Discussion 2025 Fantasy Pre-Season Planning Discussion
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Mine at the moment. Not sure if I'll end up going with Darcy, but my reasoning was Darcy+Farrell/McKercher/some other defender in that range>Marshall/Xerri+ the 3rd best scorer of the rookie defenders I go with.
New year, new version! Pretty content with the current lineup but constant tinkering will mean it end up absolutely nothing like this I’m sure.
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Think all our teams are yet to suffer the ol death by a 1000 swaps - you look well placed through the early byes so maybe 999 swaps
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Something to consider regarding mid-season byes: 7 of the 8 teams with early byes are on the round 14 and round 16 byes. So if you're avoiding early bye players your starting team will be skewed towards the round 12, 13, and 15 byes (almost definitely worth it, but still to be considered). Richmond arguably has an even better bye than St. Kilda and Fremantle, because if you take out the teams with early byes, they're the only round 14 bye team.
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Thoughts on D Rioli?
I think he goes bananas, will be interesting to watch OR.
If he scores 100+ watch his 4% ownership sky rocket
I think he goes bananas, will be interesting to watch OR.
If he scores 100+ watch his 4% ownership sky rocket
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Bye in round 2. Would need to go massive (like 130+) for me to consider starting him. Would rather not have premos (or underpriced premos) on any of those early byes.
Any injuries or late outs for any of your other premos and suddenly you're having to field 7+ rookies. That makes me nervous (even if its best 18).
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If he has the role that Flanders had last year, and he's the only one doing it then he's worth a shot for sure.
But as you mentioned, you can probably wait till after his bye and jump on if he seems like he's a must have by then.
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Currently injured fyi (MCL). Think he was supposed to have surgery but haven't seen an update
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Did see that, couldn’t find an update anywhere
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I was hesitant at starting early bye players last year but felt like I learnt you don’t need to be that hesitant.
Let’s say you have Tom Green and Rioli on that bye, it gives you two extra field on field (looking at a normal structure and including Hewitt that’s 7. 22 on field means you’ll have 15 premium/mid prices and then 3 rookie scores and I’m sure players like Draper, Travaglia and Jagga will push out reasonable scores.
I don’t think it looks that bad on paper.
Everyone still looking at avoiding early byes as much as they can???
I also saw a really relevant post by I believe Duke of Windsor about early byes have later byes. I’m really keen on Walsh this year but that’s adding another player to round 12 (hardest round to play I think) and so many other relevant teams on that round. Is it better going a player who has round 14/15 bye? Like a Green or Merrett (both have early byes I’m aware) or are we not thinking that much into it?
My team at the moment round 12 would have 5 players: Dale, Walsh, Rozee, DeKoning, Daniel (not including rookies)
