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[Hydra]

Any comments on the team below? Heavy favouritism on expensive rookies which I like personally.


Defenders
Jarryd McVeigh, Sam Mitchell, Kade Simpson, Matthew Suckling, Matthew Buntine, Kade Kolodjashnij (Luke McDonald, Matthew Fuller)

Midfielders
Gary Ablett Jr, Scott Pendlebury, Trent Cotchin, Dayne Beams, Dale Thomas, Jack Martin, Claye Beams, Viv Michie (Dom Sheed, Luke Dunstan)

Ruckmen
Brodie Grundy, Aaron Sandilands (Toby Nankervis, Fraser Thurlow)

Forwards
Patrick Dangerfield, Dustin Martin, Lance Franklin, Matthew Pavlich, Alex Fasolo, Dayle Garlett (Jarman Impey, Jay Kennedy-Harris)

$58,300 remaining. Byes 11/9/10.


Thanks for any and all help/criticism.

[tor01doc]

Rookies will be decided after NAB but in general grab cheaper ones if selected unless they will be on field I reckon.

No point sitting a $185K guy on the pine when a $123K can sit there.

I actually like you rucks - obviously The Grundster isn't going to be a keeper but Sandi....well you never know.

Go for it.

[Hydra]

Yep I'm currently developing a team with cheaper rookies also to compare.

My theory was that these rookies are all going to get early games, and are all going to go up in price.

Happy to hear your comments!

[AaronKirk]

All 4 premium mids have the round 8 bye which could be a problem.

Buntine is too awkward in price to have IMO- look to downgrade him to a D8 cheap rookie of your choice which gives you another approx 140k

Cotchin should become Watson/Rockliff to help with bye structure for your prem mids, then upgrade Grundy to Lobbe/Nic Nat if you can afford it.

[Hydra]

I'll take those into consideration. I upgraded to NicNat and from Thomas to Watson by reducing the high rookies and Buntine. I still only get an expected score of 2217 with my analysis, compared to 2222 with my old mix.

I also note that Martin, Beams, Sheed, Michie, Buntine originally selected are far, far more likely to play the first 5-8 games and deliver value than the likes of Honeychurch, Crouch, Taylor and Byrne-Jones (or any 117k rookie selected to play round 1).

Surely the idea is to maximise price increases of rookies? If so I can't see too many 117k rookies increasing as much as the higher priced ones at this stage simply due to the fact is they wont get games this year.

[Hydra]

New team:

Defenders
Jarryd McVeigh, Sam Mitchell, Kade Simpson, Matthew Suckling, Kade Kolodjashnij, Luke McDonald (Tom Cutler, Matthew Fuller)

Midfielders
Gary Ablett Jr, Scott Pendlebury, Tom Rockliff, Dayne Beams, Dale Thomas, Jack Martin, Claye Beams, Viv Michie (Dom Sheed, Luke Dunstan)

Ruckmen
Nic Naitanui, Aaron Sandilands (Toby Nankervis, Fraser Thurlow)

Forwards
Patrick Dangerfield, Dustin Martin, Lance Franklin, Matthew Pavlich, Alex Fasolo, Dayle Garlett (Jarman Impey, Jay Kennedy-Harris)

$25,300 remaining. Byes 9/9/12.


(Trades made were: Cotchin > Rockliff, Grundy > Naitanui, Buntine > Cutler)


Considering:
Fasolo > Bock
Claye Beams > Dom Tyson
Anyone > Honeychurch

Still liking having the expensive rookies assuming that they will play. Makes for a much stabler team and there's still lots of value there, and I'd rather have rookies on the pine increasing in value than rookies not playing.