Teams SC 2016 - My Team (NAB Challenge)

[tangolikelama]

Well what's the risk? You basically just said all are capable of averaging over 100?

I'd personally have proven season performers like Robbie Gray, Boak and Wines ahead of Hamish and the others but for difference sake it's not a bad pick to have Hamish.

He finished the season in the guts and was phenomenal, has basically all his injury woes behind him so hoping for a huge year from Hammer! He's my bet for our BnF.

 

[PowerDrafter]

How many games has Jack Watts played? I rest my case....

He will play.. The Demons are known to chuck their young one's in the deep end.

Why does that rest your case? Jack Watts has been successful as a draft pick, he's played over 100 games for the club and is still only 24. Between the ages of 24 and 29 is when players play their best football.
They are completely difference players at completely different times of Melbourne's development. Melbourne had no talls when Watts came in so they were forced to playing him. Melbourne are not short of midfield/half forward now, they have no reason to rush him in. Especially given he's had an injury interupted pre season with absolutely no footy in the last 12 months. I have a feeling they will ease him in through the VFL with limited minutes. We may not see him till after round 6.

Well what's the risk? You basically just said all are capable of averaging over 100?

I'd personally have proven season performers like Robbie Gray, Boak and Wines ahead of Hamish and the others but for difference sake it's not a bad pick to have Hamish.

Boak in my opinion is our best player, doesn't mean he is supercoach relevant. If you are serious about supercoach you won't be selecting any players who average under 110 for your starting team. Yes, every player has a chance of doing that, no doubt Hartlett has the ability to do that, he's our best disposer of the ball and can play in a variety of high scoring positions, half back, wing, rover, half forward and even in a forward pocket. But, the risk with selecting someone like Hartlett is that he won't be producing the numbers you need for your team to consistently pump 2,200 out every week.

 

[Didstar]

Sorry here it is. Any help would be great. Cheers
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Imo I would downgrade greene to a mid rookie and use the $$$ to upgrade Ben Reid. Would also look to find a way to have Pendles in your starting team. I'm personally not a fan of Lobbe, but understand the choice.
Other than that it looks quite solid. Good forward line up and three 90+ potentials in Docherty Malceski and KK

 

[PowerDrafter]

He finished the season in the guts and was phenomenal, has basically all his injury woes behind him so hoping for a huge year from Hammer! He's my bet for our BnF.

I think they'll look to rotate him through the wing and half forward, with guys like Ebert, Polec, Wingard and White, that's where he's been his most damaging. Even more so now with Charlie Dixon on the lead too, much easier for Hammer to be that kick going inside 50 than anyone else. We're pretty solid through the middle with Gray x2, Boak, Wines. Obviously he'll go through there with Wingard and Polec but I don't think that'll be where he plays the majority of his footy this year.

 

[richolovesgoal]

Thoughts on my current setup? I prefer the guns + rookies method so that's why there are minimal mid-pricers.

Thanks

 

[SterlingArcher]

Interested that the general consensus seems to be to go cheaper rookies to try and squeeze an extra premium into your starting team. I've always thought nailing those initial rookies is just about the most important part of the season, and if Mills/Parish/Hopper look like they might be far and away the best scorers than I will pick them with no hesitation

Agreed. You will be behind come the byes but if all goes well injury wise you will fly home in the back half of the season picking the best rookies (not just the best premiums). Picking the best rookies enables you to jump from 13 premiums to 20 in a matter of weeks while the others go from 15 to 17..

 

[GoalSneak07]

Why does that rest your case? Jack Watts has been successful as a draft pick, he's played over 100 games for the club and is still only 24. Between the ages of 24 and 29 is when players play their best football.
They are completely difference players at completely different times of Melbourne's development. Melbourne had no talls when Watts came in so they were forced to playing him. Melbourne are not short of midfield/half forward now, they have no reason to rush him in. Especially given he's had an injury interupted pre season with absolutely no footy in the last 12 months. I have a feeling they will ease him in through the VFL with limited minutes. We may not see him till after round 6.

Jack Watts (25 next month) hasn't been a successful #1 Draft Pick buddy sorry. He might have played 100 games at Melbourne but that's irrelevant given their horrible form since hes been there. He's done nothing to suggest he makes them a better team sorry. Yes circumstances are different but they have a long history of under-developing their players. Jonhstone, Watts, Toumpas, Morton, Gysberts need I say anymore... My point is I wouldn't expect anything different from that club.

Boak in my opinion is our best player, doesn't mean he is supercoach relevant. If you are serious about supercoach you won't be selecting any players who average under 110 for your starting team. Yes, every player has a chance of doing that, no doubt Hartlett has the ability to do that, he's our best disposer of the ball and can play in a variety of high scoring positions, half back, wing, rover, half forward and even in a forward pocket. But, the risk with selecting someone like Hartlett is that he won't be producing the numbers you need for your team to consistently pump 2,200 out every week.

Boak avg 99 last year, Hartlett 101, Wines 97 (13 games) all will/should improve this year in particular Wines.

Last year there was only 15 players who averaged over 110 so your method of selecting no players averaging 110 is interesting... So if your serious about Supercoach you'd pick a squad you can actually afford to start with in round 1 as you can't have them all.

 

[PowerDrafter]

Jack Watts (25 next month) hasn't been a successful #1 Draft Pick buddy sorry. He might have played 100 games at Melbourne but that's irrelevant given their horrible form since hes been there. He's done nothing to suggest he makes them a better team sorry. Yes circumstances are different but they have a long history of under-developing their players. Jonhstone, Watts, Toumpas, Morton, Gysberts need I say anymore... My point is I wouldn't expect anything different from that club.





Boak avg 99 last year, Hartlett 101, Wines 97 (13 games) all will/should improve this year in particular Wines.

Last year there was only 15 players who averaged over 110 so your method of selecting no players averaging 110 is interesting... So if your serious about Supercoach you'd pick a squad you can actually afford to start with in round 1 as you can't have them all.

Successful number 1, no. Successful draft pick, yes. It is irrelevant what position they go once they are taken. Brian Lake was taken basically last. Now his CV is very impressive. He has played over 100 games, that is a win if you're Melbourne. He is coming into the best years of his career. I never said he was a superstar, I just said if you look at Petracca, there is a lot of options for Melbourne in that position. He is a lot further down the pecking order and I feel that maybe we are over estimating him this season.

Thankyou for giving me information on my own team, it's not like I follow them mate. All of them max out at 105 for me. Gray and Wingard are the only 2 at Port that can break and go up on the 105. Wines maybe in the future becomes a 108-115 player. But right now I don't see him being able to do that given the strength of the rest of the midfield. He's still 3rd behind Gray and Boak.

 

[The Cavalry]

Thoughts on:
DEF: Kolodashnji(GC), Bartel, McDonald (Nth), Aish, Howe(HAW), Francis, Res:Tucker(freo), Board(rich)
Mid: Fyfe, ablett, rockliff, libba, prestia, parker, mills, B.crouch, Res: Gore, Mathieson, Macpherson
Ruck: Grundy, Lobbe, Res:Chol
Fwd: Martin (rich), Barlow, S.gray (port), billings, D menzel (gee), kerridge, Res: Petracca, M.Brown (Ess)

 

[Krujan]

Thoughts on:
DEF: Kolodashnji(GC), Bartel, McDonald (Nth), Aish, Howe(HAW), Francis, Res:Tucker(freo), Board(rich)
Mid: Fyfe, ablett, rockliff, libba, prestia, parker, mills, B.crouch, Res: Gore, Mathieson, Macpherson
Ruck: Grundy, Lobbe, Res:Chol
Fwd: Martin (rich), Barlow, S.gray (port), billings, D menzel (gee), kerridge, Res: Petracca, M.Brown (Ess)

You've spent way too much $ on your midfield. All your other lines are compromised as a result. You do have some good players there, but very few top 10 in their positions.

 

[GoalSneak07]

Thankyou for giving me information on my own team, it's not like I follow them mate. All of them max out at 105 for me. Gray and Wingard are the only 2 at Port that can break and go up on the 105. Wines maybe in the future becomes a 108-115 player. But right now I don't see him being able to do that given the strength of the rest of the midfield. He's still 3rd behind Gray and Boak.

And thank you for giving me advise on how to play SC.. Not like I haven't played it before..

I respect your opinions but please understand others are allowed theirs too can't have your cake and eat it brother..

 

[Sir Hugh Percy]

Does anyone actually think Christian Petracca will play let alone be best 22 at Melbourne?

Petracca is still not back to full training following his broken toe at Christmas. I'm doubting that he'll play round 1. However, word around the club is that he's obscenely talented and he's a very big bodied kid, so I'd expect him to play a good many games once he does get in there. That may be round 3-6 or so though.

 

[The Cavalry]

You've spent way too much $ on your midfield. All your other lines are compromised as a result. You do have some good players there, but very few top 10 in their positions.

Who would you get rid of from mid a 500K+ or mid priced to upgrade other lines?

 

[Krujan]

Who would you get rid of from mid a 500K+ or mid priced to upgrade other lines?

I'd downgrade 1 of Parker/Prestia and Crouch to cheap rookies and upgrade both rucks. You'll bleed a lot of points on that line with your current ruck set up.

 

[The Cavalry]

I'd downgrade 1 of Parker/Prestia and Crouch to cheap rookies and upgrade both rucks. You'll bleed a lot of points on that line with your current ruck set up.

Hoping that Lobbe being the sole ruck will return to 2014 form with the 100 point avg. also slight improvement from grundy from 90 to 100 avg. so will remain the same there

 

[DraftPunk]

Shaw, Birchall
Fyfe, Pendles, GAJ, Libba, Rocky
Goldy, Stef
Lids, Dusty, Barlow

It's that time of year when everyone's team start looking exactly the same. I'm going against the norm, taking a few risks so my team isn't identical to everyone else.

I'm leaving out Fyfe - he never plays 22, so I'll start with Gray and hope he can push up to 115+

I'm tempted to leave out Goldstein now too. Jacobs averaged 120 over the last 9, fingers crossed he can go 115-120 and Goldy drops to the same. Gawn M2 for the massive upside there.

I'm almost considering leaving out Libba. Anybody got stats for how players score the year after doing an ACL and missing 12 months?

 

[DarcyKelly]

Hey everyone, any advice on my team leading up to round one?

 

[NT.Thunder]

Hey everyone, any advice on my team leading up to round one?

Nothing for me to comment on. Pretty stock standard BF team. Not a fan of JoM, would need to show a bit before he makes it into my team. But no real worries. I'm not a fan of the rucks but can see why you've gone down that line.

Now please someone, post an awesome team that I can just copy......Can't be bothered anymore tinkering with mine. Please someone.

 

[hendo8888]

Yep. People get preoccupied with making money in this game. Too many take their eye off the fact that you win the 50k by scoring the most points, not making the most money

It's a tried and tested strategy. You want to complete your team as quick as possible and have as many of the best 6/8 of each position in your final team.
By saving 80k or so on that rookie, that could mean the difference between someone who averages 110 and someone who averages 95-100. You will have that 200k rookie in your team for say 8 weeks, you will have that 95 guy in your team for 23. So the points you gain early season come back to bite you in the mid to late season, when everyone else has a better player than you have. Or you have an extra trade to make to get that guy up to the 110 guy you should have had.
You buy your keepers for 23 rounds, you buy your rookies as a stepping stone to mid season, when you can afford the keepers you didn't buy to start with.

 

[Wasted Weekends]

could this team work?

I won't be brave enough to run with it, but it would create a pod.

K.Simpson K.Kolodjashnij E.Yeo
C.Salem D.Howe M.Brown
(M.Hartley N.Broad)

G.Ablett L.Neale T.Rockliff
L.Parker D.Swallow T.Liberator
B.Crouch C.Mills
(J.Gresham D.Gore R.Mathieson)

M.Blicavs M.Gawn
(M.Chol)

A.Christensen J.Billings T.Greene
D.Thomas D.Wells S.Kerridge
(W.Milera S.Grimley)

Thoughts?

 

[hendo8888]

could this team work?

I won't be brave enough to run with it, but it would create a pod.

K.Simpson K.Kolodjashnij E.Yeo
C.Salem D.Howe M.Brown
(M.Hartley N.Broad)

G.Ablett L.Neale T.Rockliff
L.Parker D.Swallow T.Liberator
B.Crouch C.Mills
(J.Gresham D.Gore R.Mathieson)

M.Blicavs M.Gawn
(M.Chol)

A.Christensen J.Billings T.Greene
D.Thomas D.Wells S.Kerridge
(W.Milera S.Grimley)

Thoughts?

It'll be competitive for about 8 rounds, then fall apart.

 

[PowerDrafter]

D. Swallow ruled out indefinitely with a knee. O'meara and Prestia still not fully training yet and very much in doubt for round 1. Does this mean Aaron Hall has just become a must have?

 

[SELFCONFESDAFLNERD]

Going with this at the moment. I don't really trust many back line premiums so i've gone with mid price options that could go bang or bust. My midfield pretty much picked itself, Parker and Wines are both great value. Rucks are set and forget. The forward line was probably the hardest to pick after Martin, Wingard and Barlow. I'll think about downgrading De Goey if another rookie presents themselves and maybe use that cash for my back line, I'm not really sure. Rip into it guys

 

[GoalSneak07]

D. Swallow ruled out indefinitely with a knee. O'meara and Prestia still not fully training yet and very much in doubt for round 1. Does this mean Aaron Hall has just become a must have?

Not sure mate. I'd prefer to stay away from the Suns, don't think these guys will have anyone really score well apart from Ablett (If he gets on the field). The one I would be intruiged by if anyone apart from those guys you mentioned is Matt Rosa a 380k Bck/Mid who may also find game time in the middle whilst those boys find their feet.

Sounding like a repeat of 2015 for the Suns already, not good for the game or their franchise.

Edit: I do have KK in my squad I just checked hehe..

 

[DraftPunk]

D. Swallow ruled out indefinitely with a knee. O'meara and Prestia still not fully training yet and very much in doubt for round 1. Does this mean Aaron Hall has just become a must have?

Jesse Lonergan becomes very interesting also.