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In terms of Dogs players:
  • Personally I'd stay away from Boyd for the moment as we're just not sure how much longer he's going to be a best 22 mainstay, nor are we sure if he'll maintain his scoring average this year. Niggling typical "older player" injuries started to hit last year, and we have inside midfielders with more serviceable disposal lining up for senior experience in his place. The coaching staff showed last year with Daniel Cross that they're prepared to make the hard decisions with 'heart and soul' players when their form does not warrant giving them games above our brigade of youngsters. Additionally, the coach has already said that he'll be tried in various roles this year, including as a tagger and as a medium forward. Obviously encouraging signs from NAB 1 but he wasn't scoring well until our midfield lost interest and started playing like shit, which will hopefully not happen in the season proper. Just too risky in my opinion.
  • Lachie Hunter is one everybody should be keeping a keen eye on. That said, we have a lot of young, small forward/midfielders fighting for games - Honeychurch, Dahlhaus, Hunter, Hrovat, Smith, Dickson and Higgins - and it's likely that they'll all be given games this year. While Hunter is capable of scoring highly and doing some brilliant things on-field, he does fade out of games still, which makes it hard to consider him a best 22 lock at this stage. Keep watching before you lock him in.

Not a bad structure though. Probably a couple too many mid-pricers but you've still got a good number of premiums in there so it's not too much of a problem. You might not want to go with Kolodjashnij from round 1 as I don't think he'll get many games to open the season. Maybe down the track a bit. I also don't think Lamb's scoring potential is overly high, but that's just my opinion.
 
thoughts, ideas

backs: mitchell, walker, hanely, swallow, suckling, mcdonald ( fullar, georgiou )

mids: ablett, pendlebury, watson, libba, beams, polec, ellis, crouch ( dunston, sheed )

rucks: minson, sandilands ( thurlow, currie )

forward: dangerfield, martin, mitchell, hawkins, ben kennedy, rohen ( kennedy harris, garlett )
 

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Dannnnnnnnnn said:
You've got too many mid-priced options locking your cash away in my opinion - good to have a couple as PODs but you're at the point where you're sacrificing premiums to upgrade rookies to mid-pricers (who are the riskiest proposition in the game). Pick a few of the likes of Swallow, Suckling, Docherty, Kolodjashnij, Zorko, Thomas, Sandilands, Beams, Pavlich, Daw and Fasolo and run with them, then use the leftover cash to upgrade these other guys to premiums. Your team will look much better for it in my opinion.
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Easier said than done. I still gotta pay for 30 players. Are you saying I should downgrade some of my mid pricers to rookies? sounds like a risky thing to do! All of my mid pricers are players i think will appreciate in value pretty quickly and will be upgraded asap.
 
Jcpdragonx said:
i wouldnt take daw for 50k, get rid of him. not match fit and cant string more than 2 games in a row.
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He's got a few weeks to get his fitness up, and we all know what he is capable of. Will definately score higher than last season now hes got a few games under his belt. Doubt i will keep him all season though. A bit of a risky pick but may very well pay off.
 
It seems as though im the only one with Dean Cox in my team. Hes been the number 1 ruckman for like 5 years now and just keeps on keeping on. Am I missing something?
 
Jackizm said:
Easier said than done. I still gotta pay for 30 players. Are you saying I should downgrade some of my mid pricers to rookies? sounds like a risky thing to do! All of my mid pricers are players i think will appreciate in value pretty quickly and will be upgraded asap.
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Midpricers turn out to be disappointments more often than not - every single year there are a number of mid-pricers "returning for injury," "set for a breakout year," or, "set for more midfield time." The frustrating part is that most of them will end up burning you.

Rookies take lesser scores to increase in value, and also have higher ceilings. If you have a $115k rookie scoring 80 and a $300k player scoring 80, who's going to earn you more money? The rookie will, as they're further from the price that an average of 80 corresponds to. Thus, somebody who picks the rookie is earning more money than you. Additionally, they've likely used that extra money to upgrade another mid-pricer to a full-blown premium scoring 110+ reasonably consistently. So not only are you losing money, you're haemorrhaging points in comparison. Mid-pricers are only genuinely worth it if you expect them to be in the top 6 (or 8 in the case of midfielders) scorers for their position at the end of the year. Otherwise, you're losing points and cash to somebody who jumped on the right rookie at the right time. It also leaves you with so many upgrade targets that you're stuck with them for longer than you want to be, due to the limited trades each week.


Jackizm said:
He's got a few weeks to get his fitness up, and we all know what he is capable of. Will definately score higher than last season now hes got a few games under his belt. Doubt i will keep him all season though. A bit of a risky pick but may very well pay off.
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North rarely play two ruckmen. This year they've said that they're looking to play two, and it will be Currie or Daw. Currie is miles in front of Daw at this stage and Majak will be lucky to play upwards of five games this season in my opinion, short of an injury. North aren't going to go from one ruckman to three in one off-season, and Goldstein and Currie are both clearly ahead of Daw.


Jackizm said:
It seems as though im the only one with Dean Cox in my team. Hes been the number 1 ruckman for like 5 years now and just keeps on keeping on. Am I missing something?
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Will likely be rested at times this year both to conserve his body and to give the likes of Sinclair and Lycett more opportunities. He could end up an inspired choice, but at his price and given the circumstances, I think the risk associated with picking him outweighs the potential reward.


All of this said though, at the end it's completely your decision - just offering a bit of feedback as to what I think. At the end of the day it's a game of opinion and estimations - there's no way of predicting whose will and won't be the right ones. Do your research, but at the end of the day, go with what you have faith in. :thumbsu:
 
Dannnnnnnnnn said:
Midpricers turn out to be disappointments more often than not - every single year there are a number of mid-pricers "returning for injury," "set for a breakout year," or, "set for more midfield time." The frustrating part is that most of them will end up burning you.

Rookies take lesser scores to increase in value, and also have higher ceilings. If you have a $115k rookie scoring 80 and a $300k player scoring 80, who's going to earn you more money? The rookie will, as they're further from the price that an average of 80 corresponds to. Thus, somebody who picks the rookie is earning more money than you. Additionally, they've likely used that extra money to upgrade another mid-pricer to a full-blown premium scoring 110+ reasonably consistently. So not only are you losing money, you're haemorrhaging points in comparison. Mid-pricers are only genuinely worth it if you expect them to be in the top 6 (or 8 in the case of midfielders) scorers for their position at the end of the year. Otherwise, you're losing points and cash to somebody who jumped on the right rookie at the right time. It also leaves you with so many upgrade targets that you're stuck with them for longer than you want to be, due to the limited trades each week.



North rarely play two ruckmen. This year they've said that they're looking to play two, and it will be Currie or Daw. Currie is miles in front of Daw at this stage and Majak will be lucky to play upwards of five games this season in my opinion, short of an injury. North aren't going to go from one ruckman to three in one off-season, and Goldstein and Currie are both clearly ahead of Daw.



Will likely be rested at times this year both to conserve his body and to give the likes of Sinclair and Lycett more opportunities. He could end up an inspired choice, but at his price and given the circumstances, I think the risk associated with picking him outweighs the potential reward.


All of this said though, at the end it's completely your decision - just offering a bit of feedback as to what I think. At the end of the day it's a game of opinion and estimations - there's no way of predicting whose will and won't be the right ones. Do your research, but at the end of the day, go with what you have faith in. :thumbsu:
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Some fair points there, i can dig it. Im a bit iffy about having too many rookies on the field though. I cant see many if any of them averaging 80 points per game. Theres 8 spots on the bench for cash cows which is more than enough imo. You have made me rethink Majak Daw but remember hes not just a ruckman he can play up forward too! I can see him doing big things this season. As for Cox I cant see him being rested for the likes of Lycett or Sinclair. He's the best ruckman in the comp, that would be a bad move! Nic Nat might spend a bit more time in the ruck pushing Cox up forward but with that comes goals so he will make the points up that way. Appreciate the advice though mate. What does your team look like just out of curiosity?
 
Jackizm said:
Some fair points there, i can dig it. Im a bit iffy about having too many rookies on the field though. I cant see many if any of them averaging 80 points per game. Theres 8 spots on the bench for cash cows which is more than enough imo. You have made me rethink Majak Daw but remember hes not just a ruckman he can play up forward too! I can see him doing big things this season. As for Cox I cant see him being rested for the likes of Lycett or Sinclair. He's the best ruckman in the comp, that would be a bad move! Nic Nat might spend a bit more time in the ruck pushing Cox up forward but with that comes goals so he will make the points up that way. Appreciate the advice though mate. What does your team look like just out of curiosity?
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You're right here - but at the same time, taking a rock-bottom priced player protects against poor scores. If one of your mid-pricers cop a few poorer scores than you anticipated straight off the bat, you either a) lose cash as they drop in price, or b) are forced to make a trade to save yourself money. With b you've lost ground by starting a mid-pricer that scores poorly and costs you too much. With a mid-pricer you risk losing money to earn a potential ~$150k maximum in most cases; with a rookie you risk earning $5k or some other pissy amount to earn a potential $400k. In most cases it's high risk low reward vs. low risk high reward - but at the same time you jump on a good mid-pricer at the start of the season, you're ahead.

With Daw I think the problem is that he's not even amongst North's best tall forwards; Petrie and Black are locks, if you're playing Currie you also have either he or Goldstein down there on most occasions, and many more than three tall forwards and you end up with a horribly imbalanced forward line in most situations.

You could be right on Cox - stick to your guns if you're confident. As Trav 20 said - back yourself.

My team's a work in process but looks like this at the moment:
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purely an experimental side to see if i could get the cap to be fully spent.

backs: l mcdonald, strauss, mcveigh, langford, georgiou, lrt, j kelly, langdon
mids: bartel, mitchell, johnson, swan, ablett, young, tyson, hodge, polec, ellis
rucks: cox, sandilands, currie, naismith
forwards: n riewoldt, dangerfield, roughead, martin, franklin, harvey, hayes, mcinnes

dollars left - $0!

will be curious to see how this plays out in round 1...
 
dispute said:
I have 6k left in the bank

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Nice looking team, it's got a good balance to it. My only criticisms would be:
  • IMO neither of your defender bench options will play early, if at all
  • Rohan should take Bock's spot on the bench (Bock not expected back until round 3, Rohan has questionable scoring potential but will make good cash over time) and a stronger F6 would be good
  • I'm not sure that you'll be able to rely on Chappy getting full games every week.

Personally I'd downgrade one of your premium mids to a rookie to free up some cash to address these issues.
 
Noobz0r said:
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Sucked in by Grimes and Sylvia again :(
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Thats actually a decent team. Rookie picks mean nothing at this stage because after round 1 everyone will swap them over to whoever got selected and scored well. Other than Grimes and Sylvia the rest of the team is fairly solid. A couple of uniques in Wallis and Gray is alright for a POD. Dont know their fitness status mind you. Keep an eye on Naitanuis tog for round 1.
 
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Hey guys. bit confused with the whole AFL Fantasy/ Real DT split this year. First go at trying to make a team, I understand rookies aren't that as important so ignore them but is my team in the right general direction for AFL Fantasy or is it more suited to RDT. Got about $140k left in the bank as well.

All help is much appreciated as well guys
 
MrSpeaker: Avoid Ibbo, he is unreliable and easily exposed, like he was towards the end of last year. No point picking O'Meara when you can get Cotchin or Beams for around 15-30k extra. I like the balanced structure.

Dannnnnnnnnn: Really strong midfield whilst having 7-8 premiums in fwd/def is nice, however playing really low end rookies at that price could be a costly trade off for having an expensive midfield. Rookies obviously not yet finalized though. Once again I don't like Ibbo, but each to their own. I have the same 4 premos up forward so I like your taste their.

dispute: I think Chappy is finished and will probably get the vest a bit this year. Battersby will definetly not be on the park anytime soon. I like the defense, Hibberd is injured I think so that is something to watch.

Noobz0r: Might want to post that overdraft
 
Jcpdragonx said:
MrSpeaker: Avoid Ibbo, he is unreliable and easily exposed, like he was towards the end of last year. No point picking O'Meara when you can get Cotchin or Beams for around 15-30k extra. I like the balanced structure.

Dannnnnnnnnn: Really strong midfield whilst having 7-8 premiums in fwd/def is nice, however playing really low end rookies at that price could be a costly trade off for having an expensive midfield. Rookies obviously not yet finalized though. Once again I don't like Ibbo, but each to their own. I have the same 4 premos up forward so I like your taste their.

dispute: I think Chappy is finished and will probably get the vest a bit this year. Battersby will definetly not be on the park anytime soon. I like the defense, Hibberd is injured I think so that is something to watch.

Noobz0r: Might want to post that overdraft
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The only obvious issue, I think, is my F5-8. Any other thoughts?
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