Ask Ziplock Pre-season NAB1

[Capper]

neither of their talls were in their best 22 when it came down to it. They need a solid midfield to be competitive- atm they only have trengove. Get magner and couch in, and build from there.

cheers mate

[n00bsauce]

do you think hogan can make it into geelong's 22?

[Justin Bieber]

Jack Grimes is too much or a person now?

Is John Brown to couragous?

[TMurphBROWNLOW]

1. is it better to have 15 starting premiums who will be there come finals, or 14 and have $ in the bank (~110-160k)? :)

2. do you miss me? :P

it depends, how many midpricers are you starting? if you have a fair few or middie or quasi premo, then having that buffer of cash could be worthwhile. If you've found a player for 160k cheaper that you're pretty sure will break out into premo this year, then it's definitely worth it.

But if you've just got the cash sitting there... not really. It does allow a greater degree of flexibility, but when it comes down to it, if you can get a premium in, then get them in.

15 big 400k-600k premiums, with a possibly 16th in hargrave. I sacrificed wingard, swan and m. clarke for fisher, murphy and Sam Gibson... worthwhile?

[Ziplock]

do you think hogan can make it into geelong's 22?

I think he's in there with a shot. I hear a fair few geelong supporters rate him with a chance, I suppose just wait to see- if he continues to perform he'll probably slide in round 1.

[Ziplock]

1. is it better to have 15 starting premiums who will be there come finals, or 14 and have $ in the bank (~110-160k)? :)

2. do you miss me? :P

it depends, how many midpricers are you starting? if you have a fair few or middie or quasi premo, then having that buffer of cash could be worthwhile. If you've found a player for 160k cheaper that you're pretty sure will break out into premo this year, then it's definitely worth it.

But if you've just got the cash sitting there... not really. It does allow a greater degree of flexibility, but when it comes down to it, if you can get a premium in, then get them in.

15 big 400k-600k premiums, with a possibly 16th in hargrave. I sacrificed wingard, swan and m. clarke for fisher, murphy and Sam Gibson... worthwhile?

I don't know.... yes, you've got two 'premiums' out of it, but at the same time, fisher has never been truly premium, more of a quasi premo, and murphy is by far swans inferior.
if we say options one
70+ 240 +80= 390
and option two
85 + 224 +65= 374

I'm actually seeing fisher + gibsons + murphy as coming behind swan + wingard + clarke.

[Ziplock]

Jack Grimes is too much or a person now?

Is John Brown to couragous?

Brown is closer to an idiot than courageous after getting his face smashed in at TRAINING.

Grimes... I'll withold my opinion until details on his injury are released :P

[truBLUE]

 ey Zip ,Mattew Jaensch how do you see this kid for 2012 in def and in dt ,is he worth a punt now that grimes has injury or is there better options ,appreciate input  ???

[Ziplock]

ey Zip ,Mattew Jaensch how do you see this kid for 2012 in def and in dt ,is he worth a punt now that grimes has injury or is there better options ,appreciate input  ???

averaged over 70 not including his injured/ subbed match, but at the same time just has a massive spread of scores across the board, with a season high score of 94, he hasn't really demonstrated the ceiling to make him a viable mid pricer. Unless he's flogging the NAB, I don't think I would go near him.

He's a forward though, not a defender isn't he...?

[mezzoculo]

He's a forward though, not a defender isn't he...?

Nope, $330k ish defender.

[Ziplock]

still not worth the punt imo :P

[TMurphBROWNLOW]

you're probably right but I'm not content on swan up first, or any of the colliwobblers to start with :p so wingard+clarke vs fisher+gibson? hmmm decisions decisions!!!

[Ziplock]

honestly I can see clarke pulling out a comparable average to fisher, and wingards JS/ scoring potential kills gibsons.

[Justin Bieber]

Do you think spoils should be worth one point in DT? This will help out players like Gibson, Merrett and other defenders.

[Ziplock]

I do have issues with the scoring system in DT. For instance, I believe that a behind should be worth far more than 1 point,  it's a scoring shot, yet it's worth half a handball?

The lack of performance with defenders is another one of the issues I have with it. I would like spoils to be worth a point or so in DT, but I think the problem is identifying and classing what is a spoil. For instance, if Merrett is contesting a mark with Franklin, and in process of doing so, neither mark the ball, is it a spoil? or did Merrett just flower up the mark?

I still think that one of the better ways to get key position defenders a more elevated fantasy status would be to allocate them points automatically at the start of the match, and then to lose a proportion of those points for each goal/ point scored against them by their direct opponents.

Eitherway, I feel the scoring system needs to be tweaked.