Round 7 Carnage/Vent Thread

[Sixpence]

My team value is going to take quite a hit next week, look at these BEs:

Lloyd 146
Cripps 137
Whitfield 175
O'Meara 127
Cogs 128
Brayshaw 142
Grundy 136
Boak 121
Danger 153
Billings 120

 

[chloedarko]

Feel sorry for those who gave Libba a second chance and lost 37K on him..

I’m 1k short from going libba - Merrett. So painful

 

[chloedarko]

My friend is currently ranked 1914.
So there’s only 396 points separating us and I’m ranked 14,854 now. A few weeks of great captain choices could see you skyrocket in the rankings.

 

[browncow]

I'm in div 1 too, it's a joke. I haven't been inside top 10k all year!

Same. Finished about 500th last year and this week is the first week I’ve cracked the top 10,000.

Everything I do turns to poo this year including bringing in Adams this week.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

1995. Thanks to some rooks and one or two premos.

Pretty good score

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Wow I had a great week! 2041 was ranked about 10k now down to 6k

Yeah, I reckon if you were offered it Friday you would have declined. And probably not politely

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

1981 - can't wait til the bye round when I can field ROB, only Gawn (by a point) and Caleb Daniel (by 6 points) outscored him. Should just rage trade Grundy and field him until Sauce is back. I overpaid for the 2 big rucks.

Oh, to have the luxury of a rage trade

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

2131 - Cheers Captain Gaff!

Yeah, he was the right choice; a fairly obvious choice too if you had him. Unfortunately for most, I'm guessing, mids haven't been the area that's needed attention. All the good mids are on wishlists for later I would think. Had he started rd 1: a different story.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Yep if you crack the 2k it looks like you're on the up this week. Only 1950 for me but could of been worse. Jones was a fail but my other trade in was Miers and had a good last game with the Crouch's and Fyfe.

I've seen people with roughly the same scores go both ways in the rankings. Seems a fairly mediocre (but better than mine) score can have you moving upwards if you're ranked high, and backwards if you're ranked low. That tells me people with the best teams thus far have struggled more this week.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

My friend is currently ranked 1914.
So there’s only 396 points separating us and I’m ranked 14,854 now. A few weeks of great captain choices could see you skyrocket in the rankings.

Makes you feel a little better, that's for sure.

 

[bol316]

My team value is going to take quite a hit next week, look at these BEs:

Lloyd 146
Cripps 137
Whitfield 175
O'Meara 127
Cogs 128
Brayshaw 142
Grundy 136
Boak 121
Danger 153
Billings 120

Means they have generally had good years so far. Be glad

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Well 1827 is pitiful. The lowest I've had in a long time. Not surprising though. In a round where even the best teams struggled I didn't need two Premiums (according to me) to get injured after only playing half a game.

So glad I waited for the DPP announcement to do my upgrades. Ebert no good in game one for me and Cunningham in game two for me. Both injured: with 31 and 41. Both averaging premium numbers; both unique and both disasters.

Possibly the only positive is if Whitfield is fit: those who traded him may now have other issues of more immediate importance and won't get him for a while. If that's the case and he limps his way to 140 next week, maybe I can recover some lost ground.

Kelly, Taranto and M Crouch my only tons

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Means they have generally had good years so far. Be glad

And it probably doesn't matter much. Barring injury, they're not likely to be traded.

 

[Sixpence]

And it probably doesn't matter much. Barring injury, they're not likely to be traded.

Yeh, not too concerned, the only ones I'd consider trading from that list are Brayshaw and Billings.

 

[TedDougChris]

Well 1827 is pitiful. The lowest I've had in a long time. Not surprising though. In a round where even the best teams struggled I didn't need two Premiums (according to me) to get injured after only playing half a game.

So glad I waited for the DPP announcement to do my upgrades. Ebert no good in game one for me and Cunningham in game two for me. Both injured: with 31 and 41. Both averaging premium numbers; both unique and both disasters.

Possibly the only positive: if Whitfield is fit, is that those who traded him may now have other issues of more immediate importance and won't get him for a while. If that's the case and he limps his way to 140 next week, maybe I can recover some lost ground.

Kelly, Taranto and M Crouch my only tons

This is what I recall from last year. A raft of premiums (and previously reliable rookies) went down, and people trading down (to capitalise on the BE game) found themselves chasing their losses. I'm not sure if there was a better strategy in hindsight or not, but it can be a dangerous path to take....

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

This is what I recall from last year. A raft of premiums (and previously reliable rookies) went down, and people trading down (to capitalise on the BE game) found themselves chasing their losses. I'm not sure if there was a better strategy in hindsight or not, but it can be a dangerous path to take....

You have your targets but sometimes you can't get them, or when you do, the boat has sailed

 

[bol316]

This is what I recall from last year. A raft of premiums (and previously reliable rookies) went down, and people trading down (to capitalise on the BE game) found themselves chasing their losses. I'm not sure if there was a better strategy in hindsight or not, but it can be a dangerous path to take....

I wouldn't have traded Whitfield out to chase BEs. I would have traded him for another rolling 22 premium player

 

[lmach]

1820 and slipped from 3.5k to 6.5k. Dangerfield is my worst captain choice ever. No midfield tonnes - my only tonnes were Boak, Williams and Kelly.

 

[dales.girl38]

Oh, to have the luxury of a rage trade

I don't really have the luxury of a rage trade, but we can dream until lockout

 

[FlowersByIrene]

My apologies for the Williamson calls guys, I got a bit carried away.

I hope no one filded him like I did Oh well, he'll be better for the run and I see him improving.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

My friend is currently ranked 1914.
So there’s only 396 points separating us and I’m ranked 14,854 now. A few weeks of great captain choices could see you skyrocket in the rankings.

I rose 3k after not even cracking 2k.. anything can happen still.

 

[Quazza]

Naturally I had Danger as Captain ughhh

 

[The Joker]

This is what I recall from last year. A raft of premiums (and previously reliable rookies) went down, and people trading down (to capitalise on the BE game) found themselves chasing their losses. I'm not sure if there was a better strategy in hindsight or not, but it can be a dangerous path to take....

The major issue for me was keeping Whitfield and having to field 4 defensive rookies. The BE was the deciding factor for me. I turned him and Constable into Boak and Stewart (I also chose Stewart over Laird because of BE), two rolling B22 players.

At $795 and with a score of 175 needed to rise, I'm happy with the move. Lets all hope he plays forward again this week

 

[hjckr]

My apologies for the Williamson calls guys, I got a bit carried away.

I hope no one filded him like I did Oh well, he'll be better for the run and I see him improving.

Haha all good I'm sure he'll pump out a 100 eventually and nobody else will have him (at least I hope so). And next week against the Pies the ball should be in his half a lot. Although there was a lot of ball in his half this week too and that didn't help much...

 

[Chris99]

Haha all good I'm sure he'll pump out a 100 eventually and nobody else will have him (at least I hope so). And next week against the Pies the ball should be in his half a lot. Although there was a lot of ball in his half this week too and that didn't help much...

+1 don’t stress at all, it’s a game, sometimes you’ve gotta have fun with it otherwise it gets boring playing the safe game! I had him on field and it was a good laugh!