2018 Season Review – Sam (KFC)

Written by Schwarzwalder on March 11 2019

(Written & Created By Sam)

 

2018 Season Review

Hello SCT Community, my name is Sam Kent from South Australia and in 2018 my team, Kentucky Fried Chiqon, was lucky enough to finish 11th overall in SuperCoach. I’m going to provide a bit of an insight into my 2018 season – what made it and what nearly broke it, as well as some tips for the season ahead of us in 2019.

Although the season got off to quite a rough start, with $450k in the bank and Mark O’Connor on the bench (DNP) due to forgetting to click ‘save team’ before the start of Rd1, a couple of good trades got me into the Top 100 by Rd7 where I stayed all year. The real turning point for my season was trading an injured Josh Kelly to Jack MaCrae instead of the popular pick of Dustin Martin. From here I was able to take captained scores from Macrae averaging 165 over a four week period with a low ownership whilst Martin was consecutively posting sub 100 scores.

For the rest of the year I tried pulling off left-wing captaincy options and selecting a few POD’s trying to climb higher in the rankings, but failed and found myself falling from 10th in Rd13 to 88th in Rd19 and nearly out of reach of the Top10. Luckily for myself there was some carnage with injuries and team selections and I was able to use my last trade to get me to 23rd with one week remaining.

I gave up hope of a Top10 finish as Buddy Franklin was a late withdrawal and I would be copping a donut, until Sunday came along with Paul Ahern a late inclusion sitting as Emergency in my forward line. A hard earned 64 from Ahern took me to a round 23 total of 2,745 finishing 11th overall. Two weeks later an email from Herald Sun informed me that someone from the Top10 was ineligible for the prize, and I was awarded the $1000 prize for 10th place – absolute rollercoaster of events.

 

Tips For 2019

If you’ve got enough time on your weekends, study the AFL fixture each week and make sure you’re using every possible loophole your team allows. Although it won’t be as relevant early in the season, later on with a few dropped or injured rookies on your team, it’s very easy to pick up an extra 30-50 points per week from using both the captaincy loophole as well as one or two emergency loopholes from the bench.

When selecting POD’s, make sure you are selecting them because you believe they will outscore the alternative, not just for the point of selecting a POD. Another option which can be just as beneficial as selecting a POD is not selecting a popular player when they are scoring poorly.

Don’t get sucked into a team full of mid-pricers after watching a few JLT matches. Whilst mid-pricers can generate a solid amount of cash and score valuable points, they are very rarely keepers in your team costing you valuable trades. I am a big fan of taking in Anthony Miles or Libba into your 2019 season but loading your defense up with players like Nic Newman, Dylan Roberton and Brodie Smith is a recipe for disaster.

 

Player To Follow In 2019

Elliot Yeo ($585,500) is my hot tip to improve on his 2018 average of 108 SuperCoach points. Although Yeo has lost his Defender DPP status this year and is only available as a Midfielder, another preseason under his belt I believe will help him take his game to a new level, finishing as a top 8 Mid, currently with only 5% ownership.

 

Buyer Beware

Brad Crouch ($418,000) would have caught the eye of a lot of SuperCoaches after his 118 points from 29 touches, 5 marks and 5 tackles against Port in JLT1. Although Brad Crouch is an absolute beast at his best and will score very well, it’s hard to look past the fact that he has only played 61 career games since his debut in round 2 of 2013. Great pick if he plays every game, but will likely cost you a trade early in the season.

 

**Sam on Twitter: @samkent1997**

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14 thoughts on “2018 Season Review – Sam (KFC)”

  1. Was your starting team a structure you’ve used before? Or did you go for something different?
    Can you remember what your worst trade was lol?

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    1. tTheoriginalforce; This was my first year taking SuperCoach seriously as all of my mates had only played AFL Fantasy in previous years, but I started with a nearly full premo-rookie team apart from JOM at M5 (I believe).
      And my worst trade was probably trading in Mason Redman one week early (I grew up with him so favoured him) instead of picking Mihocek and it cost me a trade late in the season when he got injured in his second game.

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    1. I was lucky enough to pick up $900 from a paid league too, unfortunately it didn’t last as many weeks as I planned though!

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    2. Sorry Dazz, second time reading your comment I made much more sense of it! It was 350-400k sitting in my bank

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  2. Great work Sam and thanks for sharing. You are spot on regarding the captaincy choices – I stuffed them up every second week last year and it cost me big time!

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    1. Yep very tempting and easy to do, I remember one week tossing up between Macrae as a POD or Titch. Titch got 190, MaCrae got injured in the second quarter on about 40. I chose MaCrae

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  3. Thanks for sharing. do you think there are enough good rookies this year? Also what do you think of Cousins and Walsh? would you take any?

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    1. Hi Sam,

      I was interested to see your comment about having a loophole on each line as well as captaincy loophole. Obviously doing this early in the season could be at the expense of cash generation but given the apparent absence of good rookies do you think this would be a good strategy this year?

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      1. Nah cash generation is definitely priority, even though there aren’t a heap of stand out rookies this year, you’ll be able to do more with the money made from a 60 point averaging rookie than a floating donut for an entire season

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    2. it’s looking like there won’t be many Tim Kelly, Doedee, Finlayson type roookies from last year but still should be fine I think. Sam Walsh looks amazing, wouldn’t be surprise if he can push an average of 85, Cousins looking good too if he can hold his spot, feel as if hawthorn rookies are always one bad game away from VFL

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