Really struggling to figure out what my best way forward is over the next few rounds and would love some advice. Team:
Goals:
1) Get my final FWD premo (Rankine)
2a) Get a 23rd premo who can cover injuries with DPP
2b) Consider some slingshot trades
Potential trades:
Genuinely don't know what to do this week. Got 19, but risks on Bont and Naicos (who I will trade to Ryan if he's not named tonight). Trade out candidates are Clohsey, and then it runs fairly dry with Freijah and Reville having more cash to make, and Garcia/Rogers and below not really adding to the coffers. I was open to getting Rankine this week but I would need 3 trades to do that, and all of the ins would be round 15 bye players leaving me with 16 or 17 warm bodies going into next week.
Potential slingshot opportunities are Martin > Fisher/Clark, Oliver > Dunkley/Green, and (next week) Macrae > anyone. Kind of content to hold Oliver and give him a chance with no Trac, but also wondering if Martin > Fisher is a good move especially if I can move Dawson into the fwd line to create the loop.
Even at one point considered Livingstone > Kreuger - assuming Kreuger plays until rd 18 and then gets dropped, Pies have later games than WC in all but 2 of the remaining rounds. Even so, this is probably a waste of a trade.
Otherwise might keep it simple like suggested above and go Garcia > Dowling.
Questions:
1) Any thoughts on the use of a slingshot trade in my situation? Would it be more valuable than using trades to get a 23rd premo, or are there any other obvious trades I'm missing?
2) I've seen some people say they can use DPP to effectively cover all lines with a single 23rd premo. I'm guessing this is through having active DEF/FWD, MID/FWD, RUC/FWD loops, but can someone help me understand this? Maybe there's a world where if I get Fisher this week that then helps me get that sort of coverage.