Libba averaged about 98 before his bye, and then I think I turned him into Sloane, who had already had his bye and who averaged 111 from then on. In total they played 22 games for me and averaged around 103.
That's actually not a bad PIT average for a mid, it's just a handful of points outside what the 12th best mid has PIT averaged for the last four years (see the link below).
That only cost me $357k to start with, so I had around $200k of loose change to use from day one, relative to selecting someone who played 22 games at 103, and was priced fairly to start with (103 x $5,375 = $554k). The loose change is worth about 40 points per round, and I had most of that for the whole year.
I effectively used $60k of that loose change in upgrading to Sloane (giving up 12 points per round, making it a net of 40 - 12 = 28 per round, for 10 rounds). I obviously used a trade as well.
So the loose change was arguably worth about (40ppg x 13 games) + (28 x 10) = 800 points. From that I would deduct 150, the cost I place on a trade. So the whole arrangement netted me 650 points versus selecting someone at fair value ... which is absolutely massive, about 30ppg.
Perhaps not so concidentally, this is in the order of the discount I got on Libba.
Note that the calcs above assume I could have found a player guaranteed to play 22 up front, which obviously isn't necessarily the case.
The benefits of using Libba as a stepping stone to Sloane could also have been greater if Sloane didn't miss round 23. [I'd already got 22 scores out of the pair though, so I've treated the missed R23 as equivalent to the bye, with a rookie serving as a replacement. If Sloane had played R23, that would have effectively boosted my score during the byes by a bit more, as I would have been swapping a rookie score for a premium score. I could have had 23 premo scores for the year from that place in my team, instead of 22 premos and a rookie.]
Before I did these calcs, I was thinking that I'd definitely take Libba again if he was available in the same circumstances this year.
On the basis of the above, though, it looks like an absolute no-brainer.
Am I missing something?
http://www.supercoachscores.com/thr...-Defs-Mids-Fwds-Durability-vs-Higher-Ceilings