- Aug 17, 2006
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- Geelong
Please rate me team.
My midfield is way too overpowered at the expense of my backline, but I love my midfield so much! lol
Believe it or not my backline was a lot worse before.
Any tips on how to get a bit more balance would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I have just enough cash to trade Mohr for Buntine, should I do it?
Cheers.
Yep, you need way more beef in your backline. Guys like Glass are useless for Supercoach; there's a reason he's so cheap. I'd definitely be more inclined to roll the dice with someone like Lake, who had a shocking year but was a pretty consistent 100+ point scorer before that, instead of Glass.
I'd also question your forward line. Looks good on the screen, but Nick Riewoldt, Brown and Porplyzia would all have massive question marks over them this year. I'd be tempted to pick one of Riewoldt or Brown, but not all three.
I prefer to set the rucks with your keepers from the start, in which case, you're one short. Should probably get rid of Derrickx for a premium.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter where your keepers are. Your big concern at the outset is the value difference between starting a cash cow instead of having a premium in the same position. That is why people lean towards having less premiums in the midfield, because there are always heaps of bargain basement options who will average 80-odd over the first few weeks, whom you can upgrade to keepers pretty quickly. So you're sacrificing about 30 points over an elite midfield alternative.
Compare that to your standard rookie defender, who may get a game every week, but will be more likely to average 40-50, when you could have someone like Scotland (who can be switched into the midfield) as an alternative. Plus, at the end of the day, you want the rookies who will average the most points and therefore make you the most money. The number of rookies who stay in a side for any reason, other than running out of trades, is few and far between.
Happy to admit I don't know much about most of the <200k players I've got and they'll be chopped and changed depending on how they go in the NAB Cup. Sandi and Chappy earned a spot due to the 'training the house down' reports (I'm a sap for that stuff). Grimes, Brown and Lake are risky, but potential keepers for those prices are hard to knock back. And I haven't even factored in the bye yet, with regards to my team (let's face it, about a third of them will be gone by then). Apart from that, it's pretty much set in stone.
