Roo Bloke has plenty of ideas on how to change the SuperCoach experience. I’m sure he’ll list them below in the comments 😉
What changes would you make to SuperCoach if you had the chance? Tell us all about it……..
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I’d make Vc worth 1.5 the score they get to stop the loopholing (which is fantastic but just ends up with everyone doing the same thing).
I don’t mind the concept but maybe make it 1.8 times the score. It will still give the option of loopholing but you’d get more reward if you went more risk with C on a early captain choice.
With the captains choice, id maybe hide it from the gameday section so you are unaware what your opponents captain choice is but still know their players, adding a slight bit more of uncertainty so you can’t just set the C as your opponents to take a unique out with ease
Love the idea of not knowing oppt v/c choices.
I’d keep the VC/C as they are, but I wouldn’t mind if they added the option for coaches to select co-captains instead, where they would get 1.5 times both their scores.
Obviously, if one of the co-captains didn’t play, the other would revert to the standard 2x their score.
Damn. I thought this idea might actually attract some support. It would add another tactical element to the game.
could give up a bench spot for a trade based on a set value.
Example:
Could trade 2nd defence bench spot if the player was worth above 300k for a trade.
Then you would only have 1 emergency defender
Or sell a trade for cash…
Let’s use the kiss principle here.
Have dpp’s cover other positions if late outs.
Allow all players yet to play a game to be selected in any position? They may have been drafted as a potential midfielder and played TAC (or other) in that area, but AFL coaches will use them wherever – so give them multiple position status so we can get more rookies onto team who might play games?
The rolling lockout does penalize causal supercoach fans.
Have a hard lock out at the start of the round.
First game lockout rather than rolling lockout. Get your life back over the weekend.
Extend squads to 32 and CD criteria for DPP players to broaden to help mitigate impacts.
Like the idea of a lockout not happening till after first game. So many Thursday/Friday selections screw us by game time Sunday with three games left.
Agree. I would go with a lockout kicking in at the start of the first Saturday game with C and VC choices locked out at the start of the first game of the round.
I like that except for the bit about locking captains. I like being able to loophole!
Supercoach is a free game, its fun and I love it but surely HS could offer SC live scores without having to pay…..obviously I dont and use FanFooty.
As much as a rolling lockout favours the serious players over the casual players, I reckon ditch the rolling lockout and have lockout at start of the 1st game. As not all of us are able to login minutes before a game to see for late outs etc.
Supercoach is a free game, its fun and I love it but surely HS could offer SC live scores without having to pay…..obviously I dont and use FanFooty.
As much as a rolling lockout favours the serious players over the casual players, I reckon ditch the rolling lockout and have lockout at start of the 1st game. As not all of us are able to login minutes before a game to see for late outs etc.
I would like to see a wildcard that can only be used once after round 10
Also i like the option of all your bench players scores being added to your scores once by playing a bench option card. This works really well for the EPL fantasy and makes people more aware of the bench and trade wiser
No more loophole and make the VC role even more relevant
X3 for Captain points
X2 for VC points
Josh Dunkley automatically starts with 200 points each game.
No changes. Fine the way it is
Bring back Perfect 9!
Stop requiring SuperCoach Gold to see whether or not a player has been selected to play. No other fantasy code does that. I’m happy for them to keep charging for projections, averages vs opponents, etc., but the red/green/orange indicators should be free.
I’d also love to see them introduce a new game format: an auction league. Like the classic game, teams would have a salary cap, and like the draft game, each player could only be in one team at a time. But instead of players being taken in a draft, they would be purchased in an IPL-style player auction.
Think the game needs a new format with regard to squad numbers?
AFL squads number around 44 players so why cannot squads be increased to say 40, (11 defenders, 11 forwards, 14 mids and 4 rucks.) Will virtually eliminate the donuts and bye round planning and strategy.
Reduction in trades from existing 30 to compensate the above.
3 way DPP swaps…
For example, I want to upgrade Duursma to a midfielder so I swap…
burgess from FWD to back, Duursma from Def to mid, and Setterfield from mid to forward.
If you’re talking about trades, rather than just moving players around within your squad, you can already do that. Just press the ‘T’ button on the player you want to trade out, press the ‘S’ button on the players you want to flick around, and then you will have a free spot in the position into which you want to trade a player in.
Have to agree with many of the comments above – particularly the ones around stopping the rolling lockout – you can only be serious in this game watching every match before kickoff and it unfairly disadvantages many – sadly there is no way SC would listen to this as a solution as they want people constantly logging on for their ad revenues …
The other significant change that I would love to see is to remove the total points of 3300 from a match and just score every player, what they earn. This would stop the biased early scoring and eliminate the biased scaling at latter stages of matches where players either lose points by not being on the field or not get rewarded for the same stats that others get earlier in the matches … would even things out significantly.
They could also provide an additional two trades to help cover the (potentially) higher values …
I’d like to see a mid season reassessment of players dpp status. Ie. Boak should be mid/fwd… Daniels fwd/def… Brodie Smith… def/mid.
Big yes to this one!!
I’d like to see captaincy loopholing scrapped.
Always feels a touch disingenuous, not to mention it can get tedious and become a hassle for those who are busy of the weekend- eg. know a few SCTers who have missed juicy scores bc they work over the weekend.
You should just get the best score out of the players you VC/C. Would allow for people to get a creative. I get that it’d take away the element of chance and luck, but most people auto-VC Grundy anyway.
I’d like to see the cash in bank accrue interest to add another of strategy of ‘saving’ money…
Automatic best score from Captain and VC. Would cut out a lot of luck. No more zero doubled to zero.
SC is purely about making money for News Corp by having participants returning to the site constantly over the duration of the weekends games to change teams, VC and C….it is a deliberate strategy on their part so i wouldn’t expect any changes to the captaincy options
Don’t think many changes are necessary as too many will reduce the differential between the other formats but 2 interesting additions could be: mid season dpp changes and 1 round where you can make double trades. The double trade round can be enacted at any time increasing 2 available to 4 for 1 round or used in a bye round to allow 6 trades instead of 3 and these wouldn’t be included in the 30 allocated trades.
Hmmmm what about this………….
VC x 1.5
C x 2.0
Lockout at the commencement of first game after ALL teams have been named, eg Easter, ANZAC, Queen’s Birthday would still be a bit later than Saturday.
An extra emergency in all positions eg 3 x 4 x 2 x 3…..but only a max of 1 nominated from each position as coverage.
…….and ALL NEW FIRST YEAR DRAFTIES TO BE DPPS…….With a pricing as followers : 1-10 250k -> 200k approx. 11-20 200k -> 150k approx. and with all others listed as possible and unlikely at 125k and 110k.
I’m also a fan of mid season “review “ but then only 2 trades at the bye rounds if they still exist, and would review be week before or after?