Game Day 2025 Fantasy Round 1 Discussion

[Phar Ace]

2136 all out. Starting rank of 4,680th, very happy with that, especially compared to my very rubbish start last year when I think I was in the 70,000s, so it’s a nice platform to start on to make some gains

Ah, you are the one with the team name Houston's Rockets then - gotcha by 1pt (so far)

 

[Exambolor]

Ah, you are the one with the team name Houston's Rockets then - gotcha by 1pt (so far)

Yep that's me, GG's. If you didn't have Ash i would have won haha

 

[samFFC]

Going to go Gawn over TDK.
Hoping that TDK is just a neutral option - priced 85-90, so if he shares some ruck duties and maxes out at 100, he won't be that damaging scoring or cash wise.

Downgrading Sanders to Garcia to fund it, which should be a similar scoring output (and more cash gained from Garcia).

Thought I was a genius at half time!
……

Well. Not terrible, but still a points loss.

 

[Phar Ace]

Yep that's me, GG's. If you didn't have Ash i would have won haha

How do you figure that? My last player switch was really crap (Leake to Worner - such a dumb choice made with too little time - but Leake had just 14 and Worner somehow had more!)

 

[AflNerd22]

Im going ashcroft to boak. Boak plays richmond and although they are better now they will still give up good scores. Boak also had a bug game so I can ride a price rise and upgrade as after richmond we play essendon and saint kilda who give up big scores. Perryman to freijah as well, collingwood gave up a big score to finlayson who plays across HB now, and farrel so freijah will go up and score well. Might get rid of garcia, but geelong gave up big scores to o'driscool and johnson. Sanders a definite hold for me. Tsatas can stay cause he should go up in value also was watching the essendon game live and he got two tackles in the last 5 minutes that weren't given so thats his breakeven there. TBF i dont know his breakeven. Hollands is acceptable score cause he had a poor first half but recovered with a 50 point second half. So if all goes well he gets like 90-95 next week and goes up a ton. Anyother ideas who i could go to other than boak, don't love the amount of risk involved. Can't go callaghan cause he has the bye this week. Think after his bye tsatas or hollands goes to him. Also i have 123k in bank rn. Man I should really put this much effort in my schoolwork lol.

 

[MadMundy]

Struggling to figure out where my second trade will come from, this is my team as it stands after Round 1:

Sheezel (VC), Clark, Short, Perryman, Freijah, Prior (Leake, Z.Reid)

Dawson, Rozee, Oliver, Sanders, Hollands, O'Driscoll, Knevitt, L.Ashcroft (M.Reid, O'Sullivan)

Xerri, De Koning (Boyd)

Horne-Francis (C), Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Garcia, Davidson (Kako, Stone)

(Camporeale)

 

[DenieD]

Im going ashcroft to boak. Boak plays richmond and although they are better now they will still give up good scores. Boak also had a bug game so I can ride a price rise and upgrade as after richmond we play essendon and saint kilda who give up big scores. Perryman to freijah as well, collingwood gave up a big score to finlayson who plays across HB now, and farrel so freijah will go up and score well. Might get rid of garcia, but geelong gave up big scores to o'driscool and johnson. Sanders a definite hold for me. Tsatas can stay cause he should go up in value also was watching the essendon game live and he got two tackles in the last 5 minutes that weren't given so thats his breakeven there. TBF i dont know his breakeven. Hollands is acceptable score cause he had a poor first half but recovered with a 50 point second half. So if all goes well he gets like 90-95 next week and goes up a ton. Anyother ideas who i could go to other than boak, don't love the amount of risk involved. Can't go callaghan cause he has the bye this week. Think after his bye tsatas or hollands goes to him. Also i have 123k in bank rn. Man I should really put this much effort in my schoolwork lol.

DO NOT GO BOAK! Huge trap

I'd rather Soligo or Powell at around the same price tag. You can hold them for longer as well because their roles are pretty much locked into their teams for the better part of the season.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Struggling to figure out where my second trade will come from, this is my team as it stands after Round 1:

Sheezel (VC), Clark, Short, Perryman, Freijah, Prior (Leake, Z.Reid)

Dawson, Rozee, Oliver, Sanders, Hollands, O'Driscoll, Knevitt, L.Ashcroft (M.Reid, O'Sullivan)

Xerri, De Koning (Boyd)

Horne-Francis (C), Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Garcia, Davidson (Kako, Stone)

(Camporeale)

Perryman, Leake, Garcia, Stone are all candidates to be moved on. Hollands and Sanders would also be close to being on the block.

 

[GrantSpatchcock]

First time playing the mens, with the 8 year old driving this year, all out for 2083 and rank 17.3K. Pretty happy and feel fairly well set up.

 

[MadMundy]

Perryman, Leake, Garcia, Stone are all candidates to be moved on. Hollands and Sanders would also be close to being on the block.

Perryman is a definite swap for Sam De Koning, just not sure where to go for the other, Garcia and Sanders are the two I'm considering.

 

[AflNerd22]

Perryman, Leake, Garcia, Stone are all candidates to be moved on. Hollands and Sanders would also be close to being on the block.

Garcia's next three are geelond (hard), richmond (should be easy), and port (Look at what the **** happened to the team i support against a team not even that good)

 

[WaynesWorld19]

2136 all out. Starting rank of 4,680th, very happy with that, especially compared to my very rubbish start last year when I think I was in the 70,000s, so it’s a nice platform to start on to make some gains

As you'd expect, not much differentiating teams in round 1

Good start, happy with this ...but only 74 points separating us

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Just scraped past 2000, ranked 30k or so with about 250 points behind rank 1.

Perryman, Taylor, Day, Washcroft, Sanders all very poor performers who cost. **** R0 am I right.

Will likely go Perryman or Taylor to SDK and Leake to Hall. Next week plan would be to nuke the other of Perryman/Taylor and a Day type and grab another rookie and the best looking premium (Caldwell, Dunkley, Rankine)

Rookies look in an okay spot at least: Reid, Trainor, Lindsay, Lashcroft, Campo, FOS, Boyd, Davidson, Stone, Co. Warner, Leake.

Leake and Stone the only two complete failures.

 

[AflNerd22]

this is me leake ruined me.
Edit: And tsatas

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Garcia's next three are geelond (hard), richmond (should be easy), and port (Look at what the **** happened to the team i support against a team not even that good)

So you're saying keep or trade?

 

[FlowersByIrene]

As you'd expect, not much differentiating teams in round 1

Good start, happy with this ...but only 74 points separating us

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Great fn start Wayne! What was your full team in the end?

 

[AflNerd22]

So you're saying keep or trade?

Probably keep, especially cause of how bad they got knocked up, you would be better trading leake or stone who barely scored. Also garcia would of hit his breakeven. So hold at least this week. If he scores like sh*t feel free to blame me.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Wary on picking any more spuds based on role. Only good players from now..

Freijah is a gun right?

This this this. Why do I pick shit footballers in my fantasy team! But then to be fair, good footballers are sometimes just as shit too (cough cough Washcroft, Day etc)

 

[TheRednWhite]

2066...horrible

Good picks were Knevitt and Gawn (C)

Spuds aplenty....Perryman, Short, Taylor, Oliver, Day, Sanders and Garcia

Garcia and Perryman the most urgent to punt. I want SDK and a good rookie I missed

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Great fn start Wayne! What was your full team in the end?

I faded most of the high-priced rookies ....waiting to see who to invest in

 

[Shaunn]

As you'd expect, not much differentiating teams in round 1

Good start, happy with this ...but only 74 points separating us

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Nice mate, only 2 points of me haha.

 

[Lukesera]

2057 ranked 25k

Missed a few rooks and have the highly owned Perryman & Garcia to deal with, but fairly well set up moving forward.

 

[kozi]

How funny is Macrae straight FWD not even mid/fwd. Got the complete Bevo treatment

Pretty much the 3 Bevo escapees holding up our whole forward lines wouldn’t even be any without him

 

[Freo_4eva]

2144 and 3.6k.. solid enough. Might require some structure stuff to get both Levi and Lindsey in though

 

[perplexed]

2057 ranked 25k

Missed a few rooks and have the highly owned Perryman & Garcia to deal with, but fairly well set up moving forward.

Garcia was disappointing, but with best 18 for a few weeks, there isn't really a need to trade him yet. You are going well if you don't have bigger issues than him.