ROUND 10: Pittard vs. Harbrow?

[GoLions]

Pittard love confuses me.  The scoring has never been there?!?!  So many good options in the backline this year.

Harbrow has at least shown signs of being a top 6 defender.

Harbrow's career best average is like 85.4 or something

Pittard over the last few years has gone: 61-->67-->80-->91-->87 (this year so far)

Pittard always had a better SC average than DT due to his role in the backline, and he is currently averaging a tick over 96 in DT. Can easily see him going 95+ from now on.

[Holz]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

[Money Shot]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

Was thinking this myself.

Do I really want to have either of Harbrow/Pittard in my side just to help over 3 rounds...

I have a soft spot for Pittard so I am tempted but I don't know if he can be that 95+ player that I hope he can.

[GoLions]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

[Holz]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

Would you not pay 20k more for Tmac?

good scorer in the past good scores this year.

or even better 30k more for rance?

elite scorer in the past 106 92 106 in the last 3.

[_wato]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

Would you not pay 20k more for Tmac?

good scorer in the past good scores this year.

or even better 30k more for rance?

elite scorer in the past 106 92 106 in the last 3.

So when TMac misses the bye in Rd 11 which is looking horrible for most people you're effectively 95 points down because you won't have anyone to cover and Pittard will play.

14 fames left throughout the season, 95/14 is near on 7 points so you'd be selecting TMac/Rance hoping they'd average near on 100. Much of a muchness but I see them going very close so why not go Pittard.

[LordSneeze]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

I agree, im considering actually bringing in both.

Pittard has got runs on the board and is at a really good price. Bye helps too.
Harbrow is performing well above his averages and might be worth taking a risk on, if he drops off you always have the chance to move him into the D7 spot.

Otten to Pittard and Marchbank to Harbrow is pretty good value IMO.

While other players a little more expensive the missing bye is worth 80-100 points, the cash saved could be used later aswell.

[GoLions]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

Would you not pay 20k more for Tmac?

good scorer in the past good scores this year.

or even better 30k more for rance?

elite scorer in the past 106 92 106 in the last 3.

I rate them all fairly evenly, and have considered both of those guys as well (a few days before round 1 pretty sure I had both Tmac and Rance in my squad). There's a lot of guys that you could say are good enough for D6, others to look at are JJ, Joey, Hurley, Hibberd, Williams etc etc. Happy to take any one of those guys, along with Pittard. But when I look at prices and what I think each player will average from here on in, and taking into account the byes as well, Pittard comes out on top for me. If he had a bye in the regular bye rounds...then it'd be a tougher choice, but he'd still probably be in my top 3 options, with Rance and Hibberd the other 2.

[_wato]

Couldn't agree more ^^

Docherty Adams Laird Montagna Howe Pittard I'm happy with.

As long as you have the first 3 guys you can go with whoever for D4-6.

[Holz]

Neither are good options and would not be considered if not for the byes,


Ryder, Lynch and possibly Ablett are the guys you should be looking at.

I would 100% be considering Pittard even if he had another bye in 5 weeks or whatever. Good price, has shown he can go 90+ last year, is averaging almost 100 in DT when he is usually better suited to SC, just as good of a choice as a number of other defender options. The fact that he'll play through all 3 bye rounds is just the icing on the cake for me.

Would you not pay 20k more for Tmac?

good scorer in the past good scores this year.

or even better 30k more for rance?

elite scorer in the past 106 92 106 in the last 3.

So when TMac misses the bye in Rd 11 which is looking horrible for most people you're effectively 95 points down because you won't have anyone to cover and Pittard will play.

14 fames left throughout the season, 95/14 is near on 7 points so you'd be selecting TMac/Rance hoping they'd average near on 100. Much of a muchness but I see them going very close so why not go Pittard.

its why Rance is the best pick up.

Round 12 bye is great.

most I would say would not even have 2 round 12 backs.

plus its 18, the forward line is stacked with round 11 too thats why i suggested lynch and Ryder.

[PICCOLLO]

Couldn't agree more ^^

Docherty Adams Laird Montagna Howe Pittard I'm happy with.

As long as you have the first 3 guys you can go with whoever for D4-6.

Yep.  In defence there's generally a few must haves then a few players that hover around 90, of which you can fill up the other positions. (Doch, Adams and Laird look like the 3 must haves, Shaw has dropped off)

[batt]

So when TMac misses the bye in Rd 11 which is looking horrible for most people you're effectively 95 points down because you won't have anyone to cover and Pittard will play.

14 fames left throughout the season, 95/14 is near on 7 points so you'd be selecting TMac/Rance hoping they'd average near on 100. Much of a muchness but I see them going very close so why not go Pittard.

He makes sense if you're stuffed for one of your byes, sure.  But if you've planned well and things go accordingly that 95 points should be between 30-50.  Basically, if you have a bye with a player to cover the premo you want to bring in, Pittard isn't worth it.

Almost everyone will have cover in R12 so Rance would be much more worth it.  40/14 = ~3ish ppg.  Pittard averaged 91 last season.  He could average 95, sure.  Rance could average 100.  The rookie you play in week 12 could score 80 instead of 50.

You're playing against the numbers unless you think he can average 95+ or you don't have rookie cover to bring in another premo with a bye coming up.

[BomberSam]

This thread gets interesting now...

[Hawka]

Harbrow is so temtping, but i only have 2 upgrades left in defense and feel there is 2or 3 better players
But byes lean me towards him

[TurtlesTerriers]

First double up here we come. Jones and Otten out. Adams and Harbrow in.