Questions for Rowsus
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Hey Pro,
here's how I see it at the moment.
RAMP has you losing by 91 and SC Gold have you losing by 51(these both exclude Captain considerations, but take emergency loopholes into account), so the situation is not hopeless!
I think you have to approach it from a "what would I do in his situation" scenario. If I was sitting in Blue Dreamers shoes, I would be trying to block your avenues of attack. Pretty much your only avenue is your Captain and it's loophole, so there are a couple of things you can do.
You can choose a V and/or C from the list of POD's above. He can't block those! As you can see from your predicted scores, there are no stand out choices in your POD's. Maybe Martin, but then you risk 2 big unknowns. How will Essendon come out and play, and how will Martin come out and play! Martin's 137 last week had no goals kicked in it. You'd think if he kicked a goal or two, he'd have gotten around 150! Selwood is the obvious choice for one of C loophole picks, but I'm sure blue will be heading down that path, too! In fact, I think he will be Selwood V and Griffen C. He will want to leave his Captain pick to as late in the round as he can (assuming Selwood goes inder 120), to add just that little more pressure to your selections. By leaving it late, and possibly having Selwood up his sleeve, he can potentially force you into a false move. If you play your V on Friday, it gives him confidence to put his V on Selwood, knowing if your V fails he has blocked your most obvious escape route!
I guess it comes down to 2 choices. Do you have one crack at a "different" Captain choice, and if that fails, just hope you can make up the points in the head to head battles? Or do you roll the dice on your Captain twice? I think you're relying a little too much on luck relying on your head to head battles. I think you need to roll the dice on your Captain twice, and hope you get one that scores well that he hasn't blocked!
Just as a side note, both RAMP and SC Gold have Blicavs out scoring Sandilands this week, if he plays! Having said that, given Sandi has more potential for a monster than the Blics, I think it goes without saying, you need to play him if he's picked. Obviously something wrong with both of them, if they think Blics will beat Sandi!
Good luck!
here's how I see it at the moment.
RAMP has you losing by 91 and SC Gold have you losing by 51(these both exclude Captain considerations, but take emergency loopholes into account), so the situation is not hopeless!
I think you have to approach it from a "what would I do in his situation" scenario. If I was sitting in Blue Dreamers shoes, I would be trying to block your avenues of attack. Pretty much your only avenue is your Captain and it's loophole, so there are a couple of things you can do.
You can choose a V and/or C from the list of POD's above. He can't block those! As you can see from your predicted scores, there are no stand out choices in your POD's. Maybe Martin, but then you risk 2 big unknowns. How will Essendon come out and play, and how will Martin come out and play! Martin's 137 last week had no goals kicked in it. You'd think if he kicked a goal or two, he'd have gotten around 150! Selwood is the obvious choice for one of C loophole picks, but I'm sure blue will be heading down that path, too! In fact, I think he will be Selwood V and Griffen C. He will want to leave his Captain pick to as late in the round as he can (assuming Selwood goes inder 120), to add just that little more pressure to your selections. By leaving it late, and possibly having Selwood up his sleeve, he can potentially force you into a false move. If you play your V on Friday, it gives him confidence to put his V on Selwood, knowing if your V fails he has blocked your most obvious escape route!
I guess it comes down to 2 choices. Do you have one crack at a "different" Captain choice, and if that fails, just hope you can make up the points in the head to head battles? Or do you roll the dice on your Captain twice? I think you're relying a little too much on luck relying on your head to head battles. I think you need to roll the dice on your Captain twice, and hope you get one that scores well that he hasn't blocked!
Just as a side note, both RAMP and SC Gold have Blicavs out scoring Sandilands this week, if he plays! Having said that, given Sandi has more potential for a monster than the Blics, I think it goes without saying, you need to play him if he's picked. Obviously something wrong with both of them, if they think Blics will beat Sandi!
Good luck!
Hey Pro,
here's how I see it at the moment.
RAMP has you losing by 91 and SC Gold have you losing by 51(these both exclude Captain considerations, but take emergency loopholes into account), so the situation is not hopeless!
I think you have to approach it from a "what would I do in his situation" scenario. If I was sitting in Blue Dreamers shoes, I would be trying to block your avenues of attack. Pretty much your only avenue is your Captain and it's loophole, so there are a couple of things you can do.
You can choose a V and/or C from the list of POD's above. He can't block those! As you can see from your predicted scores, there are no stand out choices in your POD's. Maybe Martin, but then you risk 2 big unknowns. How will Essendon come out and play, and how will Martin come out and play! Martin's 137 last week had no goals kicked in it. You'd think if he kicked a goal or two, he'd have gotten around 150! Selwood is the obvious choice for one of C loophole picks, but I'm sure blue will be heading down that path, too! In fact, I think he will be Selwood V and Griffen C. He will want to leave his Captain pick to as late in the round as he can (assuming Selwood goes inder 120), to add just that little more pressure to your selections. By leaving it late, and possibly having Selwood up his sleeve, he can potentially force you into a false move. If you play your V on Friday, it gives him confidence to put his V on Selwood, knowing if your V fails he has blocked your most obvious escape route!
I guess it comes down to 2 choices. Do you have one crack at a "different" Captain choice, and if that fails, just hope you can make up the points in the head to head battles? Or do you roll the dice on your Captain twice? I think you're relying a little too much on luck relying on your head to head battles. I think you need to roll the dice on your Captain twice, and hope you get one that scores well that he hasn't blocked!
Just as a side note, both RAMP and SC Gold have Blicavs out scoring Sandilands this week, if he plays! Having said that, given Sandi has more potential for a monster than the Blics, I think it goes without saying, you need to play him if he's picked. Obviously something wrong with both of them, if they think Blics will beat Sandi!
Good luck!
here's how I see it at the moment.
RAMP has you losing by 91 and SC Gold have you losing by 51(these both exclude Captain considerations, but take emergency loopholes into account), so the situation is not hopeless!
I think you have to approach it from a "what would I do in his situation" scenario. If I was sitting in Blue Dreamers shoes, I would be trying to block your avenues of attack. Pretty much your only avenue is your Captain and it's loophole, so there are a couple of things you can do.
You can choose a V and/or C from the list of POD's above. He can't block those! As you can see from your predicted scores, there are no stand out choices in your POD's. Maybe Martin, but then you risk 2 big unknowns. How will Essendon come out and play, and how will Martin come out and play! Martin's 137 last week had no goals kicked in it. You'd think if he kicked a goal or two, he'd have gotten around 150! Selwood is the obvious choice for one of C loophole picks, but I'm sure blue will be heading down that path, too! In fact, I think he will be Selwood V and Griffen C. He will want to leave his Captain pick to as late in the round as he can (assuming Selwood goes inder 120), to add just that little more pressure to your selections. By leaving it late, and possibly having Selwood up his sleeve, he can potentially force you into a false move. If you play your V on Friday, it gives him confidence to put his V on Selwood, knowing if your V fails he has blocked your most obvious escape route!
I guess it comes down to 2 choices. Do you have one crack at a "different" Captain choice, and if that fails, just hope you can make up the points in the head to head battles? Or do you roll the dice on your Captain twice? I think you're relying a little too much on luck relying on your head to head battles. I think you need to roll the dice on your Captain twice, and hope you get one that scores well that he hasn't blocked!
Just as a side note, both RAMP and SC Gold have Blicavs out scoring Sandilands this week, if he plays! Having said that, given Sandi has more potential for a monster than the Blics, I think it goes without saying, you need to play him if he's picked. Obviously something wrong with both of them, if they think Blics will beat Sandi!
Good luck!
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.... actually, if you traded Ablett out, you could get whoever you want!
If we assume i do have a trade would I be best to trade out K Jack to A Walker (or maybe mundy) to stop what seems to be Prochards best POD or should I look to create another POD (like Mayne) for myself almost no cash so it would have to be virtually a straight sideways trade.
Purely from a trying to win the Grand Final point of view, the best tactic is to shut down his POD's. You know you have him at a disadvantage, and the less avenues he has to attack your advantage, the better for you.
Depending on your Cash situation, I'd be turning Roughie/Pav/Cloke into Buddy! We know Buddy has the potential to go very large, and even though he has a tough game, you nullify his potential to hurt you.
If you can afford to use any of the 3 to Buddy, my order would be: Roughie, Pav, Cloke. Given Norths woes in defence, I just have a sneaky suspicion Cloke might go ok this week!
Good luck
Depending on your Cash situation, I'd be turning Roughie/Pav/Cloke into Buddy! We know Buddy has the potential to go very large, and even though he has a tough game, you nullify his potential to hurt you.
If you can afford to use any of the 3 to Buddy, my order would be: Roughie, Pav, Cloke. Given Norths woes in defence, I just have a sneaky suspicion Cloke might go ok this week!
Good luck
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Hey Rowsus, i know it's probably a painful exercise for you but how many points have you lost this year from missed lockouts/loopholes etc and how do you plan to fix this next year
Those 852 points would boost my Ranking to a more respectable, but far from boastful, 6,300, instead of the disappointing 20,000 it currently sits at!
I'm not sure I have any plans to fix it for next season. While I am a chance at the $50k I will get up at 4am or whatever time, and check my team. Which means by about round 3 or 4 I should be good to "sleep in" again!
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Purely from a trying to win the Grand Final point of view, the best tactic is to shut down his POD's. You know you have him at a disadvantage, and the less avenues he has to attack your advantage, the better for you.
Depending on your Cash situation, I'd be turning Roughie/Pav/Cloke into Buddy! We know Buddy has the potential to go very large, and even though he has a tough game, you nullify his potential to hurt you.
If you can afford to use any of the 3 to Buddy, my order would be: Roughie, Pav, Cloke. Given Norths woes in defence, I just have a sneaky suspicion Cloke might go ok this week!
Good luck
Depending on your Cash situation, I'd be turning Roughie/Pav/Cloke into Buddy! We know Buddy has the potential to go very large, and even though he has a tough game, you nullify his potential to hurt you.
If you can afford to use any of the 3 to Buddy, my order would be: Roughie, Pav, Cloke. Given Norths woes in defence, I just have a sneaky suspicion Cloke might go ok this week!
Good luck
I have just thought of Cloke out, Cox Fwd and Sandi in now you have me thinking Cloke could be a big win for me
I think my final count is 852 points lost. This isn't maybe's or potentially's, these are locked in lost points, because I missed lockouts mainly due to the 8-10 hour time difference. It doesn't, of course, include bad Captain, or benching decisions, which we all have plenty of!
Those 852 points would boost my Ranking to a more respectable, but far from boastful, 6,300, instead of the disappointing 20,000 it currently sits at!
I'm not sure I have any plans to fix it for next season. While I am a chance at the $50k I will get up at 4am or whatever time, and check my team. Which means by about round 3 or 4 I should be good to "sleep in" again!
Those 852 points would boost my Ranking to a more respectable, but far from boastful, 6,300, instead of the disappointing 20,000 it currently sits at!
I'm not sure I have any plans to fix it for next season. While I am a chance at the $50k I will get up at 4am or whatever time, and check my team. Which means by about round 3 or 4 I should be good to "sleep in" again!
The great thing is there's always next year and a second group of MBR's to make it that much more interesting. Although with the best 18 rule, there's possibly less strategic gain...that we know of yet