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1st go for 2026........sorry it's longhand but not savvy enough to do the screenshot thingy...

DEF: Rozee Clark McKercher Coleman Simpson Gibcus (Serong Lindsay)
MID: Bont Butters Naicos Young Reid Sharp Draper Smith ( Carroll Macrae Carmichael)
RUC: Gawn Xerri (Reidy)
FWD: Sheezel Flanders Rachele Phillipou Dovaston Lombard (Robertson Murray)
FLX: Draper
ITB: $212K
 
Choppers said:
1st go for 2026........sorry it's longhand but not savvy enough to do the screenshot thingy...

DEF: Rozee Clark McKercher Coleman Simpson Gibcus (Serong Lindsay)
MID: Bont Butters Naicos Young Reid Sharp Draper Smith ( Carroll Macrae Carmichael)
RUC: Gawn Xerri (Reidy)
FWD: Sheezel Flanders Rachele Phillipou Dovaston Lombard (Robertson Murray)
FLX: Draper
ITB: $212K
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theres a little green doovie whacker on the right at the top of your team thats works as a copy your team button
 
Thought a new year, (Happy new year everyone, hope you all smash 2026) deserves a new team post.

(originally posted in Mid-Priced Madness thread, but thought I’d throw this one out to the masses to tear apart and read my early doors thoughts analysis.)

So here it is:

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So far I have a few concerns.

1. Is injury proned Midpricers.
A few on some lines.

Fwds: Draper and Treloar

MIds: Young and Parish

Def: Kiddy Coleman.

Plus side is these guys price point provide huge value for upside’s, bad is the type of injuries have longer recovery time and higher chance of reoccurrence.

Rookies I have spent up especially bench and would spend more to take a chance on Dean and Duursma if I could find the cash.

Zero early trade dollars, $400 ITB has me worried as only correction trades will be downgrades. May have to sacrifice some players, probably early bye types to other options. Will analyse later.

Midpricers picked I feel reasonably confident are ready for next step in scoring, but don’t think they will step into top 8-10 in their lines.

This means trade countback is always on my mind.

Midpricers should be just one up, one down trades to premiums. Easy early season fix in rounds 6-14.

Rookie priced players I always allow 3 trades, one up, two down to become fallen Premo’s at $500k-$550k. This is always hard as timing and BE’s dictate when to use a Boost to cull a flock of rookies.

Most value is during bye rounds for trades as Premo’s have dropped more cash by then. But this can be too late as points can be lost to other sides taking more risks.

So Rookie upgrades may become a two step upgrade, first to a breakout midpricer who I missed and there are usually a few who come from low percentage ownership that catch us off guard.
Then move up to a proven Premo.
Problem with this strategy is it them becomes a 4 trade manoeuvre.

My team has 7 Rookie priced players if I tried this with all of them that is 28 trades. If I take away my 3 Trade boost upgrades that reduces down to 23 if 5 boosts are available again.

So 23 trades on rookies is starting point of problem as only 7 are upgrades and 16 are downgrades will there be 16 worthwhile rookie priced players who come from the clouds. These numbers feel unlikely meaning higher chance for a finished side with a dead bench.

The next part of trade counting is critical as with 23 trades gone and 9 midpricers needing two trades to upgrade equals another 18 trades.

That takes count to 41 trades.
Add in another 4-6 correction trades plus 4-6 long term injury trades if a Premo goes down (4 plus weeks).

I need 53 trades in total.

So reality hits.

To be more successful I need to:

1. Have the right starting Premo’s who go through season injury free.

2. I need to hit all early door rookies, targeting the bottom 6 teams from last season meaning getting more expensive rookies seems like a higher chance of getting early games.

3. Some, probably 4-6 Midpricers need to become keepers. To reduce trade count. My tolerance is 5-10 point average below top 10 in each line. Easiest lines for this is forwards then defenders. Hardest is Mids and Rucks.

4. This is always the hardest point in the game to find, I call them the Rookie Priced Season Long Keepers.
There are sometimes we get lucky enough to find a rookie whose scoring goes somewhere from 75-100 PPG. I am sure some SuperCoach historians know who these guys have been. From recent memory Will Brodie, Zach Reid before imjuries, there are probably 10-15 over the past 8 seasons who started at prices below $250k who got this rare medal of honour.

My strategy is to luck upon or trade into riskily early these players once they show their metal. Correction trades before round 5, hopefully after their byes if they have one.
As long as their averages remain above or around 80, I plan to keep as permanent bench coverage and trade around them. Or worst case option sideways trade them last.

Too many seasons I have fallen off after the byes with too few trades and end up with late season donuts, so while some teams are scoring 2600 plus I am lucky to get 2400.

I want to join the top 1000 club. That is always my aim. So I have to do something different than what I usually do and most of it is centred around my use of trades.
 
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dabombers said:
Thought a new year, (Happy new year everyone, hope you all smash 2026) deserves a new team post.

(originally posted in Mid-Priced Madness thread, but thought I’d throw this one out to the masses to tear apart and read my early doors thoughts analysis.)

So here it is:

View attachment 2504520



So far I have a few concerns.

1. Is injury proned Midpricers.
A few on some lines.

Fwds: Draper and Treloar

MIds: Young and Parish

Def: Kiddy Coleman.

Plus side is these guys price point provide huge value for upside’s, bad is the type of injuries have longer recovery time and higher chance of reoccurrence.

Rookies I have spent up especially bench and would spend more to take a chance on Dean and Duursma if I could find the cash.

Zero early trade dollars, $400 ITB has me worried as only correction trades will be downgrades. May have to sacrifice some players, probably early bye types to other options. Will analyse later.

Midpricers picked I feel reasonably confident are ready for next step in scoring, but don’t think they will step into top 8-10 in their lines.

This means trade countback is always on my mind.

Midpricers should be just one up, one down trades to premiums. Easy early season fix in rounds 6-14.

Rookie priced players I always allow 3 trades, one up, two down to become fallen Premo’s at $500k-$550k. This is always hard as timing and BE’s dictate when to use a Boost to cull a flock of rookies.

Most value is during bye rounds for trades as Premo’s have dropped more cash by then. But this can be too late as points can be lost to other sides taking more risks.

So Rookie upgrades may become a two step upgrade, first to a breakout midpricer who I missed and there are usually a few who come from low percentage ownership that catch us off guard.
Then move up to a proven Premo.
Problem with this strategy is it them becomes a 4 trade manoeuvre.

My team has 7 Rookie priced players if I tried this with all of them that is 28 trades. If I take away my 3 Trade boost upgrades that reduces down to 23 if 5 boosts are available again.

So 23 trades on rookies is starting point of problem as only 7 are upgrades and 16 are downgrades will there be 16 worthwhile rookie priced players who come from the clouds. These numbers feel unlikely meaning higher chance for a finished side with a dead bench.

The next part of trade counting is critical as with 23 trades gone and 9 midpricers needing two trades to upgrade equals another 18 trades.

That takes count to 41 trades.
Add in another 4-6 correction trades plus 4-6 long term injury trades if a Premo goes down (4 plus weeks).

I need 53 trades in total.

So reality hits.

To be more successful I need to:

1. Have the right starting Premo’s who go through season injury free.

2. I need to hit all early door rookies, targeting the bottom 6 teams from last season meaning getting more expensive rookies seems like a higher chance of getting early games.

3. Some, probably 4-6 Midpricers need to become keepers. To reduce trade count. My tolerance is 5-10 point average below top 10 in each line. Easiest lines for this is forwards then defenders. Hardest is Mids and Rucks.

4. This is always the hardest point in the game to find, I call them the Rookie Priced Season Long Keepers.
There are sometimes we get lucky enough to find a rookie whose scoring goes somewhere from 75-100 PPG. I am sure some SuperCoach historians know who these guys have been. From recent memory Will Brodie, Zach Reid before imjuries, there are probably 10-15 over the past 8 seasons who started at prices below $250k who got this rare medal of honour.

My strategy is to luck upon or trade into riskily early these players once they show their metal. Correction trades before round 5, hopefully after their byes if they have one.
As long as their averages remain above or around 80, I plan to keep as permanent bench coverage and trade around them. Or worst case option sideways trade them last.

Too many seasons I have fallen off after the byes with too few trades and end up with late season donuts, so while some teams are scoring 2600 plus I am lucky to get 2400.

I want to join the top 1000 club. That is always my aim. So I have to do something different than what I usually do and most of it is centred around my use of trades.
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Personally I think you have too many $400k+ midpricers. As much as I love Fletcher as well but with Kiddy coming back his role could change and scoring might be affected. I would get rid of Fletcher & put Rozee in defence and replace him with Steele. I doubt Grlj plays early I would swap him for Brodie & upgrade either both Jackson/English as also you need at least one of Gawn or Xerri.
If you want to finish in the Top 1000 you have to start well from Round 1 so don't be too cute with PODs.
 
A Bit Dusty said:
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Personally I think you have too many $400k+ midpricers. As much as I love Fletcher as well but with Kiddy coming back his role could change and scoring might be affected. I would get rid of Fletcher & put Rozee in defence and replace him with Steele. I doubt Grlj plays early I would swap him for Brodie & upgrade either both Jackson/English as also you need at least one of Gawn or Xerri.
If you want to finish in the Top 1000 you have to start well from Round 1 so don't be too cute with PODs.
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Cheers A Bit Dusty 🤔

While waiting for Pizza delivery (there goes my New Year’s resolutions already). Thought I would mess around with team.

Have dumped Fletcher and boosted mids, 3 rookies on-field in fwds now.
Brought in Dean and Duursma, more premo rookies. Flex is now a rookie.

I don’t have faith yet in W.Brodie. But on watchlist.

I feel settled in rucks, I understand the MaXerri combo but it is restrictive in the rookies you can get, so for me it is a sacrifice to hopefully get better scoring rookies which = more cash generation. Seen many teams with all the right premo’s but a bench full of dead rookies. I pick rookies first then flexible on Midpricers, then must have Premo’s.

Trying to get to 14-15 keepers is hard this year.
 
dabombers said:
Cheers A Bit Dusty 🤔

While waiting for Pizza delivery (there goes my New Year’s resolutions already). Thought I would mess around with team.

Have dumped Fletcher and boosted mids, 3 rookies on-field in fwds now.
Brought in Dean and Duursma, more premo rookies. Flex is now a rookie.

I don’t have faith yet in W.Brodie. But on watchlist.

I feel settled in rucks, I understand the MaXerri combo but it is restrictive in the rookies you can get, so for me it is a sacrifice to hopefully get better scoring rookies which = more cash generation. Seen many teams with all the right premo’s but a bench full of dead rookies. I pick rookies first then flexible on Midpricers, then must have Premo’s.

Trying to get to 14-15 keepers is hard this year.
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I have been playing around with my team and I can get 14 keepers including Bont,Gawn & Xerri. This is saying that Draper,Parish & McKercher are all keepers. I can get it to 15 if I swap Bont>Serong.
 

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dabombers said:
Thought a new year, (Happy new year everyone, hope you all smash 2026) deserves a new team post.

(originally posted in Mid-Priced Madness thread, but thought I’d throw this one out to the masses to tear apart and read my early doors thoughts analysis.)

So here it is:

View attachment 2504520



So far I have a few concerns.

1. Is injury proned Midpricers.
A few on some lines.

Fwds: Draper and Treloar

MIds: Young and Parish

Def: Kiddy Coleman.

Plus side is these guys price point provide huge value for upside’s, bad is the type of injuries have longer recovery time and higher chance of reoccurrence.

Rookies I have spent up especially bench and would spend more to take a chance on Dean and Duursma if I could find the cash.

Zero early trade dollars, $400 ITB has me worried as only correction trades will be downgrades. May have to sacrifice some players, probably early bye types to other options. Will analyse later.

Midpricers picked I feel reasonably confident are ready for next step in scoring, but don’t think they will step into top 8-10 in their lines.

This means trade countback is always on my mind.

Midpricers should be just one up, one down trades to premiums. Easy early season fix in rounds 6-14.

Rookie priced players I always allow 3 trades, one up, two down to become fallen Premo’s at $500k-$550k. This is always hard as timing and BE’s dictate when to use a Boost to cull a flock of rookies.

Most value is during bye rounds for trades as Premo’s have dropped more cash by then. But this can be too late as points can be lost to other sides taking more risks.

So Rookie upgrades may become a two step upgrade, first to a breakout midpricer who I missed and there are usually a few who come from low percentage ownership that catch us off guard.
Then move up to a proven Premo.
Problem with this strategy is it them becomes a 4 trade manoeuvre.

My team has 7 Rookie priced players if I tried this with all of them that is 28 trades. If I take away my 3 Trade boost upgrades that reduces down to 23 if 5 boosts are available again.

So 23 trades on rookies is starting point of problem as only 7 are upgrades and 16 are downgrades will there be 16 worthwhile rookie priced players who come from the clouds. These numbers feel unlikely meaning higher chance for a finished side with a dead bench.

The next part of trade counting is critical as with 23 trades gone and 9 midpricers needing two trades to upgrade equals another 18 trades.

That takes count to 41 trades.
Add in another 4-6 correction trades plus 4-6 long term injury trades if a Premo goes down (4 plus weeks).

I need 53 trades in total.

So reality hits.

To be more successful I need to:

1. Have the right starting Premo’s who go through season injury free.

2. I need to hit all early door rookies, targeting the bottom 6 teams from last season meaning getting more expensive rookies seems like a higher chance of getting early games.

3. Some, probably 4-6 Midpricers need to become keepers. To reduce trade count. My tolerance is 5-10 point average below top 10 in each line. Easiest lines for this is forwards then defenders. Hardest is Mids and Rucks.

4. This is always the hardest point in the game to find, I call them the Rookie Priced Season Long Keepers.
There are sometimes we get lucky enough to find a rookie whose scoring goes somewhere from 75-100 PPG. I am sure some SuperCoach historians know who these guys have been. From recent memory Will Brodie, Zach Reid before imjuries, there are probably 10-15 over the past 8 seasons who started at prices below $250k who got this rare medal of honour.

My strategy is to luck upon or trade into riskily early these players once they show their metal. Correction trades before round 5, hopefully after their byes if they have one.
As long as their averages remain above or around 80, I plan to keep as permanent bench coverage and trade around them. Or worst case option sideways trade them last.

Too many seasons I have fallen off after the byes with too few trades and end up with late season donuts, so while some teams are scoring 2600 plus I am lucky to get 2400.

I want to join the top 1000 club. That is always my aim. So I have to do something different than what I usually do and most of it is centred around my use of trades.
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Great post.

My two cents would be if top 1000 is the goal your best approach is very few POD's and max cash gen early.

It may be boring but sticking with the pack early and trading well is the key. You've got to pick off the premo's that drop in price, when they drop in price and to do that you need cash. They won't really be POD's as everyone will be after them but if you get them a week or two earlier than most that's when you gain ground.

Too many $400k punts and you will be fixing your team when others start upgrading and then you are cooked. Get an upgrade or two behind (sometimes it's due to injury) and we never catch up. My best years I've nailed my starting teams. Ideally the only corrections you want to be be doing is rookies. Folk talk about downgrading failed MP's to rookies if required, but it's still another trade used and points lost as your value pick wasn't actually good value.

I would say if you really must have a POD or two, it's almost more about who you don't start. For example if a high ownership guy like Rozee starts slow and you have faded that can be a win, because all the podcasters will start thinking out loud about sideways trading him, the masses follow and you avoid it and can trade him in when his price drops and his ownership is lower.

I think you are right about saving trades, although that tends to follow on from starting the right players. Patience is crucial. BOMBERBLITZ played it beautifully last year to finish about 15th overall (is that right BB?).

Be interesting to follow how you get on.
 
dabombers said:
Cheers A Bit Dusty 🤔

While waiting for Pizza delivery (there goes my New Year’s resolutions already). Thought I would mess around with team.

Have dumped Fletcher and boosted mids, 3 rookies on-field in fwds now.
Brought in Dean and Duursma, more premo rookies. Flex is now a rookie.

I don’t have faith yet in W.Brodie. But on watchlist.

I feel settled in rucks, I understand the MaXerri combo but it is restrictive in the rookies you can get, so for me it is a sacrifice to hopefully get better scoring rookies which = more cash generation. Seen many teams with all the right premo’s but a bench full of dead rookies. I pick rookies first then flexible on Midpricers, then must have Premo’s.

Trying to get to 14-15 keepers is hard this year.
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I like the effort gone into this.....but not sure there's a right way or a wrong way so go with whatever suits your way of thinking.....cause everyone need a heap of luck no matter which way it's done....
in 2020 I finished 12th (after being 32000+after Rd3 and 3rd at Rd8) and in 2025 couldn't crack 5000 playing basically the same way....injuries at the wrong time killed......
Good luck for this season.
 
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Thanks A Bit Dusty Maybe Tomorrow and sorry Choppers but thanks for the feedback.

Noticed some teams already look like they have unlocked the SuperCoach cheat code to get 12M starting bucks.
But then I look at their benches and see a lot of 99K fodder.

While relaxing New Years Day there was no sport I wanted to watch so watched last years Draft again. Just to take some mental notes, like players who were academy picks as well as who played some state league senior footy. Will later look at the team lists and look at changes or games played as this will help finding walk up start rookies, hopefully.

Another thought is risk removal from side.

I am just not sure it will be worth starting more than 2 guys with heavy injury backgrounds with the likes of Young, Parish, Kiddy, Sam Draper, Treloar probably some other popular picks but wait until SuperCoach Gold stats come out when season opens proper.
Especially starting more than 1 in each line, maybe you could get away with it in midfield, but booking in trades, where most happen early in the season when the ground is hard, training has gone up in intensity, it is much different from picking up these guys midseason after a few games in the 2’s.

I have re-arranged team to have Xerri as Flex, think I may ditch Sam Draper, Have ditched Treloar and Kiddy and may add one of Young or Parish.

Moving these guys will give me cash for any Premo probably a placeholder to move to Bont after Bye or just start with him.

I don’t mind if the rocksteady guys who play 23 games each season consistently go down to an injury, you cant pick that. Though there are major red flag 🚩 players we are all considering or hoping will play 5-6 games at 15-20 points above their price when we are lucky if they have played that many games in a row over the last 2-3 seasons.

The choice is a bit like how everyone put Lachie Whitfield on their never again list after injury after injury, but now he seems to have come good and probably a high % pick now.
Even last season I picked Ash in starting side because of this.

It becomes a fine line of risk vs reward with these returning injury prone players. I think maybe it would be better picking a 2nd or 3rd year player at the same price to grow into a breakout player. There are a few around the 70-80 ppg that should be looked at closer.
 
Maybe Tomorrow said:
I expect you are going to get invited to A LOT of cash leagues with a team like this :moustache:
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I don't understand?

I mean I get invited to a lot of cashies.:shrug:
 

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dabombers said:
Thanks A Bit Dusty Maybe Tomorrow and sorry Choppers but thanks for the feedback.

Noticed some teams already look like they have unlocked the SuperCoach cheat code to get 12M starting bucks.
But then I look at their benches and see a lot of 99K fodder.

While relaxing New Years Day there was no sport I wanted to watch so watched last years Draft again. Just to take some mental notes, like players who were academy picks as well as who played some state league senior footy. Will later look at the team lists and look at changes or games played as this will help finding walk up start rookies, hopefully.

Another thought is risk removal from side.

I am just not sure it will be worth starting more than 2 guys with heavy injury backgrounds with the likes of Young, Parish, Kiddy, Sam Draper, Treloar probably some other popular picks but wait until SuperCoach Gold stats come out when season opens proper.
Especially starting more than 1 in each line, maybe you could get away with it in midfield, but booking in trades, where most happen early in the season when the ground is hard, training has gone up in intensity, it is much different from picking up these guys midseason after a few games in the 2’s.

I have re-arranged team to have Xerri as Flex, think I may ditch Sam Draper, Have ditched Treloar and Kiddy and may add one of Young or Parish.

Moving these guys will give me cash for any Premo probably a placeholder to move to Bont after Bye or just start with him.

I don’t mind if the rocksteady guys who play 23 games each season consistently go down to an injury, you cant pick that. Though there are major red flag 🚩 players we are all considering or hoping will play 5-6 games at 15-20 points above their price when we are lucky if they have played that many games in a row over the last 2-3 seasons.

The choice is a bit like how everyone put Lachie Whitfield on their never again list after injury after injury, but now he seems to have come good and probably a high % pick now.
Even last season I picked Ash in starting side because of this.

It becomes a fine line of risk vs reward with these returning injury prone players. I think maybe it would be better picking a 2nd or 3rd year player at the same price to grow into a breakout player. There are a few around the 70-80 ppg that should be looked at closer.
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I don't mind taking a risk on a few players that are low in price because of injuries, but I prefer to start them rather than trade them in, it only costs 1 trade to get them out whereas trading them in then out needs 2 trades. Currently have Treloar, Parish & Young which is probably as far as I go, maybe Kiddy if he has the role & JS.

If a player is coming back from an injury and has a rock solid role with a price discount, then that's a hard one to ignore. Yeo was a great trade in a couple of years ago, was cheap, scored well and made a bucketload of cash, instances like that are rare though.
 
First team for the New year. A couple of high priced rookies gone and Treloar comes in. Not sure if he will be right to start the season and whether he plays midfield or gets kicked to a HF role.

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A Bit Dusty said:
First team for the New year. A couple of high priced rookies gone and Treloar comes in. Not sure if he will be right to start the season and whether he plays midfield or gets kicked to a HF role.

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Nice job......similar set up to me.....how much in the kitty?
 
4tune8 said:
Add Pou to that as well, although at his price he's an easy flick to a rookie. The others are risky, especially in combination, they either require 2 trades to fix or if you're lucky, another MP on the rise.

I'd like to hear your reasoning on the Daniels pick.

I currently have the 4 you mentioned and I'm wondering whether it's wise to keep $170k ITB as insurance? Could I gain 30pts on field by spending that cash wisely?

My team with said cash ITB

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13 of your onfield 22 are playing round 0 hence having an early bye, 7 of which are premiums. That is way too many.
Picking anyone having the bye in round 2 makes little sense to me. Opening round score doesn't count and they are then on the bubble after round 1 but because of the bye their price won't change until after round 3.
Although I have 8 onfield round 0 players, only two of mine are premiums.
 

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