4 rookie ruck strategy

[bowyanger]

One more thing, I wouldn't trade Ablett either, not with the depth of your midfield.  I think you need to play it cool for a bit.

I agree..its a marathon

Trades are worth gold and everyone is gonna want ablett in their team again

Its common knowledge that as the season gets to the end, I would say 80% of Teams spud it up during the last 4 rounds or so cause theyve gone way too hard too early...mainly by trying to be in the top 100 or so instead of hovering back a bit further...use that time to your advantage

Saving a trade now will be worth 50K if it means you could have really used it during general soreness time or when a few freaky injuries hit multiple premiums at once

[northernstar]

What an awesome strategy!

I started with J.Giles S.Mumford. Then heard news of his longish term back issue so I went Natinui!

I know some guys who went Mumford, Sandilands, Natinui...

I can see now there is no point wasting trades in rucks.

I'm a convert to your 4 rook/cheap ruck strategy for next year.

Imagine if you chose Maric as one of them!!!!!!! :)

[crabapples]

The only reason this strategy is any good is luck, if sandi and coz were performing thenbu would b spewin with ur petty scores out of the ruck, rucks hav been carnage this year.

[Ziplock]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

[crabapples]

**Cox

what game u playin zippy? 3 bench rucks  ???

[northernstar]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

So one mid range, 3 rooks your opinion?

[crabapples]

woops sorry ziplock... i get ya now  :-[

[bowyanger]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

So one mid range, 3 rooks your opinion?

Thats what I did, had West pencilled in all year and went Hale with the 3 rooks at last minute.

Hmac woulda been perfect.

Reddens JS gets worse each week as Lobbe gets closer to being fully fit

[Hippo]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

im ranked 20 from 4rr so if thats horrible i would hate to see sh@thouse.

and as crabapples has eluded there is a bit more to it than luck, although i will admit 40% of the game is luck with injurys.

There are reasons i went 4rr as explained back in this threat before the season started and there are reasons why i would not have picked Cox and Sandi, and its exactly the reasons they aren't going as well as many thought.

Its easy to say its all luck but is it completely luck that i picked Duffman, Malceski, Masten, Hayes, Sidebottom, Robinson all from the start! there are many reasons why i picked them with the main one being solid hard research.

2 yrs ago i was ranked 11th in rd4 before injurys  took hold which you cannot see, again this was from solid hard research.

end of that yr i put the same thinking into the brownlow and turned $300 into $8700, a week later picked a quaddie and a big6 and had $50 on Pendles and Hayes in both GF for the Norm Smith.

My point is luck has a very small part to do with it over solid research.

[Ziplock]

sorry, I dunno if you've posted it already, but your 4 rucks must have been giles, redden, longer and stephensen?
giles has played every game, so theres your first ruck
stephesen 1+ 3, with 3 being a decent score
longer 3+6 with 3 being a reasonable score
redden 1-3, solid scores

from the top of my head, those are the only rucks to really play much this season, unless you had cordy, who played 3-5 with decent scores in 3 and 5.
so maxing out the number of games, you would have had to have gone giles, redden, longer and cordy
1 giles redden
2 giles redden
3 giles redden
4 giles cordy
5 giles cordy
6 giles longer

thats the only line up I can see where you havent had to burn a trade to avoid a doughnut- at the same time however, you've had to get longer and cordy, cordy who wasnt a rookie and not priced as such, and longer who was a high draft pick. I'm *relatively* sure you could have picked a stephensen or rowe, who both seemed like relatively viable options for that 4th ruck position, and used the extra money to upgrade the other one to a hmac/ maric.

I mean, stephensen hasnt played much, which wasnt anticipated, and rowe came down with cancer (although nobody called that to be fair).

I'm still maintaining that the best possible ruck line up this year would have been either hmac, giles, redden, stephesen or hmac, maric, giles redden.

basically, 4 rookie rucks, you haven't maximised your keepers for dollars.

[northernstar]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

im ranked 20 from 4rr so if thats horrible i would hate to see sh@thouse.

and as crabapples has eluded there is a bit more to it than luck, although i will admit 40% of the game is luck with injurys.

There are reasons i went 4rr as explained back in this threat before the season started and there are reasons why i would not have picked Cox and Sandi, and its exactly the reasons they aren't going as well as many thought.

Its easy to say its all luck but is it completely luck that i picked Duffman, Malceski, Masten, Hayes, Sidebottom, Robinson all from the start! there are many reasons why i picked them with the main one being solid hard research.

2 yrs ago i was ranked 11th in rd4 before injurys  took hold which you cannot see, again this was from solid hard research.

end of that yr i put the same thinking into the brownlow and turned $300 into $8700, a week later picked a quaddie and a big6 and had $50 on Pendles and Hayes in both GF for the Norm Smith.

My point is luck has a very small part to do with it over solid research.

+1

Cool stuff, and he is right, research gives you a better chance. I don't believe in luck at all.

If there is such a thing as "luck" why do the top poker players consistently make final tables?

It's STRATEGY!

Hippo, can you email me your starting team next year?  ;D

[Capper]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

im ranked 20 from 4rr so if thats horrible i would hate to see sh@thouse.

and as crabapples has eluded there is a bit more to it than luck, although i will admit 40% of the game is luck with injurys.

There are reasons i went 4rr as explained back in this threat before the season started and there are reasons why i would not have picked Cox and Sandi, and its exactly the reasons they aren't going as well as many thought.

Its easy to say its all luck but is it completely luck that i picked Duffman, Malceski, Masten, Hayes, Sidebottom, Robinson all from the start! there are many reasons why i picked them with the main one being solid hard research.

2 yrs ago i was ranked 11th in rd4 before injurys  took hold which you cannot see, again this was from solid hard research.

end of that yr i put the same thinking into the brownlow and turned $300 into $8700, a week later picked a quaddie and a big6 and had $50 on Pendles and Hayes in both GF for the Norm Smith.

My point is luck has a very small part to do with it over solid research.

Do you still have 4 rr though Hippo?? I remember seeing your team with Giles, Redden, Big O and Gorringe was that right??

[Hippo]

4 rookies would have been horrible. redden + stephensen havent been getting games, and longers only played 2.

hmac/ maric + 3 rooks however...

im ranked 20 from 4rr so if thats horrible i would hate to see sh@thouse.

and as crabapples has eluded there is a bit more to it than luck, although i will admit 40% of the game is luck with injurys.

There are reasons i went 4rr as explained back in this threat before the season started and there are reasons why i would not have picked Cox and Sandi, and its exactly the reasons they aren't going as well as many thought.

Its easy to say its all luck but is it completely luck that i picked Duffman, Malceski, Masten, Hayes, Sidebottom, Robinson all from the start! there are many reasons why i picked them with the main one being solid hard research.

2 yrs ago i was ranked 11th in rd4 before injurys  took hold which you cannot see, again this was from solid hard research.

end of that yr i put the same thinking into the brownlow and turned $300 into $8700, a week later picked a quaddie and a big6 and had $50 on Pendles and Hayes in both GF for the Norm Smith.

My point is luck has a very small part to do with it over solid research.

Do you still have 4 rr though Hippo?? I remember seeing your team with Giles, Redden, Big O and Gorringe was that right??

Tabs i had McCauley instead off Gorringe. Traded Mc to Hmac.... now have to sweat on that outcome

[Bombers Suck]

ppoor poor idea..

[Hippo]

ppoor poor idea..

thanks for the quality input di@khead