Teams 2024 Fantasy Rate My Pre-Season Team

[Catastrophe!]

Mine at the moment:


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Assume he's a placeholder, but Lawson definitely won't be playing Round 1. Good team otherwise!

 

[PAFC27]

What's the forward line you are running with?

I’d rather not say…
Adams, Billings, Fyfe, Jordon, Macrae, Reid

 

[Corkintheocean]

My current seup. $125k cash - would love to find another $62k to get up from Heath to Sweet.

Looking to punish Gawn & Grundy pickers with running a no bye English (c), RoMa (vc) setup.

Think Gawn will go 110 but break down at some stage with the burden he will be carrying. Grundy I think is shot. Don't fancy him to avg more than 90.

Can loop best score of Coffield & Curtin/other rook in Rd 2 & 3 when Williams and Budarick have the bye. Might give me a bit of a cash jump on other defences batting so deep with decent mid pricers and no low scoring defender rooks (Gibcus/Pink).

Obviously thin in the mids but they'll all be generating good coin.

Not keen on Adams but can wait and see Rd 0 and/or flick him at his bye if someone bobs up. Like Phillipou to move up the ground and start scoring handsomely.

 

[JDWCE]

My current seup. $125k cash - would love to find another $62k to get up from Heath to Sweet.

Looking to punish Gawn & Grundy pickers with running a no bye English (c), RoMa (vc) setup.

Think Gawn will go 110 but break down at some stage with the burden he will be carrying. Grundy I think is shot. Don't fancy him to avg more than 90.

Can loop best score of Coffield & Curtin/other rook in Rd 2 & 3 when Williams and Budarick have the bye. Might give me a bit of a cash jump on other defences batting so deep with decent mid pricers and no low scoring defender rooks (Gibcus/Pink).

Obviously thin in the mids but they'll all be generating good coin.

Not keen on Adams but can wait and see Rd 0 and/or flick him at his bye if someone bobs up. Like Phillipou to move up the ground and start scoring handsomely.

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What makes you say that about Gawn?

His games played recently is pretty damn good for a ruck

 

[Barrybran]

What makes you say that about Gawn?

His games played recently is pretty damn good for a ruck

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Durability is great until its not. Look at most vanilla teams and they have some combination of Gawn, Grundy, Stewart, Yeo, Fyfe, Laird, Guthrie, Macrae. That's a lot of older players. What's the probability they all make it through to the main byes?

 

[Catastrophe!]

Durability is great until its not. Look at most vanilla teams and they have some combination of Gawn, Grundy, Stewart, Yeo, Fyfe, Laird, Guthrie, Macrae. That's a lot of older players. What's the probability they all make it through to the main byes?

Yeo and Fyfe I'll give you, but the rest aren't injury prone at all. There's not really any data to base this assertion off, IMO.

 

[Barrybran]

Yeo and Fyfe I'll give you, but the rest aren't injury prone at all. There's not really any data to base this assertion off, IMO.

I'm not saying any of them are injury prone however the probability of injury increases as players get older. Pick a big enough pool of players and someone is likely to go down.

 

[JDWCE]

Durability is great until its not. Look at most vanilla teams and they have some combination of Gawn, Grundy, Stewart, Yeo, Fyfe, Laird, Guthrie, Macrae. That's a lot of older players. What's the probability they all make it through to the main byes?

Yeah **** having all of those. I’m just querying Gawn as he does have a good track record. I mean if you compare him to English and Marshalls games played then Gawn comes out on top

 

[squashface]

A new iteration. Proud new English owner.

Was really keen to get down to only 2 rooks on the field in the midfield but was struggling to find the coin to get it done. Ended up with the mindset that Fyfe increasing his midfield minutes, Young heading into the midfield and Freo also needing to give minutes to Johnson and Erasmus means there are a lot of mouths to feed in that midfield. That was my justification for turning Brayshaw into Guthrie and Wardlaw and moving Sharp to the bench.

Forward line still makes me want to vomit but is what it is this year.

 

[Corkintheocean]

What makes you say that about Gawn?

His games played recently is pretty damn good for a ruck

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He's been splitting the role the last 3 years. Which has afforded him the ability to get his rest when banged up while still playing.

The reason I'm not picking him in large part is because everyone else is. If either Gawn or Grundy go down in the first 2 months, it will be hard to get up to English and Marshall. No Oliver early doors might impact Gawn's scoring aswell. If they are losing clearance, he won't get to setup behind the ball as much as if they win clearance and go forward.

I also like the value elsewhere on the field, and so don't want to have $600k in the bank.

Will largely be Rd 0 dependent though. Happy to eat humble pie and switch if they both go 120 against each other.

 

[RowellAnderson12]

im going english and marshall so that means any other combo is the correct one

 

[WaynesWorld19]

im going english and marshall so that means any other combo is the correct one

I'm going Marshall / Grundy .....Marshall 20 x 100's last year .....better than English

 

[Catastrophe!]

I'm going Marshall / Grundy .....Marshall 20 x 100's last year .....better than English

Changed your tune from previous iteration I see

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Changed your tune from previous iteration I see

Yes, although I'm retaining English / Gawn in SC .....but Marshall had 20 ton's in Fantasy against English's 15 tons

And the SAINTS early fixture is better than the WB

 

[Catastrophe!]

Yes, although I'm retaining English / Gawn in SC .....but Marshall had 20 ton's in Fantasy against English's 15 tons

And the SAINTS early fixture is better than the WB

Yeah I've gone that way too. Still got Gawn and Grundy, but bye wise, I much prefer Marshall paired with Grundy over English.

Also the Lobb factor too, whereas with Marshall there's legitimately no-one besides Heath - and he's nowhere near the Best 23.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Yeah I've gone that way too. Still got Gawn and Grundy, but bye wise, I much prefer Marshall paired with Grundy over English.

Also the Lobb factor too, whereas with Marshall there's legitimately no-one besides Heath - and he's nowhere near the Best 23.

IMO the Lobb factor is over-hyped .....he's not a good Ruckman, and hates it, despite what he may say publicly

Only point on Grundy, is if I end up wanting Jordan & Adams ....that's 3 x SYD players on an early bye ....

 

[Barrybran]

IMO the Lobb factor is over-hyped .....he's not a good Ruckman, and hates it, despite what he may say publicly

Only point on Grundy, is if I end up wanting Jordan & Adams ....that's 3 x SYD players on an early bye ....

How about Fyfe and MacDonald? Or Xerri instead of Grundy?

 

[Catastrophe!]

IMO the Lobb factor is over-hyped .....he's not a good Ruckman, and hates it, despite what he may say publicly

Only point on Grundy, is if I end up wanting Jordan & Adams ....that's 3 x SYD players on an early bye ....

Yeah the R5 bye is an absolute bitch this year. Would love to have all of Gulden, Naicos, Grundy and TAdams - but you just can't do it. Add in Jordan and Fin Macrae - and it's a nightmare.

Think most will have 3 if not 4 missing that round - so I guess you just have to choose the most desirable and leave the rest. For me I've got Grundy, Adams, Fin and Naicos. Naicos could change to Sic or Sinclair though...so it really depends on how PS matches go.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

How about Fyfe and MacDonald? Or Xerri instead of Grundy?

Fyfe, not in Fantasy ....and will be a strong candidate for being subbed out

Moore being out, probably anchors MacDonald to the FWD line, IMO

Xerri, being so lowly priced ...if he gets injured, you have to muck around with your structure too much, to get a higher priced Ruck

 

[Exambolor]

I've mulled like a few of ditching English for Gawn..... but i just know it's gonna come back to bite me like last year.

 

[Jessbek]

There seems to be a lot more options this year compared to recent years.
Finding myself leaning into the best 18 scores with some of these picks.

Walsh has entered my squad for the first time this preseason, no idea on how these early byes are going to impact things and he is extreme value. If rookie madness occurs will shift to the Gawndy combo.

 

[Flying_as_One1991]

Seriously considering an mid price/Rookie Forward line this year and make the other lines a little stronger. still a month away might change 100 times before then.

 

[Shaunn]

Honestly not sure what i can do to try and improve the team right now.

Only ones im willing to change is Daicos, Walsh and Dow right now. but a downgrade to a Stewart doesn't get Dow anywhere.

Think Walsh is a keep though even with the Early bye.

Any help appreciated!
$2k left in bank.


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I have 12 players out of 22 only onfield since this post lmao.

 

[Frederico_WA]

How about Fyfe and MacDonald? Or Xerri instead of Grundy?

Xerri AND Grundy ....

 

[WaynesWorld19]

There seems to be a lot more options this year compared to recent years.
Finding myself leaning into the best 18 scores with some of these picks.

Walsh has entered my squad for the first time this preseason, no idea on how these early byes are going to impact things and he is extreme value. If rookie madness occurs will shift to the Gawndy combo.

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That's a very good side, if all the role changes come off ....not sure of the scoring capacity of Zac Reid, Pink, or Gibcus ...they could be a real slow burn