Opinion 2024 AFL SuperCoach Planning Thread
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My 2 cents worth is, if they proceed with the Round Zero playing these two games early, and on the provisio that these teams then all have a bye later on in the same round, then both the Round Zero games and all games on the weekend the Round Zero teams have a bye are non scoring SC rounds. We would lose in total one round of scoring for the season but at least then everyone one is on equal footing.
It would be almost impossible for example to pick rookies if Round Zero was a scoring round and you needed to field a SC team. Even if SC gave you a free hit after Round Zero where you could completely repick your entire team without penalty, there probably would not be enough playing rookies or cheap players across those four clubs to create a full squad within the salary cap.
It will be a mess whichever way they run it if the Round Zero idea goes ahead.
It would be almost impossible for example to pick rookies if Round Zero was a scoring round and you needed to field a SC team. Even if SC gave you a free hit after Round Zero where you could completely repick your entire team without penalty, there probably would not be enough playing rookies or cheap players across those four clubs to create a full squad within the salary cap.
It will be a mess whichever way they run it if the Round Zero idea goes ahead.
I think the set up may be as follows for the zero round and how it will effect Supercoach -
1/ The aero round will not go towards the year scoring for Supercoach Scoring for the season will start round 1.
2/ All teams that don't play the zero round will have only 1 more bye during the season however, the teams that play zero round will have 2 byes.
3/ All remaining bye rounds (not including zero round) will be best scoring 18.
The other option could be they start the comp at the start including the sero round and make it the best scoring 18 as all other bye rounds and they allow you to fix your team with only adding/removing players from tema that didn't play during the zero round.
1/ The aero round will not go towards the year scoring for Supercoach Scoring for the season will start round 1.
2/ All teams that don't play the zero round will have only 1 more bye during the season however, the teams that play zero round will have 2 byes.
3/ All remaining bye rounds (not including zero round) will be best scoring 18.
The other option could be they start the comp at the start including the sero round and make it the best scoring 18 as all other bye rounds and they allow you to fix your team with only adding/removing players from tema that didn't play during the zero round.
I feel like the simplest solution is round 0 and round 1 are one long round. Advantage of an upfront double for some teams is o***et by the additional bye. Allows some interesting strategy and also doesn’t over complicate things. If round 0 is excluded, it makes rolling BE and price rises a challenge. And any other option is probably too exotic.
For me, the worst scenario would be round 0 counts and you have to make a team from a limited set. Massively compromises team selection and inevitably leads to a team stacked with players with a bye shortly thereafter.
For me, the worst scenario would be round 0 counts and you have to make a team from a limited set. Massively compromises team selection and inevitably leads to a team stacked with players with a bye shortly thereafter.
There actually wouldn't be much of a benefit picking players that play round zero unless you think they will be a must have e.g. Daicos if he's a defender. The only players I'm considering from the 8 teams playing the zero round would be Grundy, N Daicos if a defender, possibly Touk Miller and maybe Oliver/Gawn (not including possible rookies).
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Why couldn't the AFL have the zero round player as a split round for round 1? This way all 18 teams play over the fortnight and it wouldn't create any issues with byes nor Supercoach. Or the smarter option would be to play all games for all 18 teams on the weekend they plan on starting zero round and call it round 1!
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This would be the logical thing to do however I think the AFL would be concerned that week 2 would feel a bit hollow with only 5 games being played. I think they want the double boost of round zero in the northern states and an uncompromised round 1 in the traditional footy states. I can understand their thinking here.
As I have posted previously to me the best solution is to allow everybody to pick their best team for round zero from the teams that are participating and then allow unlimited trades for round 1 so everybody can set up their starting teams as normal. Rather than just making the best of a bad situation I think this would actually be pretty exciting.
As I have posted previously to me the best solution is to allow everybody to pick their best team for round zero from the teams that are participating and then allow unlimited trades for round 1 so everybody can set up their starting teams as normal. Rather than just making the best of a bad situation I think this would actually be pretty exciting.
