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When we see the Supercoach leader score one of the best scores of the round, its probably time that most of the other 380 thousand teams start to focus on leagues (if they havent already).  It does need to be noted that there are obviously still some of us that are (to borrow a line from Simonoz) too far away to actually challenge for the top spot, but still too close to actually throw in the towell. My mrs is in this boat - being ranked 200th is close enough to keep hoping,  but realisticaly too far away... still gotta keep trying though. However that is less than 1% of teams that can still challenge the likes of Dirty Whorks and Impromptu for the title, so Im guessing the majority of us are focusing on our leagues now - and hopefully this writeup can be of interest and assist us to take out a league title or two...   or 3 or 5!

When aiming for a league victory, there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when choosing the last couple of premium spots in your team - I reckon moreso than when aiming for overall. This has already been explored in one of the  TS Extras a few weeks back, and also in a round-about way in the Best Buys from week to week. I will now add to this over the break, where I will outline a few things to consider from here on in when deciding who the final upgrades should be when your focus is on your leagues.

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Where are you on the ladder?

The answer to this question is  fundamental as it allows you to prioritise all the other aspects outline below. For example, if you are comfortably in the top 4, having a Geelong player who is on leave for Semi Final weekend isnt as much of a worry as it would be if you are fighting to get into the 8; and if you are holding up the ladder, having players from teams on a multi-bye weekend may be a priority. This will be explored more later.

The Ticker

Everyone should be well aware of the Ticker by now. Its an amazing feature of this site...

So we have finally hit the half way mark of the 2011 supercoach season. This is your opportunity to tell everyone how you are faring. Either gloat about how awesome you are going or go on a good old fashioned rant about how poor its been to date.
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Ranking: Cmon we don’t judge people in these parts.

Trades Left: Have you burnt all your trades or been saving them for a rainy day?

Pre-Lockout: Which players were you tossing up between and now regretting or loving you picked.

Trades Regretted: Which trades do you seriously regret doing? Which ones backfired in a major way.

Best Trades: Whether it was trading Goddard or Riewoldt out before their price fall early or which players went bang after you traded them in.

Goals for 2nd half: What are your goals for the 2nd half of the year? Have you given up on overall and just concentrating on league bragging rights? Have you given up completely and have started your 2012 research already.

Leagues: How are your leagues ranked? Particularly your TS leagues, Id love to hear how they are all going!!

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So, after three weeks of competition, it looks like the lead of Here for Beer couldnt be overcome as he stormed to victory with a massive score of 7215 over 3 weeks- thats an average of 2405 per week which is pretty huge! Keep that up and youll be storming the top 100 in no time!

This round, the highest scorer was straightuptheguts2, who scored a very nice 2404- but it just wasnt enough to catch HfB, who won by almost 200 points.

So, the spoils are now all yours- a chauffeur driven ride, thanks to the good folk at <a href="http://www.combinedcars.com/">Combined Chauffeured Cars[/url], and a meal to the value of $250 for a maximum of 10 at <a href="http://dandelion.ws/">The Dandelion Restaurant[/url] in Elwood. I reckon it should be a good night out, so drop me an email and Ill forward your details on. And drop in once youve enjoyed it, let us know how it went!

And for the rest of you, give a big thanks to <a href="http://www.combinedcars.com/">CCC[/url] and <a href="http://dandelion.ws/">The Dandelion Restaurant[/url] - and if you are looking for a meal out and are in the Elwood area, drop in and have a bite!

Over the page is the final score.

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,,<td style="font-weight:bold;">Team name
,,<td style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://tooserious.net/competitions.php?competition=CCC&ladder=1&sort=week1">Week 1[/url]
,,<td style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://tooserious.net/competitions.php?competition=CCC&ladder=1&sort=week2">Week 2[/url]
,,<td style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://tooserious.net/competitions.php?competition=CCC&ladder=1&sort=week3">Week 3[/url]...

Selwood.  Out for four.  Ineligible...

"Carlton versus Brisbane....Carlton, K. Simpson, 1 vote....... Carlton, M. Murphy, 2 votes.....(murmurs in the crowd).....Carlton...................C.........Judd, 3 votes (crowd erupts)."

Game over.

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TS:
3 - M. Boyd (16)
2 - B. Goddard (3)
1 - J. Steven (3)

Holey:
3 - M. Boyd (16)
2 - B. Goddard (3)
1 - J. Steven (2)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">West Coast v Adelaide

TS:
3 - D. Kerr (6)
2 - M. Rosa (2)
1 - M. LeCras (2)

Holey:
3 - A. Embley (6)
2 - M. Rosa (2)
1 - M. LeCras (4)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">North Melbourne v Gold Coast

TS:
3 - D. Wells (9)
2 - B. Harvey (5)
1 - G. Ablett (9)

Holey:
3 - B. Harvey (5)
2 - G. Ablett (10)
1 - D. Wells (5)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Geelong v Hawthorn

TS:
3 - J. Podsiadly (3)
2 - S. Mitchell (12)
1 - C. Rioli (7)

Holey:
3 - J. Podsiadly (6)
2 - B. Sewell (2)
1 - L. Shiels (4)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Carlton v Brisbane

TS:
3 - C. Judd (17)
2 - M. Murphy (15)
1 - H. Scotland (3)

Holey:
3 - C. Judd (15)
2 - M. Murphy (14)
1 - K. Simpson (1)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Sydney v Richmond

TS:
3 - R. OKeefe (9)
2 - M. Seaby (2)
1 - D. Martin (7)

Holey:
3 - M. Seaby (3)
2 - R. OKeefe (10)
1 - D. Martin (7)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Fremantle v Essendon

TS:
3 - M. Pavlich (9)
2 - H. Ballantyne (3)
1 - G. Ibbotson (1)

Holey:
3 - H. Ballantyne (4)
2 - M. Pavlich (7)
1 - L. McPharlin (1)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Collingwood v Melbourne

TS:
3 - S. Wellingham (3)
2 - T. Cloke (2)
1 - S. Pendlebury (15)

Holey:
3 - T. Cloke (6)
2 - S. Wellingham (2)
1 - L. Ball (1)

[span style="text-decoration: underline">LEADERBOARDS

TS:
17 CAR Judd
16 WBD Boyd
15 CAR Murphy
15 COL...

Weve officially hit the halfway mark and one this is for certain- Supercoach can be a cruel mistress. When she is good, the highs are magnificent, but boy- when she turns- and those bullets come flying, it can easily turn into a tragedy.

This week, the number of bullets were so high that surely you were hit with one- or two- or in some cases, five. So its with that idea that we dive into this weeks review.

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St. Kilda vs Bulldogs
Result: St.Kilda by 24, 12.9.81 to 8.9.57

It looks like there are some dark days ahead for the Doggies as they fell in their "elimination" final. To be fair, they do have a fair number of stars out of form, or out injured- but dark the the less. The Saints on the other hand, are they back? I guess will see if they can continue this winning form next week. The top scorer for the game however, was the always previlent Matthew Boyd, who monstered out 39 touches with 20 of them contested for a mighty 164SC. Hot on his heels was Brendan Goddard, who collected 26 touches for a 143SC. Breakout ruckman, Ben McEvoy got the third highest score with a 121SC while Picken did quite nicely with a 117SC of his own. Rounding out the top5, with 23 touches was Dale Morris who scored a 109SC. As with all games, we see some who underperform, and the game was no exception with Gilbert putting in a woeful 30SC while Cross could only get 17 touches- 14 handballs, for a 54SC. Chris Howard broke his bubble with a fairly solid 67SC, while debutant Luke Dahlhaus did alright as a sub scoring a 33SC- looked pretty lively while doing it as well.

Heroes: Boyd, Goddard, McEvoy
Villians: Gilbert, Cross, Liberatore

Adelaide vs West Coast
Result: West Coast by 39, 15.16.106 10.7.67

The West Coast fans in the land have got to be getting thoughts of finals in their minds now- but remember, were still only halfway through the season! Plenty of time to go! That said, there was a strong wind blowing...

Hey, just realised <a href="http://tooserious.net/heat-v-mavs-dabomers-dan-the-inaugural-ts-fantasy-nba-champion-of-the-world#comments">our last thread[/url] has closed its comments, so thought I should get a new thread going ASAP.

Most people would know that dirk, Kidd et al of the Mavs clinched the NBA Championship today in game 6, downing the Dwayne Wade led Miami Heat. should prob mention they had a bloke named Lebron playing for them as well...

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After a super ECF series where Lebron nailed so many huge clutch plays, he continually went missing in the final q during the finals. Chris anstey joked on twitter that there is going to be a Lebron day in Dallas from now on where everyone gets to go home from work 12 min early. :lol:

I actually like Lebron and feel hes a tad hard-done by. - sure some of the criticism is warranted - making fun of dirk for coughing is kinda low - but Ive got no problems with him leaving the cavs to chase a chip; and you gotta respect his game - awesome player!

Besides all that though - What an amazing series! One of the closest ever! Only 2 finals series in the history of the NBA have had more games decided by less than 3 points. Both teams showed in the conference finals that they were terrific down the stretch, and for the most part the both continued that form on.

Its fantastic to see the Mavs win this - a great TEAM! theyve had a good core of these players together for a while and it showed - they worked so well together and had so many contributors.

Congratulations to the Dallas mavericks! And to Dirk Nowitzki for winning the finals MVP!

Also worthy of a mention::: The TS NBA Crew supercoach league has moved into the top 20 leagues! Well done! (and has anyone worked how Linda got in there?)

Sorry that this post is a bit disjointed... Bit rushed and working from my phone. But now we got a thread going...

So who watched the games? What did you all think of the series?
And the...

So, check out the live page during the <a href="http://tooserious.net/live_scores.php?page=gameday&id=10250409&process=live">Collingwood v Melbourne[/url] game today to see the first cut of the latest feature-

Live Supercoach scores.

Now, of course, these are completely unofficial and are really me just massaging the numbers to come up with an approximation, but they looked reasonably good when I ran them through today.

That said though- in a live game, they are completely untested, even worse- Ill be at the circus tomorrow- so if it goes horribly wrong, I appologise in advance- but I figure, hey- this is too exciting to hold back for a whole week!

Its been brought to my attention by StKildaThunda that Mahmoud Chatila (VivaLaRaza), a well respected poster on the BigFooty Saints board & on TrueSainters and he is planning on running from Melbourne to Sydney to raise money for the Australiasian Gasto-Intestinal trials group and also in memory of his late father who passed away after battling stomach cancer on top of a 5 year battle with Leukemia. Along with BigFooty & TrueSainters we hope we can help Mahmoud reach his goal and give him support in this great initiative. So please help out with whatever you can. Link to where you can donate is at bottom of this post and if you have any questions please ask away in the comments. If anyone has anything they would like to auction off or sell with all proceeds to be donated please let me know.

More over the break
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Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOmamSnA2o8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOmamSnA2o8[/url]

<blockquote>Dear TooSerious folk,

In MAY of 2012 I will attempt to run from my house in Melbourne 3178 to the Sydney Opera house In Sydney and hope to raise $20 000 for the Australasian Gasto-Intestinal trials group and It will be In memory of my late father who passed away after battling stomach cancer on top of a 5 year battle with Leukemia.

A few months back I raised $3500 for the Leukemia foundation after running from my house to the MCG which took about 5 or so hours and 40 kilometers.

40ks Isnt much so Im going to up the Anty. I was initally motivated by Shane Crawfords incredible run from Adelaide to Melbourne. My run will take roughly 14 days consisting of 18 hours running, 4 hours sleeping and 2 hours to eat/recoopertate a day for two weeks straight.

Theirs no doubt in my mind I can do this but I need YOUR HELP! Im sure out of the thousands of people that go on BIGFOOTY/TRUESAINTERS & TOOSERIOUS someone must have a connection somewhere. Hopefully someone knows someone somewhere that can help in getting...

DirtyWhorks has been tweeting about playing keepings off.   Its not too difficult to do, except when you have the marauding hordes chasing you, and a few of my mates who are 600 down saying his team is pretty darn average and they are looking to grab some points off him.

Now sure, I think that 600 down is too far down to be playing in the big league, but it just shows how much people are prepared to consider themselves "in the game" with the occasional havoc the bye and team selections can play.

First, heres Dirtys team:

D: Deledio, Adcock, Goddard, Gibbs, Heppell, Suckling, Lower (Batchelor, Puopolo, Hibberd)
M: Pendlebury, Mundy, Priddis, Dal Santo, Selwood, Hodge (Savage, Prestia, Smith)
R: Cox, Sandilands (Smith, Campbell)
F: Pavlich, Fyfe, Franklin, OKeefe, Goodes, Petrie, Krakouer (McKernan, Matera, Lynch)

Some quick analysis over the break, then I give it over to you lot!

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Firstly, Im not going to really go into the trading of DW, but Im sure many of you are already well aware given the league function here at TS.   If not, Walesy can regale us in the comments.

The team, well its steady without being outstanding.   The fact is though, heaps of points already racked up must mean wise captain choices, and shrewd trading for value.

Steady meaning: Heppell and Lower still in defence.  No Shaw, Scotland or Fisher.   Midfield doesnt have Ablett or Boyd.   Theres no Petrie link, so Smith has to perform (still similar situation to lots of teams) in Sandilands absence.   The forward division is strong, but will come under heat when Hawthorn and Sydney have the bye.   It remains under Mick Malthouses whim to whether Krakouer is the sub, and the reinforcements, at least up forward and in the middle, arent what youd call super.

In the main, DW will need to upgrade his reserves, hoping a few more get good game time or at least maintain their performances.

How Id take DW on, remembering of course that POD is not James...

The final teams are in, and Heppell has survived the cut- sadly, the same cant be said about Hibberd.

Ah well, he was benched anyways

So, hows your team shaping up? Word is that Buddy will get up for the game, but hey- I plan on having an emergency set anyways!!

Drop us a comment, or join us in the live chat!