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Strategy 2023: Round 6 Trades
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I'm always in favour of getting the guys you're most confident will be top of the position this early, as:
1. The longer you have the top players, the more points they are worth to you.
2. They are generally safer to stand the test of the entire season without taking up an extra trade.
There is heaps of time (and usually ample opportunity) to finish your team with value picks, but if you get too many of them now it means you might miss some gems as the season unfolds.
So that said, I would definitely go option 2 or option 3 - what is your cash position after each? Touk is definitely a strong trade in target for this round, but if that $50k difference in price impacts your ability to do an upgrade next week, then I'd go for Stewart.
1. The longer you have the top players, the more points they are worth to you.
2. They are generally safer to stand the test of the entire season without taking up an extra trade.
There is heaps of time (and usually ample opportunity) to finish your team with value picks, but if you get too many of them now it means you might miss some gems as the season unfolds.
So that said, I would definitely go option 2 or option 3 - what is your cash position after each? Touk is definitely a strong trade in target for this round, but if that $50k difference in price impacts your ability to do an upgrade next week, then I'd go for Stewart.
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Thinking of doing the same as it increases the chances of getting the right one...it seems to transpire for me that, there can be only one!
Am having a little trouble choosing the outs though as the cash released just seem so minimal...trading out Caminiti, Long and Cowan only nets $279,000 when it should be closer to $450,000, very underwhelming for 3 trades and not very helpful.
Starting to wonder if I should just start trading in $102,400 value bench players to get the extra cash and just hope I don't need any cover, not that there is any guarantee that the current crop of rookies will be there anyway if you need them.
Probably not this round but I'm going to run out of trades trading rookies for no significant gain, oh well no gain much pain.
Am having a little trouble choosing the outs though as the cash released just seem so minimal...trading out Caminiti, Long and Cowan only nets $279,000 when it should be closer to $450,000, very underwhelming for 3 trades and not very helpful.
Starting to wonder if I should just start trading in $102,400 value bench players to get the extra cash and just hope I don't need any cover, not that there is any guarantee that the current crop of rookies will be there anyway if you need them.
Probably not this round but I'm going to run out of trades trading rookies for no significant gain, oh well no gain much pain.
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Hate the rookie options next week. Would rather cop one week of one less premo than most to have good rookies. I rate Roberts, Johnson, Williams more highly than any of the options next week. Those who are upgrading this week will likely need 2 of Mitchell/Wagner/Sturt/Warner/Gould which I don’t see ending well.
Trading in $102k donuts is pretty risky, you'll need the second wave of rookie upgrade/downgrades around the byes and some of them even playing to cover missing bye players. As you said there is no guarantee that the current crop of downgrade options will be in their teams for the long term, but there is far more chance than for $102k donuts.
