Trades 2025 Fantasy Round 2 Trades

[happy_eagle]

Annual reminder to only make your trades before Thursday lockout if you had to.

Had a hard time reversing my trades the other day because it involved somebody in the Utility position. Rollback team I think is not available post lockout if any player locked out is in a different spot

 

[Freo_4eva]

Really want to fade SDK - but its the only way to get Leake to either Lindsay or Levi. If i could just do the two rookies i would

 

[Sonny Hayes]

Is SDK as big a lock as we all think?

Could be in for another solid week against boyd - but you just have to think after this round Stanley will come in vs. Gawn and then he'll pump out 40's as a key back. Even in the trial game he went 57. Reidy is terrible and SDK could run loose - even with no Stanley vs. Gawn you would have to imagine his priority will be being accountable to Max as you can't let him get around the ground unchecked.

I'm tossing up SDK vs. bringing in Knevitt for Hastie (other trade is ashcroft in for Taylor - yes I'm terrible at this and had none of them). Knevitt is attending bulk CBA's, consistent from pre-season into round 1 and for much cheaper should be a better lock to build more cash, and I'd argue even score more over the next 3 rounds as a whole.

It just feels like it could end up being your classic mid-pricer shuffle around score chasing.

It certainly has some risk and could happen but SDK finished last year as a ruckmen, trained all pre season as a ruck and played round 1 as a ruck. He is still very under priced and the backline this year is absolutely awful which adds to his value.

 

[stallon]

Is SDK as big a lock as we all think?

no

Could be in for another solid week against boyd - but you just have to think after this round Stanley will come in vs. Gawn and then he'll pump out 40's as a key back. Even in the trial game he went 57. Reidy is terrible and SDK could run loose - even with no Stanley vs. Gawn you would have to imagine his priority will be being accountable to Max as you can't let him get around the ground unchecked.

I'm tossing up SDK vs. bringing in Knevitt for Hastie (other trade is ashcroft in for Taylor - yes I'm terrible at this and had none of them). Knevitt is attending bulk CBA's, consistent from pre-season into round 1 and for much cheaper should be a better lock to build more cash, and I'd argue even score more over the next 3 rounds as a whole.

It just feels like it could end up being your classic mid-pricer shuffle around score chasing.

Imo there are like 4 rookies you want first, SDK for me is only an option if you have to get in a defender because you want to dump Perryman or you had Taylor not in the utility spot and are stuck with getting a defender.

Im Knevitt over SDK, but midfield spots are a bit limited with how deep most went, and the abundance of mid rookies.
Eg if I want Knevitt I have to dump Day or FOS, and id still have Ashcroft or Lindsay on my bench.

SDK could easily be a trade out in 3 weeks time after scoring a 60 vs the Lions and a 50 vs the Dees

 

[SM]

no

Imo there are like 4 rookies you want first, SDK for me is only an option if you have to get in a defender because you want to dump Perryman or you had Taylor not in the utility spot and are stuck with getting a defender.

Im Knevitt over SDK, but midfield spots are a bit limited with how deep most went, and the abundance of mid rookies.
Eg if I want Knevitt I have to dump Day or FOS, and id still have Ashcroft or Lindsay on my bench.

SDK could easily be a trade out in 3 weeks time after scoring a 60 vs the Lions and a 50 vs the Dees

Yeah my issue is I can't afford to get Lindsay and Lashcroft, so almost forces my hand to go Perryman down to either Freijah or SDK to enable one of the two - which I'm leaning Lashcroft. This is where Fantasy being so rigid on two trades a week (rather than being able to bring forward or alter the number of trades we use at some penalty) can really mean people's seasons are over almost as soon as they begin because you almost get forced down particular trade paths and then spend the whole season playing catch up where you basically can't afford a single mistake.

 

[4tune8]

Is SDK as big a lock as we all think?

Could be in for another solid week against boyd - but you just have to think after this round Stanley will come in vs. Gawn and then he'll pump out 40's as a key back. Even in the trial game he went 57. Reidy is terrible and SDK could run loose - even with no Stanley vs. Gawn you would have to imagine his priority will be being accountable to Max as you can't let him get around the ground unchecked.

I'm tossing up SDK vs. bringing in Knevitt for Hastie (other trade is ashcroft in for Taylor - yes I'm terrible at this and had none of them). Knevitt is attending bulk CBA's, consistent from pre-season into round 1 and for much cheaper should be a better lock to build more cash, and I'd argue even score more over the next 3 rounds as a whole.

It just feels like it could end up being your classic mid-pricer shuffle around score chasing.

TBH, there's not a compelling case to move him back, Cats next lot of matchups don't require him as a key defender.

 

[Barrybran]

Something a little left field - who's your favourite forward option? Price doesn't matter. It could be premo, mid price or rookie. I'll add that I'm looking at next round but that decision impacts this round.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Something a little left field - who's your favourite forward option? Price doesn't matter. It could be premo, mid price or rookie. I'll add that I'm looking at next round but that decision impacts this round.

1. Rankine
2. Finlayson
3. Simpkin


Would probably be the only one's I'd target at the moment, apart from rookies.

As the seaosn matures I see the top 6 being Smith, Macrae, Daniel and three of Rankine, Moore, JHF, Simpkin so Moore and JHF will eventually come into calculations (but likely not till closer to the Byes unless either pops a score anytime soon).

 

[stallon]

Something a little left field - who's your favourite forward option? Price doesn't matter. It could be premo, mid price or rookie. I'll add that I'm looking at next round but that decision impacts this round.

Favourite or best? lol
Finlayson seems like a risky fun one

Simpkin I reckon could be sneaky good
Graham too, he looked the most comfortable in the middle for the Eagles, should get the most CBAs now too. 85 avg not unreasonable at all imo

 

[Barrybran]

Favourite or best? lol
Finlayson seems like a risky fun one

Simpkin I reckon could be sneaky good
Graham too, he looked the most comfortable in the middle for the Eagles, should get the most CBAs now too. 85 avg not unreasonable at all imo

Fun and risky describes my round 1 team. Now my team has the fantasy equivalent of an STD.

I was looking at Graham. I'm iffy because we suck but nearly tonning up in that debacle is pretty solid.

 

[stallon]

Fun and risky describes my round 1 team. Now my team has the fantasy equivalent of an STD.

I was looking at Graham. I'm iffy because we suck but nearly tonning up in that debacle is pretty solid.

Yeah thats why im keener on Graham again. I cant/wont get him in but if I wanted a forward in that price bracket he'd be in the picture

 

[danster168]

Anyone other than me thinking of Sanders to Darcy Wilson?

Helps with the heavy round 12 bye issue and he's played well in the preseason match and now round 1.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Anyone other than me thinking of Sanders to Darcy Wilson?

Helps with the heavy round 12 bye issue and he's played well in the preseason match and now round 1.

I think you're on an island there Dan!

 

[RavensFever]

Connor Stone > Lindsay

Deciding between
Taylor > freijah (168k)
Holland's > lashcroft (492k) to upgrade taylor and perryman next week

 

[FlowersByIrene]

The Breakevens are bizarre I must say:

Jayden Short. BE of 86, predicted to go 86, projected to gain $8k.
Will Day. BE of 65, predicted to go 67, projected to gain $8k.

Joel Friejah. BE of 40, predicted to go 68, projected to gain only $29k.

So Short and Day are predicted to basically score their BE and still gain close to $10k, but Freijah is projected to almost double his BE (+28) and only gain $29k.

I reckon Popowski has ****ed this.

 

[stallon]

The Breakevens are bizarre I must say:

Jayden Short. BE of 86, predicted to go 86, projected to gain $8k.
Will Day. BE of 65, predicted to go 67, projected to gain $8k.

Joel Friejah. BE of 40, predicted to go 68, projected to gain only $29k.

So Short and Day are predicted to basically score their BE and still gain close to $10k, but Freijah is projected to almost double his BE (+28) and only gain $29k.

I reckon Popowski has ****ed this.

Shorts numbers look correct(BE 77, proj 86), Day's do look a bit weird though

 

[samFFC]

Not going to rush any trades this week

Lindsay main in and doesn’t play til Sunday

Can use Taylor, Stone as loops if for Reid/Trainor and Davidson/Garcia, and get rid of Taylor if not needed.
Garcia hoping to get 1 more look.

 

[Decimation]

So I was at work and got stuck with Gruzewski.

What do we think about;
Gruzewski>Hall
O'Sullivan>Lindsay

Or something else?

 

[samFFC]

The Breakevens are bizarre I must say:

Jayden Short. BE of 86, predicted to go 86, projected to gain $8k.
Will Day. BE of 65, predicted to go 67, projected to gain $8k.

Joel Friejah. BE of 40, predicted to go 68, projected to gain only $29k.

So Short and Day are predicted to basically score their BE and still gain close to $10k, but Freijah is projected to almost double his BE (+28) and only gain $29k.

I reckon Popowski has ****ed this.

Haven't looked in detail but I think that’s about right for r2.

Remember that total cost of players is stable, so when you have players like Taylor going up 80k, Warner 65k, plenty rookies up 40-50k etc, you have lots of others losing money, and more modest rises for small outperformance.

Freijah is predicted +28, sure, but Hall, Campo, Lindsay are predicted +70.

The change is different later in the year when there aren’t as many rookies making big gains.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Shorts numbers look correct(BE 77, proj 86), Day's do look a bit weird though

Bizarre, it literally just said Short's BE was 86, now it says 77.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Bizarre, it literally just said Short's BE was 86, now it says 77.

And Freijah's has dropped from 40 to 34. I'm not messing this up, they have literally changed in the past 20 minutes.

 

[tigs2010]

And Freijah's has dropped from 40 to 34. I'm not messing this up, they have literally changed in the past 20 minutes.

Briggs is 146 now. We know it was different before based on 4tune8 yesterday screenshotting it

 

[stallon]

And Freijah's has dropped from 40 to 34. I'm not messing this up, they have literally changed in the past 20 minutes.

he might be playing with some numbers in the background

 

[tigs2010]

he might be playing with some numbers in the background

He's working out who he's trading in and lowering the BE's lol

 

[Pure Grunt]

He's working out who he's trading in and lowering the BE's lol

Think he is intently reading this forum and fixing the stuff ups on the run.

 

[Pure Grunt]

Trades to be vanilla

Lucky to fade Garcia last week with Bo Allen for a loop
Take another look at Hollands/Day/Bergman/Sanders.