Joey kicks us off with a couple of suggestions, first regarding how coaches are traveling with boosts and trades and the second honing in on a key ruck coin flip.
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Loading ...Finally, a really nifty one from Wayne in his reply to Such is Fyfe about the viability of several incoming fallen premiums.
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Western Bulldogs: Tim English
Luke Beveridge: “You’re seeing some change, within that inside mid area and even the ruck area, with Sam Darcy playing a bit more ruck and Tim English playing a bit more forward.”
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I wouldn’t be culling Sanders just due to him being eligible for DPP. More secure with him in my Fwd line than a lot of my other rookies.
Definitely not culling this week will see what happens this week with Libba out hopefully gets full game and more price growth, but all bulldogs have the power of Luke hanging over them
Has SC changed ?
TU : We still have to hold rookies until they have fatten or til upgrade season . (And save trades for injuries and luxury Uber premos later on)
TD : Is it the 40 trades . Just get rid of all non performing rookies . We will have enough trades
It’s so easy now just to sideways trade players, it just doesn’t seem as engaging to me in the strategic aspect. I used to love when I really had to put a lot of thought whether a trade was worth it and who to trade when it was only 2 max a week and 30 or less trades.
I miss what it was like when I first started
It’s sadly a little too much easier now to not research and allows too much adjustment. Its meant to be brutal and meant to be harder. Added boosts, extra trades, reduce it bring it back to a harder approach. Never entered finals without almost zero trades and so many issues, but that’s what makes it fun!
It’s like you need SuperCoach Dynamite with 3 trades a week and 5 boosts, best 18 each week and Supercoach Classic with 2 trades a week, 24 total, no boosts and best 22 each week.
More trades keeps people engaged in the game longer, driving visits to the site and subscriptions, it’s just a different game to what it started as.
The big tactical change is that boosts were brought in to support the mid-year bye rounds. Now they seem to be used to do a 1 up / 2 down to bring in a premo early on and before the rookies have matured. In the old days you had to hold every rookie until they peaked in value to be any chance of getting to full premo.
And as for sideways trades. The old rule was never sideways trade a premo as all players are prone to a 2-3 week bad patch in a long season. The thinking was quality endures and always comes back to form. Now we have the trades to flick guys sideways after a poor score and then bring them back in a few weeks later.
So why am I still holding LDU and Dawson and have 31 trades and 4 boosts (after R6) remaining.? Its simple – I am still playing the old game – waiting for rookies to mature, premos to come back into form and then go bang from next week onwards when DPP is upgraded until the end of the mid-season byes. The problem is my early-season ranking has suffered, I’ll no doubt rise as the season progresses but overall I reckon my end of year rankings have been on a downward trajectory over the last few years. Time to rethink and adapt but I struggle because it was just more fun in the old days..
Ditto
Father Dougall’s advice still sits firm with me and has held true over time.
Premos will always revert to the mean.
If you sell when they’re down, this mantra will not only hurt you for the rest of the season but just as bad, other coaches will be bringing them in as fallen premiums for their higher scores that achieve their season average.
Of course injury or change in role disqualify this philosophy.
Hmmmm…..burn man Heeney ?????
Double ditto
Would be incredibly naive to not consider Oliver and Macrae.
Oliver has now had finger surgery, compounded with the week’s rest, I have a feeling he’ll be a great POD second half of the year.
Macrae will be a top 8 FWD, simple as that.
Oliver will be a strong consideration the moment he looks like he is on the upswing.
At under $500k, you can get a guy that has averaged 122+ per year for 4 years, seems like a no-brainer. If the season was about to start at this price he would be in every team.