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<p style='text-align: justify;]This week, Ablett plays on Saturday night against Fremantle at Metricon. Prior to the games on Saturday night, four games will be played: Collingwood v. St Kilda, Essendon v. GWS, North Melbourne v. Port Adelaide and Adelaide v. Hawthorn.
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Obvious vice captain candidates from these games would be Watson, Pendlebury and Swan. If we are content to have their scores counted as our captain&amp;rdquo; scores, we can take the captaincy off Ablett and put it onto a non-playing player whose team has yet to play during the round - a prime candidate would be Gibbs because Carlton play on Sunday afternoon.
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Let's look at the numbers and, for the first time for quite a while, we have someone other than Ablett leading the averages:
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Judd v. Melbourne

Rd 9 2012: 80 SC points, 21 disposals
Rd 20 2011: 163 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 10 2011: 155 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 11 2010: 109 SC points, 22 disposals
Rd 21 2009: 132 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 5 2008: 167 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 8 2007: 166 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 9 2006: 91 SC points, 22 disposals
Rd 13 2006: 74 SC points, 16 disposals

Average is 126 SC points with 26 disposals.

Note: Great average against Melbourne with four scores over 150 in nine games. Averaging 139 in last seven games against them. Tagged by McKenzie in last three games. In poor form at the moment - averaging 98 for the season and coming off scores of 105 and 60.

Ablett v. Fremantle

Rd 11 2011: 185 SC points, 34 disposals
SF 2010: 119 SC points, 36 disposals
Rd 3 2010: 157 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 22 2009: 146 SC points, 35 disposals
Rd 12 2009: 98 SC points, 29 disposals
Rd 15 2008: 81 SC points, 13 disposals
Rd 6 2008: 62 SC points, 15 disposals
Rd 17 2007: 114 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 8 2007: 90 SC...

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;]This week has been a harsh one in fantasy football, with many teams' backlines looking in all sorts of trouble and the upgrade season starting to get into full swing. As usual there are a few surprise inclusions, a few nice rookie options and some very nice names on the waiting list.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;]Michael Hibberd is the Best Buy for this week, and if the photo's are anything to go by the Dons may have taken things a bit too far with the sports science side, but the results on-field are certainly there. Yes I am joking, as far as I know anyway, and while Hibberd may not in fact have two extra arms he does have a very nice SC average at a great price.
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Now onto the Best Buys.



DEFENSE

ROOKIES




Rory Laird (ADE) DEF 115.9k 57 +44k

Laird has joined the growing list of Rory's getting around the AFL these days, and is on the bubble for the crows and looking at a decent boost to his price after his next game. His average isn't particularly impressive, but so far has been getting the job done.





Sam Docherty (BRI) DEF 115.9k 54 +40k

Docherty is in a similar position to Laird, as his job security remains fairly unknown and his average not much over 50, but at this stage with only limited rookies coming through just getting named may see him end up in a few more squads after this week.




MID-PRICERS




Charlie DIXON (GCS) DEF 477.6k 115...

As I said, it was an improved round for the donors, our biggest score of 2324 points. We made no trades prior to round 5, so had the same lineup as the week before, aside from a couple of substitutions. The team itself looked like this:



Defenders:
Dixon 142
Goddard 94
Gibbs 65
Goodes 67
Heath 70
Stevenson 87
Midfielders:
Ablett 160
Pendlebury 136 (VC loophole 272)
Cotchin 144
Heppell 103
Wines 82
Dangerfield 89
Dwyer 38
O'Meara 119 (playing emergency)
Rucks:
Cox 105
Leuenberger 118
Forwards:
Westhoff 53
Kennedy 124
Rockliff 113
Franklin 57
Zorko 151
Neade 71



Bench:
Pittard 0
Terlich 77 (emergency)
Viney 0
Crouch 0 (Captain loophole)
Rowe 44 (emergency)
Currie 0
Macaffer 59 (emergency)
Karnezis 0



Down back Dixon did really well, with his 142 points, the only one of our backmen to break the ton. We also had Terlich on the pine, scoring more than three of our playing backmen, costing us a potential 12 points.



In the midfield we tried the captains loophole, and when we saw Pendlebury's 136 we decided not to be greedy and take it. Like most coaches in this situation, we put Crouch on field, and picked up O'Meara's ton as an emergency. This did mean that we missed out on a potential 24 points, by not selecting Ablett as our captain.



Our rucks did their job, both tonning up, with Rowe also scoring well enough to keep going up in value.



The forwards saw a huge score from the man who's been disappointing up until now, Dayne Zorko. His 151 was the second biggest score in our side. The rest of our forwards did really well, except for Westhoff, who came crashing back to earth, and Franklin, who was held goal-less for apparently only around the 8th time in his career (or something like that). Although Macaffer on the pine outscored both of these guys, we would never have picked him over them, however there was a potential 6 points we missed there.



Our total...

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The race for the top of the ORFFA ladder tightened during Round 5 action, with the league's only two previously unbeaten teams - Birdsville and Iron Knob - both suffering defeats.

Foul Bay 1342 d Birdsville 1313
Late game heroics from Brent Moloney and Daniel Wells were not enough to haul Birdsville to a victory, with the Chickens scoring a 29 point win.
Entering the last set of matches narrowly behind, the Battlers would not have had much confidence in notching a win given they had one fewer player left on the park. However Brent Moloney's 127 saw Birdsville actually almost entirely close the gap going into the last match-up.
Ultimately though the Chickens' pair of Roughead and Adams steadied and did enough to thwart Daniel Wells' 125.
Moloney and Wells were the Battlers' top scorers, while Foul Bay got great contributions from JJK (124), McLean (126) and Bartel (109).

Mt Beauty 1414 d Iron Knob 1244
A stunning effort from the Uglies has seen it knock off the high-flying Codpieces by 170 points.
Mt Beauty rode a wave of Richmond-inspired high scoring, led by Trent Cotchin (144). Hartlett, Sidebottom, Brandon Ellis, Rioli, Dusty and the Berger all topped the ton as well in a formidable display.
For Iron Knob, Ablett did his job with 160 but didn't receive enough support - only Shuey, Goldstein, the surprising Richard Douglas and Big Will Minson scoring 100+. The Codpieces' young forwards in Jacky R, Darling and Breust were disappointing.
The only sour note for Mt Beauty is the long-term injury to Cyril Rioli, who will be out of the game for the best part of 2 months.

Wakikamoocow 1264 d Charlie's Opening 1262
The thriller of the round was taken out by the mob from across the Tasman, with the Incorrigibles emerging with a 2 point victory over the Spelunkers.
A close, hard-fought match throughout the weekend culminated in a Drew Petrie/Andrew Swallow v Isaac Smith match-up in the late stages of the game. And despite the...

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take a close look at how each ground effects DT Scoring. Remember, when reading, that it's DT based. And always, if you like what you read, check out their site, orgive em a like on facebook.



There are so many variables that influence Dream Team scoring, and this article attempts to break down the effect of location, using every regular season game from Round 1 in 2008 to Round 4 in 2013.



First things first - there is a degree of chicken and egg to this. It isn't easy to separate the overall scoring in the game between the teams involved, the conditions on the day, or where the game is played. That said, we'll soldier on with the facts and work through a few conclusions from what they show us.



Additionally, one thing to remember about the data in the previous tables is that it is based on all regular season games from 2008 to 2013 - so each AFL team may not be at the same DT scoring level that they were at the beginning of the time period.








I've highlighted 7 of the venues as at this stage there haven't really been enough games yet to be certain just how they will settle long term. In addition, many of these are typical neutral games&amp;rdquo; or venues such as Skoda where an expansion team has played every game and thus the averaged are skewed.



The first thing to notice is the highest scoring venues overall - Skilled, Aurora & Etihad. But clearly, one of those three is not like the other. Whereas at Skilled and Aurora the overall scoring levels are driven largely by the efforts of Geelong and Hawthorn respectively, Etihad has a variety of...

<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; font: inherit; color: #434343;]More words will perhaps come soon, but in the mean time here are the results from last weekend's ORFFL matches.
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<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; font: inherit; color: #434343;]TARWIN LOWER PIGS 1198 Def bySARAH ISLAND SAVAGES 1344
<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; font: inherit; color: #434343;]Tarwin Lower Pigs
<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; font: inherit; color: #434343;]BEST: Nick Riewoldt (152), Scott Pendlebury (136), Andrew Carrazzo (106), Ryan O'Keefe (104)
<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; font: inherit; color: #434343;]SPLIT: 267/401/53/343/134
<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; color: #434343;][span style='font: inherit;]Sarah Island Savages
<p style='margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; color: #434343;]BEST: Harry Taylor (138), Josh J. Kennedy (124), Josh P. Kennedy (109), [url=http://tooserious.net/Player.aspx?id=499&name=Will Minson'...

Things are heating up and we're heading well into upgrade territory. Couple of big scores this week from rookies, combines with a couple of low ones should help with those upgrades.



Reckon Priddis will be in everyones team in a few weeks? And how's everyone backline gunna hold up next week? Gibbs and Goodes both looking to miss it, and those backline Port rookies aren't quite as reliable as they have been. (Let alone Luke Brown and Docherty being there!)



Essendon vs Collingwood

Result: Essendon by 46



93,373 people, the third largest home and away crowd ever, saw Essenddon take on the Pies. It was a arm wrestle of a match early, with Essendon constantly pulling away, then Collingwood pulling it back. Even third quarter which saw the Bombers open with 4 straight goals, were responded with 3 from Collingwood.



The final term however, though it opened with 2 goals from Collingwood, was put well out of reach as Essendon stormed home kicking 6 goals to just 1.



Leading the way for Essendon was the ANZAC day specialist, David Zaharakis. He put out a best on ground performance with 34 disposals, 14 of which were contested, 4 goals, 1 behind and 140SC points. Truely a match winning performance.



Also at the pointy end, as he always is, was Jobe Watson who had 31 of his own touches, kicked 2.1 and 126SC. Meanwhile, Jason Winderlich in just his second game for the year, picked up 19 touches, kicked 3.1 and a mighty 123SC.



Michael HIBBERD, Brent Stanton, Tom Bellchambers and...

<p style='text-align: justify;]I know that the loophole has been mentioned before, but I will do it again for the sake of completeness You can change your captain and vice captain as often as you like, prior to the start of the round and during a round and Rolling Lockout, up until the time that your currently selected captain's (or vice captain's) match has started. At this point, your selection is locked in for the round and cannot be changed.&amp;rdquo;
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Many of us have Ablett in our teams. The question is whether we give another player (who plays in a game that is completed before Ablett's game commences) the vice captaincy with the view of keeping this player's score as our captain's&amp;rdquo; score should this player score big. If this player scores big, we simply take the captaincy off Ablett and, instead, put the captaincy onto a non-playing player for the rest of the round.
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Alternatively, if our vice captain scores poorly, we can rely on our back up&amp;rdquo; plan and retain Ablett as our captain.
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Ant's write up highlighted the importance of timing and, in particular, the importance of having a non-playing player who plays in the late games of the round.
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Still focussing on Ablett, it is interesting to note that he only scored the 16th highest score for last round with 131. Cloke led the way last week with a huge 195. The top five was rounded out by Swan (168), Scott D. Thompson (NM) (164), Selwood (163) and Cornes (160).
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<p style='text-align: justify;]Let's see if the numbers help us decide what to do this week &amp;hellip;
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Ablett v. Greater Western Sydney
<p style='text-align: justify;]Rd 20 2012: 126 SC...