Permanent rolling lockout in 2013

[Speculator]

actually, you'd be a flowering idiot to wait until sunday to make the trades. How many teams play on sunday, like 6 normally? that means you'll have 12 teams, 2/3 of the players available, locked out by sunday, limiting both the players you can trade out, and trade in, meaning if you wait until sunday you'll only be able to do about 11% of the trades you might have wanted to do throughout the week.

You would only delay the trade until the Sunday if the players you already planned to trade were both playing on Sunday. If your trade plans involve one player playing on Friday night and another bloke playing on Saturday night then you would obviously make the trade on Friday. You make your trade plans during the week like normal (from a pool consisting of all 18 teams) THEN if it turns out that 2 of those blokes are playing on Sunday, you should delay your trade until Sunday when the final teams for that game are announced. That way you ensure that you avoid trading in a player who is a late withdrawal (an occurance which has been increasing in frequency over the last few years) PLUS you also make available to yourself the option of abandoning that trade plan if another of your (earlier playing) players is a late withdrawal, say on Saturday night. In this way you are fully utilising the rule to gain the maximum possible advantage. If you trade on Friday UNNECESSARILY you take away options which would otherwise be available to you.

[Holz]

I think it should be trading and captains/vice captains locked friday night and you can just sub on and off on the weekends.


That way people cant use the loophole. I think most people would be happier if it were this way.

For me the new rule means im picking a F/R who wont play and putting a ruck in the forward line so i can take advantage of the loophole and swtching the team around on the weekend with DPP.

I dont like the rule but i will use it even though it will impinge on my weekend. 

[elephants]

I think it should be trading and captains/vice captains locked friday night and you can just sub on and off on the weekends.

This this this this this!

Someone put this man on the Virtual Sports rule creation committee!!

[Ziplock]

I think that sound ok to me- just covers late withdrawals + the sub rule.

[Scrads]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

[PowerBug]

So nothing has really changed then?? :-\

[Speculator]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

Scrads can you provide a link to the DT talk article which indicates this?

[Scrads]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

Scrads can you provide a link to the DT talk article which indicates this?

They don't 100% say it, I am just going by the general vibe they are giving with what they say. I haven't seen any of them mention trading as part of the rolling lockout at all, they just keep mentioning the subs and emergencies and stuff.

[Scrads]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

Scrads can you provide a link to the DT talk article which indicates this?

They don't 100% say it, I am just going by the general vibe they are giving with what they say. I haven't seen any of them mention trading as part of the rolling lockout at all, they just keep mentioning the subs and emergencies and stuff.

Inb4 The Castle jokes hahaha.

[Holz]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

yeah if thats the case i like the rule change.

I think the firday afternoon decision of trading are alot of the fun of the game and would hate to see that removed. 

[elephants]

Judging by the guys on DT Talk I think it will be trades locked Friday, only Captain, VC, Emergencies and general team shift arounds will be allowed.

I am OK with this.

yeah if thats the case i like the rule change.

I think the firday afternoon decision of trading are alot of the fun of the game and would hate to see that removed. 

Agree, I would get so nervous before I clicked 'confirm trades' even the reversible trade rule kinda ruined that :-/

[Justin Bieber]

Haven't been vocal about it, but I'm going for the money or car in all 4 comps, so every advantage to help myself is valuable in itself.

So I like the rule.

[T Dog]

Haven't been vocal about it, but I'm going for the money or car in all 4 comps, so every advantage to help myself is valuable in itself.

So I like the rule.

are you allowed out on public roads now?  ;D

[auscoyote]

The rollling lockout sucks. That's why we have the emgs. It wont happen often but lets say you have a def rookie (E) that scores 90 and you dont trust G Brought scoring, and who does. If broughts hasn't played yet just chuck on a non playing def and you have yourself a emg loophole.which in theory could be done on every line. It might pay to have 1 dpp player not guareenteed to play.

flowering stupid rule that may cause some casual but dedicated seasoned coaches to lose interest. I sure as hell wont be giving up my weekend to log on before every game. I love my DT but i love my life more!

[Ziplock]

*yawn*

once again, it's to deal with the subbed players- I know all suckling owners would have grabbed this rule by the throat in round 20 :P