Is a 4 premium, 2 mid price starting midfield too much ?

[Scrads]

I am overly tempted by the idea of going in with Swan, Ablett, Selwood, Gibbs, Barlow and Ziebell as my starting 6 midfielders, is too much to start off with ?

[Scrads]

NOTE:
This would leave me with 3 premiums + 1 midprice in the back. 1 premium in the ruck, 4 premiums in the forwards

[Turkies]

Yes. Mid rookies give the most points, makes no sense to start with only 2 of them.

[essendon2]

NOTE:
This would leave me with 3 premiums + 1 midprice in the back. 1 premium in the ruck, 4 premiums in the forwards

start with 4 premo's, 1 mid price and 1 rook in MIDS

[jabroni]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches? So you'd be missing out on a rookie rising twice before ziebell will rise

[D.Zanetti]

way too many, you'd miss out on the awesome mid rookies from gws like shiel, miles, cliften, along with sooo many others

[TheMailman]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches? So you'd be missing out on a rookie rising twice before ziebell will rise

No he wouldn't seeing as prices don't rise until round 3

[Alka]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches? So you'd be missing out on a rookie rising twice before ziebell will rise

No he wouldn't seeing as prices don't rise until round 3

Yes he would.
Ziebell will only rise after playing 3 games. Hence the rookie will have 2 rises first (if he plays all starting games).

[TheMailman]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches? So you'd be missing out on a rookie rising twice before ziebell will rise

No he wouldn't seeing as prices don't rise until round 3

Yes he would.
Ziebell will only rise after playing 3 games. Hence the rookie will have 2 rises first (if he plays all starting games).

Too true

derp moment from me I retract my statement

[Kuruki]

Yes. Mid rookies give the most points, makes no sense to start with only 2 of them.

Id love to see some stats on mid rookies vs other lines. i dont count dpp players as mid rookies because more often then not they are not in your midfield. I cant think of too many mid only players from last year that dominated the other lines significantly. Curnow was probably the only one. I think it will be the same again this year. Maybe there will be one or two dominant mid rooks and then everyone else will be pretty even imo. I dont think not having allot of mid rookies is going to be an issue this year.

[Scrads]

Yes. Mid rookies give the most points, makes no sense to start with only 2 of them.

Did some research on this based on last year and now am a lot more confident in going in with this strategy. The mid rookies in fact did not clearly stand out, in fact there were quite a few dud mid rookies pop up past year. The key to making it work is nailing my 5 rookies in the forwards and backs (need to find the duigan, Stanley, smith, heppell, mzungu, lower, krakeour and puopolo like choices). I think the abundant amount of DPP players will help this though.

[elephants]

I don't think the mid rookies are all they are cracked up to be. Look at Atley? He killed us all!
This is why I am going with a sneaky midfield strategy of my own... ;)

[Andrew]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches?

Thanks for reminding me, I started considering him today but not now.

[elephants]

isnt ziebell banned the first 2 matches?

Thanks for reminding me, I started considering him today but not now.

Could be the key to the round 1 captain loophole!!

[Scrads]

Back pedaled a bit and got rid of Barlow for Sebastian Ross (tentative player obv) and upgraded a forward rook, so going with 4 premiums and a mid now.