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CaptainHowdy87 said:
Everyone's going with such similar teams.

From what I've seen in this thread, at-least 90% of people have the following in their team:

Docherty
Shaw
Rance
Dangerfield
Treloar
Rockliff
Gawn
Dalhaus
Macrae
Ryder
Heeney

Everyone has the same rookies as well.

Just a point of observation.

This is going to be only my 2nd season doing SC. Already I'm a little bit bored with the concept. As I noted in a thread at the end of last season, a hell of a lot of luck comes into it.

There doesn't seem to be a hell of a lot to it other than; pick your team of 2/3 premo defenders, 5/6 mid-field premo's and 3/4 premo forwards. You want maybe 1 mid/def and at-least 2 mid/fwds, not including rookies, and then the rest of the team is filled with rookies who are pretty much all the same price other than a small handful of high draft picks that cost around 200 grand which people will usually pick maybe 1 of. Everyone pretty much picks the same backs, forwards, rucks and rookies and the mid-field selection is pretty much a random selection of the top 10-15 super premo's, 2 or 3 of whom are in just about everyone's team. Anything other than that is considered a risk and very few people seem to be willing to take any risks and opt to just play it safe.

What incentive is there for anyone to pick 99% of players priced between say $200,000 and say $450-500,000? Other than guys like Ryder, Roughead and Swallow who are returning from hiatus? If you choose a player at that price then they're either an inconsistent player like say a Dale Thomas or Steven Motlop who can give you the rare game well over a hundred but give you mostly anywhere between 40-80 on average or players like say a James Frawley who'll give you a consistent yet lower score of about 70-80 each week. I think it would make SC much more interesting and risk-rewarding if players at that price-range earned more points and money for the same output as the super-premo's. I haven't thought that through much and don't know how that could be done exactly but that's just an idea I had. I'm only spit-balling so don't dissect that too much. A greater reward for the gamble of picking 2 mid-pricers ($300-400,000) over such an obvious safe-bet like Dangerfield could really make things interesting I reckon. Are there any other ways I haven't mentioned that people think could make SC more interesting? Or are people perfectly happy with how SC works and I'm just completely out to lunch here?
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Just remember that the people who post on here make up less than 5% of teams in the comp so what you may find as common on here may not be common overall. And as we have many consistantly high ranking players here, a lot will take on advice from others on players and stratagy leading to similar philosophy. Key is final teams going into rd one and how one trades through the year.
The real enjoyment of the game comes in finding the breakout player that others missed or picking up a premo cheap at the right time or even getting bragging rights for league wins.
Only thing I would change is the transpanency of Champion Data scoring!
 

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CaptainHowdy87 said:
Everyone's going with such similar teams.

From what I've seen in this thread, at-least 90% of people have the following in their team:

Docherty
Shaw
Rance
Dangerfield
Treloar
Rockliff
Gawn
Dalhaus
Macrae
Ryder
Heeney

Everyone has the same rookies as well.

Just a point of observation.

This is going to be only my 2nd season doing SC. Already I'm a little bit bored with the concept. As I noted in a thread at the end of last season, a hell of a lot of luck comes into it.

There doesn't seem to be a hell of a lot to it other than; pick your team of 2/3 premo defenders, 5/6 mid-field premo's and 3/4 premo forwards. You want maybe 1 mid/def and at-least 2 mid/fwds, not including rookies, and then the rest of the team is filled with rookies who are pretty much all the same price other than a small handful of high draft picks that cost around 200 grand which people will usually pick maybe 1 of. Everyone pretty much picks the same backs, forwards, rucks and rookies and the mid-field selection is pretty much a random selection of the top 10-15 super premo's, 2 or 3 of whom are in just about everyone's team. Anything other than that is considered a risk and very few people seem to be willing to take any risks and opt to just play it safe.

What incentive is there for anyone to pick 99% of players priced between say $200,000 and say $450-500,000? Other than guys like Ryder, Roughead and Swallow who are returning from hiatus? If you choose a player at that price then they're either an inconsistent player like say a Dale Thomas or Steven Motlop who can give you the rare game well over a hundred but give you mostly anywhere between 40-80 on average or players like say a James Frawley who'll give you a consistent yet lower score of about 70-80 each week. I think it would make SC much more interesting and risk-rewarding if players at that price-range earned more points and money for the same output as the super-premo's. I haven't thought that through much and don't know how that could be done exactly but that's just an idea I had. I'm only spit-balling so don't dissect that too much. A greater reward for the gamble of picking 2 mid-pricers ($300-400,000) over such an obvious safe-bet like Dangerfield could really make things interesting I reckon. Are there any other ways I haven't mentioned that people think could make SC more interesting? Or are people perfectly happy with how SC works and I'm just completely out to lunch here?
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I agree with you somewhat - SC has gotten easier over the years.
When I first started playing, about 7-8 years ago, the amount of trades one had was only 20... this almost forced you to pick midpricers as you didn't have the trades to downgrade lots of rookies for cash and upgrade others to premos.. you can easily do this now with the 30 trade limit.
Another reason everyone has the same teams now is because of popular pages like SCpaige, Jock Reynolds, Doctor SuperCoach etc... you used to have to do your own research, now you have lots of these social media sites doing it for you.
 
Kadog said:
I swear you've all gone mad!!!
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I'm gonna go one better and convince everyone they need Sam Butler in their teams.
 
Double the Fist said:
How has his preseason gone? He suffered last year, no preseason and Knee injury? I'll see how he goes. WIll be looking forward to see how Milera goes this year.
Go the Crows chicks too. Very happy with their win.
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injury free this year. Our women are fantastic, their commitment and team work amazing. Blokes could learn something.
 

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