Trades Round 7 Trades
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Right now looking at Libba out as well. Done his job. Picked up Collins initially with the intention of having him there on the bench to the byes but Scrimshaw, Hore and Wilkie look fine for JS for now. Need a R13 bye in my midfield and think Treloar is the man.
Collins -> Answerth
Libba -> Treloar.
Collins -> Answerth
Libba -> Treloar.
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I think based on b/e's and other things I might be better off doing Libba to Merrett rather than Duursma to Merrett
Am I still better off dumping the rookie, even on the back of a 90 ?
Am I still better off dumping the rookie, even on the back of a 90 ?
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I don’t understand this. Back when we only had 20 trades there was a big difference between playing for overall or league, because you could potentially run out of trades by round 10, and many people in cash leagues held trades for finals which restricted their overall rank. But now with 2 trades per week which can’t be saved there’s basically no difference between playing for overall or playing for league IMO.
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Looking at a bit of a POD trade this week
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Scrimshaw to Ziebell (Rozee back)
Otherwise maybe Rozee to Dalhouse
Would rather keep rozee for another couple weeks and Ziebell constantly sits around the 85-90 mark so should score the same as dalhous.
Also looking ahead to the bye rounds and I’m conscious of my rnd 13 bye players that are adding up
Would make everyone on field over 400k from next week onwards
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Scrimshaw to Ziebell (Rozee back)
Otherwise maybe Rozee to Dalhouse
Would rather keep rozee for another couple weeks and Ziebell constantly sits around the 85-90 mark so should score the same as dalhous.
Also looking ahead to the bye rounds and I’m conscious of my rnd 13 bye players that are adding up
Would make everyone on field over 400k from next week onwards
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Well if I had a tougher weekly match up in my league I'd go Libba to Rocky/Merrett. I don't need to do much to win this week so I'm taking the double downgrade instead
Granted, overall probably remains unaffected as I won't win anyway but I'll slip a fair bit this week because of it (but win the league match)
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I wouldn't be picking Ziebell because his 100 was only due to the fact that he was in the midfield, and the only reason he was in the midfield was because Shaun Higgins was out with sickness. You'd think Higgins would be back soon, most likely next week, which means Ziebell probably returns to scores like his 32 in Round 5, which would really ruin your weekend.
If you were only focussing on league you may double downgrade on a week you verse a bad opponent and save cash to upgrade against a hard oppponent. Depending on your league fixture you may have a run of two weeks against bottom teams where you could quadruple downgrade, to double upgrade the following week and swing a surprise against your oppnent. Conventional thinking suggests four downgrades with say $1million on your bench would be a waste of points and would hurt your overall ranking, but may be beneficial in league. For example, upgrading early may lead you to select a guy who then get sinjured - if you iddn;'t need to upgrade to beat your oppnent, you'd be hamstrinigng your team for the pursuit of overall.
I play for overall, but can see different logic being used for league.
Got a choice of these two trades.. Thoughts???
1. Parker out 170K Fwd
Libba out Shiel in
2. Libba out 170K Mid
Parker out Ablett in
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1. Parker out 170K Fwd
Libba out Shiel in
2. Libba out 170K Mid
Parker out Ablett in
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Best option for about 500k except walsh?
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Careful with Ablett, he does get rested a bit
Your probably looking at a Rozee but I’d be even tempted to go all the way down to a Hayes, Ross or Constable if you don’t have them.
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Shiel or Taranto?
Both are decent PODS Shiel 2% Taranto 10% , only 12K between them..... Giants have great run coming up... stuck for which one
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Both are decent PODS Shiel 2% Taranto 10% , only 12K between them..... Giants have great run coming up... stuck for which one
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Fair enough.
I don’t even look at my league opponents each week. I just aim for the best overall rank at the end of the year and if I’m successful my league matchups will look after themselves.
If you were 2 weeks out from finals and we’re on the brink of Top 8 I could understand strategic trading but early on if you trade according to matchups I believe you’re potentially hurting the best team you could achieve by years end.
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The way I figure it, if you focus on overall you'll end up winning more matchups than you lose so are likely to make finals. Once in finals, you'll be more likely to have a stronger team to win it.
And with BF leagues, you could win it and still end up getting demoted if your overall rank is average. So I reckon focusing on overall is the way to go.
As someone who traded Ziebell in last year, my advice is AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
Pretty much ruined my season with that trade (plus one other week of bad trading early).
It depends though, I think if you’re trying to win your leagues you probably have more of an opportunity to focus on cash generation rather than trying to get the most points possible each week, and as a result you may finish with a team superior to some of the highly ranked teams, but you’ll be too far behind to have a chance of winning. I focussed on leagues last year after getting frustrated with my start and ended up with a really high team value. Was flying home in the rankings after the bye rounds but was way too far behind to go close
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Interesting, I'm using that exact strategy and focusing on overall! My aim is not necessary to get a great score each week, but to just keep within striking distance. At the moment, I'm sitting 2.5k and about 500 points off the lead. Happy enough where I am at the moment, hoping I do as you did and make up that ground post byes with a strong team. It helps that I started with some of the right players (Lloyd, Whit, Cogs, Danger etc), I've been able to score well and focus on rooks/cash gen at the same time.
i went 2nd option but Shiel instead of Adams
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Whats everyones thoughts on baker v larkey? I know next to nothing about either of them in terms if JS or ceiling.
Looks like Larkey is the go given the cash discount.
But bakers heatmap looks the goods (lots of time in middle and snuck forward for 2 snags). Larkey spent all his time forward and kicked 3. That wont happen every week.
Parker/petrucelle/drew and balta all my options to trade out for either of them.
Trade 1 likely libba -> answerth.
Trade 2 can either be grab one of larkey/baker or upgrade petrucelle to anyone (already have danger/kelly/worp/heeney). Keeping an eye on martin but think I can wait 1 more on him.
Looks like Larkey is the go given the cash discount.
But bakers heatmap looks the goods (lots of time in middle and snuck forward for 2 snags). Larkey spent all his time forward and kicked 3. That wont happen every week.
Parker/petrucelle/drew and balta all my options to trade out for either of them.
Trade 1 likely libba -> answerth.
Trade 2 can either be grab one of larkey/baker or upgrade petrucelle to anyone (already have danger/kelly/worp/heeney). Keeping an eye on martin but think I can wait 1 more on him.
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If Cam Guthrie gets another score in the 90s I might consider trading Scrimshaw to him next week. Would prefer to offload Drew though.
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Exactly what I was trying to explain but couldn’t quite be as articulate as you put it. Focusing on overall gives you a stronger team in finals so you end up with the best chance of winning the league anyway.
