Captain Choice Round 4

[TheHanger]

The captain descision can burn alot of people, or give you those extra points to save your team.
Alot of thought should go into your choice for captain and even though Swan seems like the obvious choice this week this may not be the case.

The two things to take into account with the captain is form and history against their next opponent. If the player is killing it at the moment it may make up for bad history but we should still look at all our options.

Firstly Dane Swan: Contrary to popular belief his average against Richmond is not that great (for him). It is only 92 and this is well below his career average of 98. Despite this though he had a strong year against richmond last year and his for at the MCG is good. He should be a good choice for captain

Joel Selwood (and basically all players): Stay clear of Selwood and the rest of his team. They are playing against sydney, a bogey Dream Team opponent. Selwood averages 7 below average against the Swans(90) and i just wouldnt take the risk.

Bryce Gibbs: Gibbs outstanding form this year makes him seem like a worthy DT captain, not this week though. It seems he hates essendon and Averages only 71 against them, 16 down on his career average. There are better options this week

Jobe Watson: Jobe has had an outstaning start to the year but his average against carlton is 5 below his career average(78) still he has ripped it up this year so dont put it psat him, especially with the saints and bulldogs players missing

Cox: Dean Cox may be the way to go this week, his brilliant form this year has show he is still the best ruck in the comp and and average against Hawthorne of 93, ten above career average, makes him a potentially winner captain.

Pendlebury: Another Collingwood who underperforms against Richmond, his average of 83 is 8 below his career average of 91. Still i wouldn't write him off, consider his form has been great.

Jude Bolton: Jude has also been in good form this year, and his average against Geelong is 80, ten above his career average. Consider but i think there may be better options. (averages after 2009 season)

The notable mentions are(average against opponent and compared to career average): Andrew Embley(85,+1), Matt Pridis(117, +25), Marc Murphy(91,=), Sam Mitchell(93,+7), Bartel(96,+1)

And the Bad: Mundy(63, -10), Hodge(83,-4), Judd(85,-1)

[Ziplock]

swan's my captain with cox as my vice.

[PowerMan]

If Swanny can score nearly 120 after the way he played last week my 'C' is lock and loaded on him this week, surely he can't have 2 bad ones in a row.

[soutter]

Swan captain, just for a change  :P

Jack Grimes Vice Capt. I always choose a VC from someone playing the Suns.

[Fenno]

I know you are only trying to help TheHanger but I would be going off career averages but off more recent averages. The players role may be completely different than it was 5 years ago the team he may be playing may be a completely different team and the team he is in may be completely different. I would go off the players last 3 scores vs the oppenent not career average. For example Swan career ave vs Richmond is 92 like you said but over his last 3 games against them he averages 116

[TheHanger]

yeah Fenno i agree but it is still agood guide and also comparing to the normal career average sorta counters that. Also i took into account this years form and looked at recent scores but they can also be misleading. A couple of good games can mean a couple of flukes.
And players have only played teams a small amount of times anyway. Like 20 times against a teamcould take 15 years for some people so it isnt a huge difference

As you can  see i only commented on players who have been in great form this year, its not like i commented on every player.

[beermee]

for me this week: swan - vc, mitchell - c