How is DT gonna work in 2011?

[Boomz]

Anyone have any ideas as to how DT will work next year with 17 teams and a bye each week? its gonna be drastically different...

[brent007]

Probably either extra reserve spots or just average out the scores based on the rest of your teams performance.

Actually, Richmond will probably go bankrupt, merge with Adelaide, and there won't be an issue.

[Boomz]

I like your second idea.

[Pav29]

They shuld just give the people that arent playing their averages. This would be that best solution.They should have introduced the 2 teams at once for the sake of Fantasy football.

[thatguy]

I know this is a topic which has been covered well in the past -- and of course will do again come seasons end.

there have been so many different ideas floating around about how the Gold Coast's entry will disrupt DT with the bye now.

Ive just been thinking do people think something like a 40-man squad might come into affect, where you pick 40 players and then make your starting 22 from there? then maybe have either 2 windows during the season (eg rounds 7/14) to make some trades or just one trade window at the half way point of the season? that way you will need to even the spread across the field to not load up on any one team and any LTI's can be traded during the open windows.

just a thought

[browny_wce]

its just been boggling my mind with the addition of GC next year
(studying for exams so obviously distracted by fanfooty)
but with 17 teams, meaning a team will have to have a bye each round how will DT work i wonder??

[jvalles]

Thats going to be a tough one, they might have to change the game completely.

Only thing I could think is they increase the cap and add 1 extra bench to each position, then dters would have to make more strategic choices when  picking their teams.

[GinoGod]

it will either be.
the player on ur dt who has the bye u might get their average. or
u may be able to trade the player who has the bye and not lose one of ur trades

[gerco]

its just been boggling my mind with the addition of GC next year
(studying for exams so obviously distracted by fanfooty)
but with 19 teams, meaning a team will have to have a bye each round how will DT work i wonder??

For starters, I hope your studying is going better than your FanFootying has today; first the JKT/Moles mix up and now there will be 19 teams in the league next year?

Jokes aside, there are a few ways the DT gods could go... I reckon changing it so you have 35 players and an increased salary cap to off set the bye.

One thing people haven't mentoined is how the bye will actually work; at least 1 week there will be an epic amount of byes due to 2 byes each team=34, not 22 rounds.

[jvalles]

Probably why Freo and Port came in the same year, so they didn't have such a headache. Pretty sure they did come in the same year?

[Jugganauts]

Probably why Freo and Port came in the same year, so they didn't have such a headache. Pretty sure they did come in the same year?

No they didnt come in the same year
and there is already a few topics about this if u search for it find it no need to start another topic on this

[browny_wce]

its just been boggling my mind with the addition of GC next year
(studying for exams so obviously distracted by fanfooty)
but with 19 teams, meaning a team will have to have a bye each round how will DT work i wonder??

For starters, I hope your studying is going better than your FanFootying has today; first the JKT/Moles mix up and now there will be 19 teams in the league next year?

Jokes aside, there are a few ways the DT gods could go... I reckon changing it so you have 35 players and an increased salary cap to off set the bye.

One thing people haven't mentoined is how the bye will actually work; at least 1 week there will be an epic amount of byes due to 2 byes each team=34, not 22 rounds.

ohhhh god! i am not having a good fanfooty day, probably coz im doing so many things at once! cleaned my car n washed the dogs aswell haha

but spose ud have to go for the players in the teams who wuld have only 1 bye for the season. (which come to think of it, makes its interesting how the AFL will deal with it, coz that cant be fair)
maybe each player on ur team is able to be traded out for that week to then bring in another for that price or under, then at the end of the weekends play u get to choose if u wanna keep that player or not

[jvalles]

Probably why Freo and Port came in the same year, so they didn't have such a headache. Pretty sure they did come in the same year?

No they didnt come in the same year
and there is already a few topics about this if u search for it find it no need to start another topic on this

Yeah found it, Freo in 95 and Port in 97

[browny_wce]

Probably why Freo and Port came in the same year, so they didn't have such a headache. Pretty sure they did come in the same year?

No they didnt come in the same year
and there is already a few topics about this if u search for it find it no need to start another topic on this

well if its not on the 1st 2 pages of players n trades i cannot be assed looking for it

[gerco]

its just been boggling my mind with the addition of GC next year
(studying for exams so obviously distracted by fanfooty)
but with 19 teams, meaning a team will have to have a bye each round how will DT work i wonder??

For starters, I hope your studying is going better than your FanFootying has today; first the JKT/Moles mix up and now there will be 19 teams in the league next year?

Jokes aside, there are a few ways the DT gods could go... I reckon changing it so you have 35 players and an increased salary cap to off set the bye.

One thing people haven't mentoined is how the bye will actually work; at least 1 week there will be an epic amount of byes due to 2 byes each team=34, not 22 rounds.

ohhhh god! i am not having a good fanfooty day, probably coz im doing so many things at once! cleaned my car n washed the dogs aswell haha

but spose ud have to go for the players in the teams who wuld have only 1 bye for the season. (which come to think of it, makes its interesting how the AFL will deal with it, coz that cant be fair)
maybe each player on ur team is able to be traded out for that week to then bring in another for that price or under, then at the end of the weekends play u get to choose if u wanna keep that player or not

One for the AFL to deal with it is for 7 games to played each week (meaning 3 teams would have byes) and then have 1 week with just 6 games (meaning 5 teams would have byes), which would mean each team would have 4 byes.