Discussion Structure, Strategy and Sacrifice

[Manikato1]

This is why we need a dislike button. ;-o

No sport to entertain the masses? What other pastimes will the human mind explore...

I hope they can play without the crowd. Spiritually Australians are connected to sport so to not play at all is to succumb to something we would like to rise above.

But I can understand entirely the banning of large crowds. Look at it like this. The Rolling Stones are playing at the MCG and 100,00 can attend and it is FREE. But of the 100,000 that attend it is a given that 1,200 will die. Would you attend. Would you take your kids. Your parents (my old man is 93 and he rocks). Pretty sure we all know the answer. And if you say the RS suck then substitute any band you like.

 

[Beijing_Sting]

All players receive a discount for next year.

Awful... but I admit ... you clever!

 

[Juzzo]

Never really had Martin or seriously entertained past maybe an initial post maybe earlier - maybe even while under the influence??? But this setup, allows for a mostly pretty comfortable feeling. I look at defence, and give myself an inner nod of approval. Then the mids and I do the same. Then the Forwards - and oooooh - I like it a lot... Then I look at the rucks. And my stomach drops. It is like either I have small amounts of anxiety throughout the whole team with Gawndy, or just massive anxiety in the Rucks. Who knows what I'll end up with. Could be I am on a downward slide - I am certainly not the one to copy ideas from. At this stage, though, the thought of waiting another four weeks or more for the start of the season is kind of close to serious torture.

Just treat your rucks like a redhead stepchild.

 

[Bomber18]

Some coronavirus impact related thoughts I had (assuming we continue this season without crowds):

• Rookie bench coverage will be more important than ever. I can definitely see players with cold like symptoms (i.e. sore throats) being self-isolated for 1-2 weeks and missing random weeks e.g. Kane Richardson missed the ODI with a sore throat. Expect to see players randomly missing. I hope clubs are open about the reasons for missing.
• Players randomly missing for precautionary testing might also help rookies with poor JS (i.e. an Ash type). We may get enough cash growth out of those poor JS rookies named in Round 1.
• No crowds may help players who like to "run down tackle". Crowds make a lot of noise when players are about to be dispossessed, I'm sure some players would listen out for this and rush a disposal to avoid getting caught HTB. D.Smith type may benefit. The more "pressure" focused teams may generally benefit as well (i.e. the Tigers).
• Home grounds may not be as advantageous as they were before. Crowd noises I'm sure would influence umpires. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
• If some of the suggestions go forward regarding "mini drafts", we may see a lot of downgrade options (although potentially with poor JS).

The fun and games will continue until a player or a club support staff end up being confirmed as infected. I think at that point the AFL season would have to be called off for the year.

SC would be more vulnerable to being cancelled in any case as I'm not sure the administrators can cope with games being modified. Could turn into a week by week comp with weekly prizes but who knows. Maybe its best 18 every week....?

Anyway, as it stands, Round 1 games will go ahead and teams will drop on Thursday night. So at the very least, we will see the results of our preseason research play out for at least one round and perhaps have lessons learnt for future seasons.

 

[Slacker]

The fun and games will continue until a player or a club support staff end up being confirmed as infected. I think at that point the AFL season would have to be called off for the year.

SC would be more vulnerable to being cancelled in any case as I'm not sure the administrators can cope with games being modified. Could turn into a week by week comp with weekly prizes but who knows.

Whilst it does seem the chances of a full AFL/ SC season are fading by the minute (I remember watching 28 Days), one option may be for the SC Administrators to just preemptively provide unlimited trades from the first signs of interruption, much like they do in the final rounds of BBL SC...admittedly this does not help if/when everything grinds to a halt.

 

[Bomber18]

Whilst it does seem the chances of a full AFL/ SC season are fading by the minute (I remember watching 28 Days), one option may be for the SC Administrators to just preemptively provide unlimited trades from the first signs of interruption, much like they do in the final rounds of BBL SC...admittedly this does not help if/when everything grinds to a halt.

Could work maybe if there’s a limit like 2-3 per week. Or best 18 every week would be interesting.

 

[Professor]

If the AFL decide to delay the season, we'll most likely have to rethink strategies based on no bye rounds. They'll need the bye rounds to catch up. Just my 2c.

 

[Darkie]

If the AFL decide to delay the season, we'll most likely have to rethink strategies based on no bye rounds. They'll need the bye rounds to catch up. Just my 2c.

Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but it seems the simplest solution if it’s only a few weeks that need to be made up.

Would also solve a few SC headaches given that a lot of teams (including mine) contain many of:

Doc
Cripps
Oliver
Grundy
Gawn
Dusty
Petracca

 

[OzRulesFootball]

My strategy will be to create a supercoach account this year when I certain round one is going ahead.

 

[NT.Thunder]

You know what they should do, is just run a week by week SuperCoach competition like the old finals days. Allows total flexibility, have weekly prizes and maybe a running overall standing ladder but each week you get a salary cap and you just pick your best team. When the comp gets called off so be it but at least we can have a little bit of fun each week.

 

[AngryAnt]

Looks like the structure i've settled with is the following and I assume that this is close to the standard.

2-1-5
5-0-6
1-1-1
2-3-3 (One of the mid pricers is DSmith).

Not entirely convinced that this is correct considering the mid rookies might still not be there, could drop one of the fwd mid pricers and go with a sixth lower end premium ($550k to $600k range) in the midfield and not be left with much money on the bench for corrections. Also not starting Gawn seems wrong but it kills the rest of the team with too many exposed rookies.

With all of the talk of games being cancelled and the no crowds policy, I can't say that I have been into this supercoach planning as much as previous years, it seems kind of arbitrary right now.

 

[BlueNwhiteHoops]

The first thing I thought of was simply not choosing multiple premiums from the same team to lessen the affect if a team goes into quarantine after a player is diagnosed with ''The Big Bad Virus''

 

[BlueNwhiteHoops]

Looks like the structure i've settled with is the following and I assume that this is close to the standard.

2-1-5
5-0-6
1-1-1
2-3-3 (One of the mid pricers is DSmith).

Not entirely convinced that this is correct considering the mid rookies might still not be there, could drop one of the fwd mid pricers and go with a sixth lower end premium ($550k to $600k range) in the midfield and not be left with much money on the bench for corrections. Also not starting Gawn seems wrong but it kills the rest of the team with too many exposed rookies.

With all of the talk of games being cancelled and the no crowds policy, I can't say that I have been into this supercoach planning as much as previous years, it seems kind of arbitrary right now.

If you have any fwd/mids (which we all do) and you have 5 non rookies starting up fwd, as long as you have a dpp fwd/mid rookie on your midfield bench (Budawick) you just throw Smith/Martin/Whitfield/Brayshaw/Steven into the mids...easy done.

 

[AngryAnt]

If you have any fwd/mids (which we all do) and you have 5 non rookies starting up fwd, as long as you have a dpp fwd/mid rookie you just throw Smith/Martin/Whitfield/Brayshaw/Steven into the mids...easy done.

Yeh that's a great call. think this year it's probably important to start with a few of the DPP rookies on different lines for that flexibility.

 

[TigerTime]

If the AFL do go ahead with 6 matches in 4 weeks, should we be reconsidering players coming back from LTIs (Docherty & Titch) and interrupted preseasons (Gawn & Steven)? Given the potential short turnarounds between games you would think these players would be either rested more or at an increased risk of further injury

 

[freowho]

If supercoach still goes ahead with 17 rounds then "value" will be more important and fully priced players will have 5 less rounds to increase the gap between themselves and other picks.

 

[Dazza]

Hopefully the rescheduling fixture, they have no bye rounds

 

[Philzsay]

If supercoach still goes ahead with 17 rounds then "value" will be more important and fully priced players will have 5 less rounds to increase the gap between themselves and other picks.

On the flip side it could be argued that if you want any fully priced players to take them straight up, as any players you trade in later you will have for a less percentage of than than if it was a 22 game season.

 

[GrainFedBeef]

On the flip side it could be argued that if you want any fully priced players to take them straight up, as any players you trade in later you will have for a less percentage of than than if it was a 22 game season.

If you assume they tighten the breaks between rounds, introduce more rookies to compensate and extended squads (mini draft), then the magic number can come down more than before leading to slightly more erosion of full priced players.

 

[NT.Thunder]

Anyone worried that if you don't start Gawn you just may never have him this year