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[Speculator]

I like the idea however there are 3 issues I have with such a strategy.
First you are exposing yourself to a high chance of donuts if your fwd and bac rookies can't get consistent early games. With 4 rookies on each line you need at least 2 of these rookies playing each week for at least the first 5-6 weeks until you can start upgrading them. And then if injury strikes any of your forward or back premiums or midpricers you are staring down the barrel of an early (wasted) trade just to avoid a donut. To make matters worse, you don’t have any DPP capability which might otherwise help mitigate this risk.
Second, as pointed out by others, you are foregoing the opportunity to benefit from the best cashcow opportunities which are most likely to be in the midfield.
Third, the 3 rookie ruck strategy is fraught with danger. Many coaches are conducting themselves as though these guys are locked in as first rucks for their respective teams. I do acknowledge the potentially high reward of this strategy but the risk, for me, is too great to bear. I also like the idea of having good ruck depth which Giles and Stephenson provide from the bench.

I do like strategies which are a bit left field as this one is, however I think this one could really come unstuck as you are exposing 3 of your 4 lines (bac, fwd, and ruc) to enormous peril.

[PICCOLLO]

With regard to strategy, the 1-3 ruck scenario is a sound option provided 2 of your rookies play regularly.  You've got a lot of variations between your teams which can't really be crunched into numbers.  Eg. Jobe Watson's hamstrings or Brian LAke's attitude/fitness.
Look at your points of differnce and evaluate them on games played over last two years (where applicable) and what position you think their team will finish on the ladder. 
Factoring in the roster may help too because 'in' targets might be from teams who have a tough start to the year.  From memory I think Stk, North and Adel start well and Carlton end better than they start.
Hope it helps, thought I take it from a different perspective.
Incidently, I think all those teams have small issues:  they all have Gibbs, someone has mention SJ has had a poor pre-season (on another rate my SC), 6 mid strategy not a good idea.

[Sundown24]

DEF: B. Goddard, B. Deledio, G. Broughton, J. Grimes, B. Lake, M. Clarke, B. Ellis (L. Brown, B. Wilkes)
MID: G. Ablett jnr, M. Boyd, J. Selwood, B. Gibbs, D. Shiel, E. Kavanagh (J. McDonald, T. Mitchell)
RUC: M. Leuenberger, J. Giles (S. Rowe, O. Stephenson)
FWD: L. Franklin, S. Johnson, D. Martin, J. Brown, A. Christensen, B. Smedts, A. Treloar (T. Walsh, D. Zorko)
CASH LEFT: $435,800

Which line should I upgrade? I would most likely use one of the bold players?

I know I've put up many teams lately, but I'm basically settled on this one. Only player I'm struggling to fit in now is Barlow, but I also don't want to not have some handy MID rookies.

[Hippo]

Dude don't mean to be negative but how much advice do you need on dif teams, surely with everything that's been said on your 20 teams there is enough to make a informed decision. Some choices need to be made for yourself.

If everyone did what they were told on here every barbie would have the same team with the same risks

Fwiw kavangh as the others are must haves in the Mids

[Sundown24]

Hippo- I put up a poll to show people what a certain strategy could actually do, in terms of change the dynamics on the rest of the teams. Eg: 4 rookie rucks, all premium mids etc.
I'm not just wanting information on my team (except in my previous post). I have no idea who everyone is that comments on teams/polls etc, so by no means will 'every barbie' have the same teams/risks.

Thanks for your opinion

[Speculator]

Personally I would upgrade one of your forward rookies or Rowe

[valkorum]

I would upgrade one of your rucks - prob Rowe

[Sundown24]

Thanks guys
I think I'm fairly set on having two Premiums for the ruck. Leuy and either Sandi or Mumford

DEF: B. Goddard, B. Deledio, G. Broughton, J. Grimes, B. Lake, M. Clarke, B. Ellis (L. Brown, B. Wilkes)
MID: G. Ablett jnr, M. Boyd, S. Mitchell, M. Barlow, D. Shiel, E. Kavanagh (J. McDonald, T. Mitchell)
RUC: A. Sandilands, M. Leuenberger (J. Giles, O. Stephenson)
FWD: L. Franklin, S. Johnson, D. Martin, J. Brown, A. Christensen, B. Smedts, A. Treloar (T. Walsh, D. Zorko)
CASH LEFT: $36,500

[Speculator]

Can I ask why you don't feel the need to create a DPP link? I regard this as a crucial component of any team and just interested to hear other people's thoughts on this. I've noticed many many teams which have totally ignored DPP this preseason.

[Sundown24]

I'm obviously not completely sold on Rookies.
I agree though, you do see a lot of teams (including mine) without the DPP.

I'm very sold on Shiel, Kavanagh, McDonald and Mitchell as my rookies, but I may look at Zorko & Brown being moved around. Just don't know enough about the rookies yet. Plenty of GWS names could sneak in.

Any thoughts on some DPP options you would do? Would this just be premiums or rookies?

[Ringo]

Sundown - With DPP I use rookies for transfer. Last Year Heppell worked a treat.

Basically I have the rookie DPP in mids your decision whether to use 1 or 2.  (At the moment I have both with Brown and Zorko but NAB cup will dictate who and how many I have).
This is an example to explain:
Pendles has an injury for 2 weeks. Your rookies on the Defence Bench are scoring more than Brown you then have the option to move Delidio say to mids for 2 weeks and promoting your better scoring rookie bench to Defence. Similar for forwards/mid.
Can not see a lot of DPP potential with Ruck DPP this year.

It is all a matter of flexibility to get the highest possible score each week.