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Part 3 in our ongoing series of ORFFL Preseason Previews. This week we take a look at the Glenrowan Gunslingers, the Tarwin Lower Pigs and the Purnululu Bungle Rangers. Three teams that fell well short of making the finals last year, but three teams that I believe are every chance to reverse their fortunes in 2013.



Read on dear traveller.




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A number of changes look to set AFLFantasy apart from SuperCoach this year, the two biggest are not rolling lockouts and a massive 44 trades.

That's 2 per week. Craziness!

I'm actually pretty interested in which game plays out better. 2 trades a week, on the surface, sounds ridiculous. But that is coming from the mindset of us, the players who are too serious.

'Everyone will have the same team'
'Just luck based'
'No skill'

Are all going to be thrown out over the next few weeks- but it makes me wonder. is it?

'Everyone will have the same team'

Yes. Everyone will have fully upgraded teams. But, everyone will still have two trades per week to maximise their squad for the upcoming week. So while yes, there are only a limited number of premiums in each line, I reckon you'll see a good mix of them float few with less punishment placed if you decide to go with a smokey.

'Just luck based'

Personally, I think that a system which has the guys who cops the least amount of injuries to premiums, as the most rewarded, to be supremely luck based.

Sure, you put a premium on consistent, un-injured players, but in the end, all that really does is play into point 1, and limit the already limited pool of players you can jump into.

'No skill'

I'm just gunna touch on this one, cause it's the topic of an article brewing inside my head. Fantasy sport skill isn't about knowledge anymore. We all know our stuff. We know in depth on how the game works, on how best to play and structure our team to maximise scores.

The biggest determining factor that separates top1000 teams from top10 teams is bench selection. Squeezing every single point out of your list. That's where we are at- and it's a tough gig to achieve consistently.

So. What are we thinking? Less emphasis placed on injuries. Is that a good thing? Or are SuperCoach going to absolutely romp it in?

As Walesy irons things out this site isn't very port(id10t) friendly and we've seemed to have lost the other BBL threads.
This is a test post as much as anything but all going well, use this for all discussions as we get into the all important finals.

[span style='font-size: 16pt;]Big Bash Finals Cheat Sheet



Seriously, don't even think about picking outside these players!



Batsmen

Renegades - [span style='color: #c00000;]Hales, Finch, Rohrer, Cooper

Heat - [span style='color: #c00000;]Pomersbach, Burns, Lynn, Forrest

Scorchers - [span style='color: #c00000;]Marsh, Gibbs, North/Voges/Hussey (two of these three will play)

Stars - [span style='color: #c00000;]Hodge, White, Quiney



All-Rounders

Renegades - [span style='color: #c00000;]O'Brien

Heat - Christian, [span style='color: #c00000;]Hopes

Scorchers - [span style='color: #c00000;]Thomas

Stars - [span style='color: #c00000;]Mascarenhas, Wright, Hastings



Wicketkeepers

Even simpler. Nevill + Triffitt/Hartley. Use Wade only for bench loophole if you have the $$$



Bowlers

Renegades - [span style='color: #c00000;]Muralitharan, Rimmington, Sheridan, Pattinson

Heat - [span style='color: #c00000;]Cutting, McDermott, Roach

Scorchers - [span style='color: #c00000;]Hogg, [span style='color: #c00000;]Beer, Coulter-Nile,[span style='color: #c00000;] Behrendorff

Stars - [span style='color: #c00000;]Faulkner, Bird, Warne

Red = best picks. What do you guys reckon?

It is hard to believe that we have now reached 10 rounds of the NBA.&#160;&#160; There are now only 6 rounds left before the finals commence.

As usual I will do the review of the Premier League, Stowie will do the review of&#160; Division One and Rev will do the review for Division Two.

Premier League

With 6 rounds to go, Jasmine’s Mob is leading the way with a record of 8-2 followed by the Jug-O-Naughts (7-3) and Team Heaver (7-3).&#160;&#160;&#160; The next team is Anthak with&#160; a record of 6-4 followed by Run TMC with a record of 5-4-1 and then we have 4 four teams with a record of 5-5 (King of Karlos, Ruddy’s Cavaliers, Wade Machine and Westside Hardcore.&#160; Fudge’s Sixers (2-8) and Linsanity 17 (1-9) will need a miracle to avoid relegation and the only team they can most likely catch is the Adelaide Maggotz (3-5-1).

Linsanity 17&#160; (1-9)&#160;&#160;&#160; 1595&#160;&#160;&#160; v&#160;&#160;&#160; Adelaide Maggotz&#160;&#160; (3-5-1)&#160;&#160; 1335

Linsanity were able to finally post their first win of the season with a comfortable victory over the Maggotz.&#160;&#160;&#160; DMC led the way with (257/4), followed by J Smoove (203/4) and Vucevic (170/3).&#160; For the Maggotz, the leading scorers were Harden (259/4), Bosh (162/4) and Jennings (121/3).

Anthak&#160; (6-4)&#160;&#160; 1346&#160;&#160; v&#160; Ruddy’s&#160; Cavaliers (5-5)&#160;&#160; 1237

This was a remarkable win considering Anthak played 7 games less than Ruddy.&#160; He only had 10 players lining up this round and 8 of them managed to break the 100 pt mark.&#160; LBJ was the best with (273/4), followed by Kobe (167/3) and Scola (135/4).&#160; For Ruddy, the best players were Durant (198/4), Lopez (171/4) and Ibaka (171/4).

Jasmine’s Mob &#160;(8-2)&#160;&#160; 1601&#160;&#160; v&#160; King of Karlos&#160;&#160; (5-5)&#160;&#160; 1437

Once again Jasmine scored the highest score for the round and was able to get the win over...

It''s the final round this weekend in the BBL and there''s still 7 teams that can make the finals so its all up to grab and the bats will be flying this round in earnest.

For us fantasy coaches its the last chance to update the team and get some value into our squad before the unlimited trades that will happen in the finals.

Bearfly has kindly written a heap of stuff about some of the players to look at this read so read on after the break

Batsmen:
Ponting – whilst he only returned a modest score in R7 against some good bowling, he is still clearly the class batsman going around in the league
Lumb – took control of Sixers run chase last night when carrying his bat through the full 20 overs, hitting form at the right time
Klinger – can put in the occasional sub-par performance but is a quality opener
Marsh – the other class T20 player and one of the leading run scorers in the comp, only concern is his hamstring problem

Other batsmen to consider after recent performances but who can be hit or miss include Pomersbach, Burns, Ferguson, Reardon, North, Voges

Bowlers:
Murali – opponents continue to find him hard to get away for more than a single and regularly chips in for a wicket, all class in this format/comp
Hogg – has hit form at the right time with Perth fighting for a top4 berth, plays on the usually spin friendly Adelaide Oval in R8
Beer – has been consistent throughout the comp regularly chipping in for wickets and usually at a decent ER
Laughlin – has been one of the best wicket taking bowlers throughout the comp and if you haven’t got him in your team do it now!!!
Behrendorff – his past 2 matches have been solid with some good scores, can be a little expensive at times though
Boyce – was a revelation against Hobart the other night taking the 3 vital wickets of Paine, Ponting & Birt at a nice ER, Botha not frightened to back the young spinner either and would expect him to be given another go against the Scorchers at AO...

And so we move onto part two of this ongoing series of previews designed to be the teasing stallion to your upcoming fantasy ORFFL horse. While I have - some - of you here though, now''s as a good a time as any to bring an important issue to attention; the 2013 fixture. It''ll run much like last year''s with rivalry rounds situated in rounds 1, 10 and 14. But instead of just a repeat of last year''s, we''re throwing it open to you all to nominate who you think were/are your biggest rivals going into season 2013.

And please don''t all pick Sarah Island just because you''d like to cave in my smug, Jar holding, meaty-loafy face. Comments below plz.

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COULTA COULDABEENS

Made the finals in their debut year and won as many games as they lost. No mean feat with two forfeits in those 18 games. All things being equal I''d consider that a relative success.

Since then there''s been the expected retirement of Scarlett, the unexpected death of John McCarthy and the somewhat expected unretirement of Chins Brogan.

What''s Working:

Coulta''s defence is still a powerful, powerful unit. Arguably equal to that of Torrumbarry and Queenstown in top-end talent, but having an edge over those two clubs in unparalleled squad depth.

Scotland (100),Enright (94),Reilly (92) and Burgoyne (82) may be decidedly veteran, but with AJ (65), Laidler (68), Hombsch (68), and A.Kennedy (53)as understudies, a smoother list transition in the back half you''ll be unable to find.

And despite Zaharakis'' (88) promotion to the midfield, the forward line combination of A.Walker (79),Wright (89),Schulz (81), and QStick (68) is not the worst going around in the ORFFL. It certainly helps that they have one Jeremias Cameron (66) waiting in the wings; a genuine superstar in the...

A lot of changes have gone on this offseason. In fact, we are now running on a completely different platform, on a completely new re-coding. What this means for you? Well, first of all, since it's enable me to start from scratch and actually code this thing properly, it means I should be able to add new stuff much easier than ever before. It also means that moving forward we should be able to get rid of all those nasty little bugs that have been around for ever (B. Ebert anyone?) Then of course, the site should run faster than ever before! Which makes me smile. What do you need to do? Well, there's only one change on your end. Because I can't actually transfer your password from the old site, to this new site- I've had to reset your password to the email address you have registered at TS . Of course, I'm sure a few of you have forgotten your email and what not, so feel free to email me and we can straighten that out. I tried to convert all your friends and messages across, but I've noticed that some of the longer message-chains across multiple people have been butchered a little- but hey, we got most of it. So, what's next? Well, I'm sure your first question will be: Walesy, how do you find the time to stay so good looking, while being so awesome? Well that question can wait while we move onto the second one: Hey Goober, where are the stats? Fear not, the stats, and all the other goodies that you know and love from TS are in the pipeline to be converted into the new system. Just prettier and more functional than ever before! So check out the site, let me know of any issues that you get hit with (particularly include what browser you're using!) Oh, and check it out on the iPhone/iPad. Heck, use your browser and make it iPhone sized- one of the key re-design aspects that I was going for here was to get the exact same site to scale extremely well across all devices - so let me know any issues you have!...

Another week of NBA has come and gone. There are now only 7 rounds left before the finals commence and owners of fantasy teams are setting themselves up for the finals or to avoid relegation.

As usual I will do the review of the Premier League, Stowie will do the review of the Division One and Rev will the review of Division Two.

Premier League

Ruddy’s Cavaliers (5-4) 1248 v Linsanity 17 (0-9) 1191

Ruddy was able to bounce back this week by posting a hard fought win over Linsanity. Ruddy had a very sizeable lead heading into the last day and despite being outscored by 180 pts was able to hang on. The leading scorers for Ruddy were Lopez (209/4), Durant (189/3) and Teague (153/3). Linsanity are still searching for answers to no avail.

Anthak (5-4) 1292 v Run TMC (5-3-1) 1180

Anthak was able to get back in the winner’s list with a close win over Run TMC. Both sides were victims of the schedule this week where they played 36 and 35 games respectively which could explain the low scores for 2 of the best teams in the league. The best players for Anthak were Lebron (303/4), Kobe (177/3) and Iggy (157/4). For Run TMC, Westbrook (158/3) led the way followed by Dudley (136/3) and Kidd (129/3)

Jasmine’s Mob (7-2) 1524 v Adelaide Maggotz (3-5-1) 1274)

Jasmine’s team continues to go nuts and posted a big win over the Maggotz this round. Unlike last round, Jasmine only had 8 players break the 100 pt mark this round. The Maggotz are in a bit of trough at the moment and need to post some wins on the board to avoid being in a relegation battle. Best players for Jasmine this round were CPE (206/4), Parsons (176/4) and Vasquez (159/3). The leading scorers for the Maggotz were Harden (218/4), Faried (147/4) and Jennings (139/3).

Westside Hardcore (5-4) 1244 v King of Karlos (5-4) 1157

Mick played 3 more games this round of Karlos which helped him post a narrow victory. Both teams now have a record of 5-4 and will be...

In this article I'm going to look at the best draft picks in the 2012 ORFFL draft. There is no perfect formula for this (unless Lucas/Walesy say there is). I evaluated the player’s average, draft pick, position and age, as well as a little personal opinion thrown in. Feel free to post your own opinions in the comments, if there’s one thing we love here its discussion.

[span style='text-decoration: underline]Top 10 Draft Picks (The information in brackets is POS, AGE, PICK, AVE)

1. Shane Tuck (MID, 30, 285, 114.6)

It’s easy to forget Tuck only played 10 games in 2011 at an average of 82.2. At 30 years of age going into the 2012 season, everyone was ready to right him off as a has-been. Everyone, except SCSS (and I suppose Hardwick) . With a bargain pick of 285, Tuck played every game this year and elevated his average to a massive 114.6, the 12th best in the whole competition. His age is certainly a concern, but it’s hard to argue with those numbers.

Fun fact: Shane Tuck wears ear plugs due to a perforated eardrum.

2. Patrick Dangerfield (F/M, 22, 96, 118.9)

Well, we all knew it was coming didn’t we. Breakout year? You could say that. With Craig David departing as coach of the Crows, blind Freddy could tell you any new coach would need to play Dangerfield in the guts. And the rest is history. After playing mostly forward in 2011 for an average of 80.3, Dangerfield became a contested ball fiend in 2012 using the SC scoring system to his advantage for an average of 118.9. Did I mention this year he was classified as a forward? Amazing! At only 22 years of age, he will have another 10 years in the middle before probably ending his career back in the forward line.

Fun fact: Dangerfield is back to back winner of the GF sprint – 2011 &amp; 2012.

3. Josh P. Kennedy (MID, 24, 81, 120,2)

Affectionately known as JPK, he capped off his year by beating his former team Hawthorn in the GF leaving them wondering what could...

The penultimate round of the Big Bash starts soon so hopefully you've already had your trades set up and ready.

Good luck to all those still with a chance to place well, that group certainly doesn't contain me!

A few suggestions this week are that any Sydney players are 'selected at own risk'.

You need both of Laughlin and Malinga in your team to do well.

Be careful of Hopes repeating his performance from the other night.

Paine is in a swirl of form at the moment and with Hobart having another 2 home games left then look to bring him into your team if you can afford it and don't have any other pending trades.

In form batters include Finch, Hodge, Ponting, Klinger whilst Gulbis and Gayle are doing alright with the ball to earn points.

Anyway, probably best to listen to the advice of the others below in the comments, they're doing better than me.

Good luck all!