Hard to pick any of them. All too expensive to make quick cash and just short on average. With Hayden Young, how often have two defenders from the same team been worth picking? Maybe Rance and Houli, but Rance was a very unusual key defender. Not often that type of player scores that highly. Outside a couple of gun mids, job sharing doesn't often work for supercoach.
The two defenders scoring well is actually a very common theme.
Docherty/Simpson/Weitering/Newman
Lloyd/Mills/Dawson
Daniel/Dale
Hind/Heppell/Ridley
Short/Houli
Ziebell/Hall (although Hall did hurt Ziebell).
Hawthorn had 4 last year.
Shaw/Williams
Enright/Milburn/Bartel
Andrews/Rich
Crisp/Maynard/Howe
Salem/May/Lever
Cumming/Whitfield/Perryman
Hurn/McGovern
Those are all pretty recent (Cats one not so much!), many last year even.
General rule is that one or both will be a short kicker and/or that someone is a strong intercept marker.
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Actually like the Trade Boost idea, was something I suggested in the potential changes. Gives those with a bad start more chance to fix it and helps to lessen those weeks where you just get overwhelmed and gives a chance to hold ground.
Hate the position changes unless they're going to be a LOT more transparent with it than AFL fantasy is. It's not the idea I dislike, the idea itself is actually pretty good, but AFLF execution is horrible. It feels utterly random and definitely seems that you have to also have a significant drop in scoring to get it if you're a midfielder.
For example, last year Petracca played significantly more forward time over the first month than Josh Kelly but only Kelly got the change because he also had an average drop or at least that's the only reasoning I can find for it. For comparison Petracca spent 66% of his time in the forward half with a large portion of that I50 compared to Kelly's 43%, which went over 50% just once and was almost non-existent I50 over the first 6 rounds. I'm actually still not sure how Petracca wasn't a forward this year.
I also hate that they leak the information to certain insiders so they can make trades a couple weeks in advance.
Only way I'd support it is to have a clear "position change leaderboard" that showed everyone who was under consideration.
Mostly I hate that you're just adding an element of luck because there's no logic or rhyme or reason to the position changes so you either get lucky or you get screwed.
That said, there is definitely a strong preseason planning element to it although nowhere near as much as you'd think. The problem is that you can't pick the midfielders who look set to get it and the D/F change is of very minimal actual value. The R/F one could be of interest but it's hard to pick a Marshall type on the hope he gets it knowing that if he gets it, he's most likely a bad ruck pick. So mostly you're better off waiting for it to happen and then moving.
The most value is probably in the rookies where the flexibility of them getting it can be a huge bonus. Especially given they still haven't allowed us to reposition DPP guys outside trades, although the open trade period might make this at least a little bit more possible.
