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Bigfooty Legend
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Not over yet mate. Maybe a chance still?2082, rankings gone from 72 to 198 in two weeks... gut wrenching
Yeah still a chance mate, but I’ve sort of stuffed my team looking for cheap premo’s and midpricers rather than paying up for Steele, Touk and Wines etcNot over yet mate. Maybe a chance still?
All the hard fought gains over the byes have been erased with Whitfield, Kelly, Martin, Pendles, Mills etc.....
Yeah still a chance mate, but I’ve sort of stuffed my team looking for cheap premo’s and midpricers rather than paying up for Steele, Touk and Wines etc
Head scratcher for me is I came in to today having basically avoided all the horror shows of the first few days of the round, and then had all my bad luck in the final game of the round. Just don't understand how I'm not gaining rank week after week when I'm picking the right players in trades. Just goes to show how important a strong start is I think as I'm probably one/two mid-pricer upgrades off the pack. Still hovering around 7k where I've been for what feels like two months.
Injuries early on are more costly (IMO) as they prevent you generating cash to upgrade early. Yes, you can still have Merrett have a shocker like today - but typically these are rarer than having Idun on field and scoring 20.
Getting rid of rookies early is key....
I had a really good starting side, but week after week of injuries early on - meant that I still have people like Sharp in the side come the byes. He'd only played one game or something, but couldn't get rid of him. That's 10 - 12 weeks of lost cash generation....
I'm going to do some analysis later in the year, see what it says....
Yeah exactly, they either pay off or they don’t, there’s always good midprice options out there it’s just selecting the right one.Thats usually a sound strategy in the race to get all rookies off field though so don’t be too hard on yourself for doing that. Not your fault that a bit of bad luck has seen it not come off in the last few weeks.
If I wasn’t looking for those bargain premos then I wouldn’t have Simpkin who has been killing it for me. I also wouldn’t have Kennedy or Menegola who are most certainly not killing it. So it really can work both ways. But one thing is certain - if I had paid up for the Touks and the Wines of the world and brought them in at their most expensive then I would be fielding 2-3 more rookies right now which would well and truly offset those uber premo scores
I’m seriously going to make it a strategy going forward to have as few players as possible, particularly a captain, involved in night games on the Gold Coast. It just seems to be as slippery as hell and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a decent quality game there after dark.
I got my last rookie off the ground in R16 and since then my ranking has slid from 100th to about 500thThats usually a sound strategy in the race to get all rookies off field though so don’t be too hard on yourself for doing that. Not your fault that a bit of bad luck has seen it not come off in the last few weeks.
If I wasn’t looking for those bargain premos then I wouldn’t have Simpkin who has been killing it for me. I also wouldn’t have Kennedy or Menegola who are most certainly not killing it. So it really can work both ways. But one thing is certain - if I had paid up for the Touks and the Wines of the world and brought them in at their most expensive then I would be fielding 2-3 more rookies right now which would well and truly offset those uber premo scores