Midfield: Players v Structure

[Hoggyz_a_legend]

4 Super Premos, Swan, 3 $200~k, 3 rookies.

I've currently got 13 premos plus Mitchell in my team which could turn into 14 plus Mitchell if I downgrade my $200k mids.

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4 Super Premo
2 200k blokes
5 Rookies

I think picking premos who YOU believe can go 115 is the way to go whether it be the top guys or not. Sure you wanna find value but finding that may mean you won't be able to get those 120+ guys that you didn't start with later on in the year which could be regretful as they will have such a high price. For me I'm not 100% sold on the value premos as yet, that could change but for now that's my view.

200k players will make or break this season I believe.
Newton, Biggs, VanBerlo, Acres, Brayshaw, O'Rourke etc...
Players at new clubs, Players coming back from injuries, new guys and the ones who were sub affected and now on the rise. Until that sub rule is taken out they will be the ones we look to this year and the years coming!

[H1bb3i2d]

I'll be picking the best rookies available between the forward and mid lines.

I'm also confident about my forward premium selections, think there are 7 that are a fair way ahead of the rest. Probably 5 mids you can branch in that same category.

If there so happens to be plenty of great forward rookies, I may well throw a forward M/F premium at M5, and move him forward later in the season.

E.g. have a Deledio sitting at M5, so instead of umming and ahhing over who that cheaper breakout mid will be, I'll have someone who's still underpriced, and I know will finish in my team. That 'breakout mid' will probably end up averaging the same as Deledio, anyway.

[RaisyDaisy]

Great discussion :)

I've since made a minor tweak to my side, and now have 5 premiums + NVB

[GCSkiwi]

I tend to go more conservative, my reasoning being this:

We're all trying to find the best combination of points for dollars, spending more money in one place means spending less money elsewhere. I can't help but think with some of the suggestions people have and some of the teams I see in RMSC that people are counting on a lot of cheap rookies playing. We'll find out round 1 who gets named but even then I can't think of too many players <200k who have very good job security. Thinking of it this way. Say I have Leuey in rucks and Belly in fwds. With the same money I could get Maric at R2 and a 123k rookie in the forwards. If that rook lines up round 1, but then doesn't get a game round 2, at best it hurts my cash generation, at worst I'm eating a donut (depending who else is in the fwd line). Maric will not outscore Leuey by enough to count for a rookie donut. So it's swings, roundabouts, educated guesses and luck. I would rather pay a little bit more for job security even if the points scored may not be as high.

Similar approach to my mid line, 3 super prem (600k+), Watson as a value prem, Wells, NVB + rookies (and the rookies I've priced in there average 140k each). That's an extra mid pricer and hedging a bet towards more expensive rookies because I'm expecting to pay for JS. Easier to set up my team like this now, then find through NAB and in round 1 that there's heaps of 123k rookies to play with and I can free up more cash - rather than the other way around, fnding that I need to pick a prem to cull somewhere because no rooks are playing. I've gone with a lot of stepping stone players across the park (some like Newnes may hopefully become keepers but I'm still counting on a trade for him at the moment).