Opinion 2024 AFL SuperCoach Planning Thread

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Locky27 said:
Biggest takeaway here is that no one under 25 has backed up their first 110+ season.
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You're reading the table the wrong way. The table only contains players that fell by 10+, from an average of 110+. Of course there have been young players back up their 110 average. Think of players like Oliver. He, and others like him, never fell by 10+, so don't appear in that table.
 
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jel said:
Is anyone going in with a rough plan on how they are going to use their 40 trades?
My back of the napkin thought is:
26 for rookie to premo trades
4 for early round corrections
6 for injuries
4 for finals

It never seems to work out exactly as what I thought, but I feel better thinking I have a plan. :ROFLMAO:
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6 on Yeo, Zilliams and Fyfe
 
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mwross91 said:
Yeh he's in and out of my side at the moment.
The issue is that I've also got Flanders locked in at the moment and have played around with Touk as an option too. Really trying to just have one premo out per bye round in those first few mini-bye weeks.

The midfield feels really stacked this year as well.
Other than Bont, it feels like spots 2-8 in the midfield premos could go to 15-20 players.

Based on starting value, the players currently outside that top 8 midfielder group that are looking to move up are Butters, LDU, Gulden, Serong, Green, Brayshaw, Parish, Walsh and then fallen premos like Touk and Steele.

It's why people are opting to the Butters, LDU, Serong, Parish and Steele options to avoid that early bye. Then it becomes a choice between Walsh, Touk, and Green if you're comfortable taking a hit on an early bye round - and Walsh (and to a lesser degree Touk) at their price point makes more sense.

I know some people have tossed up the idea of starting Green and trading to Walsh at Round 3 after the Blues bye but I'm not sure I'm on board with that. I think Green and Walsh are two that I want in my team by mid year so starting one, trading him to the other, just to find another way to trade the other in a few weeks time feels like a lot of work and likely lead to

The extra trades definitely help, but we also know what happens in Rounds 1-3 every year where we realize we've missed must have rookies/ mid pricers and we don't want to be locking in to missing them for the sake of a pre-planned premo switch to accomodate a bye.

Anyway... will likely change my side 29 times in the next 29 days, so it's all a guess at the moment.
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Sorry a bit behind the times and may of been covered already!

In principle thats true, but this year with Rd0 that may be somewhat mitigated as any Rookies/Mid Pricers that go off we would adjust to include them in our teams prior to Rd1. So we only have to worry about picking the remaining rookies from the rest of the Rd1 games, thereby hopefully saving us a few trades in theory. This would allow you to consider a throwaway trade from say Green to Walsh in Rd3, however you wouldn't be putting enough value on the trade would you? At possibly 60 pts max difference between Green and the rookie you put on field instead of trading to Walsh? Don't see the trade as a value option.
But it's definitely an interesting season that a lot of reflection will take place on, and maybe we adjust our planning as we come to the mid season byes?
 
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Shannon said:
Yep, very annoying - you do your own research/planning & then others just get spoon fed all the info on social media :mad:
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jel said:
Yes and no. I think it's moved from doing your research to find the hidden gems to doing your research to be able to filter the info that you see as valuable. With so many Supercoach sites and podcasts, it seems every man and his dog has an opinion on a player and often they are completely opposite.
There is still a place for a savvy operator to sort the wheat from the chaff and make a better decision than the average punter.
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But but, this is my research! :ROFLMAO:

Emotion is also a factor in this game, took years to more away from a St. Kilda bias! But as an average punter I love the escape this game gives me and lets me actually watch other team games on TV with more than a who gives s$^% interest!
 
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Connoisseur said:
Keep an eye on J Sinn and J Burgoyne this preseason for the wing role as a bench mid option and D5-D6 respectively.
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Sinn looked pretty good. I wasn't watching as closely as I usually would, but definitely had a bit of it, especially a purple patch in the third term, and used it well.
 
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OnTopBar said:
I would say most are running with Gawn, Grundy, Daicos and Flanders, so I don't see too much damage being done to overall rankings by going with those 4 and as you rightly point out, it gets expensive (points wise) when you start with more of them.

I'm happy enough to start those players that I think will be 'value' keepers because the points lost should be balanced by using those savings to get either a better keeper, better rookies, upgraded rookies to a stepping stone or combine the savings for an extra keeper. Where I struggle though is justifying the points lost when taking a fairly priced keeper who has an early bye over one that doesn't particularly in those 1st three rounds.

So, how much importance should be placed on those early points losses? How hard is it to make up those points once lost? I've heard the arguments that 50-70 points is only 2-3 PPG over the whole season, I think it's more pertinent to acknowledge that those points are gone in a lump sum early and can't be spread over the season.
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Yeh this is my thinking. It's also that 2-3PPG over the whole season playing catchup rather than moving away from the pack/ your mates.
 
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