Your finalised team

[Jonny27]

BAC: Ellis, Goddard, Adcock, Grimes, Broughton, Mackie, Fisher, (Cornes, Petrenko)
CTR: Ablett, Hayes, Selwood, Cross, Sewell, Gibbs, (Cockie, Anthony)
RUC: Cox, Mintosh, (Spencer, Jacobs)
FWD: Pavlich, S.Johnson, Brennan, Deledio, Didak, Volt, Higgins, (MBrown, Ballantyne)

4 Trades left

Whats your ranking?

 

[Outburst]

ranked 101 atm mate
im not sure who to get as my last mid.. Basically anyone under 425k.. im thinking sewell atm with ST close 2nd

 

[Buddyman]

Yeah my squad will be finished this week!
here it is:
Goddard
Adcock
Fisher
Mackie
Mundy
Grimes
Broughton

Geary
Grima

Ablett
Swan
Bartel
Gibbs
JS
NDS

Anthony
Hartlett

Cox
McIntosh

White
Jacobs

SJ
Riewoldt
Deledio
Pav
Higgins
Johnno Brown
Goodwin

Ballantyne
Hentschell
Unfortunately just dropped out of the top 1000 and got 4 trades left but will see what happens!

 

[senrulzisback]

ranked 101 atm mate
im not sure who to get as my last mid.. Basically anyone under 425k.. im thinking sewell atm with ST close 2nd

Very nice team mate.

Sewell would be the best option at his price IMO.

Unless you want to fork out the extra cash and get Bartel.

 

[Stubz]

Overall ranking: 230
Remaining from your salary cap: $88,900
Remaining trades: 6

DEFENCE: Goddard, S.Fisher, Mackie, Embley, Hodge, Drummond and Grimes (Houlihan/Petrenko)

MIDFIELD: ABC, Swan, Gibbs and K.Cornes (Beams/Muston)

RUCK: Cox and McIntosh (Spencer/Jacobs)

FORWARDS: Deledio, Pavlich, Didak, R.Murphy, Franklin, Higgins and Skipworth (Ballantyne/Sidebottom)

Going to finish of my team by upgrading Skipworth this week to L.Davis, despite his high BE because I really don't need the cash plus I also need the extra 20-30 points difference as opposed to an extra 5-15K.

Is 5 trades too many for LTIs? I see my weak links being: Petrenko, Drummond, K.Cornes and Franklin but I'm not even sure if they are worth upgrading/downgrading.

 

[The Newt]

Backs: Goddard, Mundy, Chornes, Hodge, Mackie, Grimes, Broughton (Grima, Petrenko)

Mids: Bartel, Selwood, Gibbs, Edwards, Murphy, Kornes (Anthony, Muston)

Rucks: Cox, McIntosh (Jacobs, Spencer)

Forwards: Chapman, Riewoldt, Deledio, JBrown, Higgins, Franklin, Didak (Hogan, Sidebottom)

My backs are pretty weak and Franklin is really dragging down my scores. Brought in Pav in the week he got injured, so went to JBrown last week. Have 5 trades left for LTI. My mids are all averaging close to or over 100, however not having Swan and Ablett is really hurting my overall score.

 

[Papa Juggs]

Franklin is worth getting rid of if you have the trades. I don't

Backs : Chornes, Lockyer, Fisher, Mackie, Lake, S.McMahon, Hargrave (Broughton, Pearce)

Mids : Ablett, Bartel, Swan, Montagna, Selwood, Cross (Steven, Meyer)

Ruck : Sandilands, Clark (Pyke, Jacobs)

Forwards : S.Johnson, Deledio, J.Brown, Franklin, Hale, Ross, Brennan (Ballantyne, Hogan)

Ranked around 3500th. Happy with my midfield made sacrifices down forward.

 

[xradioactiveman]

Definately think about upgrading atleast one of franklin and/or drummond. I think you need to risk using your trades to make a run at the top100

 

[Outburst]

Very nice team mate.

Sewell would be the best option at his price IMO.

Unless you want to fork out the extra cash and get Bartel.

yea should have got him last week
held off on the trade for an extra week because i didnt think bartel would get his be of 130 and thought rich would have a good game against the power.. How wrong i was..
Now im 8k short of bartel

 

[Ausyid]

Finally finalising this week

B: Goddard, Fisher, Adcock, Hargrave, Doughty, Grimes, Broughton (Cornes, Suban)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Corey, Selwood, Green, Gibbs (Anthony, De Boer)
R: Sandilands, Mcintosh (Jacobs, Spencer)
F: Pavlich, Chapman, Deledio, B.Johnson, Goodwin, Franklin, Higgins (Ballantyne, Walker)

5 trades remaining

 

[Stubz]

Finally finalising this week

B: Goddard, Fisher, Adcock, Hargrave, Doughty, Grimes, Broughton (Cornes, Suban)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Corey, Selwood, Green, Gibbs (Anthony, De Boer)
R: Sandilands, Mcintosh (Jacobs, Spencer)
F: Pavlich, Chapman, Deledio, B.Johnson, Goodwin, Franklin, Higgins (Ballantyne, Walker)

5 trades remaining

I like your team a lot, perfect balance between popular players and high-scoring uniques.

I should be in a similar position to you in a couple of weeks in terms of having all keepers with 5 trades remaining, just got to do my last upgrade Skipworth -> L.Davis either this week or next week. I'm still trying to figure out if ~ 20 points is worth $11K, any ideas?

Best of luck with your team mate, but I reckon on paper it is very solid and should no doubt show up in your overall ranking!

 

[ekzistenz]

Remaining salary cap: $43,100-$70,200
Remaining trades: 2

B: Goddard, C. Cornes, Lockyer, Adcock, Hodge, Grimes, H. Shaw/Broughton (Suban, Post)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Swan, Gibbs, K. Cornes, Hasleby (Anthony, Cockie)
R: Cox, Mcintosh (Naitanui, Jacobs)
F: S. Johnson, Riewoldt, Deledio, Pavlich, Higgins, Brennan, Franklin (Ballantyne, Yarran)

Teams completed after I trade in Ablett this week. Not sure whether to trade out Shaw or Broughton. Was weighing up Franklin vs. O'Keefe. Chose the wrong option there. Would have also liked to upgrade Hasleby, but he should be able to average around 95 from here on out which is decent for a final mid.

 

[Hodges]

Finally finalising this week

B: Goddard, Fisher, Adcock, Hargrave, Doughty, Grimes, Broughton (Cornes, Suban)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Corey, Selwood, Green, Gibbs (Anthony, De Boer)
R: Sandilands, Mcintosh (Jacobs, Spencer)
F: Pavlich, Chapman, Deledio, B.Johnson, Goodwin, Franklin, Higgins (Ballantyne, Walker)

5 trades remaining

Nice team. Have you traded Cox, or did you not get him in the first place?

My team has also been finalised this week. Relatively happy with it all things considered.

B: Goddard, Cornes, Lockyer, Fisher, Hodge, Gilbee, Bock (Hurley, Cheney)
C: Gibbs, Murphy, Dal Santo, Selwood, Cross, Cornes (Anthony, Muston)
R: Cox, Kruezer (Spencer, Jacobs)
F: Riewoldt, SJ, Deledio, Giansiracusa, O'Keefe, Franklin, Higgins (Ballantyne, Hentschel)

My only real concern is Gia, but im holding onto him hoping he gets back for the final couple of rounds - only aiming to win my mates league at this point.

 

[Stubz]

Nice team. Have you traded Cox, or did you not get him in the first place?

My team has also been finalised this week. Relatively happy with it all things considered.

B: Goddard, Cornes, Lockyer, Fisher, Hodge, Gilbee, Bock (Hurley, Cheney)
C: Gibbs, Murphy, Dal Santo, Selwood, Cross, Cornes (Anthony, Muston)
R: Cox, Kruezer (Spencer, Jacobs)
F: Riewoldt, SJ, Deledio, Giansiracusa, O'Keefe, Franklin, Higgins (Ballantyne, Hentschel)

My only real concern is Gia, but im holding onto him hoping he gets back for the final couple of rounds - only aiming to win my mates league at this point.

Nice team you've put together mate considering all the unlucky injuries/suspensions/omissions you got dealt throughout the season. May those DT gods have mercy on your fantasy football soul for the remainder of the season!

 

[Hodges]

Haha, cheers mate. Im going to need a heap of luck from here on out, but I really want to win my mates league.

Hows your team shaping up? Finished?

 

[BarcaRulz]

Here's my team:

Backs: Goddard, Lockyer, Enright, Gilbee, Adcock, Harding, Grimes (Broughton, Greenwood)
Mids: Swan, Gablett, Kornes, Gibbs, Cross, Foley (Hartlett, Cockie)
Rucks: Cox, HMac (Jacob, Spencer)
Forwards: Riewoldt, Deledio, B.Johnson, Pavlich, Higgins, Didak, Nahas (Ballantyne, Sidebottom)

Overall Position: 186

This week:
- will trade out Foley for J.Selwood and that should be it.
- will play Grimes/Broughton and bench Harding.
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I know Nahas isn't what most people would want in their forward line, but he has been fantastic for me, and i see no reason in trading him out right now, especially since i'm low on trades. Anyway, he's averaging pretty much what Franklin is averaging

 

[the_insid3r]

Overall ranking: 230
Remaining from your salary cap: $88,900
Remaining trades: 6

Going to finish of my team by upgrading Skipworth this week to L.Davis, despite his high BE because I really don't need the cash plus I also need the extra 20-30 points difference as opposed to an extra 5-15K.

Is 5 trades too many for LTIs? I see my weak links being: Petrenko, Drummond, K.Cornes and Franklin but I'm not even sure if they are worth upgrading/downgrading.

I just had a look at the rankings and despite your very good ranking you are still around 1k of the leader which means with 8 rounds to go you need to score additional 125ppg to make up the difference (assuming the leader stays at his weekly avg) which looking at your team is going to be very hard as there isn't enough upgrade option to make up such a difference.

Having said that I would still trade out spud Franklin to someone like S Johnson, N Riewoldt or even Chapman who will give you another 35ppg to 50ppg. You already mentioned that you will do Skipworth to Davis which will give you 20ppg. Other than that maybe look at trading out Drummond and/or Pavlich if they don't come up this week as you need big scoring players.

Upgrading KCornes to someone like L Hayes is going to give you 20ppg too but that still leaves you short of the 125ppg target.

So my point is that if you want to go for the top spot you will have to use your trades. No point keeping 5, 4, 3 trades for LTi's if you aren't reeling in the leader, however, if you only going for league wins than keep 2 or 3 trades for injuries.

 

[Ausyid]

I just had a look at the rankings and despite your very good ranking you are still around 1k of the leader which means with 8 rounds to go you need to score additional 125ppg to make up the difference (assuming the leader stays at his weekly avg) which looking at your team is going to be very hard as there isn't enough upgrade option to make up such a difference.

Having said that I would still trade out spud Franklin to someone like S Johnson, N Riewoldt or even Chapman who will give you another 35ppg to 50ppg. You already mentioned that you will do Skipworth to Davis which will give you 20ppg. Other than that maybe look at trading out Drummond and/or Pavlich if they don't come up this week as you need big scoring players.

Upgrading KCornes to someone like L Hayes is going to give you 20ppg too but that still leaves you short of the 125ppg target.

So my point is that if you want to go for the top spot you will have to use your trades. No point keeping 5, 4, 3 trades for LTi's if you aren't reeling in the leader, however, if you only going for league wins than keep 2 or 3 trades for injuries.

There is still 8 rounds to go. Injuries are going to hit everyone. By having extra trades in hand he will be able to deal with the injuries and make up a lot of points on the leaders at the moment the injuries hit.

 

[Jeremias]

In 2 weeks I'll hopefully have the following team:

B: Goddard, Cornes, Fisher, Birchall, Drummond, Houlihan, Grimes (Broughton, Petrenko)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Swan, Gibbs, Kornes, Muston (Hartlett, Beams)
R: Cox, McIntosh (Jacobs, Spencer)
F: Riewoldt, Pavlich, Deledio, Steve Johnson, Franklin, Higgins, Sidebottom (Brown, Ballantyne)

With 8 trades remaining, and 4 upgrades (bolded players) to do before my team is where I want it to be at the end of the season.

To get there I'll probably be trading Coughlan to Muston and Ziebell to Steve Johnson this week, Walker to Ballantyne and Otten to Kornes next week.

It's quite interesting to look back on this and see how one has progressed.

My team as at next lockout will look as follows:

B: Goddard, Cornes, Fisher, Birchall, Drummond, Houlihan, Grimes (Broughton, Petrenko)
C: Ablett, Bartel, Swan, Gibbs, Selwood, Anthony (Hartlett, Muston)
R: Cox, McIntosh (Jacobs, Spencer)
F: Riewoldt, Pavlich, Deledio, Steve Johnson, Franklin, Higgins, Didak (Brown, Ballantyne)

How things change in the matter of weeks! My backline remains the same as I had projected, my starting midfield will be stronger (Selwood, Anthony VS Kornes, Muston) but still requiring 1 more upgrade, rucks obviously remains the same, and my forward line has progressed nicely, swapping Ballantyne for Didak.

With this updated team I will have 6 trades remaining and approximately 55k in the bank.

Broughton and Grimes have been scoring exceptionally well as of late and with a focus on conserving trades, I do think that it is perfectly acceptable to have them as a 6th and 7th defensive duo.

That will leave me with just the 2 trades to make - Houlihan and Anthony. I can downgrade Houlihan next week which means starting Broughton and Grimes, freeing up another 100k approximately, depending on who I downgrade to (Pearce, Prestigiacomo, Silvester, Post......and no, I'm not joking about Presti so let's leave the jokes out of this thread thanks). That will leave me 5 trades with 1 upgrade to make (Anthony) but that won't be made for a little while yet as he looks to rise a fairly significant amount over the next month or so - I could even hold on to him until DT finals.

That would mean 4 trades remaining for LTI, and a reasonably strong team. Thoughts?

 

[Deez Baby]

BACKLINE: Goddard, Hargrave, Embley, P.Burgoyne, Hodge, Drummond, Grimes (Broughton, Cheney)
MIDFIELD: Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Hasleby, D.Pearce , Rich (Muston, Barham)
RUCKS: Sandilands, Cox (J.White, Pyke)
FORWARDS: S.Johnson, N.Riewoldt, O'Keefe, Didak, J.Brown, Higgins, Goodwin (Ballantyne, Grant)

OVERALL STANDINGS: 2,959
TRADES REMAINING: 3
SALARY ATM: $4,600

With the remaming 3 trades, at an overall ranking of 2,959 Ive decided to use my remaining trades in the next 2 weeks, finishing my squad with no trades, making any injury very bad haha, but meh its a game so ill take the risks

I plan on downgrading Muston ---> Anthony, leaving me with approx 100k
Which i then use to upgrade Rich ----> Salopek

This leaves me with around 91k, and after looking into possible upgrades for Pearce, who is at a low price of 270k, if J.Selwood scores under 120 points this week, i canbring him in for Pearce

This would then leave my midfield looking like Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Salopek, J.Selwood, Hasleby (Anthony, Barham)

I could downgrade Cheney instead, giving me more money, but im not sure about Muston's safety compared to Anthony, and i have Broughton in defence anyways.

 

[magpies03]

BACKLINE: Goddard, Hargrave, Embley, P.Burgoyne, Hodge, Drummond, Grimes (Broughton, Cheney)
MIDFIELD: Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Hasleby, D.Pearce , Rich (Muston, Barham)
RUCKS: Sandilands, Cox (J.White, Pyke)
FORWARDS: S.Johnson, N.Riewoldt, O'Keefe, Didak, J.Brown, Higgins, Goodwin (Ballantyne, Grant)

OVERALL STANDINGS: 2,959
TRADES REMAINING: 3
SALARY ATM: $4,600

With the remaming 3 trades, at an overall ranking of 2,959 Ive decided to use my remaining trades in the next 2 weeks, finishing my squad with no trades, making any injury very bad haha, but meh its a game so ill take the risks

I plan on downgrading Muston ---> Anthony, leaving me with approx 100k
Which i then use to upgrade Rich ----> Salopek

This leaves me with around 91k, and after looking into possible upgrades for Pearce, who is at a low price of 270k, if J.Selwood scores under 120 points this week, i canbring him in for Pearce

This would then leave my midfield looking like Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Salopek, J.Selwood, Hasleby (Anthony, Barham)

I could downgrade Cheney instead, giving me more money, but im not sure about Muston's safety compared to Anthony, and i have Broughton in defence anyways.[/qu

If ya wanna burn the rest of your trades now thats all good its a risk you want to take.

If i were you tho i wouldnt be bringing in an injury prone/job security problem player like salopek. I actually havent looked at his price or the other players around his price but if i were you id try and find a player more durable and more likley to hold his spot seeings you ll be left with no trades...

Just my 2 cents mate

 

[magpies03]

BACKLINE: Goddard, Hargrave, Embley, P.Burgoyne, Hodge, Drummond, Grimes (Broughton, Cheney)
MIDFIELD: Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Hasleby, D.Pearce , Rich (Muston, Barham)
RUCKS: Sandilands, Cox (J.White, Pyke)
FORWARDS: S.Johnson, N.Riewoldt, O'Keefe, Didak, J.Brown, Higgins, Goodwin (Ballantyne, Grant)

OVERALL STANDINGS: 2,959
TRADES REMAINING: 3
SALARY ATM: $4,600

With the remaming 3 trades, at an overall ranking of 2,959 Ive decided to use my remaining trades in the next 2 weeks, finishing my squad with no trades, making any injury very bad haha, but meh its a game so ill take the risks

I plan on downgrading Muston ---> Anthony, leaving me with approx 100k
Which i then use to upgrade Rich ----> Salopek

This leaves me with around 91k, and after looking into possible upgrades for Pearce, who is at a low price of 270k, if J.Selwood scores under 120 points this week, i canbring him in for Pearce

This would then leave my midfield looking like Bartel, S.Tuck, Boyd, Salopek, J.Selwood, Hasleby (Anthony, Barham)

I could downgrade Cheney instead, giving me more money, but im not sure about Muston's safety compared to Anthony, and i have Broughton in defence anyways.

ALso i think anthony is alot safer than muston. North arnt playing finals so they will be more likley to breed some young blood. Id definately hold anthony...

 

[LemmingMaster]

If i were you tho i wouldnt be bringing in an injury prone/job security problem player like salopek.

Just my 2 cents mate

Your 2 cents are worth a lot more than that mate, great advice.

In saying that, if you want to potentially learn a lesson for next year, pick players with job security and injury problems and take a mental note for what you will not do in 2010.

It is all about learning, go for gold!

 

[bombers own]

At this stage it will look something like this, barring injury, but it changes all the time. 3 trades, ranked 700 odd

B; Goddard, Fisher, Mackie, Newman, Milburn, Drummond, Grimes(Cheney, Petrenko)

C; Ablett, Bartel, Swan, Gibbs, Stanton, Cross(Swift, De Boer)

R; Cox, Kreuzer(Spencer, Jacobs)

F; Pavlich, Deledio, Didak, Harvey, ROK, Brennan, Franklin (Ballantyne, Walters)

If injuries are kind, may upgrade Franklin or Kreuzer. Hopefully can keep in the top 1000 with this side.

 

[Stubz]

I just had a look at the rankings and despite your very good ranking you are still around 1k of the leader which means with 8 rounds to go you need to score additional 125ppg to make up the difference (assuming the leader stays at his weekly avg) which looking at your team is going to be very hard as there isn't enough upgrade option to make up such a difference.

Having said that I would still trade out spud Franklin to someone like S Johnson, N Riewoldt or even Chapman who will give you another 35ppg to 50ppg. You already mentioned that you will do Skipworth to Davis which will give you 20ppg. Other than that maybe look at trading out Drummond and/or Pavlich if they don't come up this week as you need big scoring players.

Upgrading KCornes to someone like L Hayes is going to give you 20ppg too but that still leaves you short of the 125ppg target.

So my point is that if you want to go for the top spot you will have to use your trades. No point keeping 5, 4, 3 trades for LTi's if you aren't reeling in the leader, however, if you only going for league wins than keep 2 or 3 trades for injuries.

There is still 8 rounds to go. Injuries are going to hit everyone. By having extra trades in hand he will be able to deal with the injuries and make up a lot of points on the leaders at the moment the injuries hit.

Although I want to finish as high as possible, I really TBH don't see myself going to win the car.

Looking back perhaps I would of been in it with a chance had of I not messed up a few of my 50-50 decisions such as: S.Fisher over Lockyer at the start of the season, bringing in Buddy instead of ROK during round 9 trades, also sideways trading Raines to a midpricer instead of downgrading to Cheney and now probably Cox to Sandi, but I can't complain I've been blessed in a few areas and everyone cops these as well so its just a way of DT life.

But yeah I'd rather just finish as high as possible, even if this isn't good enough for the car than rather than go for number one prematurely and run out of trades.

I definitely need to get rid of Skipworth and I'll probably do that to L.Davis despite his high BE as I reckon in my case 20 points are probably worth 11K. I'm going to try and facilitate a Buddy -> SJ/Chapman/Riewoldt trade in about 2-3 weeks time once Beams appears to have peaked and I have a downgrade, he will probably need to reach the high 200s or low 300s before this is possible though. But yeah your definitely right in regards to your maths the_insid3r, it is going to be pretty hard for anyone outside the top 100 to make up the lead. I guess it just depends on how many people in the top 100 have traded prematurely and won't have enough to cover their inevitable injured premiums later on in the season.

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated!