Round 14: Teams, In Game & Cancelled Ade/Gee Scoring Discussions - Best 18 Scoring

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But given it impacts their prices, that also makes it unfair. Brodie Smith as an example will get 55. I know his form has been down of late, but give me a spell. His average is SEVERELY impacted by two concussions. Is it "fair" to give him a 55 and trash his price even more? There are lasting implications beyond this week.
Don't think they'd ever use predictions based on what you said. Would have something to do with averages somehow but that won't happen either, it'll be 0s.

It works in dream team as there is no points limit per game.
 
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But given it impacts their prices, that also makes it unfair. Brodie Smith as an example will get 55. I know his form has been down of late, but give me a spell. His average is SEVERELY impacted by two concussions. Is it "fair" to give him a 55 and trash his price even more? There are lasting implications beyond this week.
AFL Fantasy are treating it as follows:

@WarnieDT: FAQ: It is my understanding that prices won't change for Crows and Cats. These scores are added as 'extras'. #AFLFantasy
 
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I'd also say there are implications with competition authorities. With $50k on the line, the last thing they want is someone suing them at the end of the year.
 
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Averages or best 18 is so crap... No chance of big name players tanking, no chance of lesser likes going big. Part of the fun (and frustration) of SC is being randomly blessed / torched by circumstances out of your control. Zero (DNP) would be the fairest option and would make people cover with their bench. I really hate when good planning (ie having cover in case of unforseen circumstances) is trumped by "fairness" or "making people happy".

IMO a best 18 scenario is the worst result. Absolutely saves people even if they aren't impacted by the cats / crows game.
Is your name Shannon? or did someone just steal your post and put it on the Herald Sun page?
 

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I think it will be zero

The terms and conditions for the game state

Each week, participants choose 22 players whose contribution to a participant's SuperCoach score is based on the player's real-life performance in that week's AFL round as assessed by Champion Data Holdings Pty Ltd ACN 090641553.

The words real-life are pretty clear
 

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But given it impacts their prices, that also makes it unfair. Brodie Smith as an example will get 55. I know his form has been down of late, but give me a spell. His average is SEVERELY impacted by two concussions. Is it "fair" to give him a 55 and trash his price even more? There are lasting implications beyond this week.
That's why I reckon do average or projected, ban making these players captains, neglect the projected score from the price movements. It's not going to be fair to anyone either way but this is the most fair. I bet their will be a bloke in the top 10 who would loose any hope of the 50k if donuts were given out. 55 for Brodie is stiff, 133 for Danger is generous. Take the good with the bad and cop an at worst 50 point loss. If donuts were given it could completely throw out weeks of planning due to unforeseeable circumstances. Average is by fair the "fairest" and will some people slight advantages and disadvantages only.

Also, Virtual sports want to continue engage their participants and supporter base. Throwing out a handful of donuts could definatley throw people off. This is why I reckon they will go with averages or something like that. Just my hunch, but could easily go either way.

Bit pointless thinking about it but it's a good way to procrastinate from doing actual work.
 
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I'd also say there are implications with competition authorities. With $50k on the line, the last thing they want is someone suing them at the end of the year.
I would be very irritated if they just gave out "extra" points which players had not earned. That to me is ridiculous. Totally removes the somewhat "random" element where players can go big / be injured / be late withdrawals. We face crazy scenarios all the time. Why aren't all late omissions given their average? etc. People with dangerfield (me) can just name him C if our VC sucks and have a guaranteed decent VC score.

I would have thought trades and emergencies were meant to cater to unforseen circumstances. Really annoys me when good planning goes unrewarded. I don't mean planning to have crows / cats out, planning in the sense that you trade wisely to have SOME bench cover on every line.
 
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The most reasonable outcome for SC is...
Adelaide and Geelong players Did Not Play.

Season Average or Projected Score presents an unfair disadvantage/advantage of SCscore and a fabricated impact on the pricing of players.

It has to be DNP.
 

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Over the summer I played in the Fantasy BigBash comp (I think this is done by Virtual Sports)

Pretty interesting that I have seen them backflip on their own rules.

At the start of the season it clearly stated that points for run outs were awarded to the player who was the final fielder in assisting the runout.

After a few games I started noticing that they weren't actually giving the points correctly and after I contacted them about the issue they said that the rules were written incorrectly!

Because SuperCoach is an older comp and therefore probably better run, I can't see the same happening but just some food for thought and suggests that perhaps the rules can be changed midseason.
 

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Arhhh ***....last week Traded Selwood to Sloane....this week traded Selwood back in this morning....now i find out he isn't playing...and i can't reverse my trade.....NOT HAPPY JAN!!!!...
 
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I have no idea what the fairest system would be.
Zero points or averages both have there good and bad points.
Will have to have a decision shortly though. Will impact trades.
 
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There isn't going to be an outcome everybody is happy with. I'd go with averages - 5. You can't say that benefits owners of Crows and Cats players but it doesn't hurt them either.
 

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If it was going to be a zero it would have been announced by now.
Why? Because it's an easy decision and they've had plenty of time to consider all the ramifications whatever path they chose to go down? Even if they mark them as DNP and a zero for the games sake, it still has consequences on all other players' playing this week in terms of price and break evens.
 

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There isn't going to be an outcome everybody is happy with. I'd go with averages - 5. You can't say that benefits owners of Crows and Cats players but it doesn't hurt them either.
....nor that doesn't impact the following weeks. I'm sure they are trying to come up with the least impacting solution for not only this week but the remainder of the season.

And it takes time!
 

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If you have Crows/Cats, then you want averages.
If you don't, then you want it to be zeros.

Perhaps the only truly fair result is to cancel this whole week altogether.
 
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