How unlucky have you been?

[Bob Loblaw]

Supercoach is a game of ups and downs.
Unfortunately this year, there has been for a lot of us more downs than ups.

I have created this thread so you can vent your frustration and anger at injuries, Suspensions that have plagued your season and hopefully find a few people who have been doing it tougher than you. Perhaps you'll also find some wisdom in the mistakes of others so you don't have to make it for yourself.

Shocker Picks: (
Cotchin: Was priced the same as JPK, Boyd and Fyfe but now 100k cheaper.
T Mitchell: Yeah let's get 270 supercoach points in the NEAFL now.
McDonough/Martin/ Impey/Georgiou/Rohan
Cyril: always expected his hamstring too go ping, just delaying the inevitable.

Injury Hitlist:
Hurn: scored 7, out for 5
Cyril: scored 40, out for 4 (always going to happen)
Mitchell: scored 9, out for 10
T Mitchell: scored 2*<60
Michie: Broken jaw (wasn't doing to much anyway).
Ellis: Scored 2, out for 3.
Acres: Scored 4, Broken leg?

 

[Krieks]

How unlucky have I been?

Very.

 

[_Slip_]

Just for all you former T.Mitchell owners 60+ possessions in NEAFL ... I think if gets back in he will come strong.

 

[Courtesans]

There are some very skilled players here, but you do need lady luck. To be placed in the top few hundred let alone win it involves a great deal of skill and the cards mostly falling the right way.

 

[Courtesans]

Just for all you former T.Mitchell owners 60+ possessions in NEAFL ... I think if gets back in he will come strong.

Yes, I am one of them. Must be a **** league to get 60 possies! Still, strange he was dropped.

 

[Brettthejett]

Started with T Mitchell over Parker :-( (even though i had the spare funds)
Bought in mummy the week he was late withdrawal (had to because hickey was out and played before)
and bought in dayne zorko this week. fark me 12 i could go out and score more than that in 3 quarters.
Started with Cotchin before pendles to save the cash. Thanks alot for spudding it up Cotch (Libba your not much in front of Cotchin)
Started with Ellis and Impey in my team. Ellis injured Impey just plain woeful
Traded Jaenasch out week 8 being told out with broken ribs for at least three weeks. (Plays in Rd9 and scores 98)
Sam Mitchell getting old and hammy goes Ping
Robertson in the mid has a blinder gets sub vest next game then dropped the next only to be late recall and score 12
Tom Hickey well cant say much about this one the Great One Rowsus did tell me to stay away

And the list goes on. I suppose i cant complain im sitting top 600 but this game is alot about luck at the top and i just havnt had enough of it to keep up

Oh and special mention to Michael Barlow way to kill it in the first two weeks and then hurt your knee and be out for 5 weeks

And the good calls coz its not all that bad
Swallow, Suckling, Langdon (still have), Langford, McDonald
Polec, Tyson, Beams, Dunstan
Sandi
Higgins, Danger, JKH

 

[Juzzo]

This thread is a bit like a poker bad beat, no one wants to hear about anyones bad luck!
Just my thoughts anyway.

 

[MovingUpward]

Relatively speaking, I've actually been pretty lucky this season. Still going rubbish, but should probably be worse...

Talking of luck always reminds me of FDR's quote:

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

 

[Rowsus]

I would rate my bad luck only at about 3 out of 10.

That means my current poor performance is rated at 7 out of 10 as my poor performance/badly executed strategy.
That seems about fair.

 

[OzRulesFootball]

Not had much luck this year but compared to last year and year before this season just a minor portion of bad luck I experienced.

The worst luck you can experience in SC is several of your players all get injured early in games or vested on the same week . If that happens with long term outs and you also need to jump on bubble of rookies off to a flyer at end of round 2 but you only got 2 trades the next week you will know what bad luck is. If you lose massive value on a keeper you forced to trade AND miss an important rookie everyone else is getting that makes profit well over $200 K it is a horror round 3 of season. That did not happen to me this year, thankfully but in 2013 it did and my season was virtually already over. It is not so bad also if you get an injury to one of your players that most of other coaches have. Example if Dangerfield or Polec had got injured it is not much pain because relatively speaking everyone else is in same boat. Happen to someone in your team that is more unique and you have high hopes of a good season and it is painful and can only afford to have it happen about once, any more than that you are screwed. I could live with Dixon getting injured early this season and needing to trade because it was just one injury and everyone will have one or two of those in a season.

If you have a season where the worst that happens is Sammy Mitchell goes down recently, well that is a season of good luck in general.
Have a season of stuff like that happen 4 or 5 times and you know you are just not getting anything go your way.

 

[happydays]

I dont think the wrong side on 50-50 trades is luck. As OzRules mentions luck for me is a) how many in-game injuries hit you and b) how many after-trade/pre-game late withdrawls. Both, escalated if in bye rounds.

Rocky+Zorko cost my 160-200 points. Mummy's late withdrawl earlier in the year a ruck-spot. Prior to this week, I considered myself 'lucky'...others will have been hit via Mitchell, Bartel, Hurn, Hanley in-game injuries.

But beggars can't be choosers...no point whining about it...

 

[Tamuhawk]

Thought I would do a mini analysis of my team (to reflect on so far, or to come back to read at the end of the season) to see how unlucky it has been by the points I gave up on things decisions which I believe I could have easily avoided. (I won't dwell on too much about rookies who I should have fielded over a certain rookie.... but I added one which I could have easily avoided.)

Before Round 1 Lockout
50/50 Decisions before the round 1 lockout which have not gone my way
Started Hale over Breust (mainly due to having cover for sandi, which I have not needed to use) [171 points lost]
Started Thurlow over Derickx (to dpp with hale)... haven't really lost points but lost pontential cash (150k lost)
Started Eski over McVeigh due to price [83 points lost]
Started Hurn over Hibberd because of his preseason injury (just calculating rd1+rd2 scores of both). [74 points lost]

At round 1, I was ranked 4,377th and then round 2 was where I got really unlucky.

Round 2 - The Hurn injury of 7
Fielding Bennell over Ellis (just for fun, was a really silly mistake). [62 point loss]
Gambling the C on Cox instead of taking GAJ VC score. [58 point loss]
That round was such a disaster that I slipped to 36,092th overall.

Round 7
Traded in Hibberd over McVeigh. They were roughly both the same price. Ever since Hibberd scores of 90, 91, 88 (failed to ton up for me so far) while McVeigh scores of 135, 131 & 92. And are now about 80k-90k apart...[89 points lost]
Mitchell being subbed out injured with that 9, was actually seriously considering putting the E on Sam Mitchell that week just in case he did bad. (There was actually no harm in me doing so, so I just didn't bother looping him). Had I did so, through some dpp switcheroos, I would have been able to field JKH's 112 instead up forward. [103 points lost]

Round 8
During the first bye week, made very unlucky mistake, that Zorko somehow was put onto my bench after trading without the E. Didn't notice til about 5 minutes into the game and was too late by then [81 points lost].

(I may have double counted since I mentioned McVeigh twice) So that would mean I've lost roughly 600 odd points then on decisions which I think were crucial and could have easily been avoided by me.

I have been unlucky to that extent that I have lost about 600 points... but sneaking into the top 1k this week would say so otherwise.

 

[Hawk]

This thread is a bit like a poker bad beat, no one wants to hear about anyones bad luck!
Just my thoughts anyway.

Crown Casino food court style. Haha.

 

[Philzsay]

This thread is a bit like a poker bad beat, no one wants to hear about anyones bad luck!
Just my thoughts anyway.

Crown Casino food court style. Haha.

I miss the days (probably about ten years ago now) when they had a cheap fast food place inside the actual casino where you could get a plate of fish and chip for $2 even if it was just a dodgy fish fillet and about 15 chips. Always handy when you were out of luck!

Also they used to have people coming around the slot machines handing out small cans of coke to those playing. What I used to do if I was running out of cash was find where one of them was, go to the next row, put in my crown casino card and a few dollars in the machine and then wait for them to get to me. They would always give you the coke. Then once they left simply cash out your coins so you got the drink for free!

 

[blue dreamer]

I unluckily registered for supercoach this year

 

[The_Rogues]

I unluckily registered for supercoach this year

This...

 

[OzRulesFootball]

I miss the days (probably about ten years ago now) when they had a cheap fast food place inside the actual casino where you could get a plate of fish and chip for $2 even if it was just a dodgy fish fillet and about 15 chips. Always handy when you were out of luck!

Also they used to have people coming around the slot machines handing out small cans of coke to those playing. What I used to do if I was running out of cash was find where one of them was, go to the next row, put in my crown casino card and a few dollars in the machine and then wait for them to get to me. They would always give you the coke. Then once they left simply cash out your coins so you got the drink for free!

OMG Phil...lol...
I love coke but hate poker machines.
I'd rather chew my right arm off than spend time in amongst poker machines.

 

[Philzsay]

OMG Phil...lol...
I love coke but hate poker machines.
I'd rather chew my right arm off than spend time in amongst poker machines.

Yeah I think I have only been on a poker machine 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years, when I've been at a country club killing a little bit of time and risking bugger all like $5 or $10. I did have a small period just before that where despite knowing the maths I had a theory the casino would put the poker machines that paid out more near the doors so that others walking near by would see people winning and hence be enticed to come in. I quickly realised that using this theory on my path to riches was about as likely as Travis Cloke going through an entire season playing 22 games and not kicking a single behind, and hence only now gamble if there is a least a little element of skill involved.

 

[Junior Wölf]

Have kept Mumford because I was upgrading and downgrading players. That is pain.

 

[Nathan]

Won't list rookie's being vested or 50/50 picks as bad luck. Fyfe & Roughy suspended, Sam Mitchell, Wingard, Hanley, Mumford injured. Mumford getting injured isn't really bad luck but your back up ruck man being withdrawn due to weather is.