Opinion Player X vs. Player Y
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I'm still hoping Houston gets more of a go in the middle. The people are calling for it. Warren Tredrea is calling for it. Rockliff dropped this week. If things fall into place, Houston is great value this week. I would be leaning that way but it's much more risky. Hurn is the safer pick, although he won't score as highly as his past couple of seasons, I don't think.
Ridley. Jump on while he is still good value. Haynes is probably at the right price, but I feel that in this season especially, we need to take value over players who are priced at around their probable end of season average.
Now for my own:
Yeo vs. Trac?
Ridley. Jump on while he is still good value. Haynes is probably at the right price, but I feel that in this season especially, we need to take value over players who are priced at around their probable end of season average.
Now for my own:
Yeo vs. Trac?
Hurn is old, past it and scoring awful, which is why I brought him into my team after a decent Rd 1. (Not bitter). He should improve, but I expect would be likely to be rested at his age at least once when they compress the fixture.
Houston probably has a bit more upside, was very popular to improve pre season. Don't expect miracles from either, but I would choose Houston at those prices.
Ridley should have more value in him. Not sure he can maintain such good numbers all season, but may as well jump on now if you are going to and use the extra cash elsewhere.
Gre...
Ok, not an option now. Petracca for me. Yeo will improve from his start but I expect Petracca to be a bit better overall.
Houston probably has a bit more upside, was very popular to improve pre season. Don't expect miracles from either, but I would choose Houston at those prices.
Ridley should have more value in him. Not sure he can maintain such good numbers all season, but may as well jump on now if you are going to and use the extra cash elsewhere.
Gre...
Ok, not an option now. Petracca for me. Yeo will improve from his start but I expect Petracca to be a bit better overall.
Of them, probably Oliver. Prefer him to Merrett and those two have a game in hand, Parker will miss at least once with a bye.
I am considering Parker next week more so than this week, he has still got one more round where his 45 is impacting his price, with every other round 100+ (current BE 136). Waiting on the draw for upcoming rounds to decide if I can bring him in or not.
I am considering Parker next week more so than this week, he has still got one more round where his 45 is impacting his price, with every other round 100+ (current BE 136). Waiting on the draw for upcoming rounds to decide if I can bring him in or not.
Looking at the averages for mids:
Cogs is priced at 500K and is ranked 34th on averages at 100 average
Yeo is also 500K and equal 66th ranked with an 89 average
Smith is 410K and equal 66th ranked with an 89 average
Cogs seems the best option based on those, but you need to look a bit further. Take out his top and bottom score and Cogs is consistent in the 90-110 range. Smith is scoring similarly if you take out his injury game, his 77 is his lowest for the season. Yeo has 4 100+ scores, mixed in with 3 poor scores.
Up to you, but I don't like adjusting stats by removing non-injury games. Because of that and based on prices and output I would rank them Smith>Cogs>Yeo.
Cogs is priced at 500K and is ranked 34th on averages at 100 average
Yeo is also 500K and equal 66th ranked with an 89 average
Smith is 410K and equal 66th ranked with an 89 average
Cogs seems the best option based on those, but you need to look a bit further. Take out his top and bottom score and Cogs is consistent in the 90-110 range. Smith is scoring similarly if you take out his injury game, his 77 is his lowest for the season. Yeo has 4 100+ scores, mixed in with 3 poor scores.
Up to you, but I don't like adjusting stats by removing non-injury games. Because of that and based on prices and output I would rank them Smith>Cogs>Yeo.
I am thinking Whitfield, just.
He seems to be getting slow starts (29 at HT in Rd 7, 32 in Rd 6 with a tag), but still hit the ton both those weeks. Get the feeling he is not far off getting a big score, but no guarantees with that.
Ignoring Rd 3 he is averaging 99.5. Obviously you are paying more, and you need to weigh up if you think it is worth spending the extra $60K, but I would say he has more potential to score big out of the two.
I am tossing up between these two as well, been trying to work out upcoming trades now that we get 3 trades in R9-12 and I think I can only realistically get one of the two into my team. I would also be interested in a few other opinions for this one.
He seems to be getting slow starts (29 at HT in Rd 7, 32 in Rd 6 with a tag), but still hit the ton both those weeks. Get the feeling he is not far off getting a big score, but no guarantees with that.
Ignoring Rd 3 he is averaging 99.5. Obviously you are paying more, and you need to weigh up if you think it is worth spending the extra $60K, but I would say he has more potential to score big out of the two.
I am tossing up between these two as well, been trying to work out upcoming trades now that we get 3 trades in R9-12 and I think I can only realistically get one of the two into my team. I would also be interested in a few other opinions for this one.
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Taking out their injury affected games, Whitfield is averaging 99.5 and Smith is averaging 103.7.
I've seen some who are worried about Smith's output when the Bulldogs have their full compliment of mids but he managed to score 106, 126 and 101 when all of the Dogs first choice mids in Bont, Macrae and Dunkley have played. I think it's more likely that Macrae is the one affected when Dunkley returns as he was pushed out to a wing when Dunkley played earlier this season. Hunter out indefinitely couldn't hurt Smith's scoring potential too.
I feel as though Smith's contested style is much more suited to SC than Whitfield's outside game too. Injury affected games aside, Whitfield is averaging 13.5 more SC to DT while Smith is averaging 25 more SC to DT.
I think both are good picks and likely to be top 10 averaging forwards from here but at 60k less, I much prefer Smith to Whitfield.
I've seen some who are worried about Smith's output when the Bulldogs have their full compliment of mids but he managed to score 106, 126 and 101 when all of the Dogs first choice mids in Bont, Macrae and Dunkley have played. I think it's more likely that Macrae is the one affected when Dunkley returns as he was pushed out to a wing when Dunkley played earlier this season. Hunter out indefinitely couldn't hurt Smith's scoring potential too.
I feel as though Smith's contested style is much more suited to SC than Whitfield's outside game too. Injury affected games aside, Whitfield is averaging 13.5 more SC to DT while Smith is averaging 25 more SC to DT.
I think both are good picks and likely to be top 10 averaging forwards from here but at 60k less, I much prefer Smith to Whitfield.
Just a pure observation on my behalf...
I watched B Smith closely last round. He had a relatively good start and for whatever reason faded/didn't get involved much during the 2nd half. Not sure whether the hit from the previous week had anything to do with it or not but thought I would share my notes with you all.
I watched B Smith closely last round. He had a relatively good start and for whatever reason faded/didn't get involved much during the 2nd half. Not sure whether the hit from the previous week had anything to do with it or not but thought I would share my notes with you all.
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