Mate thanks for the pump up, I'm flattered!
Love to post more often but unfortunately other aspects of my life seem to get in the way of me contributing too much.
I enjoyed the discussions we had about this time last year regarding this and id love to throw my two cents in again if that's ok?
From memory I felt I could give legitimate reasons for the larger drop o*** from injury to role change etc, which in the end still backs up your stats - as in it doesn't really matter why they dropped off because they all still did. And id certainly expect those trends to continue for those mentioned above into next season.
The only point I'd throw in there is does it actually matter? For some id say yes and others no.
Before reading this my general sentiments towards each one of those players seems to be backed up by ur stats in that I can see them dropping by varying degrees including Minson. If I could use Walker as an example - if he does hypothetically dip to say a 100 average for whatever reason - and you were confident in that - then it almost wouldnt matter as hed still most likely be a top 5 defender. If you're confident that he's consistent enough, which he was I guess last year, then having him from the start wouldnt be a bad ploy. Sure he doesn't have 'value' in true SC terms and had a worse year, but if hes close to being the best for his position he's theoretically still relevant IMO.
Last season I thought Gaz would drop his average to about 130 and Cox to somewhere close to 105. Again from memory I cant remember their actual averages from 2012 to last season but I expected them both to drop substantially from the year before, but still went with them because of their relative standings amongst their respective peers.
I guess for me it all really rides on what my expected scores are and whether thats acceptable given each unique circumstance they relate too.
Top work by the way, especially when it seems to validate the many random thoughts I have floating around my own head
Love to post more often but unfortunately other aspects of my life seem to get in the way of me contributing too much.
I enjoyed the discussions we had about this time last year regarding this and id love to throw my two cents in again if that's ok?
From memory I felt I could give legitimate reasons for the larger drop o*** from injury to role change etc, which in the end still backs up your stats - as in it doesn't really matter why they dropped off because they all still did. And id certainly expect those trends to continue for those mentioned above into next season.
The only point I'd throw in there is does it actually matter? For some id say yes and others no.
Before reading this my general sentiments towards each one of those players seems to be backed up by ur stats in that I can see them dropping by varying degrees including Minson. If I could use Walker as an example - if he does hypothetically dip to say a 100 average for whatever reason - and you were confident in that - then it almost wouldnt matter as hed still most likely be a top 5 defender. If you're confident that he's consistent enough, which he was I guess last year, then having him from the start wouldnt be a bad ploy. Sure he doesn't have 'value' in true SC terms and had a worse year, but if hes close to being the best for his position he's theoretically still relevant IMO.
Last season I thought Gaz would drop his average to about 130 and Cox to somewhere close to 105. Again from memory I cant remember their actual averages from 2012 to last season but I expected them both to drop substantially from the year before, but still went with them because of their relative standings amongst their respective peers.
I guess for me it all really rides on what my expected scores are and whether thats acceptable given each unique circumstance they relate too.
Top work by the way, especially when it seems to validate the many random thoughts I have floating around my own head
