Discussion 2024 AFL Fixture & Byes

[spudmaster]

Certainly keen to see how all this new shenanigans impacts on SC. Everyone's in the same boat at least, but it could be interesting with lockouts etc, particularly early on.

 

[Ander228]

Freo and Port have the best fixture in terms of byes, assuming round 0 is not going to count.

 

[Significant]

Don't know how Round 0 cannot count. Will and should be included in history, scores, averages, etc. and you can't just discount that. It effectively places players at 8 teams at a disadvantage in playing one less game the entire season.

Don't think it's going to happen. More likely it's a reduced scoring round. Reckon a best 10.

 

[TryAnHit]

Agree round 0 will count. Will make starting sides very different if loopholes and taking first week scores vs waiting.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Confirmed match simulations

All games live on Kayo Sports

Wednesday, February 21
North Melbourne v Collingwood, Arden St, 10am AEDT

Thursday, February 22
Sydney v Greater Western Sydney, Tramway Oval, 10am AEDT
Carlton v Geelong, Ikon Park, 11am AEDT
Brisbane v Gold Coast, Brighton Homes Arena, 5pm AEST

Friday, February 23
Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn, Whitten Oval, 11am AEDT
St Kilda v Essendon, RSEA Park, 2pm AEDT
Port Adelaide v Adelaide, Alberton Oval, 5pm ACDT

Saturday, February 24
West Coast v Fremantle, Mineral Resources Park, 4.45pm AWST

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[kool kangas]

Confirmed match simulations

All games live on Kayo Sports

Wednesday, February 21
North Melbourne v Collingwood, Arden St, 10am AEDT

Thursday, February 22
Sydney v Greater Western Sydney, Tramway Oval, 10am AEDT
Carlton v Geelong, Ikon Park, 11am AEDT
Brisbane v Gold Coast, Brighton Homes Arena, 5pm AEST

Friday, February 23
Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn, Whitten Oval, 11am AEDT
St Kilda v Essendon, RSEA Park, 2pm AEDT
Port Adelaide v Adelaide, Alberton Oval, 5pm ACDT

Saturday, February 24
West Coast v Fremantle, Mineral Resources Park, 4.45pm AWST

Game has been changed from Arden st due to new turf being laid...

Wednesday, February 21
North Melbourne v Collingwood, AIA Centre, 10am AEDT

 

[SC fish]

The next few bye rounds 2, 3, 5 and 6 are best 18 right?

 

[Ken Tea]

The next few bye rounds 2, 3, 5 and 6 are best 18 right?

Correct

 

[kaiserchief13]

Correct

All pre season I read posters talking about can't have too many players who played in opening round. Looks like you could definitely have 1 from each team if it's best 18

 

[Ken Tea]

All pre season I read posters talking about can't have too many players who played in opening round. Looks like you could definitely have 1 from each team if it's best 18

How many on each line was where it got tricky to pick a team, Fwds a good example, Flanders, Heeney, Jordon SexTON, Cadman, Windsor.

 

[SC fish]

Correct

Great, makes it less of an issue having Gibcus, ZReid and ZWilliams all out next week.

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

Great, makes it less of an issue having Gibcus, ZReid and ZWilliams all out next week.

Gibcus is out for the year, better to trade him now?

 

[SC fish]

Gibcus is out for the year, better to trade him now?

Correct, provided there is a decent bubble boy I can afford.

Thinking of trading Fyfe down to Lyons now, so I have enough for a straight swap Gibcus to D'Ambrosio if required.

If Hore goes alright today I reckon I'll keep Fyfe and just do Gibcus to Hore this week

 

[kool kangas]

On my current team l will have 0 players out in round 5.
1 in round 6,
5 in round 12,
5 in round 13,
3 in round 14 and
3 in round 15...

so l'm planning to keep at least 2 bonus trades for rounds 12 and 13 just in case l need to use 4 trades in a round..

 

[Faz 2000]

I still just randomly start day-dreaming about the insanity of the AFL fixture this year. Try explaining it to someone.

A sensible foreign sports fan comes to visit. Let’s call him Ron. He sees footy on the TV.



Ron: Oh, cool, I like this footy. It’s pretty rough though. Do they play every week?

Me: Yeh…. Well, no.

Ron: What do you mean?

Me: Well, they play 23 games.

Ron: Everyone plays each team once?

Me: NO! That wouldn’t be enough games.

Ron: Oh, they play everyone TWICE!

Me: NO! That would be too many games. There are 18 teams and they play 23 games.

Ron: Seems a bit weird. Do they just sort of randomly assign games?

Me: NO!

Ron: Oh, it’s based on where they finished last year.

Me: NO!

Ron: Anyway. Whew, 23 weeks, that’s a tough season.

Me: NO! It’s 23 games over 24 weeks.

Ron: They have a mid-season break or something? Makes sense.

Me: NO! We have byes.

Ron: Bye, week off, same same.

Me: NO! Not everyone has the same week off.

Ron: Oh half the team’s one, week, half the teams the next?

Me: NO! There’s 18 teams that doesn’t work.

Ron: Right, right. So over three weeks. 6/6/6.

Me: NO! 6 teams one week.

Ron: Yeh.

Me: 6 teams another week.

Ron: … that’s what I’m-

Me: TWO teams then.

Ron: ...

Me: Then… 4 teams.

Ron: Wh… OK, so I get it, everyone has a week off…. Bye…. 23 games over 24 weeks.

Me: NO! We added a round this year.

Ron: Oh, there’s a round 25?

Me: NO! At the start. Round 0.

Ron: Oh, I see. We call that an exhibition game.

Me: NO! It still counts.

Ron: Right, so everyone plays an extra one this year.

Me: NO! Only 8 teams.

Ron: So 8 teams play an extra early game… then take the first week off?

Me: NO! They can’t all have the bye at once. Only 2 per week.

Ron: Like those 8 teams take a week off, 2 at a time, for the first four weeks?

Me: NO! Everyone plays round 1.

Ron: OK, THEN 2 at a time for the four weeks after that.

Me: NO! Everyone plays round 4.

 

[buttox]

I was just wondering what's everyone's plans for the mid year byes?
My splits so far are
R12 25 possible players
R13 25 again
R14 18 yikes!
R15 22
Most of my outs for R15 are rookies I will be bye flipping them to new rookies through the byes.

 

[Test Tickle]

Fluck the byes

 

[4tune8]

I was just wondering what's everyone's plans for the mid year byes?
My splits so far are
R12 25 possible players
R13 25 again
R14 18 yikes!
R15 22
Most of my outs for R15 are rookies I will be bye flipping them to new rookies through the byes.

Taking a different approach this year and aiming to have 18 premos/Mp's available each week with whatever cover is available via the bench.

Round 12: 13 premos and 5 MP's Bowes/Drew/Sweet/Fyfe/Reid
Round 13: 16 premos and 2 MP's Bowes/Reid
Round 14: 17 premos and 1 MP Fyfe
Round 15: 18 premos

 

[No eye deer]

What byes?

 

[Ingy]

By going fairly heavy on Port and Freo players, I think I'll be in reasonable nick for the other rounds.

Young in defence.

Serong and Wines in mids.

Sweet in Ruck

Jackson and JHF (assuming he gets DPP) on forwards.

I'll probably end up with 20/21 in that round, but also should have at least that many for all the others

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Fluck the byes

 

[stevebbb]

Outs over the byes:

rd12: Sheez, Whitfield, Green, Heeney, Powell
rd13: Young, JHF*, Fyfe
rd14: Martin, Walsh, Touk, Oliver, Gawn, Flanders, Reid
rd15: Daicos, Bont, Steele, Meek**

*Hopefully JHF gets FWD DPP, otherwise he's getting flipped at his bye (for a rd12 bye player like Neale, Dunks or Gulden)
**Meek will become English at some stage. They have the same bye, so it's irrelevant

Even though my rd14 bye is hurting, I still think I'll bring Stewart in next week. He's too good to pass up at that price.

Not even counting rookies, it's too hard to gauge at this stage.

 

[Jiska]

I was just wondering what's everyone's plans for the mid year byes?
My splits so far are
R12 25 possible players
R13 25 again
R14 18 yikes!
R15 22
Most of my outs for R15 are rookies I will be bye flipping them to new rookies through the byes.

Same as all the other Byes we’ve had so far; put the blue dots on the bench