Ruck Coverage Strategy
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I like the Rowsus strategy. Buying the 'key' but having no 'lock' as such until later. I will take this route too!
The main risk with this strategy is if your ruck man gets injured within the first 5-6 rounds (before your rookies have matured enough). Then you wouldn't have enough funds to bring in a Lycett/TBC/Ryder in your forward line for a rookie. If NicNat/Berger/Goldy/Maric are injured early it would result in a sideways trade of one of your rucks or forwards. If they don't, you can simply wait until they miss games then bring in the 'lock'.
Starting TBC/Lycett/Ryder is no guarantee of ruck cover because they themselves could get injured! I'd rather deal with potential injuries as they come than be speculative.
The main risk with this strategy is if your ruck man gets injured within the first 5-6 rounds (before your rookies have matured enough). Then you wouldn't have enough funds to bring in a Lycett/TBC/Ryder in your forward line for a rookie. If NicNat/Berger/Goldy/Maric are injured early it would result in a sideways trade of one of your rucks or forwards. If they don't, you can simply wait until they miss games then bring in the 'lock'.
Starting TBC/Lycett/Ryder is no guarantee of ruck cover because they themselves could get injured! I'd rather deal with potential injuries as they come than be speculative.
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I think I read somewhere that Sinclair might only miss 4 weeks with the broken thumb. If this is the case then this may create some uncertainty re Lycett after the first 1 or 2 rounds anyway (assuming that Lycett/Sinclair are line ball to get a game rather than Lycett as the more likely of the two to get a game).
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Well said. A lot of people seem to be doubting Lycett's ability to score well with Nic Nat as lead ruck... In those Round 13-23 games he played 3 of those games with 3 ruckmen!!... In those 3 games he averaged 86.66. In that period he also played 4 of those games with just him and Nic Nat for an average of 92.25.
The other point is those games from Round 13-23 where just his 14th-22nd career games!!
He is young, hungry to play regular AFL footy, and now has the opportunity. He will not go backwards in his average.
People are way to carried away with Sinclair's first 2 pre-season games. He is not the next Simon Madden or Dean Cox, and won't be rushed into the team as soon as he is fit again. Lycett will have to play some seriously bad footy for a fair period of time before he is dropped. He along with NN are our ruck future.
The other point is those games from Round 13-23 where just his 14th-22nd career games!!
He is young, hungry to play regular AFL footy, and now has the opportunity. He will not go backwards in his average.
People are way to carried away with Sinclair's first 2 pre-season games. He is not the next Simon Madden or Dean Cox, and won't be rushed into the team as soon as he is fit again. Lycett will have to play some seriously bad footy for a fair period of time before he is dropped. He along with NN are our ruck future.
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Correct so if you only need him for say 2 games that's a gain of 120 points. But if you were to have a prem fwd there instead averaging 10 ppg better then you would be 200 points better than the dpp ruckman. So in reality you lose out 80 points over the season unless you can have him at f7 by rd 15 not completely unrealistic but is highly unlikely that you would have 22 a grade prems by then and be concerntrateing on bench cover players
It's very important to compare apples with apples. I think conservatively Lycett can average 80-85, this season, and more likely high 80's. To get 10 ppg better you need to find a 95 ppg player AT Lycett's price! If you have a 95 ppg Fwd at $420k I would love for you to share who it is. Keeping in mind that the higher end Rucks average missing 2 games per season, and if you use Lycett 4 times to facilitate coverage for your R1/R2 you are actually in essence adding around 4 x 60 = 240 to Lycett's value, which makes him a 95 ppg player anyway. This assumes there is no rookie coverage in the Rucks, and you don't want to trade your way around a missing R1/R2.
