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,We want to see who can get the highest combined score over rounds 10, 11 and 12. All you have to do to enter is sign in, load up your team if you havent already and tick the box in the competitions page! Super easy just the way some of you like it (Limo23 made me put that bit in) !
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So, round 9 has come and gone, with two major things happening- firstly, we had some HUGE scores this round- seriously huge scores; secondly, it looks like the king is dead! Captains choice is now officially a major point for us all to deal with!

So, lets get into it and see whats transpired.

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Carlton v Geelong
Result: Geelong by 2 points, 15.12.102 to 14.16.100

Started off on Friday night with Carlton showing us all that they are definitely top 4 material this year, going head to head with the cats for 4 whole quarters, and were it not for an errant 20 meter kick at the dead, would have won. However, the Cats managed to keep their lossless record alive, walking away 2 point victors. Marc Murphy top scored for the game, his 32 touches at an 84% DE were enough for him to make 145SC points. Hot on his heels was Heath Scotland who racked up 34 touches for a 140SC. The Cats top scorer for the round was Joel Selwood- with 29 touches and a very nice 121SC. Waite put on 2 goals for a 120SC and the Chapster had a decent return to form with a 112SC. We saw a decent performance by Duigan, whos 92SC and a fantastic run of games to come will see his salary move up nicely. plenty of disappointing scores in this game though, Carrazzos 77SC, Bartels 61 was a real stinger, Duncans 55SC and Vardys 31SC were all pretty bad.

Heros: Murphy, Scotland, Selwood.
Villians: Bartel, Yarran, Taylor.

St Kilda v Melbourne
Result: St Kilda by 20 points, 16.10.106 to 13.8.86

Saturday rocked up, and the Saints managed to stick it to the Dees, walking out with a 20 point victory. If you tuned into the Captains Choice this week, you would have noticed that Joey Montagna was our 31 choice holding a 150 average against the Dees in recent matchups- and boy, he didnt disappoint, running rampant with a 38 touch performance and a 151SC. Riewoldt collected a massive 31 touches and a 141SC while Goddard also returned to form...

What with so many of the ppopular premiums performing, I think this might be a round to watch in terms of someone breaking through and getting that highest round score for the year thus far.

So how are we all tracking?

Hurting from playing Tappy on the field or elated that you picked Montaga or Marc Murphy to captain your squad?
Anyone regretting trading out Roo or Goddard?

Alright, round 9 is just about to fire up! I gotta say, Im enjoying the trading game this year, these byes are making it very interesting when deciding who should stay and who should go.

Happily this week, Im looking at bringing in two premiums and Higgo off the bench- so the charge up the ladder starts today! Bring it on!!

And as always, join us in the <a href="http://tooserious.net/live_scores.php?page=gameday&id=10250377&process=live">chat tonight[/url], or just check out the stats, it should be a ripper of a game!

Round 9 and it looks like the cavalry has arrived! Plenty of new rookies debuting this week, including pre-season favorite Tendai Mzungu!

Guess this means we wont have much to worry about over the next few weeks with downgrades.

A couple of INS that will make a few coaches smile- Rioli and Higgins are back- heres hoping they can reward the coaches who held onto them.

INS: Vardy, Montagna, Winmar, Evans, Pittard, Mzungu, J. Brown, Stanton, Keeffe, Riley, Malceski, Rioli, Bailey, Embley, Kerr,
OUTS: Curnow, Gram, Pitt, Drummond, Watson, I. Smith, Hale,
Extended Bench: Krakouer, Higgins, Liberatore

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Carlton v Geelong Cats
Carlton
B: Bret Thornton, Michael Jamison, Nick Duigan
HB: Andrew Carrazzo, Jordan Russell, Heath Scotland
C: Bryce Gibbs, Brock McLean, Jeremy Laidler
HF: Eddie Betts, Jarrad Waite, Jeffrey Garlett
F: Kade Simpson, Andrew Walker, Christopher Yarran
Foll: Robert Warnock, Chris Judd, Marc Murphy
I/C: Setanta O&#8217;hAilpin, Dennis Armfield, David Ellard, Mitch Robinson
Emg: Aaron Joseph, Lachlan Henderson, Simon White
In: Brock McLean, Jeremy Laidler
Out: Aaron Joseph, Edward Curnow (Shoulder)

Geelong Cats
B: Josh Hunt, Harry Taylor, Darren Milburn
HB: Taylor Hunt, Matthew Scarlett, Corey Enright
C: Andrew Mackie, Joel Corey, Jimmy Bartel
HF: Steve Johnson, Joel Selwood, Mathew Stokes
F: Tom Hawkins, James Podsiadly, Paul Chapman
Foll: Brad Ottens, Travis Varcoe, James Kelly
I/C: David Wojcinski, Mitch Duncan, Allen Christensen, Nathan Vardy
Emg: Tom Gillies, Steven Motlop, Josh Cowan
In: Darren Milburn, Taylor Hunt, Nathan Vardy
Out: Cameron Ling (Shoulder), Tom Lonergan (Calf), Daniel Menzel (Shins)
New: Nathan Vardy (Gippsland U18)

St Kilda v Melbourne
St Kilda
B: Sam...

This week with the GC having their bye, it means that all of us (except those who enjoyed Gazs 198 last week) will have a full compliment of stars to choose from-

So lets dive into this weeks Captains Choice.
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Judd vs Geelong

Round 21, 2010: 75SC, 20 disposals
Round 5, 2010: 143SC, 27 disposals
Round 19, 2009: 99SC, 27 disposals
Round 10, 2008: 116, 28 disposals

Form: 121, AA Geelong: 105

Notes: Youd be suprised to note that Ling didnt play in round 21 last year, and with Scott musing that Ling will go to him, it might be worth looking elsewhere.


Gibbs vs Geelong

Round 21, 2010: 130SC, 26 disposals
Round 5, 2010: 122SC, 28 disposals
Round 19, 2009: 106SC, 32 disposals
Round 10, 2008: 72, 21 disposals

AA Geelong: 119

Notes: Hes got very solid record against the Cats, even though he took a knock last time they matched up, he still managed a 130. If his form were better, Id be telling you to lock him in!


Chapman vs Carlton

Round 21, 2010: 133SC, 33 disposals
Round 5, 2010: 110SC, 28 disposals

AA Carlton: 111

Notes: Played well against Carlton last year, starring in their round 21 win- but as with Gibbs, current form is an issue.


Selwood vs Carlton

Round 21, 2010: 110SC, 27 disposals
Round 5, 2010: 98SC, 19 disposals
Round 19, 2009: 124SC, 28 disposals
Round 10, 2008: 80, 21 disposals

Form: 131, AA Carlton: 110

Notes: Not a great history against the Blues, but not bad either. His latest saw him go head to head with Murphy while Ablett got the Tag. Still, his current formline is excellent.

Montagna vs Melbourne

Round 14, 2010: 155SC, 35 disposals
Round 22, 2009: 155SC, 33 disposals
Round 10, 2009: 146SC, 31 disposals
Round 10, 2008: 141SC, 20 disposals

Form: 102, AA Melbourne: 152

Notes: Wow, what a formline against the Dees! Were they the same St. Kilda as last year, Id have no hesitation to say lock him in. With that though, I have a...

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Before the season started, we got the hot tip that a number of factors in the Supercoach formula were changing- I detailed a few of them <a href="http://tooserious.net/changes-to-the-supercoach-formula">here[/url].

Anyway, Im sure most of you read it- then forget it, but not Manikato1. Not only does he remember it, hes also knocked up a quick article analysing some of the results from it- namely, the clangers.

So click on over the break and check it out!
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<p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Just before the season started an article appeared on TS that advised of changes to the way Champion Data would calculate SuperCoach scores in 2011. There were a number of changes but none as important perhaps as the changes to the “clanger” rule. </font>

<p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Last year the scoring for clangers was -8 for a clanger by foot and – 6 for a clanger by

hand but the new rule makes the score -4 for all clangers. For the clanger kings this means a whopping potential turn around in PPG, with 4 points per foot clanger and 2 points per hand clanger improvement on offer. So has the change made a difference so far this year?</font>

<p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Below is the list published earlier this year which consists of 21 names with their average clangers per game from 2010. Five of the 21 need to be taken out of calculations leaving 16. Barlow, Schammer, McLean and Fev are non starters this season while Cassisi got injured in his second game and that is not enough games to make him a starter.</font>

<p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri">So what about the remaining 16? The list makes no distinction between foot and hand clangers so to make calculations easier an arbitrary decision has been made. Anyone with 3.5 clangers or above is allocated three foot clangers and one hand clanger while those below this get allocated two foot clangers...

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Hi all,

Welcome to another edition of Best Buys.

To upgrade, or not upgrade, that at times is the question.   Of course you want to get your team in gear, scoring points, but sometimes you have to think of the rookie downgrade alternatives, and to make a move down in order to go up in future.

This week in the blog comments I mused that I might do two downgrades this week instead of an upgrade, because of such good value around.

That thought, though just a hunch at the time, is proved to be quite flawed.  The best thing you can do this week is upgrade/downgrade as per usual. If you miss one bus, you just catch the next one.    And there are a few coming on in the next few weeks so its certainly not terminal.   And the cost of not having a fully upgraded midfield I reckon would be starting to hurt some teams.   Mine certainly - Im at least three weeks away from a fully upgraded middle with the issue of Grimes to have to work through.   This was probably a mistake on my part, but we all learn as we go along in this game, and hindsight is a wonderful teacher.

This weeks Best Buys and the interesting downgrade alternatives, yep its all after the break.

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The Best Buys this week once more have been derived from a value rating, along with some filtering of data to check that only players with a high average sneak through.   Heres my thoughts:

DEF:
Heath Shaw v Sam Fisher.   Both have a bye coming up soon, their last for the year.  Should you bring them in now in full knowledge of this?   My view is, particularly if you are carrying Grimes, the answer is Yes.   If you arent and D6 is one of your last upgrades, you might be able to push that out to R13/R14 without copping major burn.   If you have to choose between them, youd have to say Fisher, only because the Saints have been awful so the ball will be in defence plenty.    Even teams with Goddard could use Fisher because of Goddards MPP capabilities....