.

Grabbing Owens early isn't such a bad move either, he's not getting dropped, don't think you need to wait for the team sheets.

That two in round 1 makes me feel a little dirty. English in would be amazing, however I am already kinda screwed next week. I think the last bye makes sense to try and get him in. I think if I make the three trades this week it would have to be between him and Gawn

With 2 boosts I would sit this week with 20 available and use 3/4 next week.

Thanks Ringo

With no trades I'll have 18. I can make 3 trades this week to bring in Gawn and an extra player. Leaves me 12 trades, 2 upgrades, 2 boosts and 100k in the bank

I was hoping to be able to afford Walsh next week but I might have to get a little more creative. I can probably grab Merrett and a Dusty/Taranto who are both out of form.

If I pick Walsh I'd probably be looking at Toby Greene or Ladhams for ruck coverage

I'm really glad I brought Gawn in

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 04, 2022, 09:30:23 PM
I'm really glad I brought Gawn in

Perfect timing.

Yup. At 550k I felt that would be his bottomed out price. Glad I made that call

Touk VC was a bonus as well. It's resulted in a pretty good week so far. Just need my Lions trio and Brayshaw to have great games

Score: 2032
Rank: 14,641
Round Rank: 2,547
Cash: $91,800

(https://i.imgur.com/ngatuEI.png)

Good: Rich, Zorko, SDK, Oliver, Miller (C), Brayshaw, Witts, Gawn, Bont, McCartin, Rosas
Pass: Crisp, Macrae, Parker
Bad: Neale, Dunkley, Zorko's 2nd quarter
Ugly: McComb Hough, Clark

Trading in Gawn was a masterstroke. VC on Miller also paid off. Zorko scored ridiculously well when he was on the field but missed basically the whole 2nd quarter after being stuck on the bench for 8 minutes and then coming on and injuring his hand

Trades for this week

SDK, Clark, McComb and McCartin out

Walsh, Wehr, Mountford and De Goey in

That leaves me with 8 trades, 41k, one boost and a 'completed' side. Other forwards I can afford with Walsh include the following

Gresham
Taranto - injured and will still drop a lot in price
Rozee
Hill
Anderson
Stringer - see Taranto
Rioli
Toby Green - only 380k.

Most of the forwards I like are all on bye this week and out of reach price wise. I can swing some players around to be able to afford Dusty but he has been underwhelming.

The three mids I would consider right now are Walsh, Kelly and Merrett. Kelly is the same as Walsh in regards to the list of forwards. Merrett opens up any forward under 590k and the only two without the bye this round are Cameron and Brodie

I'm honestly leaning towards the Walsh De Goey/Taranto/Greene combo

Wehr on an extended bench is a worry. These are the combos I've come down to

Walsh/Greene/Marchbank
Merrett/Marchbank/De Goey
Walsh/Wehr/De Goey
Walsh/Wehr/Greene

Marchbank has great JS and may be okay at D7 if he stays healthy. That's the big if. I don't know if De Goey is worth the extra cash over Greene

I really want Walsh, but the extra 100k could be really handy next week if I want to make some sideways trades

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 10, 2022, 02:30:45 PM
Wehr on an extended bench is a worry. These are the combos I've come down to

Walsh/Greene/Marchbank
Merrett/Marchbank/De Goey
Walsh/Wehr/De Goey
Walsh/Wehr/Greene

Marchbank has great JS and may be okay at D7 if he stays healthy. That's the big if. I don't know if De Goey is worth the extra cash over Greene

I really want Walsh, but the extra 100k could be really handy next week if I want to make some sideways trades

I like Walsh & De Goey although you could look at Greene as a mini cash earner who is undervalued by 50k or thereabouts.

2 more positives for Greene

He has had his bye
He has North this week

So I get him next week which could also be crucial

One last option

Merrett, D Cameron and Marchbank
Leaves $900

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 10, 2022, 04:04:45 PM
One last option

Merrett, D Cameron and Marchbank
Leaves $900

The problem with Cameron is the imminent return of Grundy, I think he could be a liability, particularly around finals time.

Marchbank I think is a waste, never really been a great scorer and is coming back from a big lay-off. Save your dough.

Wehr in so I've gone for Walsh and Greene plus the cash.

Cash should be best best for any sideways moves. I haven't got a lot of cash gen left

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 10, 2022, 05:55:13 PM
Wehr in so I've gone for Walsh and Greene plus the cash.

Cash should be best best for any sideways moves. I haven't got a lot of cash gen left

Good luck, at least with Greene he won't go down much, if at all, not a terrible temporary solution and you get the extra match.

Unfortunately all the guys I want have the bye this week. Might be a stop gap until Taranto is fit

What a disaster this round has been so far. I have had 3 players subbed off in Parish (my VC), Owens and Zorko. Brought in Walsh who scored a 75 instead of the cheaper Merrett.

Thankfully I have a boost and 8 trades left.

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 11, 2022, 10:57:29 PM
What a disaster this round has been so far. I have had 3 players subbed off in Parish (my VC), Owens and Zorko. Brought in Walsh who scored a 75 instead of the cheaper Merrett.

Thankfully I have a boost and 8 trades left.

At least you can trade Zorko to a playing premo, although you'll need to find some extra cash, in some ways that forced trade works to your advantage.

As for Owens, I'm also stumped, maybe down to a non playing m/d, will have a think but he won't be back anytime soon. Ay least he made 24k.

None of the big trade ins worked out except for Sinclair, Darcy also bombed, I don't think you are behind the eightball, maybe Zorko hurts a little but get him out and grab a 110 guy.

I think this is where the Greene cash is going to come in handy vs De Goey. It's looking like a necessity. Unfortunately my mid bench will be Hough, Owens and Mountford. Forward bench is Rosas and Hamilton. Ruck is Teakle. Backs Wehr and Cleary. My coverage is f'ed

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 12, 2022, 01:26:44 AM
I think this is where the Greene cash is going to come in handy vs De Goey. It's looking like a necessity. Unfortunately my mid bench will be Hough, Owens and Mountford. Forward bench is Rosas and Hamilton. Ruck is Teakle. Backs Wehr and Cleary. My coverage is f'ed

Wehr & Cleary is running the gauntlet, if you can hold out until Dean gets a run you might get lucky. I'm not game to open D7 to that extent.

I'm just mulling over my moves next week, I might not even trade, just depends on numbers which is now down to 18 after the Owens incident.

Score: 1944
Rank: 9,749
Round Rank: 7,104
Cash: $99,800

(https://i.imgur.com/CCsGWAN.png)

Good: Sinclair, Crisp, Doc, Rich, Wehr, Oliver (C), Neale, Brayshaw, Cripps, Cogs
Pass: Hewett,  Butters, Greene
Bad: Walsh, Gawn
Ugly: Parish, Zorko and Owens all subbed

Not a bad result all things considered. Walsh stunk it up, Parish, Zorko and Owens were all subbed. Greene was meh and Gawn may also be injured? Even when things went horribly wrong I still was able to climb up the rankings

Trades this week I am a little unsure of how to move forward. I have 8 up my sleeve and 100k to make this work.  I'll start playing with some options

Considering the following

Parish/Owens/Zorko to Laird/Clarke/Cumming.

I can also afford Short (highest priced defender I can afford). I don't know if Parish plays this week and I need to field 18. Zorko the other that could be missing long term with the hamstring. It also depends on the Gawn situation. It leaves me with the following bench coverage

Wehr/Cleary at D7/D8
Clarke/Hough/Mountford at M9/M10/M11
Teakle at R3
Rosas/Hamilton at F7/F8

Clarke opens up a DPP swing in the middle, Mountford in defence. I can then use Wehr/Rosas to cover any missing players on those lines. It is pretty gross but might be necessary for now. Ideally I can turn Rosas into someone decent in a couple of weeks. The downside is I have 0 cash gen with none on the horizon.

I'm not overly fussed about cash gen now, I think building some structural flexibility a good move.

So I'm leaning towards this

Parish > Laird
Gawn> English
Zorko>Cumming/Short/Blicavs/Lloyd (probably in that order)
Owens>Clarke

I'm worried about the corkie Parish had. I'm having flashes to Danger this year missing multiple weeks

4 trades and 11k left

With Parish officially out I think you are making the correct call.

Nice trades and agree now that Parish is out.

Toby Mother F'ing Greene

Pity I brought in Cumming this week  :'(

Score: 2066
Rank: 4871
Round Rank: 200
Cash: $11,200

(https://i.imgur.com/RhsTinA.png)

Good: Sinclair, Hewett, Doc, Laird, Macrae (C), English, Bont, Dunkley, Parker, Cogs, Greene, Hough
Pass: Wehr, Walsh, Miller
Bad:  Witts, Butters, Cripps, Clarke
Ugly: Cumming, Teakle

Overall it was a pretty great round. I can't complain too much, but I will  :P

Toby Greene is looking like a bargain basement pick. Macrae skipper was more dumb luck than anything at this point.

Cumming is the one that hurts. What an absolute stinker.

Trades this week, probably none. I'll hold Butters since he is only expected to miss 2 weeks and with 4 trades left it might not be worth burning through them. I'll loop Clark and Rosas this week instead.

If it's 2 weeks I may also hold however trading down to Heeney gives me just enough funds to go Ridley to Stewart next week, I'm tempted.

The only question is how many rounds can I survive with only 1 trade in the bank.

I expect finals to be pretty chaotic. I think I'd want to bank trades if I can with limited coverage. I'm about 1500 points behind first so my overall dreams are well and truly over, even with my team finally getting a decent run. In the last 7 weeks I've moved from 42,066 to 4,871 which is huge. I do have a small cash league so winning that may become my focus.

In your case you have pretty good coverage along multiple lines so you can take that risk. It's the season ending injuries which will be killers.

What's funny is we keep getting more and more trades each year, yet we're still running out

We are all pretty much in the same leaky boat with trades and how we use them may decide where we finish.

Just a thought with Butters is it worth a trade down to Luke Jackson to give ruck coverage for you as well.

Probably need to get Butters up to a playing ruck, not sure who but I would be looking at Darcy or Jackson.

Yeah, I have 0 cash in the bank and not sure if I want to waste 2 trades with Jackson since he will be worth nothing when Gawn gets back for SC finals. If I trade Butters my options are any ruck McInerney down. That's with me swinging English forward and him also potentially missing two games. The options aren't very appealing

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 21, 2022, 06:14:27 PM
Yeah, I have 0 cash in the bank and not sure if I want to waste 2 trades with Jackson since he will be worth nothing when Gawn gets back for SC finals. If I trade Butters my options are any ruck McInerney down. That's with me swinging English forward and him also potentially missing two games. The options aren't very appealing

Cull a rookie, you will need to do this at some stage anyway, Blicavs might be handy as a makeshift ruck, you could then plonk him in defence down the track.

I thought about culling a rookie. It leaves me with 2 trades if I do, but I have 0 rookies that have earnt any cash other than Rosas with no one to cull to. My coverage is trash. I'm almost thinking the trades are more valuable unless a rookie ruck gets named that I can sideways Teakle to

The best scenario for you would be to grab Jackson, use him for a month as primary ruck, his price should edge towards 500k, then sideways to a premo.

The other advantage is you will have some cash in hand to maximise your remaining trades, you can still add significant value to your your squad, particularly on the depth side of things.

Gawn is 2-4 weeks, I guess if Melbourne are still struggling they will push it closer to two weeks, I still think it's worth a stab if you want to avoid a donut.

I had a look at all the ruck options. Trading Butters my best bets were Marshall or Hickey for pure rucks. I ended up taking Jackson with the idea of flipping him down the track. It allowed me to pocket 90k and I have 3 trades remaining. I ended up making Oliver my VC. Two good moves so far. I've used English to take the score

I'll loop Clarke and Rosas with Teakle

I'm projected for about 2550 once my captain score kicks in so I'll take it

Quote from: Mat0369 on June 24, 2022, 12:07:29 AM
I had a look at all the ruck options. Trading Butters my best bets were Marshall or Hickey for pure rucks. I ended up taking Jackson with the idea of flipping him down the track. It allowed me to pocket 90k and I have 3 trades remaining. I ended up making Oliver my VC. Two good moves so far. I've used English to take the score

I'll loop Clarke and Rosas with Teakle

Good move, well played.

Quote from: Bully on June 24, 2022, 12:08:40 AM
Good move, well played.

Thanks, running the flip will be risky but you made a good point with the cash gained. Ideally I can flip him to a legit ruck option and then English moves forward for ruck coverage purposes in 1 trade.

It will leave me 2 for any LTI's that may occur to other players. I'm happy to lump rookie scores if I have to. The donuts are a different story and knowing I could get 90 points in and some solid coverage for the month made it worth running that risk.

So far it's paid off, but a lot of my trades have looked that way to be burnt the next week

Nice moves Matt well done. Oliver got on hos bike after quarter time.

Score: 2485
Rank: 4,097
Round Rank: 6,163
Cash: $101,000

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Good: Hewett, Rich, Wehr, Oliver (C), Laird, Macrae, Walsh, Witts, Jackson, Bont, Cogs, Dunkley
Pass: Doc, Cumming, Neale, Miller, Cripps
Bad: Sinclair, Crisp, Brayshaw, Hough, Parker, Greene
Ugly: Rosas, Clarke

Overall an okay week. Jackson panned out, I had some down scores after some big ones last week.

I had the choice of fielding 2 players this week to cover English, both were complete duds of the highest order.

As long as Rosas/Hough don't lose money I can hold them for one more and then get creative with my last 3 trades.

I'm hoping Libba can put up a stinker and maybe grab him for M/F coverage or provide a loop with Greene

Libba & Parker are the two I'm also looking at, I think having a DPP on the midfield bench will be a necessity the way the rookies keep faltering.

With no English I am also contemplating making two trades this week and bringing in Heeney instead. Otherwise I am looping Rosas/Clarke again which is a recipe for disaster.

If Jackson misses I'm eating a donut. Ruck has been a headache for me

Cripps and Laird also in doubt which is fun

Score: 2305
Rank: 6,851
Round Rank: 54,426
Cash: $101,000

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Good: Sinclair, Cumming, Wehr, Oliver, Laird, Miller, Walsh, Brayshaw, Hough, Neale, Bont, Cogs
Pass: Hewett, Macrae, Cripps, Parker, Neale Captain
Bad: Doc, Crisp, Greene
Ugly: Rosas, Rich, Jackson/English donut

Terrible week. Rich and his hamstring were a disaster. He was scoring pretty well up until that point as well

Jackson/English have been terrible trades in for me and resulted in a donut for me. What also sucks is that Gawn is back and he is the guy I was banking on missing time hence the trades involving both

Greene has gone from a steal to lacklustre.

While Neale looks good on paper as my captain, a lot of teams had Oliver.

I probably just hold my trades for this week if I can field a full team. Otherwise Rosas is the one on the block. I am almost tempted to see if I can make a trade involving him and my available cash for some better bench coverage.

With Jackson being named and English virtually confirmed I would also sit Wehr can cover Rich for a week (I also have Rich). Not sure how many trades left you have and if 4 or less would sit and use for sideways if not performing eg Cripps with 3 scores in a row less than 100 starting to be a worry.

Could go Rosas to Hobbs for stronger bench but risk there is Hobbs gets dropped as happened last week and then reprieve. Jackson can cover two lines but need to watch his scores with Gawn back. Hough is providing reasonable cover in mids. Hobbs will cover two lines as well if you go that way,

Score: 2280
Rank: 7,667
Round Rank: 30,552
Cash: $101,000

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Good: Sinclair, Doc, Hewett, Oliver (C), Laird, Miller, Brayshaw, Cogs, Parker, Witts
Pass: Macrae, Bont, English
Bad: Crisp, Walsh, Neale, Cripps
Ugly: Cumming, Wehr, Hough, Greene, Jackson, Rosas

Really poor round again. My team has hit the skids and I don't know how to fix it with so few trades remaining. Hindsight says I should have never traded Gawn and Butters.

The plan has been to turn Rosas into Taranto. I was short on cash last week and would have needed to make two trades. I held hoping they could both swing enough to make it with 1 trade. Rosas did the unthinkable, scored -8 and pinged his hamstring.

Cumming since I traded him in has had his two lowest scores. Greene has come back to earth, Jackson has been a major flop, Cripps and Crisp have hit a form slump.

With Oliver out this week I have to use Hough for coverage. I am a bit stuck on how the hell I turn Rosas into competent bench coverage with my lack of rookies.

Wehr to Sonsie via Hough, you can now use Hough on two lines, that gives you enough cash to get Rosas up to someone decent.

I wouldn't beat yourself up over trading Gawn, you were staring down a donut otherwise, once Jackson is on the bench the team looks fine.

Quote from: Bully on July 15, 2022, 10:07:06 AM
Wehr to Sonsie via Hough, you can now use Hough on two lines, that gives you enough cash to get Rosas up to someone decent.

Most of the players available are still trash. I feel the play is maybe try and sideways Greene and Jackson at some point but at the same time I am in a tough spot with no coverage. When Zorko comes back he might be a decent option to cover my M9/D7 spot on the cheap.

The forwards are hard because the only two I  like are Libba and Taranto. I can't afford Libba and Taranto isn't worth burning the 2nd trade.

Right now I am going to sit and assess coming out of this round. I just feel my team is on the downswing in the overall standings and a couple extra trades would come in handy right now.

Score: 2344
Rank: 8,224
Round Rank: 27,109
Cash: $101,000

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Good: Sinclair, Cumming, Wehr, Laird, Miller, Neale, Macrae, Walsh, Bont, Greene, Jackson
Pass: Cogs, Parker, Brayshaw, Crisp, Doc, Hewett
Bad: Cripps, Witts, Dunkley
Ugly: English, Hough

Another week down, another average performance.

I took the safe score from Macrae which was a win if I took Miller/Neale as C but a loss considering Laird scored 154

Hough was awful while Wehr had a decent game. So I essentially still went into the round with a donut after the Hough performance.

Plans for this week. I am tempted to make 2 of my last three trades to sure up that mid/forward bench and possibly move Jackson to my bench.

Options

Rosas and Hough out

Culley/Cumberland and Taranto in

Leaves me with 1 trade left and bugger all cash. I haven't seen enough of Cumberland to know if he is worth picking. He seems to be finding the ball around the sticks quite a bit which is a bonus. But I also figure he is the first out when Dusty is back next week

Other option is Marshall now that Ryder is out long term

Score: 2276
Rank: 9,046
Round Rank: 29,350
Cash: $12,400

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Good: Sinclair, Laird, Miller, Neale, Walsh, Cripps, Cumberland, English, Bont, Cogs, Taranto
Pass: Parker
Bad: Doc, Crisp, Wehr, Oliver (C), Macrae, Witts
Ugly: Rich, Cumming, Brayshaw Vice last minute, Dunley, Greene, Jackson

One trade left, potential donut and unsure what to do from here. The original hope was for Wehr to make enough cash, turn him into Zorko and be good to go

Unfortunately with Rich and Hewett out I need to make a call on one and now. I'm leaning towards dumping Rich and turning him into one of Atkins, Pendles, Blicavs, Lloyd or Zorko.

I would be more inclined to dump Hewett due to the comment made earlier in the week that he is no certainty for next week

George Hewett (back)

- Continuing to manage his back and will miss this week
- Is currently a week-to-week assessment to play

Rich only concussion although looked bad should be back next week.

Saad also worth a look

I was looking at Saad and he either scores huge or low 70's. Trading Hewett I can afford Vlaustin/Dale who are both tempting

Actually add Brayshaw to the list. Just looked at his numbers and they're impressive

Score: 2299
Rank: 10,009
Round Rank: 35,211
Cash: $1,200

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Good: Sinclair, Laird, Miller, Neale, Walsh, Brayshaw, Cripps, Parker, Dunkley, Cumberland
Pass: Doc, Bont
Bad: Vlastuin, Cumming, Oliver, English, Witts
Ugly: Wehr, Crisp, Macrae, Taranto, Greene, Jackson

Terrible week saw me lose my double chance. If I swapped in Brayshaw I probably win my match-up. I also didn't realise Cogs was out and would have moved Cumberland on field which also sucks.

Can't do much other than ride it out from this point.