Trust The Process - RDT Edition 2025

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This section is completely dead, but my RDT team is actually doing pretty well and I want to keep some notes on how it's going.

Round 1

Score: 2010
Rank: 3,360
Round Rank:  3,360

Trades

Sanders > Bowey
Leake > Warner


Round 2

Score: 1942
Rank: 783
Round Rank: 30

Trades

Tsatas > Ashcroft
Day > Callaghan
O'Sullivan > Lindsay

Round 3

Score: 2016
Rank: 79
Round Rank:  14
Cash: $132,800

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Good: Zorko, Sinclair, Prior, Trainor, Bowey, Merrett, Oliver, Ashcroft, Brayshaw, NOD, TDK, Macrae, Smith, Daniel, Davidson
Pass: Sheezel, English, Stone, Parker
Bad: Ashcroft,
Ugly: Callaghan, Lindsay, Kako, Lalor, Knevitt

All 3 trades were arguably flops this week, although I did get some cash out of the Tsatas to Ashcroft trade. I'm sitting in a pretty great spot right now and need to wait for teams before I make my trades. I am thinking Bice and Moraes in, I just need to decide on which rookies out.

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Round 4

Score: 1854
Rank: 45
Round Rank: 834
Cash: $174,300

Trades

Allan > Bice
Paton > Moraes

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Good: Sheezel, Bice, Trainor, Brayshaw, W. Ashcroft, Oliver, L. Ashcroft, Lalor, English, Smith, Parker
Pass: Sinclair, Daniel, Davidson
Bad: Zorko, Roberts, Bowey, TDK, Moraes
Ugly: Callaghan, NOD, Macrae (C), Stone, Warner

Not a great  week after a crap captain pick (was tossing up Brayshaw and Sinclair as the other two) but I managed to move up the rankings again.

Originally I had planned to bail on Callaghan who has struggled since I traded him in. I need another forward to push Stone/Warner off field and I am thinking JHF. The other trade was Tsatas in. Here are the options I am tossing up instead.

Option 1

NOD and Callaghan for Whitfield/any mid/JHF and Tsatas

I make the two trades and I have the cash for Whitfield, any mid or JHF. Whitfield leaves me about 43k, I feel like JHF is the best player for my structure though, it gets plebs like Stone/Warner off the field.

Option 2

NOD, Campo and Callaghan for Tsatas, Travaglia and JHF/any mid.

This gets rid of Campo and I get possibly the two best rookies. I still feel like JHF is better for my structure than someone like Dawson. Otherwise Trac is an option but I feel like it is better to wait for him to get DPP before making that move.

Option 3

NOD, Stone and Warner for Tsatas, JHF and Dudley/Collard. That leaves me with 114k

I hold Callaghan who is going to drop with his 109 BE he doesn't look like getting near. It also means I jump off the rooks a week early which isn't necessarily a bad thing and hope Finn bounces back.

I'm actually leaning towards the last one now and giving Callaghan another week. Although Windhager scares the crap out of me and you know they're going to tag him after the monster offer they made in the offseason that he knocked back

[Colliwobblers]

I've got Callaghan in this format also and used three trades this week but kept him. He might get windhager this week for another bad score but I can see him bouncing back, not every team had a tagger, and projected price drop here is not that bad.

Not sure having missed the big JHF score he'd be the one I'd get but now I've been burnt by him three years in a row, this time I set myself on fire :). He could give you that big score every week... could.

I took Hall in the mids but I'm unsure of JS. see if he's named again this week. I already had Tsatas and would probably lean that way for the extra $100k.

Probably option 3 for me.

Excellent rank, your killing this format.

[Ringo]

Nice rank keep it going.  Think option 3 is the best as well.

I will post in here as well so you have company.

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I've got Callaghan in this format also and used three trades this week but kept him. He might get windhager this week for another bad score but I can see him bouncing back, not every team had a tagger, and projected price drop here is not that bad.

Not sure having missed the big JHF score he'd be the one I'd get but now I've been burnt by him three years in a row, this time I set myself on fire :). He could give you that big score every week... could.

I took Hall in the mids but I'm unsure of JS. see if he's named again this week. I already had Tsatas and would probably lean that way for the extra $100k.

Probably option 3 for me.

Excellent rank, your killing this format.

Callaghan had free run against the Eagles, had a pretty good Q1 and then just stopped. Windhager is a tough matchup, but the BE at 109 isn't horrendous so I can probably afford to hold.

JHF has a low BE this week and looking at the forwards, the top 3 guys I already own and then the group under that I feel like he is the best price for what he should outlay over the rest of the season. I feel like the forward line in RDT is always full of low scoring options that are boom or bust.

Simpkin was one I considered last week, but with Parker and Daniel it's hard to fit them all in. Wardlaw will also be back soon and Simpkin will move out of the CBA's a bit.

Toby is a risk for injury and suspension, although he is the one that is a bit of a POD

Darcy/Thilthorpe/Hogan will put up some clunkers as key forwards, I'd rather wait to see who the DPP forwards are

Miers will score a random 30 to kill your season

Jackson is injured

Rankine scored crap last weeks so will bleed cash and is in doubt for tonight, easy pass

Kennedy has Bont coming back in soon to push him out of the middle

Schultz is injured

I'm not picking Pickett or Mannagh off one game.

End result is JHF and it gets Stone/Warner off the field.

Kelly has been dropped so I would expect Hall to play. He doesn't seem to be scoring as well in RDT as he is in SC. I think I'm okay grabbing Dudley for a little bit less if he gets named for a similar output. Tsatas I feel has to come in if he is named. Caldwell out for a month should see him slot in nicely.

Nice rank keep it going.  Think option 3 is the best as well.

I will post in here as well so you have company.

I feel like 3 makes the most sense. I keep the cash gen going with some cheaper rookies and bring in a genuine prem. It's the least sideways trade move of the lot and gets a rookie off the field.

Good to have someone else keeping the ghost town alive haha

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With Tsatas out, I am looking at one of Travaglia or Hall instead.

I can afford to do Warner and NOD to Dudley and JHF and keep Stone using just the two trades. Otherwise I am leaning towards Travaglia in RDT with the DPP and he seems the better scorer in this comp.

If I grab Travaglia, I can then field Prior/Trainor and loop Moraes and Lindsay or I can just field both Moraes and Lindsay.

Smith VC didn't pan out and I'm going to stick with Merrett.