Discussion 2024: Rate My Team

[eekraN]

Jackson can become Harmes if I feel the need to bring in English (or change structure) but I like the flexibility Jackson provides if the rucks miss a week. Particularly if Naismith makes some money and I can trade down and make some early cash. Also, with the way the forwards are this year, Jackson is likely to be top 6 and, arguably, undervalued (DPP chnages permitting).

I like the structure and the bye mix is decent with R15 being by far the worst. Should be able to trade out of this by then.

My worry is still WIlliams and I don't quite have the cash to grab Massimo.

 

[Deeman1]

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Jackson can become Harmes if I feel the need to bring in English (or change structure) but I like the flexibility Jackson provides if the rucks miss a week. Particularly if Naismith makes some money and I can trade down and make some early cash. Also, with the way the forwards are this year, Jackson is likely to be top 6 and, arguably, undervalued (DPP chnages permitting).

I like the structure and the bye mix is decent with R15 being by far the worst. Should be able to trade out of this by then.

My worry is still WIlliams and I don't quite have the cash to grab Massimo.

Looks good mate, but unless you plan to trade one of your rucks via Jackson if they miss a week, Jackson will be no good as direct coverage without a DPP ruck at R3 as Naismith can not swing.

Apologies if I have miss-interpreted your statement above.

 

[N29]

 

[teatai]

I hope to not have to change as much with my team as I'll be overseas during Round 1 which is not ideal LOL

DEF: Very happy with the set up I got here, always wanted Houston for that podish type player, Sheezel cause I'm a north supporter, Young watched him over the weekend and had some good stints in the mids, the only 2 I would im iffy and if I was to free up some cash would be Daicos or D'ambrosio. Will be watching Coleman, Williams (if he plays) & Gibcus, in RD0 closely.

MID: Throughout my SC career I always had a rule where I never get players that play for the same team and position but I'm looking to do it this year. Bont perma capt. Libba Parish Newcombe all under 10% ownership which seems quite risky to me but I like the upside in all 3 of them.

RUC: Set and forget is the way for me I did flirt with the idea of having Naismith as R2 but just didn't like the structure of it, him at R3 is my go to for the cash grab and will downgrade to a R/F

FWD: I am the few that once saw the Darcy news was already scrambling to fit Jackson into the team. This is the line that I seem to be struggling with as there are so many options to choose from Fyfe, Harmes, Duursma, Windsor, & Lazzaro have all been in and out of my team, been doing my head in as to which one to settle with.

Love any feed back and tweaks if needed would be much appreciated

 

[Under The Dome]

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I like it! The wait and see approach on the 600k+ mids.

I have my doubts on a lot of them myself with the all the talk of this player will rotate with this player.

19/22 are MP or above so may only get a couple rookie scores each bye. Reid already pushed to the bench with how deep you went.

 

[Gruffles]

Last season wasn’t a great one for moi. Started off really well but the byes and injuries screwed everything.
Would love some honest feedback on this set up. I’m not too concerned about byes after R6, as I’ll adjust as needed.
I’ve tried to keep players on early byes (up to R6) to as few as possible. Still have $30k ITB View attachment 68700

Start by ditching May, Wilmont, Duryea, Sheldrick, McInnerney, Ginnivan, Cumberland, F Macrae, Darcy, K Brown, mate.
Some better options include Hustwaite, J Clark, Wilson, Naismith and Sexton for rookies.
Some mid priced options might be, Grundy, Xerri, Gawn in ruck. J Jordan, Billings & Fisher up forward.
Sheezel, Young, Yeo, Coleman down back. Crouch, Wines, Martin, Bonner as mids

I would prioritise getting in Fisher, Jordan and Sexton up forward, Wilson on bench and then at least Young/Sheezel down back .

All the best for 2024

 

[freowho]

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Definitely the way to go with 40 trades. 👍

 

[randomcliche]

View attachment 68583 My 0 balance remaining team to finish the practice matches. Would like to here some feedback.
9 genuine keepers and alot of risk after that.

Love it. Trade. Trade. Trade.

F7-8 bit dicey.

 

[randomcliche]

Grabbed Yeo in the second half of last season but feel the starting price is a bit too rich for my liking. In my keeper league side, so do not see the need to double up in classic and still can enjoy if he gets on a good scoring run. A lot seem to be deterred by the injury risk but then the same people are attempting to eliminate risk with no exposure to early bye premiums, overexposing to the likes of Freo, NM and Port, perceived safety in “durable” premiums and overspending chasing lost points from last year. Would be interesting to hear how they envisage their 40 trades to be spent. Key with Yeo is not to view him as a season long keeper instead seeking the early points production at value and efficiently spending the cash saved from a $550k/$600k type. Could trade him via Sexton for a fwd keeper after RD6 or a mid premium early on if Daicos is started in the mids, etc if any injury occurs or it doesn’t go to plan.

Coleman and Himmelberg tough to split for D4 and with the early bye. Would like a piece of GWS against NM and WC and sounds like the ideal time to go back to the J Kelly well for the umpteenth time. Green a bit rich and considered Whitfield but that Himmelberg/Coleman price point is nice and works well if I need to fix a $250k odd player early to a missed rookie and Himmelberg/Coleman up to a $500k plus type if it doesn’t work out. Coleman will largely depend on whether I opt go for say a Dunkley/Butters type at M2 or I bring in Coleman to move up to say a C Oliver.

I'm running Sexton and Green from that bye.

 

[Juzzo]

Looks a little mid pricey/risky. Maybe too many speculative picks. Coleman, Gulden, Gawn early bye players. Set and forget rucks. Might be overloaded with defenders after first dpp changes. Not sold on Yeo, but unsure where to spend the dough? Might be missing a couple big hitters and expensive rooks. Anyway...

 

[Miller is a Steele]

Anyone else not even close to settling on a structure yet?

I’m currently considering a structure where I have Bont at M1 as a captain option followed by 3-4 players within the the 440-530k range in the midfield. Reasoning behind this is because I’m finding it extremely difficult to pinpoint the top 8-10 mids this year. Only ones I’m confident in finishing there are Bont, Daicos and Green. 2 have early byes and 1 is 724k! Hoping that the top echelon of mids can sort themselves out and these guys can be used as stepping stones to them. Feel that I can afford to play this style with 40 trades.

Steele, Flanders, Martin, Crouch, Amon, Wines annd Yeo are the 7 I’m looking at. Obviously some are DPP and could be included in the team on a different line.

Is this structure viable? Never tried something like this before. Don’t hold back if it’s a terrible idea, I won’t take offence.

 

[NT.Thunder]

Anyone else not even close to settling on a structure yet?

I’m currently considering a structure where I have Bont at M1 as a captain option followed by 3-4 players within the the 440-530k range in the midfield. Reasoning behind this is because I’m finding it extremely difficult to pinpoint the top 8-10 mids this year. Only ones I’m confident in finishing there are Bont, Daicos and Green. 2 have early byes and 1 is 724k! Hoping that the top echelon of mids can sort themselves out and these guys can be used as stepping stones to them. Feel that I can afford to play this style with 40 trades.

Steele, Flanders, Martin, Crouch, Amon, Wines annd Yeo are the 7 I’m looking at. Obviously some are DPP and could be included in the team on a different line.

Is this structure viable? Never tried something like this before. Don’t hold back if it’s a terrible idea, I won’t take offence.

I'm a bit up in the air but that's okay. I'm sure after this weeks games everyone will be making changes.

 

[Under The Dome]

Anyone else not even close to settling on a structure yet?

I’m currently considering a structure where I have Bont at M1 as a captain option followed by 3-4 players within the the 440-530k range in the midfield. Reasoning behind this is because I’m finding it extremely difficult to pinpoint the top 8-10 mids this year. Only ones I’m confident in finishing there are Bont, Daicos and Green. 2 have early byes and 1 is 724k! Hoping that the top echelon of mids can sort themselves out and these guys can be used as stepping stones to them. Feel that I can afford to play this style with 40 trades.

Steele, Flanders, Martin, Crouch, Amon, Wines annd Yeo are the 7 I’m looking at. Obviously some are DPP and could be included in the team on a different line.

Is this structure viable? Never tried something like this before. Don’t hold back if it’s a terrible idea, I won’t take offence.

If you're uncertain on the top guys then I don't mind all but Yeo.

Don't be forced into a premium you don't like.

 

[Chumpion]

Anyone else not even close to settling on a structure yet?

I’m currently considering a structure where I have Bont at M1 as a captain option followed by 3-4 players within the the 440-530k range in the midfield. Reasoning behind this is because I’m finding it extremely difficult to pinpoint the top 8-10 mids this year. Only ones I’m confident in finishing there are Bont, Daicos and Green. 2 have early byes and 1 is 724k! Hoping that the top echelon of mids can sort themselves out and these guys can be used as stepping stones to them. Feel that I can afford to play this style with 40 trades.

Steele, Flanders, Martin, Crouch, Amon, Wines annd Yeo are the 7 I’m looking at. Obviously some are DPP and could be included in the team on a different line.

Is this structure viable? Never tried something like this before. Don’t hold back if it’s a terrible idea, I won’t take offence.

Yeah a lot will become clearer once we see some exposed form from R0 but I’m definitely up in the air. I’m probably leaning towards 5/4/2/1 with probably 2 <$500k “premiums” but a few guys in the $500-600k range (Young, Sheezel, Steele, Touk, Jackson). Paying up big for Daicos, Ryan, Houston, Bont and Gawn.

Probably my biggest question marks are Grundy as R2 vs Jackson (if not R2 he’d be F1), and whether I go 5 def premiums and 4 mid premiums or the other way around.

 

[NT.Thunder]

Grundy is the big one. I know I hear it all the time he's a lock and forget and we've been given a gift but I'm still wary. English still feels like he's just going to continue on from last season, I hate finding coin for these bug guys.

 

[Russty_]

Anyone else not even close to settling on a structure yet?

I’m currently considering a structure where I have Bont at M1 as a captain option followed by 3-4 players within the the 440-530k range in the midfield. Reasoning behind this is because I’m finding it extremely difficult to pinpoint the top 8-10 mids this year. Only ones I’m confident in finishing there are Bont, Daicos and Green. 2 have early byes and 1 is 724k! Hoping that the top echelon of mids can sort themselves out and these guys can be used as stepping stones to them. Feel that I can afford to play this style with 40 trades.

Steele, Flanders, Martin, Crouch, Amon, Wines annd Yeo are the 7 I’m looking at. Obviously some are DPP and could be included in the team on a different line.

Is this structure viable? Never tried something like this before. Don’t hold back if it’s a terrible idea, I won’t take offence.

I don't know for sure but i think it might be a bad idea to start such a flaky/risky bunch of midfielders, to me the purpose is to get a solid highest scoring midfield locked in as soon as you can because they're the engine room for Captain's scores and overall points.
I'm seeing a lot of midfields with Steele, Crouch, Martin, Amon, Holmes, guys like that and they might only end up averaging 90's to mid 100's...frustrating you every week with their less than oustanding scores.
I also have psychological damage from last year when I had a ton of injuries early, had to blow all my boosts early on, felt like I was playing catch up for most of the season, then ran out of trades with 6 rounds to go so I'm not taking the 40 trades for granted, you can still run out if you have too many to fix and or replace. Maybe if I was just only ever playing for leagues I wouldn't have tried so hard to catch up so much...and saved a few more trades.
Reminds me of when I was trying to break 100 for the first time in Golf, I was so exasperated trying to get my swing right etc and failing many many times to crack 100, I just decided to try to score 5 on every hole. When I took that pressure off myself it seemed quite easy to strive for a 5 on every hole and I ended up shooting a 96, busting my previous best score by 5 shots.
Maybe what I'm trying to say is, don't overthink it, premium scoring mids are what they are because they get it done, whereas the ones who might get it done but haven't quite got it done yet are just speculation/hope and risk.

 

[kadog]

Team going into round zero. Hopefully minor tweaks from here.

 

[Chumpion]

Team going into round zero. Hopefully minor tweaks from here.
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Really strong team! Only thing that stood out to me was the Laird pick as there is so much uncertainty about the crows midfield rotations. Could easily find himself losing some points and slip back the pack which is a worry at his price. mid also probably go a DPP R3 to make the most of Jackson as a forward, especially as Naismith unlikely plays enough games to be worth it (at least on the information we know now). But otherwise really like the team!

 

[randomcliche]

Looks a little mid pricey/risky. Maybe too many speculative picks. Coleman, Gulden, Gawn early bye players. Set and forget rucks. Might be overloaded with defenders after first dpp changes. Not sold on Yeo, but unsure where to spend the dough? Might be missing a couple big hitters and expensive rooks. Anyway...


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It is different, but so is this season. If Yeo holds it together for 8+ weeks I think you'll enjoy the season.

 

[kadog]

Really strong team! Only thing that stood out to me was the Laird pick as there is so much uncertainty about the crows midfield rotations. Could easily find himself losing some points and slip back the pack which is a worry at his price. mid also probably go a DPP R3 to make the most of Jackson as a forward, especially as Naismith unlikely plays enough games to be worth it (at least on the information we know now). But otherwise really like the team!

Cheers bud. Appreciate the positive feedback.

Re Laird: despite talk of forward time, I just don’t buy it. I see him as a predominant mid, hunting the ball around the packs in his usual role when season proper starts. Ultra consistent and I love that he’s a POD (6% ownership) and under everyone’s radar.

R3 plan is to switch Livingston F8 to R3 after cashing in on Naismith which enables flexibility for a fwd or mid trade. Opens up that dpp link with Jackson and I’ll have my r3 captains loop for the rest of the season. Hopefully Naismith can get a decent chunk of games and score well in the absence of Nank. Will be interesting to see where he fits in the side when Nank returns.