TooSerious

<p style='text-align: justify;]I wonder who would have picked the Top 10 Leaderboard from last week: Watson (166), Westhoff (163), Hanley (160), Elliott (159), Bartel (157), Heppell (149), Wingard (145), McVeigh (144), Bellchambers (144) and Minson (143). I could be wrong, but I doubt anyone would have made any of these players (other than Watson) captain last week.
<p style='text-align: justify;]I have included more players than usual in this bumper edition of the Captain's Log for your consideration &amp;hellip;
<p style='text-align: justify;]Ablett v. Brisbane
Rd 17 2012: 150 SC points, 37 disposals
Rd 4 2012: 129 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 21 2011: 134 SC points, 28 disposals
Rd 7 2011: 75 SC points, 20 disposals
Rd 17 2010: 144 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 8 2010: 102 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 5 2009: 149 SC points, 42 disposals
Rd 22 2007: 99 SC points, 25 disposals
Rd 12 2007: 142 SC points, 35 disposals
Rd 1 2006: 146 SC points, 27 disposals
Average is 127 SC points with 30 disposals.
Note: Five scores over 140 against Brisbane. A poor 75 in Round 7 2011 when he received a slight injury to his knee but kept on playing. Tagged by Raines in the past three games but still managed to average 138 SC points in those games. Has started the season with 178 and 99.



Franklin v. Collingwood
QF 2012: 117 SC points, 18 disposals, 4 goals 3 behinds
Rd 1 2012: 142 SC points, 21 disposals, 5 goals 3 behinds
PF 2011: 79 SC points, 11 disposals, 3 goals 1 behind
Rd 15 2011: 66 SC points, 17 disposals, 1 goal 1 behind
Rd 22 2010: 122 SC points, 14 disposals, 6 goals 2 behinds
Rd 16 2009: 118 SC points, 24 disposals, 5 goals 4 behinds
Rd 18 2008: 171 SC points, 21 disposals, 8 goals 6 behinds
Rd 7 2008: 162 SC points, 21 disposals, 6 goals 4 behinds
Rd 13 2007: 56 SC points, 8 disposals, 4 goals
Average is 115 SC points with 17 disposals and just under 5 goals.
Note: Great record against Collingwood. Three scores below 80...

This week we'll be finishing off the corrective trades part of the Best Buys, and trying to take advantage of the upcoming price changes. Any mid-priced options that are failing, or rookie choices that haven't had any game-time, should really be offloaded now before these changes come into effect, otherwise you can miss out on some serious cash generation.



The Best Buy this week, is Charlie Dixon. While Howlett and Libba were both also strong contenders, Dixon looks to be set for a real break-out year and is a huge POD at a great price.



The rookies haven't been looked at in depth, but they have been given an estimate of what price increase they are looking at after their next game, going by their current average.



The Waiting List section includes rookies who have only played one game, the score from which is denoted by the *, and premium players who look set to drop in value with their expected decrease included also.



Now, onto the Best Buys.






DEFENSE
ROOKIES



Brett Goodes (WBD) D/M 128.2k 106 +105k
Jasper Pittard (PTA) DEF 128k 92 +87k
Lewis Stevenson (PTA) DEF 115.9k 80 +74k
Campbell Heath (PTA) DEF 115.9k 78 +71k
Cameron O'Shea(PTA) DEF 168.5k 72 +50k
Luke Brown (ADE) DEF 135.5k 71 +57k



MID-PRICERS



Charlie DIXON (GCS) DEF 393.3k 127
Cheerable&amp;rdquo; Charlie has had an excellent start to the year in 2013 and is...

By William Thomson from backpagelead.com.au

Melbourne supporters have gone 'feral', abandoning decorum and patience following this disastrous start to the season.


The club has been bullish about its future for years and dragged its faithful along for a journey built on what appears to be false hope. Supporters can't help but feel made the fool and the tipping point has been reached. When Mark Neeld uttered the words 'rebuilding the rebuild', that was enough to warrant giving up.



The past two weeks have seen supporters clamber towards the player's race in their hundreds at the end of the game, leaning over the fence to hurl abuse at a group of players that have shown largely nothing in season 2013. The oldest club in the land has an identify far removed from booing players, and in some ways is a refreshing reminder of just how much they care. If anything, Melbourne fans have been accused of being dispassionate.



Plenty of clubs in the past have endured lean periods and heavy losses, but the manner in which Melbourne has made failure a characteristic is truly unique.



For supporters, the agony is made worse by the difficulty in apportioning blame as the media throws up a multitude of explanations from the board to the boot studder.



History's losers have seldom been as complex as Melbourne. More often than not, a club's shortcomings are as simple as blaming the coach or waiting for a list to develop.



Melbourne's rot is deeply ingrained and there is an argument to assign equal amounts of blame to all facets of the club.



The administration and board has done a terrific job in eradicating debt and at least ensuring some financial stability, but CEO Cameron Schwab has been divisive - from my perspective as a fan - and was at one point sacked before being re-hired. There is undoubtedly a level of incompetence at the top level that is filtering through the halls at AAMI Park.



In being pushed to resign on...

You guys know that TS is a bit of a one-man operation on the coding side, so there's always going to be bugs.



I rely on you guys to report stuff to me, particularly on other platforms that I might not use too often.



Main one I'm talking about is the Mobile issues that wasplaguingthe stats pages and making them un-usable. Only really heard about how bad that one was this weekend and got it fixed up just then.



Also, go a handful of other fixes up, including a calc fix and one that was preventing the Breakevens from displaying by default on the stats page!



Also, while I've got your attention, I just wanted to remind you all-



TS works for all 5 of the Virtual Sports comps. That's Supercoach, Dreamteam, Centrebet, Sportal and Sportsbet.



And again, while I've got your attention- I'm currently working on making our late notification mailouts a little more robust. But in the process of that, it was suggested to me, why not allow for SMS notifications? Well I've been thinking about it- and why not? It would be pretty awesome. The one concern I've got is that unlike emails, SMS's aren't free. So I spose the question I wanted to ask before going to far down the SMS path is-



Would you be interested in Late out/green vest SMS notifications? And if so, what would you be interested in paying for that kind of extra service? (Mind you, I'm not looking to make a profit on it, but will need to work out a fair priced that is balanced between Hoskins-Elliot and his 0 messages being a green vest, and Karnezis and his 1000+ messages)

This year the donors have elected to take a more aggressive path, we won't die trying! Unfortunately we need it, as we gave away a lot after round one, so have to make everything count from here on out.



In round two we scored 2128 points, placing us at a lowly 56,996 for the round, and 52,078 overall.



We made two trades leading into round 2 - getting rid of Vlastuin and Patton, and bringing in Heath and JJ Kennedy. Our two ins scored 85 and 103 points, while the outs only got 79 - so we were already infront based on that alone. The rest of the team went something like this:



Gibbs 86
Heppell 149
Goddard 129
Pittard 91
Heath 85
Watts 53



Pendlebury 121 (C)
Ablett 99 (V)
Cotchin 119
Goodes 98
Wines 51
Dangerfield 107
Viney 49
Crouch 85



Cox 118
Roughead 89



Rockliff 109
Kennedy 103
Franklin 116
Zorko 79
Varcoe 63
Karnezis 8






Stevenson 93
Terlich 56
O'Meara 120
Mitchell 15
Rowe 65
Currie 0
Neade 86
Macaffer 60



Down back we've made the mistake of selecting Watts, whose miserly 53 was well less than Stevenson's 93, which cost us a potential 40 points, and may have cost Watts his position in our side (along with many others I assume!)



In the mids we went with the captains loophole setup of picking Ablett as VC and having seen his 99, decided to stick with our captain of Pendlebury. His 121 was a good captains game, although if we had the <insert> to select Heppell as captain we could have picked up an extra 28 points. We also made the mistake of many a coach, fielding Viney over O'Meara, which cost us a further 71 points.</insert>



Our rucks were alright, although it looks like Roughie's change of role and lesser rucking duties are hurting his scoring, but it was nice to see Rowe get a decent rookie score, lining himself up for some price rises in a few weeks.



Our forward line saw the disaster of Karnezis and his 8 points! Although we'd probably never select him,...

Review is going up piecemeal this week as I get them knocked up. Been a busy weekend for ol' walesy.





St. Kilda vs Richmond

Result: Richmond by 17



Well the Tigers have done it. They held off the Saints and have the first two wins of the season. A feat they haven't accomplished since 1997. Was it particularly convincing against a, and I hate to say it, lower rated Saints outfit? Not really, but they got ahead early, and managed to hold onto the lead, despite a massive challenge by the Saints towards the end of the third quarter.



It was a good win for them but I'm still going to hold off until their round 4 challenge against the Pies before backing the Tiger army.



Leading the charge for the Tigers was Jack Riewoldt who had just 10 kicks, kicking 7.2 from it for a 138SC. It's a far cry from his team-game that was lauded last weekend, but really shows the diversity that Richmond have in playing him as he was just as potent in both roles.



Their captain, Trent Cotchin, was very good picking up 31 disposals and despite a 55% efficiency rate, managed a 119SC. He was actually pretty quiet through the first half, picking up just 42SC points, but a big second half saw him manage 32SC and 45SC in the final two terms. Really was their when the game was on the line.



Speaking of game on the line though, Brett Deledio managed 52SC points from his final term, resulting in a 114SC off 27 touches.



Really a case of Richmonds big names pulling the team over the line in that final term.



Dustin MARTIN scored 92SC for the game, but was shut right down after the first quarter, in which he scored about half his total points. There's...

Something ORFFL happened over the weekend, so let's get to it.







SARAH ISLAND SAVAGES 1337 DEF COULTA COULDABEENS 1280

Rumours of the jar being smashed for good proved unfounded as the Savages stormed to victory. The ruck battle was completely one-sided as Minson's 143 towered over Redden's 29 which did not help. The defence stood up and returned to form for the Savages with 129 from Goddard, Frawley with 117 and Chaplin 99. The rest were average to good with JJK again tonning up (103) and the ever reliable JPK scoring 108. Harry Taylor decided to do a round 1 Chaplin with a paltry 44 which would be a concern and Hocking's half-century is even more surprising considering the slice of pie Essendon got of the 3300. Mayne burnt out from last week, managed just 61.



In what could have been for the Couldabeens, they managed to get a good score thanks mainly to the 'Hoff benefiting from playing against a NEAFL side, scoring a massive 163. Lynch too enjoyed taking over ruck duties thanks to Jolly's demise and his 114 could be repeated in weeks to come. Other solid contributors include Priddis (113), Zaha getting a full game (103) and Ebert in an emotional match (100) on bench, all passing the century mark. Pittard getting his first game for Coulta did not disappoint either scoring 91 but low scores from the aforementioned Redden and others like Adam Kennedy (53), Schultz (66) and under-performing forward-mid Wright (61) meant an easy win for the Savages but good signs for Coulta to break their duck egg in the future.










MALLACOOTA MAGICIANS...

ORFFA - ROUND 2 REVIEW
By Lenny120


Insomnia round promised to be a big one, and it didn't disappoint with some close matches mixed in with some brilliant scores.


Whitsundays 1148 defeated Marble Bar 1046

The Whits kicked off proceedings in round 2 with a tight win over the Misfits.

In a low scoring encounter, Birchall (121) and Sloane (100) were the only ones to crack the ton for the Whits [EDIT: except for Boak] in an important win to get their first points on the board.

For Marble Bar, a horror start to the season continued, with no one scoring 100+.
Birdsville 1210 defeated Darraweit Guim 968

Birdsville continued their promising start to 2013 with a more than comfortable win over an underperforming Daraweit Guim.

Mcevoy (130) and Howlett (127) led the way for the Battlers in a solid all round performance.

For Darraweit, only Maric and Walters managed a ton, and will have been left pondering what went wrong. Inconsistent scores across the board was the difference in this clash.
Powlett Plains 1194 defeated Gariwerd 1040

Powlett Plains built on their round 1 win last week, with a comfortable victory over Gariwerd.

Bellchambers (144) dominated the defenders of Gariwerd, while Kane Cornes (123) continued his brilliant start to the year for the Packers.

Gariwerd would have been looking to hit back with a win this round after a disappointing loss last round, but too many passengers and not enough leaders saw them slump to 0-2 to start 2013.



Larrikin Lagoon 1166 defeated Lovely Banks 1124

The Lefties got their season on track with a narrow win over the Lilacs.

Led by midfielders Priddis (113) and Conca (113), the Lefties proved too strong in the end and will look to build on this win.

For the Lilacs, it was all over the shop. They would have been left ruing some green vests and horrible displays. Mattner (33), Bird (12) and Brennan (15) were the difference in...

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<p style='font: inherit;]My, my, my, hasn't the fantasy football landscape changed from one year to the next. 2012 Grand Finalist Warburton languish at the bottom reaches of the table and Mount Buggery, who were ruthlessly bundled out of the finals in the first week are perched above all others at the top of the ladder.
<p style='font: inherit;]'Limited sample size' I hear ye coaches retort, and whilst true, already at the opening stages of the season I believe we're beginning to see some pretty significants portents of the shape of things to come (apologies Stephen Wells). The young fruit is beginning to ripen and those teams that went young in the original draft, well their list are beginning to, errr, come to fruition.
<p style='font: inherit;]Read on, dear traveller, as we contemplate in the previews how teams have changed from '12 to '13, and how in some instances ,they've stayed the same and their problems remain.
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<p style='font: inherit;]<strong style='font: inherit;]WOY WOY WIZARDS[/b]vs<strong style='font: inherit;]SARAH ISLAND SAVAGES[/b]
Woy Woy set out in 2012 to turn the clock back to 2010, failed dismally, and now find themselves in 2013 faced with an even greater challenge, trying to go back even further in time to reach the Woy Woyian golden age. They're clearly working some kind of magic, Darren Jolly managing to be the first player score in the negative in the ORFFL. In fact I'm struggling to remember the last time that's happened ever...




Question; is this a sign that the Wizards are going back in time, or just an example of how they're literally going...

I bet when the AFL invented Sunday night games, they didn't expect that one of the side effects would come from fans neglecting their posting duties due to being at said late night game.

Anyways, Gaz is a god. So is Dunstan. Dayne Zorko will be fine and I cracked 2300 this week.

wooo.