Scores and rankings Top 10 Teams - Analysis

[FAILTOSUCCEED]

top team has Jasper

He's starting to regret

 

[stevebbb]

He's starting to regret

nah mate, Pittard will be top 6 defender
he's going to learn how to cope with the tag

2 weeks in a row he's had a player sit on him, 2 weeks Port lost, DO THE MATH PORT ADELAIDE, HELP JASPER OUT!

 

[FAILTOSUCCEED]

nah mate, Pittard will be top 6 defender
he's going to learn how to cope with the tag

2 weeks in a row he's had a player sit on him, 2 weeks Port lost, DO THE MATH PORT ADELAIDE, HELP JASPER OUT!

I just get the old drop off mid season feeling from Pittard.

Particularly with them struggling, not getting the easy possies!

 

[TheOz]

It only takes one or 2 quality PODs to make a difference though.

If you took Pearce and McDonald over Prince and Newnes, at the start of the season you would be a few hundred points up.

It's all luck at the end of the day, none of those teams probably copped all of Bartel, Kelly, Rockliff, Salem, Smith, Lonie etc etc.

 

[MightyMark]

It's all luck at the end of the day, none of those teams probably copped all of Bartel, Kelly, Rockliff, Salem, Smith, Lonie etc etc.

100%, if you lucked out with guys like McDonald, Pearce, Armitage, Neale, Houli, Edwards, etc, and managed to avoid the players you mentioned, you should expect to be on top.

And if you did, you cant sit here and say it was all based on research etc. It's ****ing luck, no one picked McDonald to dominate, no one picked players like Sloane to miss huge weeks, the guy has been Mr. reliable over the years.

People always refer to the Bruyn Maneuver, and how smart he was to offload Cloke at his peak.

Are you kidding me, he lucked out, if I came on here and told everyone I was offloading Armitage because I think he has peaked I would be banned.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if Cloke had of continued his form, then Bruyn would be mocked. He took a chance, and good on him for having the balls to do it, but at the time it was a ******ed move, he just got lucky.

 

[TheOz]

100%, if you lucked out with guys like McDonald, Pearce, Armitage, Neale, Houli, Edwards, etc, and managed to avoid the players you mentioned, you should expect to be on top.

And if you did, you cant sit here and say it was all based on research etc. It's ******* luck, no one picked McDonald to dominate, no one picked players like Sloane to miss huge weeks, the guy has been Mr. reliable over the years.

People always refer to the Bruyn Maneuver, and how smart he was to offload Cloke at his peak.

Are you kidding me, he lucked out, if I came on here and told everyone I was offloading Armitage because I think he has peaked I would be banned.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if Cloke had of continued his form, then Bruyn would be mocked. He took a chance, and good on him for having the balls to do it, but at the time it was a ******ed move, he just got lucky.

It takes skill to rank highly year after year, anything above that (ie: winning it or even top 10) requires a massive amount of luck. Most of the people that did alot of research in the pre-season would have gone with Bartel for example, lots of midfield time, dominated in the centre during pre-season games, looked ok in his first couple of games without starring but always looked a lock for top 6 forward. Missed a week early on then scored a 5 and out for two months. People who didn't do their due dilligence would have passed him up and lucked out. Same could be said with regards to Kelly in the backline, or those who kept Salem but copped his injury, or those who started with Smith who have copped two concussion scores and a whole heap of crap after his first head high knock. Can't predict those things and with the sub rule losing players early is a season killer if they start piling up. This caper was much more enjoyable when it was only 20 trades.

Bruyn is either a lucky asshat or purposely decieving people with his advice on JR. Said that Griffen was "a lock", that Swan wasn't, NicNat was and various other forms of bullshit. His team that won it in 2013 at the start was average, he copped a sweet run without injury.

I lost around 5000 ranking places (750th odd to around 6000th) last week due to various injuries (Salem, Smith, Griffen, Cripps' replacement was shit), don't think too many copped that entire set of bullshit in the space of a couple of hours.

 

[Faz 2000]

I've got 16/17, and started with most of 'em.

Sucks balls not having Robbie Gray, though .

A few very dodgey captain choices, a couple of wasted trades and the hailstorm of crap that Ryan Griffen and Brodie Smith have been is probably the difference between my squad and these guys.

 

[NinjaSwan]

I've got 13/17, had Clark but traded him out, got O'Brien instead of Cox and don't have Kennedy or Swan.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Cox? Clearly these guys are unaware of Read's superiority for loopholing.

 

[TheOz]

Cox? Clearly these guys are unaware of Read's superiority for loopholing.

Proves that this whole shit is a crapshoot.

 

[toxic]

It takes skill to rank highly year after year, anything above that (ie: winning it or even top 10) requires a massive amount of luck. Most of the people that did alot of research in the pre-season would have gone with Bartel for example, lots of midfield time, dominated in the centre during pre-season games, looked ok in his first couple of games without starring but always looked a lock for top 6 forward. Missed a week early on then scored a 5 and out for two months. People who didn't do their due dilligence would have passed him up and lucked out. Same could be said with regards to Kelly in the backline, or those who kept Salem but copped his injury, or those who started with Smith who have copped two concussion scores and a whole heap of crap after his first head high knock. Can't predict those things and with the sub rule losing players early is a season killer if they start piling up. This caper was much more enjoyable when it was only 20 trades.

Bruyn is either a lucky asshat or purposely decieving people with his advice on JR. Said that Griffen was "a lock", that Swan wasn't, NicNat was and various other forms of bullshit. His team that won it in 2013 at the start was average, he copped a sweet run without injury.

I lost around 5000 ranking places (750th odd to around 6000th) last week due to various injuries (Salem, Smith, Griffen, Cripps' replacement was shit), don't think too many copped that entire set of bullshit in the space of a couple of hours.

Salem lonie griff vdb..

Handy morons!

 

[TheOz]

Salem lonie griff vdb..

Handy morons!

Had them all except for Lonie, also McKenzie's awesome score of 31.

 

[toxic]

Had them all except for Lonie, also McKenzie's awesome score of 31.

Shit..forgot..yep had him too

 

[HTPunter]

It only takes one or 2 quality PODs to make a difference though.

If you took Pearce and McDonald over Prince and Newnes, at the start of the season you would be a few hundred points up.

I'd be interested to know if any of those teams started with Tom McDonald. Everyone talking about the Bigfooty group think but really...incredibly incredibly lucky if you picked him imo - McDonald had good pre-season scores but so did Simon White who is averaging 50ish...

 

[HTPunter]

100%, if you lucked out with guys like McDonald, Pearce, Armitage, Neale, Houli, Edwards, etc, and managed to avoid the players you mentioned, you should expect to be on top.

And if you did, you cant sit here and say it was all based on research etc. It's ******* luck, no one picked McDonald to dominate, no one picked players like Sloane to miss huge weeks, the guy has been Mr. reliable over the years.

People always refer to the Bruyn Maneuver, and how smart he was to offload Cloke at his peak.

Are you kidding me, he lucked out, if I came on here and told everyone I was offloading Armitage because I think he has peaked I would be banned.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if Cloke had of continued his form, then Bruyn would be mocked. He took a chance, and good on him for having the balls to do it, but at the time it was a ******ed move, he just got lucky.

Ignore above post - should have kept reading thread

 

[Krujan]

what weirds me out is that I have almost all of those players - but I'm +13000th It's disheartening when you have 28/30 players in common with the top teams but you are miles behind on score

Sometimes the difference between top 10 and top 10 thousand seems to be little more than fielding the best rookies each week and making good captain choices.

Or simply just starting with M3 & M4 premo mids that came out of the blocks in the first 5 rounds averaging 120+ as opposed to me (currently ranked 13k) who started with Parker & Griff who were both averaging around 85 after the 1st 5 Rounds. Sure, Parker is coming good for me now, but the top teams now have the option of trading him in as their M6-7 at 80k less than what I paid for him in Rd1 whilst he is still my my M4 making it even harder for me to bridge the gap with a lesser quality fallen premo to trade in for my M6-7.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Or simply just starting with M3 & M4 premo mids that came out of the blocks in the first 5 rounds averaging 120+ as opposed to me (currently ranked 13k) who started with Parker & Griff who were both averaging around 85 after the 1st 5 Rounds. Sure, Parker is coming good for me now, but the top teams now have the option of trading him in as their M6-7 at 80k less than what I paid for him in Rd1 whilst he is still my my M4 making it even harder for me to bridge the gap with a lesser quality fallen premo to trade in for my M6-7.

Went Ablett Fyfe Pendles Selwood here. Then the injuries compounded everything.

 

[Krujan]

Went Ablett Fyfe Pendles Selwood here. Then the injuries compounded everything.

This ^ The 50% that started with Ablett are at a disadvantage not only score wise as our M1, but 1 less trade than those who started without him.

 

[Faz 2000]

I think the BigFooty group-think gets you close to top 10000 probably. There's a lot of good advice and ideas here. Not much gets past this group. Beyond that you need some luck and some inspired PODs.

Apparently NONE of which I have.

 

[toxic]

I think the BigFooty group-think gets you close to top 10000 probably. There's a lot of good advice and ideas here. Not much gets past this group. Beyond that you need some luck and some inspired PODs.

Apparently NONE of which I have.

Lets say top 40,000

 

[Faz 2000]

Lets say top 40,000

25 000, that's my final offer.

OK 30 000 but that's it.

Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. 35 000.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Lets say top 40,000

Plus Jiska

 

[Krujan]

Plus Jiska

Surely Jiska is in the top 40k by now?

 

[toxic]

Surely Jiska is in the top 40k by now?

You'd think so but........

NO

 

[Jiska]

Trolls. The lot of you.

At least I beat Gingy and toxic this week; I know the latter is no claim to fame, but it's a start. You know you're doing really shit when toxic beats you. Back on track.