Opinion 2024 AFL SuperCoach Planning Thread

[Professor]

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[Ben's Beasts]

North close to full strength while the Pies have several of their older best 22 missing. No Duursma (knee soreness). New recruit Sellers not named for North either.

Maynard, Elliott, Mitchell, Pendles, Sidebottom, Crisp, Murphy, Moore, Howe and Mihocek all missing for the Pies.

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[Old Big 'Ead]

What are everyone's thoughts re the early byes? ATM I am real hesitant to get too many of the Round 0 premiums. Happy to jump on rookies for GWS/GCS/Car/Bri after their byes, but don't want to stack the premiums - also don't want to stack too many premium/keepers in the other 10 teams.

I understand there will be players who will be must haves like Daicos, Grundy, etc, but what is everyone doing re the balance? What is the maximum that we're willing to go per round. For me it surely can't be > 2 per round for Rounds 2, 3, 5, and 6

 

[Shaunpro1]

North close to full strength while the Pies have several of their older best 22 missing. No Duursma (knee soreness). New recruit Sellers not named for North either.

Maynard, Elliott, Mitchell, Pendles, Sidebottom, Crisp, Murphy, Moore, Howe and Mihocek all missing for the Pies.

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Settled sides just dont take these match simulation sessions seriously, think people need to be very careful looking too deep into any of it.

 

[Ben's Beasts]

For all my fellow BBL SC players out there. A familiar name..

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[KLo30]

What are everyone's thoughts re the early byes? ATM I am real hesitant to get too many of the Round 0 premiums. Happy to jump on rookies for GWS/GCS/Car/Bri after their byes, but don't want to stack the premiums - also don't want to stack too many premium/keepers in the other 10 teams.

I understand there will be players who will be must haves like Daicos, Grundy, etc, but what is everyone doing re the balance? What is the maximum that we're willing to go per round. For me it surely can't be > 2 per round for Rounds 2, 3, 5, and 6

Lots of discussion about this very topic in this thread. It's worthwhile going back and reading various posts, many of great depth, over the last number of weeks.

 

[NT.Thunder]

Dursma from NM looking less and less likely to make my team

 

[Diabolical]

What are everyone's thoughts re the early byes? ATM I am real hesitant to get too many of the Round 0 premiums. Happy to jump on rookies for GWS/GCS/Car/Bri after their byes, but don't want to stack the premiums - also don't want to stack too many premium/keepers in the other 10 teams.

I understand there will be players who will be must haves like Daicos, Grundy, etc, but what is everyone doing re the balance? What is the maximum that we're willing to go per round. For me it surely can't be > 2 per round for Rounds 2, 3, 5, and 6

I do not think that we can truly answer this question until the completion of R0.

R0 gives us an unprecedented “free” look at rookies, so they will be my priority. Depending how many look the goods and what teams they come from, that will determine if I have room for a premium from each bye round respectively. I will also be influenced by a premium role and score from R0 if there is a risk that their price might get away quickly.

I can’t see myself starting any Brisbane or Carlton premiums given their price won’t change until after their bye. A correction can be performed then if required using an underperforming premium. 40 trades means that I need to get better at making quick calls as I always start at least one premium who underperforms for whatever reason and I usually hold them for too long.

I can see the benefit of having at least one player from each bye round to help with C looping, but that importance will be diminished if I choose to start a dedicated R3 donut.

If feeling 50/50 about a player I am likely to lean towards a player whose team doesn’t play R0. I feel that this will give me more options if I am looking for a player to trade out if I don’t have to also worry about the impact of a player on a bye.

 

[Professor]

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[NT.Thunder]

I do not think that we can truly answer this question until the completion of R0.

R0 gives us an unprecedented “free” look at rookies, so they will be my priority. Depending how many look the goods and what teams they come from, that will determine if I have room for a premium from each bye round respectively. I will also be influenced by a premium role and score from R0 if there is a risk that their price might get away quickly.

I can’t see myself starting any Brisbane or Carlton premiums given their price won’t change until after their bye. A correction can be performed then if required using an underperforming premium. 40 trades means that I need to get better at making quick calls as I always start at least one premium who underperforms for whatever reason and I usually hold them for too long.

I can see the benefit of having at least one player from each bye round to help with C looping, but that importance will be diminished if I choose to start a dedicated R3 donut.

If feeling 50/50 about a player I am likely to lean towards a player whose team doesn’t play R0. I feel that this will give me more options if I am looking for a player to trade out if I don’t have to also worry about the impact of a player on a bye.

I think it’s almost certain will have a bye player from each round just with rookies. Zac Williams, Sexton, Grundy, Daicos, Macrae, and plenty for the Richmond/Melbourne bye round

 

[Goodie's Guns]

For all my fellow BBL SC players out there. A familiar name..

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A mate of mine. Absolute ripping kid.

Loved his cricket, wanted to keep playing. But became a business/career decision in the end I guess. A shame he wasn’t nurtured the way he should’ve been by some at CV, but they’ve done that to plenty before…

 

[Old Big 'Ead]

I think it’s almost certain will have a bye player from each round just with rookies. Zac Williams, Sexton, Grundy, Daicos, Macrae, and plenty for the Richmond/Melbourne bye round

I do as well. The question I had is how many do we risk, especially premiums? I agree with Diabolical though, we won't know truly until after R0 to gauge how many we want to risk.

 

[NT.Thunder]

I'm really not concerned about R0 rookies, I'll just take any and all that show a good role and scoring potential and manage my R0 premiums around those guys.

 

[Toothless Tigers]

Report: Walsh on modified program a fortnight out from Opening Round (sen.com.au)

 

[Connoisseur]

For everyone planning sideways moves around the early byes, what’s your plans for the boosts? My understanding (and correct me if this is wrong) is that you can still only use 2 trades per week unless you boost, with only the mid season byes increasing to 3 per week (4 with a boost).
It seemed like the strategy last year was to boost hard early in order to get a completed team ASAP, but with trades allocated to sideways trading premiums around the bye, that seems incompatible?
Is the thinking that getting the extra premium in a best 18 week will o***et being 1-2 weeks behind others on the upgrade cadence? Or just burn all boosts by round 7 and run the gauntlet from there?

Probably less a factor for the round 2-3 byes as everyone is just doing correction trades that early, but for the round 6/7 ones a sideways premium trade likely means 1 premium less than the rest in rounds 7-11. If it’s done both bye rounds, that could be 2 less premiums. I can see any advantage falling away very quickly from there..

Something would have gone terribly wrong if I was to still have any boosts around/past the byes and ideally would have used all in the lead up to the byes/in the early rounds as I have consistently done across all fantasy formats they have been offered in over the past year or two. Helps to maximise cash gen and team value as quickly as possible whilst exploiting those that play too conservatively. Since I do not play cash leagues nor interested in my individual league results, I see no benefit in holding any boosts post bye.

Haven’t really planned any sideways moves in the early byes outside of RD3 but will not dismiss the option if cash gen needs to be accelerated. Considering two players from GC and GWS above that $300,000 range to possibly be used to assess options on the bubble from the non RD0 players but also trying to juggle that with the bench depth to hold them if necessary.

 

[KLo30]

 

[mwross91]

Do we think that the Hawthorn backline injury crisis makes Sicily less of a lock?
Feel like he's now going to be forced into playing more of a lock-down role.

 

[Bombers2win]

Do we think that the Hawthorn backline injury crisis makes Sicily less of a lock?
Feel like he's now going to be forced into playing more of a lock-down role.

As of this moment Sicily and Amon for those interested in them seem to be a wait and see now, until their defensive line is set.

 

[Chumpion]

Something would have gone terribly wrong if I was to still have any boosts around/past the byes and ideally would have used all in the lead up to the byes/in the early rounds as I have consistently done across all fantasy formats they have been offered in over the past year or two. Helps to maximise cash gen and team value as quickly as possible whilst exploiting those that play too conservatively. Since I do not play cash leagues nor interested in my individual league results, I see no benefit in holding any boosts post bye.

Haven’t really planned any sideways moves in the early byes outside of RD3 but will not dismiss the option if cash gen needs to be accelerated. Considering two players from GC and GWS above that $300,000 range to possibly be used to assess options on the bubble from the non RD0 players but also trying to juggle that with the bench depth to hold them if necessary.

Yeah I feel like the latest strategy is to boost hard to complete your team as quick as possible, carrying max 1 to the byes (but even then not necessarily). It will be interesting to see how it goes this season but what j saw last year was that the aggressive trading to maximize value was split across jumping on a rising premium, missed rookie/MP etc.. but if trades are locked in to sideways premiums to dodge byes it feels like it’ll impact that strategy, especially when it comes time to cull some early cash makers to get that first premium in - it’ll likely be 2 down 1 up but for teams needing to sideways trade then can only do the 2 down and may need to push the upgrade back a week.

So much we don’t know given how unique the season is, but I’m interested to see how the various strategies pan out!

 

[freowho]

A mate of mine. Absolute ripping kid.

Loved his cricket, wanted to keep playing. But became a business/career decision in the end I guess. A shame he wasn’t nurtured the way he should’ve been by some at CV, but they’ve done that to plenty before…

So now you have an insider at Collingwood. 👍 Do you still have an insider at Hawthorn Goodies? 🙂