U18 Champs Round 3 - Vic Metro vs Vic Country

Jul 23, 2011
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all reasonable points.

my view is that those that place too great an emphasis on one game or "big stage" games end up over-valuing players.

you see the same thing in the NCAA Basketball tournament. Some players boost their stock by playing well in this tournament, some teams push them up the rankings because "they lifted on the big stage". This results in players who have performed well over a much larger sample size of games to get pushed down and this results in steals occurring down the draft. Whereas all too often, the guys that had a great 2 week run in the Tournament end up as either busts or not as good as expected/hoped.

Rayner also wasn't great in the 2nd half btw.

LDU's draft value didn't change at all imo.
Difference with Rayner is that it's expected, his endurance is poor. And I agree I never put any weighting on the NCAA tournament and I don't think it pushes LDU back a lot it's just that it's shown a cause for concern that makes me think he isn't the clear cut top midfielder in this class after all.
 
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