Game Chat – Gold Coast v North Melbourne

Written by Father Dougal on August 30 2020

Where and When: Metricon Stadium, Sunday 30 August at 6:10pm (AEST)

What does it mean for Gold Coast: If they keep winning they will mess up their draft pick and still not make finals! There’s some motivation
What does it mean for Norf: If they keep winning they will mess up their draft pick and still not make finals! There’s some motivation too!

Supercoach Watch  Suns:  Miller, Greenwood, Rankine, and Lukosius
Supercoach Watch Roos:  Goldy, Jed Anderson (!) Simpkin, always Simpkin….
Father Dougal Watch:  Luke McDonald.  At this point Jokes about sudden improvement that reference the Bombers are old, but his rise to awesome sure bring them to mind. Can he keep this up? I mean, he has, but what happened?

Father Dougal’s Tip: Gold Coast by 12. I think the Suns are so excited to be winning, finally, some, that they will keep winning even though they would be better of with an improved draft.

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35 thoughts on “Game Chat – Gold Coast v North Melbourne”

  1. I need Goldstein & Simpkin to go large and Rankine to have quiet game to have any chance of winning my most important elimination final.

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    1. Me too
      Especially when I traded in J Martin
      Who scored rankin’s first qtr score for whole game .
      At least my pies won so bitter sweet
      To make things worse I also traded in Walters Instead of Riccardi
      Oh will – still projected to score 2106 depending on Simpkin

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        1. Ah. All class, Grant. Been waiting to chat about that lol.

          What a match up. Your astute pick ups of Walsh and Setterfield nearly sunk me. Well fought either way.

          Don’t worry, you’re still ranked Top 500 – let me win my own league lol!

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      1. About time you welcomed Brayshaw to tribe GB but he was my point of difference when I met you in finals ☺️

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    2. I was back and forth on going Rankine to Riccardi right up until GWS played and just couldn’t pull the trigger given I’m down to 5 trades and he was playing North. Was kicking myself after Riccardi’s score, and Jelly’s injury. Sure got lucky!!!

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  2. When you think your score is done & then realise your C loophole hasn’t gone through yet.

    I forgot Comben was my C & Titch’s points hadn’t doubled yet.

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  3. Sigh has to trade rankine to upgrade to jelly. Only for rankine now going better than jelly and jelly injured.

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  4. Held onto Rankine as I didn’t have enough to upgrade him and didn’t really want to downgrade him to anyone. Missed on Riccardi but he has made up for my decision with that 1st quarter

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  5. I’ve seen a few complaints about SC scoring today and I’ve got to agree. What is recorded as effective and ineffective is ridiculous.

    I’m riding Simpkin in a cash league and he grabbed a contested possession from a tap banged it on his boot and it was marked by a team mate. It was a slightly contested mark but why was the kick ineffective?

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      1. as the scores are just a reflection of the stats awarded
        when no one knows who is awarding the stats & how
        maybe its a few statisticians per game or 1 for each player
        maybe they’re at the game & its where they are sitting
        or maybe some or all are watching a screen somewhere
        i think if we knew the truth about it we might not have such high expectations for accuracy
        when you see a player with 15 involvements to 1/2 time
        but you’ve hardly seen him or heard his name on TV
        it makes me wonder how accurate it is too
        only thing for sure is
        that it’s in the betting & advertising agency’s best interest to keep the process dark

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    1. I figured weighting re: Kelly?

      The funny thing is, the scoring has probably been dodgy all season but I wasn’t watching so closely. Now I have money on the line I’m riding every touch!

      Fair point Jo, Champion Data are probably under staffed due to job cuts and working from home so we should probably be forgiving of them.

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    2. That’s just scaling Bruce – first half stats end up being more valuable because there was so much junk time in the second half.

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  6. nth cant win
    cant make finals
    Larkey rolled his ankle @ the end of the 3rd
    & they strap him up & send him back out there
    only a coach worried about his job would do that

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  7. One or two things I’ve picked up on,

    Yes, we get the plus score for the amateurs comp. and then not often the equivalent in SC for obvious scoring reasons, but then, when there is a data update, the SC score is then changed again on often occasions.

    Could it be there is multiple scorers covering different categories?
    ie like when it first started manually at local clubs, one person would call ‘em while another person marked them on the sheet.
    Then when it even got more complex, there would be different callers for set categories eg. Kicks, handballs contested or uncontested and another group did marks, free kicks for and against contested and uncontested etc.etc…….and often at the end of the quarter or quick catch up time, realised errors were corrected.

    Maybe it’s all done similarly now on iPads????

    Ps I started typing this after Jo’s comment so apologies if you are confused.

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  8. I just wanted to say thank you Izak for helping me get through the first final and getting a couple of weeks off. Superb effort.

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