How many trades will you have left when the Round 3 lockout?
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Juddy88
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That's what I was telling myself last year.
Never happend though, injury always strikes when you think you are settled.
Well considering I'm ranked 67th overall... I'd say I've picked a decent initial team, wouldn't you? I'd like to hear your ranking
The idea is to make cash and upgrade. I've obviously got a team that's scoring well, so the next step is to make cash and upgrade to more premiums. If I can do that and get 2-3 more premiums by round 8-9, rather than wait until then for injured players to POSSIBLY come back and START to do that, then why wouldn't you? Who's to say they wont stay out longer? Eg. Grimes has already be pushed from Rnd 4 return to Rnd 7-8 return. If you'd waited 2 extra weeks to find that out, you've cost yourslef a cashcow who would have made you $200,000 or so. This is hypothetical, but I'm just trying to get the point across.
I personally find it funny some of the rules on this board. I agree with alot of them because they're just logic, but if you don't break some then you're not going to get anywhere. IMO If you havent traded in the first few rounds to get the right cashcows and ditch injured players, then you're behind the 8-ball and good luck to you languishing back in the 10,000s in the rankings.
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I doubt that. Its likely you will get an injury (meaning you will trade), and given you have already made one trade, most likely another 2 this week, then another one next week - it seems you are trigger happy! You will have made 8 trades by round 8 i am tipping.
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Just thought I'd say that anyone who finish fairly high doesnt worry about the first half of the season. I have made trades early and kept a few for later and my team value is always way lower than the top 100. I think it's all about getting the premiums when they drop and waiting until ur rookies max out. The most expensive team is nearly always in the top 100. Just some food for though. Dont get rid of researched premuims just because they have had a slow start especially shane tuck, reiwoldt, pavlich, hille ect. Tuck has massive upside averaged almost 80 and richmond have some easy opponants coming up, waste of a trade. If you thinking gibbs will keep his average of 130 u must me joking, carltank r not top 4. When they play geelong, pies, st kilda, adelaide ect his average will creep towards the 100 mark. No trades if you can manage it is the way to go.
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Will have 19 trades left after lock-out
Being the most important trading round of the season I've thought about various trades, ie adcock > harding but I've decided to stick by my man
Being the most important trading round of the season I've thought about various trades, ie adcock > harding but I've decided to stick by my man
I love how people say stuff like this. What are gonna do if half your side gets injured between round 4 and 8? Still nothing?
Daveo
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Oh no, a 100 average for a 387,000 player ... what will I do..
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Well considering I'm ranked 67th overall... I'd say I've picked a decent initial team, wouldn't you? I'd like to hear your ranking
67th after round 2! woah
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Initial rankings mean very little. I had a great starting team last year - was ranked 30th after 3 rounds and stayed in the top 200 for the first half of the season. Saved up enough trades for the second half, then bang, backline crisis. I end up running out of trades [NB - I didn't literally run out of trades, but I was so busy dealing with the likes of Cornes, Drummond, PBurgs, Symes, that I had few upgrade trades) and wearing 1 zero each week for the second half of the season. Team slides down into 1000th place.
There will always be injuries. Your team will almost never be at 100%. The best teams are those which are happy to stay at 90-95% capacity, saving trades for when injuries really bite. The teams which fail are the ones that trade whenever their team falls to 97% capacity. Sure, that trade will give you an extra 3% capacity. But you'll be operating at 75% capacity by round 18. It's that simple.
And injuries/restings hit hardest in the last couple of rounds. Last season it was Pavlich/Shaw/Didak/Mackie all at once. That's four of my best premiums going down. This happens every year. When a premium goes down and you've already cash cow cycled down to a weakish rookie player as your ressie, that's 50 points per round at least right there.
IF you insist on operating at 100% capacity, you will last twelve rounds and then die. You can test your luck if you want. But let us bookmark this thread so that we can come back in 17 weeks time.
There will always be injuries. Your team will almost never be at 100%. The best teams are those which are happy to stay at 90-95% capacity, saving trades for when injuries really bite. The teams which fail are the ones that trade whenever their team falls to 97% capacity. Sure, that trade will give you an extra 3% capacity. But you'll be operating at 75% capacity by round 18. It's that simple.
And injuries/restings hit hardest in the last couple of rounds. Last season it was Pavlich/Shaw/Didak/Mackie all at once. That's four of my best premiums going down. This happens every year. When a premium goes down and you've already cash cow cycled down to a weakish rookie player as your ressie, that's 50 points per round at least right there.
IF you insist on operating at 100% capacity, you will last twelve rounds and then die. You can test your luck if you want. But let us bookmark this thread so that we can come back in 17 weeks time.
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20. Proven strategy to make the trades count in the middle and end of the season rather than all at the start when everything is still a lottery. Up to 18 left is ok as some need to make definite changes, but anything less is really going too hard and setting yourself up for hardship in the final 2-3 rounds. You'd want a run of good luck in the middle to stop yourself trading.
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20 trades left - no real reason to trade as yet - have escaped most of the carnage (touch wood).
in the past have had to use 4 trades by this stage - so very happy this year
in the past have had to use 4 trades by this stage - so very happy this year
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I'll have 20 as long as 2 of Hill/Suban/Petrenko get a game.
Quite pleasing as I have started off well scoring 2058 and 2050 in the opening 2 rounds. Starting 4 rookies + Otten will surely take it's toll on my team sooner or later though!
Quite pleasing as I have started off well scoring 2058 and 2050 in the opening 2 rounds. Starting 4 rookies + Otten will surely take it's toll on my team sooner or later though!
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I doubt that. Its likely you will get an injury (meaning you will trade), and given you have already made one trade, most likely another 2 this week, then another one next week - it seems you are trigger happy! You will have made 8 trades by round 8 i am tipping.
I know what im doing mate, finished top 10 last year. Its about calculated risks.
Depending on selections in 20 mins, 0 or 1
