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Libba collecting apples in the guts during preseason might make me change my mind but if Wells is relying on goals to post a good score I think that is trap.
 
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Are Sandi and Sauce really not in the top 10? Very surprised.

Am I doing something wrong? Haha
 
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Nathan has T Mitchell in the 2% mids and TBO has S Mitchell:confused:

Would have thought Titchell would have been more than 2% but if correct I am not unhappy as I have him under consideration at the moment.
They are both in there:

T. Mitchell: 1.9%
S. Mitchell: 2.8%

I just rounded them down to the lower % rank. Seriously, whether they're 1% or 2% ... they're still pretty damn unpopular :)
 

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Current top 10 aside from rookie priced players as at 17/02/16

Player, ownership, position last week

1. Liberatore (55.41%) (1)
2. Ablett (49.06%) (2)
3. D Martin (40.65%) (3)
4. Rockliff (37.62%) (4)
5. Wells (29.42%) (New entry)
6. Lobbe (27.23%) (6)
7. O'Meara (26.66%) (5)
8. B Crouch (26.47%) (7)
9. Pendlebury (26.11%) (8)
10. Dangerfield (25.09%) (9)

So not a whole lot happening over the last week except for a huge increase in % ownership for Wells on the back of his impressive intraclub performance.
 
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Nice, Ben.

I'm happy with my decision to not have Lobbe, O'Meara and Crouch. I think they're all traps that will cause headaches. The rest are in at the moment bar Pendlebury, as I've shifted back to a 4-0-4 defence and a keeper R2 (downgrading Pendles to Libba). If the DEF rookies appear as I anticipate, I'll potentially find the $$$ to turn Libba in to Pendles again.

I don't think it's necessary to start Libba, even if more than half of the teams have him. He won't be a keeper. It's a reach to think he'll score well enough for M8/9 too, I think.

Hawthorn type distribution of SC scores has already begun to feature at the kennel. Of course Libba has to be injected back in to that, and in 2017 he'll probably be their best again, but I'm thinking 98-102 for him this year.
 

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From memory JOM is unlikely for round 1 so I'm assuming those currently on him will eventually jump on Crouch or possibly Polec?

Will be interesting to follow player movements once the NAB starts.
 
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Nice, Ben.

I'm happy with my decision to not have Lobbe, O'Meara and Crouch. I think they're all traps that will cause headaches. The rest are in at the moment bar Pendlebury, as I've shifted back to a 4-0-4 defence and a keeper R2 (downgrading Pendles to Libba). If the DEF rookies appear as I anticipate, I'll potentially find the $$$ to turn Libba in to Pendles again.

I don't think it's necessary to start Libba, even if more than half of the teams have him. He won't be a keeper. It's a reach to think he'll score well enough for M8/9 too, I think.

Hawthorn type distribution of SC scores has already begun to feature at the kennel. Of course Libba has to be injected back in to that, and in 2017 he'll probably be their best again, but I'm thinking 98-102 for him this year.
98-102 is about a 25ppg bonus on his starting price and could see him get to $500K. Another way of looking at is if Pendles goes for 115 that's only an extra 15ppg for your $300K. I reckon you could get more than 15ppg upgrading a rookie somewhere else for $300K.
 

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Nice, Ben.

I'm happy with my decision to not have Lobbe, O'Meara and Crouch. I think they're all traps that will cause headaches. The rest are in at the moment bar Pendlebury, as I've shifted back to a 4-0-4 defence and a keeper R2 (downgrading Pendles to Libba). If the DEF rookies appear as I anticipate, I'll potentially find the $$$ to turn Libba in to Pendles again.

I don't think it's necessary to start Libba, even if more than half of the teams have him. He won't be a keeper. It's a reach to think he'll score well enough for M8/9 too, I think.

Hawthorn type distribution of SC scores has already begun to feature at the kennel. Of course Libba has to be injected back in to that, and in 2017 he'll probably be their best again, but I'm thinking 98-102 for him this year.
I hope he averages under 100. He's in my team now because I'm worried about his big ceiling. I'm still 50/50 on him.
 
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98-102 is about a 25ppg bonus on his starting price and could see him get to $500K. Another way of looking at is if Pendles goes for 115 that's only an extra 15ppg for your $300K. I reckon you could get more than 15ppg upgrading a rookie somewhere else for $300K.
I like this analogy. I remember reading somewhere that you should be trying to get 25-30 points out of an upgrade during the year. Libba is growing on me as a pick mainly because his bye gives us an exit plan.
 
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98-102 is about a 25ppg bonus on his starting price and could see him get to $500K. Another way of looking at is if Pendles goes for 115 that's only an extra 15ppg for your $300K. I reckon you could get more than 15ppg upgrading a rookie somewhere else for $300K.
He is priced at 66 so its actually more like 30-35 points up on his starting price if he was to average in that range.
I think he and Crouch can both go plus 30-35 on their starting price. Even if they wont be keepers I still think the value is too good to ignore.
 
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Are Sandi and Sauce really not in the top 10? Very surprised.

Am I doing something wrong? Haha
Not at all mate, they just become nice PODs! The less people that have them, the less people you get to share the rewards with if they go big ;)
I'm personally happy not to see Mumford in the top 10 for that exact reason.
 
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He is priced at 66 so its actually more like 30-35 points up on his starting price if he was to average in that range.
I think he and Crouch can both go plus 30-35 on their starting price. Even if they wont be keepers I still think the value is too good to ignore.
Yeah I agree I have both currently. I keep saying to myself I will only end up with one but so far they are still both sitting there in my team.
 
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Not at all mate, they just become nice PODs! The less people that have them, the less people you get to share the rewards with if they go big ;)
I'm personally happy not to see Mumford in the top 10 for that exact reason.
There's a nasty alternative universe that PODs can end you up in with that risk multiplied if you have 2 POD ruck choices.

We all love a POD and when they work, good times. When they don't it can be season destroying.
 

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98-102 is about a 25ppg bonus on his starting price and could see him get to $500K. Another way of looking at is if Pendles goes for 115 that's only an extra 15ppg for your $300K. I reckon you could get more than 15ppg upgrading a rookie somewhere else for $300K.
It's an interesting way of looking at it, but I think you have to factor the trade into it.
Let's assume Pendlebury scores 115 every week, and plays 22 games, and Libba scores 100 every week, and most Coaches trade him out at his bye (Rnd 14). Just to make it interesting, and keep things even, let's even pretend that they trade in Pendlebury, when they trade out Libba.

Rnds 1- 12, the Pendlebury owners get a 180 point head start over the Libba owners, minus the improvement the Libba owners made with the $269,900 Loose Change. The Libba owners then use a trade and $75k to turn Libba into Pendles at Round 14.

So the equation we are looking at is, do you want:

180 points + 1 trade + $75k

or

12-13 Rounds of the improvement the $269,900 brought?

Unless the $269,900 is used to upgrade a player to a genuine Keeper, thus saving a trade. Most might assume that is does, but practice might prove otherwise. While in theory the $269,900 should bring in 50/week, in practice it is more likely to pull in 30/week. That reduces the equation to something like, do you want:

1 trade + $75k

or

180-210 points?

I think most would choose the trade + $75k.
So just like the Goldstein conundrum, I would only be starting Libba over Pendles, if I was confident the Loose Change was saving me a trade somewhere else.
 
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It's an interesting way of looking at it, but I think you have to factor the trade into it.
Let's assume Pendlebury scores 115 every week, and plays 22 games, and Libba scores 100 every week, and most Coaches trade him out at his bye (Rnd 14). Just to make it interesting, and keep things even, let's even pretend that they trade in Pendlebury, when they trade out Libba.

Rnds 1- 12, the Pendlebury owners get a 180 point head start over the Libba owners, minus the improvement the Libba owners made with the $269,900 Loose Change. The Libba owners then use a trade and $75k to turn Libba into Pendles at Round 14.

So the equation we are looking at is, do you want:

180 points + 1 trade + $75k

or

12-13 Rounds of the improvement the $269,900 brought?

Unless the $269,900 is used to upgrade a player to a genuine Keeper, thus saving a trade. Most might assume that is does, but practice might prove otherwise. While in theory the $269,900 should bring in 50/week, in practice it is more likely to pull in 30/week. That reduces the equation to something like, do you want:

1 trade + $75k

or

180-210 points?

I think most would choose the trade + $75k.
So just like the Goldstein conundrum, I would only be starting Libba over Pendles, if I was confident the Loose Change was saving me a trade somewhere else.
You could also apply this to say starting Goldstein and Lobbe in the rucks with the idea of upgrading Lobbe to (hopefully) the second best ruck once they've made themselves known.

Note: this is based on the idea above rather than the numbers behind it.
 
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