Positional Changes Thread

[Football Factory]

ftr, I've just contact afl fantasy to see if they intend on making a women's league next year... because if so this could end up being redundant :P

It's not so much AFL Fantasy we need to worry about, we just need any website to publish the stats (if not FanFooty) and we can calculate the scores from there.

If no one is committed to doing all the player stats, or at least publishing them, then we are in a spot of bother.

I meant regarding the positions, a third party setting it would probs be more accurate than what we do

there wont be an AFL fantasy comp for women's next year (they'll start it in 2018 apparently), I'll check with SC tomoz I guess :P

lol I thought you meant stats as well  ;D ... we will just go with what we can find out I guess .. as Ossie said this year is just a practice year.

http://forum.fanfooty.com.au/index.php/topic,108172.msg1811616.html#msg1811616

[Ziplock]

yeah I know, it'd just make it easier :P

[Nige]

I'm not entirely sure this is the thread for it, or if I should be PMing this to Levi or whatever but after doing a bit of digging (my lord, it was tough) Lou Watton's a ruck and Sophie Casey is a forward flanker. And Taryn Priestly is a mid. Gemma Houghton apparently hasn't even played a competitive footy game yet and so nobody really knows her position (like legit the Freo site hasn't even got a position for her profile).

[Levi434]

I'm not entirely sure this is the thread for it, or if I should be PMing this to Levi or whatever but after doing a bit of digging (my lord, it was tough) Lou Watton's a ruck and Sophie Casey is a forward flanker. And Taryn Priestly is a mid. Gemma Houghton apparently hasn't even played a competitive footy game yet and so nobody really knows her position (like legit the Freo site hasn't even got a position for her profile).

Have fixed them now. Thanks Nige :)

[fanTCfool]

Player Name: Hayley Miller
Current Position(s): Defender only
Suggested New Position(s): Defender/Midfielder
Reasoning: Her player profile from the Fremantle website, below

Hayley Miller â€" Pick 4           
D.O.B: 3 February 1996
Recruited from: Coastal Titans
Position: Midfielder/half back

Miller is a hard running midfielder/defender who represented Melbourne in the 2016 exhibition match. Has great ability and also possesses massive upside with the potential to grow into one of the elite players in the competition.

Source: http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2016-10-12/meet-freos-newest-recruits

[fanTCfool]

Player Name: Hayley Wildes
Current Position(s): Midfielder only
Suggested New Position(s): Defender only
Reasoning: Her player profile from the Bulldogs website, below,

Pick 44: Hayley Wildes, Cranbourne FC
Rebounding defender who can run all day.

That's all there is to the profile, it's a one liner.

Source: http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/2016-10-14/offseason-guide-womens-team

[fanTCfool]

Player Name: Breanna Koenen
Current Position(s): Midfielder only
Suggested New Position(s): Defender/Midfielder
Reasoning: Her player profile from the Lions website, below,

Age: 21
Position: Defender
Recruited from: University of Queensland AFC

Originally from Magnetic Island, Breanna Koenen moved to play at the University of Queensland while studying exercise science. Koenen can play at half back or as a medium-sized midfielder and is a good ball user with an outstanding intercept mark. Koenen comes from a talented sporting family â€" her brother is in the Suns Academy and her sister in the National Netball League’s new Sunshine Coast Lightning team.

Source: http://www.lions.com.au/news/2016-10-12/the-new-lions

[fanTCfool]

Player Name: Nicki Wallace
Current Position(s): Forward only
Suggested New Position(s): Midfielder/Forward
Reasoning: Her player profile from the Lions website, below,

Age: 22
Position: Forward
Recruited from: Coolangatta Tweed WFC
Occupation: Sales, 2XU
Place of birth: Berwick, Victoria

Nikki Wallace is an inside midfielder with great foot skills. In 2016, Wallace developed her game really well and is a strong reason why Coolangatta have performed well. Wallace can get her hands on the ball around the centre bounce and can distribute it effectively by hand or foot â€" can play as either a midfielder, high half forward or a small forward.

Source: http://www.lions.com.au/news/2016-10-12/the-new-lions

[Levi434]

All good FTC.

[Levi434]

Player Name: Emily Bates
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): M/B
Reasoning: Depending on where you look she is either listed as a mid or as a half-back. Most sources agree that she moves between both though. Watching her highlights she seems to spend a fair amount of time back.
See here: http://pedestrian.tv/news/sport/nicola-barr-makes-history-as-the-1st-ever-draftee-/565992ec-ec51-4e72-88f9-c23a174b66fc.htm
And here: http://www.lions.com.au/news/2016-10-12/the-new-lions

Player Name: Emma Zielke
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): M/F
Reasoning: In an interview she conducted she listed herself as a mid-forward.

Player Name: Gabrielle Pound
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): F
Reasoning: She is listed as a forward on her player profile see here: http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2016-10-12/pick-30-gabrielle-pound

Player Name: Megan Hunt
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): M/F
Reasoning: http://www.lions.com.au/news/2016-10-12/the-new-lions

Player Name: Courtney Clarkson
Current Position(s): F
Suggested New Position(s): F/R
Reasoning: http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-3068-0-0-0&sID=280026&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=23610028

Player Name: Kate Deegan
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): D
Reasoning: In this interview she says she plays in defence as she was a defender from her previous sport of soccer.

[Levi434]

Player Name: Tayla Harris
Current Position(s): F
Suggested New Position(s): F/R
Reasoning: http://www.lions.com.au/news/2016-07-27/profile-tayla-harris

Some reason Tayla wasn't listed as a ruck but she is.

[Ziplock]

Haha, so we were waiting until the end of the draft before dropping all of these

Armistead:B/M
http://www.afc.com.au/news/2016-10-12/womens-draft-player-profiles

Spark: R/F
http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-3068-0-0-0&sID=280026&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=23427954

Mcleod: F
http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/2016-10-12/lambert-top-pick-19-added-to-womens-team

Kate Stanton F
http://aflnswact.com.au/blog/2016/06/10/preview-afl-canberra-v-afl-sydney/

Randall: Forward
http://www.upstart.net.au/pepa-randall-greatness-from-unexpected-beginnings/
http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-10-12/no121-pepa-randall

Cordner: Back (more tenuous than the others, she's category B, but in her video says she could see her self playing back since she's always played defence in elite sport)
http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-10-05/cordner-continues-tradition

[Levi434]

All good Zip.

Would have appreciated it being in the correct format though :P

[Ziplock]

All good Zip.

Would have appreciated it being in the correct format though :P

Ahhh sorry. I wondered why everyone was doing it the same way :(

[Koop]

I know it's 11th hour but requesting two changes. 1 which I feel I wouldn'tve been able to make earlier.


Player Name: Gemma Houghton
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): R/F
Reasoning: Pre-season game against Adelaide her first competitive match of football. No one had a position for her before that. Now listed on fremantle's website as a Ruck, but listed as a forward flanker in other places. Will happily take just Ruck though.
Reference: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-01-26/infographic-get-to-know-the-aflw-dockers


Player Name: Steph Chiocci
Current Position(s): M
Suggested New Position(s): D/M
Reasoning: Listed as a D/M on the Collingwood website, as well as in her captaincy appointment article on the AFL Website.
Reference: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-01-26/blues-fan-then-bulldog-but-now-chiocci-is-pies-skipper & http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-01-29/infographic-get-to-know-the-aflw-magpies