Permanent rolling lockout in 2013

[BB67th]

Have just realised why they made all of these changes this year. I was looking through a forum page and found a link to this page on the Herald Sun site.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/supercoach-news/supercoach-2013-have-your-say/story-fn88c7kz-1226497667168

On here are polls for each of the rule changes that have been implemented this season and you can see why they have changed them.

There seems to be overwhelming support for the rolling lockout rule with over 70% of people voting for it, so I don't know if you are going to be able to do anything about it.

Sorry if people already know this, just found it and thought it was interesting,

[Dudge]

Go get em mate

[Dave085]

Put in my thoughts...

"While i appreciate what youre trying to do here it is a serious disadvantage to so many people. I personally have 2 out of every 5 weekends off from work and the times that i am working are through most of the games anyway so i miss the starts.
Not only that, having structure in your team is important and i believe this change will discourage forward thinking... "

I think the only reason they are actually doing it is for advertising costs. The site will have so many more hits than in previous years. Theyve just done it in a smart way.

Can i just confirm one thing, you can still TRADE (obviously players that havent played yet) during the weekend, or just swap emergencies onto the field... Im trying to look for the info...

[Frankfaust1]

Like and share this facebook page!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Get-rid-of-the-new-rolling-lockout-SCDT-rule/411888705549199

Not gonna give up on this until its changed.
It is a completely unfair rule change! The game should never be at the point where whoever spends the most time sitting on their computer wins the game

+ me.

[tor01doc]

Nice link BB.

What idiots voted for that though?

If we FF community vote now, we only need 2000 of us to overturn it!

I've done my bit.

[BB67th]

Nice link BB.

What idiots voted for that though?

If we FF community vote now, we only need 2000 of us to overturn it!

I've done my bit.

Think its too late to vote and change now Torp, but if we had have seen it sooner, we could have made a difference  :-\

[henry]

Put in my thoughts...

"While i appreciate what youre trying to do here it is a serious disadvantage to so many people. I personally have 2 out of every 5 weekends off from work and the times that i am working are through most of the games anyway so i miss the starts.
Not only that, having structure in your team is important and i believe this change will discourage forward thinking... "

I think the only reason they are actually doing it is for advertising costs. The site will have so many more hits than in previous years. Theyve just done it in a smart way.

Can i just confirm one thing, you can still TRADE (obviously players that havent played yet) during the weekend, or just swap emergencies onto the field... Im trying to look for the info...

I imagine you would be able to trade, but only to players that have not yet played that week. If there is only 1 game to come and there are no decent replacements you may just decide to keep the late player. I signed it, disadvantages us with lives.

[Torpedo10]

Nice link BB.

What idiots voted for that though?

If we FF community vote now, we only need 2000 of us to overturn it!

I've done my bit.

Think its too late to vote and change now Torp, but if we had have seen it sooner, we could have made a difference  :-\

Torp?  :P

[BB67th]

Nice link BB.

What idiots voted for that though?

If we FF community vote now, we only need 2000 of us to overturn it!

I've done my bit.

Think its too late to vote and change now Torp, but if we had have seen it sooner, we could have made a difference  :-\

Torp?  :P

Hahaha whoops. Just saw tor at the start of the name and thought torp.

[tbagrocks]

So these polls were at the Sun were they? I don't visit the sun as they are nazi'z making people pay for everything,

I see only die hard fans going on there and voting and therefore the %70 of a bias vote! What about the rest of the country that didn't visit the sun to vote? Isn't this why we don't like the rule in the first place :P

[Hawks_1976]

For those that don't or can't access the internet on the weekends, you can at least use the VC loophole on Friday night games.

[leightonio]

sorry but there are also people who work friday nights!!!!! spare a thought for them seriously the argument your presenting is bullshower dont think its valid at all and i think its a bit selfish im absolutley sick of it, no one likes all the rules to anything!! but they are there so stop sooking!!

[tbagrocks]

Their trying to make more money by ngetting people to stay online and possibly invest in Gold or HQ, same as the tv stations trying to get you to watch more, these evil nazi's really don't care or even want you to have a life, they want all your money for themselves!

[Justin Bieber]

Getting two trades per week almost won the vote...

[dmac07]

People will surely hate this rule more and more as the year goes on. When someone goes out on a Saturday/Sunday, or works, or plays footy, or has a child doing sport, or has poor mobile reception, or has a wedding etc, etc, etc and their league opponent doesnt and they lose because of it. When one of good player such as an ablett/pendlebury/frankllin pulls out, your opponent changes it and you dont, they get a 100 point turnaround and you lose because of it. You feel cheated because the team you picked wouldve won otherwise. As someone who is busy on weekends, I can see myself losing at 2-3 league games because of this, meaning I miss finals/top 4.

Before you people that can come on on weekends say well at least everyone isnt ruined, is the whole point that we play on an even playing field? Are you going to feel as satisfied gloating to your mate at work that you beat him if its only because you could make a late change and he couldn't? And for all thos that are busy on weekends? Why would any of us even consider being in a cash league with you guys?

As far as overall goes, well anyone who is busy on weekends will lose, on my estimate, an absolute minimum of 1000 points throughout the year. So the overall ranking therefore becomes meaningless as well. Even if you can access a computer before 90% of games for the season, it takes is one missed game and your season as far as your ranking goes is ruined. If say Collingwood play Essendon on a Sunday, even if it is the last game, and Pendlebury is your Captain, he is a late withdrawal, you could change your Captain to any other pies/dons premium in your side, especially if your vice captain did poorly. If you miss out on this, just ONCE, this could cost you 300 points, your season overall ranking is gone. Lets hear you complain then!