Plan A or Plan B?

[Stocka]

Do you go with Plan A:
Pick as many premium players a possible and fill the rest of the team up mainly with rookie-priced players under 150k

OR

Do you go with Plan B:
Pick fewer premium and rookie-priced players and try to target more player in the mid-priced bracket who have greater job security and are likely targets to improve

 

[dUkezz]

premiums... they will be in ur team the hole season and are reliable on posting big numbers week in week out

 

[SJ]

I believe there is no right or wrong answer to this question, and the ideal solution would change year to year. It is not so much the strategy used (indeed, I think somewhere in between is right) but the players selected.

 

[IDIG]

A strategy i had at the start of the season was pick your bottom 4 or 5 starting b/m/f first and pick say a Tippet/Kreuzer combo ruck. Leave out players like Goddard, Drummond, Ablett, Swan, Roo, Goodes, ROK, etc and get them when your cows moo later on in the year. This would give you a maximum number of keepers...around 15, maybe 16 but in reality it probably wont work

 

[Stocka]

I believe there is no right or wrong answer to this question, and the ideal solution would change year to year. It is not so much the strategy used (indeed, I think somewhere in between is right) but the players selected.

Yes, very true. The best laid plans can all come undone with your chosen players underperforming!

 

[SJ]

Yes, very true. The best laid plans can all come undone with your chosen players underperforming!

Also, after Round 22 any number of 'ideal' teams in hindsight that no one will actually pick, from either strategy, will have been able to beat the 2010 winner.

 

[BigSledge]

It's about picking the best 30 players within the $10 million.

It's as simple & complicated as that people.

But I agree with SJ in it is probably a strategy that falls somewhere in between