TooSerious

OK its almost finals time and we all are busy and have things to do.  What we need is who to bring into our sides that will make a difference.  But first the advice for the week: 

If you have 4 trades left you are in a great shape.  Use one downgrade to upgrade 3 players.  Should be doable.
If you have 3 trades, Id go one downgrade, two upgrades.
Two trades left and if youre ok in your leagues Id sit for a week, then make 2 trades in finals.  Unfortunately likely to be straight swaps.
One trade left, and if you are in the finals dont trade.  Otherwise you will be pumped in finals.  To be honest unless your team is strong with reserves your goose is already cooked as far as leagues go.

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Caveat: Firstly, I assume everyone has Ablett, Hodge and Goddard.  If you dont have them, get them in that order.  Other players may be slightly less popular and hence your team might need them.

Best Buys per position in Premium and Value

 TOP 5 PREMIUM (in order of who I would get first to last if money is no issue)
DEF: Lake, Kelly, Malceski, Gilbee, Scotland
MID: Swan, Selwood, Judd, Montagna, Dal Santo - if you already have all these guys in your mids, well done.
FWD: Chapman, N Riewoldt, Franklin, Didak, Pavlich (Goodes very close 6th)
RUC: Sandilands, Ryder, Jamar, Jolly, Mumford (last 4 in terms of opponents coming up in SuperCoach finals)

TOP 5 VALUE
DEF: Enright, Gilbee, Gilbert, Scotland, Harbrow/Taylor
MID: Cooney, Watson, Bartel, Priddis, Cross
FWD: N Riewoldt, Giansiracusa, Pavlich, Thomas, Betts
RUC: Graham, Hudson, Ryder, McIntosh, Naitanui(Cox said he wanted to understudy NN from here on...interesting...)

Happy trading. Finals matches begin next week.

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So, originally this competition was meant to last 10 weeks... which means that this week was the last one. However, the good folk at <a href="http://iscent.com.au">iScent[/url] seem to be having as much fun with this comp as the rest of us are, so they are going to be running it til the end of the year. Woohoo! So go give their site a visit, ad if you are in the perfume market, give them a look see, they do good work.

Anyways, onto this week- we had two good tippers this week, but one was a little... gooder... that the other. So, its my pleasure to announce that Pickle his taken out the prize this week, with 4 perfect tips, and 2nd and 3 near misses. Great tipping mate!

Also, a special mention goes out to TP for your margain attempt this week, it certainly made me look twice.

Onto the winning squad for this week:

namescoreDifference

Luke Hodge19

Dane Swan160

Joel Selwood135

Jobe Watson224

Chris Judd1010

Matthew Boyd1027

Adam Goodes121

Kane Cornes1014



And the full results over the break...
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UserscoreDifference

Pickle36200

stowie37210

gnewitt44208

griff46184

Micka49224

ajackl0750241

simonoz50244

Fish51230

quazy88854289

reservoir dogs54220

bulldogs1757294

Shapgood58192

fozzer58225

tp622147483820

Gumby1363288

daveo1564263

mkidd65365

matty.hutch67236

julianc68936

resch68269

The Mob Goes Wild70328

buzz70373

spuddy73368

robert naylor74383

asanque75310

melboy96976899

joshuac78416

pop80375

worksafe81246

parlabane81314

Superblues83461

Chipper85267

benj88433

jinnasaur88226

tyze92339

AK98472

Grogfather100478

Kel102431

anthak103235

celinef110521

prem112374

lw121426

timtimmy126614

Carlos126539

Afternoon all,

What a round we had, not only in SuperCoach leagues but the AFL served up a beauty with a draw (how many were on the bench anyway?), some floggings handed out by a couple of real contenders, some big upsets for sides aspiring to make the 8, and some flop performances from the games superstars.

On to the TS leagues which, like the real stuff, served up an absolute cracker this week and as we get to the business end of the year, wins in leagues this tight are nothing short of gold. To put it in perspective, a team in the Pine Warmers moved up from 12th to 4th in 2 weeks on the back of 2 great wins, and those above him falling at critical times.

The fact of the matter is, both these leagues are wide open and its anyone’s game this year.

On that note, Im thinking of making these leagues inaugural next season (maybe start a third depending on numbers) but obviously would like to go a bit better in the rankings and maybe crack into the top 10 leagues, so I am throwing it out there to those who want to be in one of these leagues next year, drop me a line on this thread and I will file you away for next season (sorry but I cannot post my email publicly).

It will not be a cash league but maybe walsey can dig up some goodies out of his dust gathering prize cabinet. I know there are still 5 rounds left but I thought I would give all an opportunity to get on board. To ensure these leagues remain competitive throughout the season (so there are no teams that get blitzed early then come good, or blitz early and then drop off), players will need to submit their team id (which is the number required to enter the TS Sideways Cup and is shown here in bold - http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/?p=other_teams&amp;tid=87492&amp;lid=1 - <a href="http://tooserious.net/tipping.php?page=tipping&amp;display=highest_score">please click right here [/url]to figure out how to get this number) and hopefully we wont get a league with 15 top 2,000...

Hello all,

As Supercoach settles down for another week, its time to talk football again (you may call it soccer if you must) and to quote James Brayshaw "What a week its been in football ladies &amp; gentleman" with some big signings taking place, pre-season injuries/operations, and a whole heap of transfer whispers &amp; rumours going about the place.

I have also decided to give you guys my FPL gold mine...thats right, all the sites I have been using over my seasoned veteran FPL career, as well as some I have only recently picked up along the way. My advice is to save these links in your favorites for future reference as they will come in very handy.

I would like to make it clear that by no means am I any type of expert on FPL, and my posts are designed to update the masses, and hopefully you all can add to it and we can be an informed community. I have been playing a long time and have had some good seasons, and some bad seasons.

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Firstly, the best site for injuries etc without a doubt is http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php This is site is updated in real time and I have not found better. I use this before EVERY lockout and every trade (which you should follow the same rules as in SC, trade as close as you can to lockout.

Keep in mind there are always fixture changes due to cup ties, adverse weather conditions, and sometimes for reasons unknown so always check premierleague.com as well. On that note, some game weeks you will find that some teams play 2 games, and some don’t play any at all. This is why it is critical to check in every few days.

The next gem I have for you all is a site that predicts salary movement (similar to the stats tab here) except the movement in FPL is based on net transfers rather than performance (although you usually find these 2 are related)....

Interesting round for our leaders, with the (now) current top 6 players all polling on the weekend - 3 of them in the draw on Friday night.  1st and 2nd is a toss-up between Hodge and Hayes, while Goddard should edge out Burgoyne and Franklin.

Swan and Didak continued their double-act with a consecutive 1-2 performance.  Whilst unlikely to actually happen, I have now given Swan 20 votes in the last 7 games, i.e. 20 from 21.  3 of those 7 games are absolute montys for the three, and he should be at least top-2 in the remaining 4.  We may see a record count this year...at worst I see Swan on 21 at this stage, and likely to be in the mid to high 20s.

The other Saturday-day game brought about another three for the inform Selwood, and Abletts return to form with his best return in front of goals for the year seeing them both join Goddard and Hayes on equal third with 16 votes.

The rest of this weeks games will have little bearing on the result at the end of the year.  Watson, Swallow and Goodes extended their lead for the most votes in their respective teams, whilst 3 votes to Adam Cooney is really starting to tighten things up at the Bulldogs.

Over to the odds, and the money is shaping up very similar to my leaderboard - Swan now favourite on $4.50, Hodge second at $4.75 and Ablett now out to outright third at $6.50.

All votes over the page:

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3. L. Hodge (27)
2. L. Hayes (16)
1. B. Goddard (16)
...S. Burgoyne, L. Franklin

Pies v Tigers
3. D. Swan (31)
2. A. Didak (5)
1. L. Brown (1)
...B. Johnson, S. Pendlebury

Cats v Lions
3. J. Selwood (16)
2. G. Ablett (16)
1. P. Chapman (13)
...T. Varcoe, D. Milburn

Bombers v Roos
3. J. Watson (8)
2. A. Swallow (12)
1.  J. Winderlich (4)
...B. Harvey, C. Dempsey

Blues v Eagles
3. K. Simpson (4)
2. M. Murphy (7)
1. C. Judd (12)
...S. Grigg

Dogs v Dockers
3. A. Cooney (12)
2. R. Griffen (6)
1. M. Boyd (12)
...R. Murphy, J. Harbrow, D. Cross...

So, were getting to the business of the season- well, at least for SuperCoach. One more round before the finals.

And this round got off to a real humdinger, a draw between the Saints and Hawks, and dare I say, with a little less contraversy, could have been a Hawks win- Cue the Hawks fans predicting September glory... Anyways, the game, Hodge top scored with a great 149. Burgoyne rewarded his owners with a 130 while Sewell rounded out the top3 with a 127. It seems Ive lost my "Roo wont break 100 til round 20" bet, with the big man scoring a 106. Maybe one more week and bringing him in for the finals. Looks like we might be picking up a few bargins through the finals. Namely, Dal Santos 77 and Montagnas 49 will see them both drop significantly from their current $600k pricetag, while in the backline a 45 to Gilbert will raise a few eyebrows.

Saturday rolled around and went off with a pair of thumpings. Firstly, a Dane Swan 190 lead the Pies to absolutely cream the Tigers. Holey, pencil in 3 votes for him mate! Macaffer did suprisingly well with a 150 while Didak tabled a 141. Really, it was all Collingwood, with only one Tiger, Morton, who scored above 100. Not too many suprises considering the score line, but for the Martin owners it was a little sad to see him score only 50.

And next up, the Cats missed doubling the lions by 1 point. This time, Selwood led the way with a great 175 off 41 touches. Bravo to all of you who picked his as captain. Milburn got a great 145, while Gaz returned to his Perma captain roots, with a 144. Worryingly though, it took him kicking 5 goals to do it! Personally, I liked having a chance to compare Rockliff to Pods- With the Pod getting ahead early, it good to see the Lobster getting a game back with his 101 to Pods 70.

Saturday night saw the Bombers fall over the line against a valant Roos outfit by 3 points. However it was the Swallow who took the cream as the highest scorer with a 156. Watson and Greenwood took...

Bloody hell, what a game! The amount of talking points to come out of this game will be huge.

The surface will be brought up again, but that interchange decision that killed the Hawks. boy oh boy, makes for an interesting week in footy.

Figured I would be a shoe-in with my <a href="http://www.iscent.com.au">iScent[/url] pick of Franklin considering his 5 goals- but what was I thinking going against old faithful Hodge- or even Goddard.

Man, big week already!

Round 17 already?  And Collingwood on top of the ladder?  I cant think how unbelievable both sound!
Sorry this didnt come up yesterday, had a very full-on day at work.

Best Buys advice for the week: If you are out of the finals and by trading you can make the finals with zero trades, then do it, rather than missing out because you saved them.  So yeah, most of us have 4 trades, but useless these are if you cant make the finals.

Ill try some different tips over the break

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This week I dont think I will need to bother with assessing downgrade trades (I havent been brilliant with that analysis all year if you take my stances on Rockliff and Podsiadly - though I think I have got Farmer, Davis and Henderson right).  If you need to get cash, get the most you can and dont rely on the player you downgrade to play too many matches.

So that leaves pretty much upgrades that we will need to make, or sideways trades, at two different levels.

One is Premium.  The absolute best you can get, regardless of cost.
The second is Value.  The best you can get for the price.  I will try to put some levels in there 400-500, 500+.

OK, all sounds good so lets get into it.

DEFENCE
Premium options: I think most here would have Goddard and Hodge, and probably Malceski.  Lake is clearly the option to improve into, even though hes a touch more costly than Id like.
Value option 400-500k: In form youd have to say Stiffy Johncock, with maybe some Ben love for Scotland.  Enright and Gilbert are really cheap after a few average games.  Are teams now targeting them?
Value option 500+: Lake

MIDFIELD:
Premium Options: Thinking we all have Ablett, Goddard, Hodge and Chapman, the next line of 4 on average PPG I think would make for good entry into any team: Judd, Swan, Montagna and Selwood.
Value 400-500: For MPP alone, Gilbee and Pavlich are interesting swing options.  Most would have these two here, and though I do stress midfield is not an area...

When a mummy team and a daddy team love each other very much... Team happen.

So, teams are out and every trade is becoming like gold. So its a welcome relief that we are seeing some big ins this week. Namely with the names Franklin, Hall and Johnson should bolster a lot of forwardlines.

Sadly though for the people that held him, Hille still isnt back, but he should be back next week.

Any last minute downgrades would have to be happy with the inclusion of Kyle Hardingham and the continued selection of Ashley Smith. Theres also a pair of Freo youngins that should be worth a lookin.

Personally though, Im a little sad that Crichton is getting a game this year- I had him pencilled in for my squad next year!

IN: Franklin, Nason, Johnson, Hall, Gray, Bock
OUT: Peterson, Shaw, Silvagni

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FRIDAY JULY 23St Kilda v Hawthorn
Etihad Stadium @ 7.40pm

St Kilda
B: Zac Dawson, Jason Blake, Sam Gilbert
HB: Jason Gram, Sam Fisher, James Gwilt
C: Brendon Goddard, Nick Dal Santo, Farren Ray
HF: Clinton Jones, Justin Koschitzke, Leigh Montagna
F: Andrew McQualter, Nick Riewoldt, Stephen Milne
Foll: Michael Gardiner, Lenny Hayes, Adam Schneider
I/C: Jack Steven, Ben McEvoy, Brett Peake, Sean Dempster
Emg: Adam Pattison, Jarryn Geary, Rhys Stanley

In: Dal Santo, McEvoy
Out: Adam Pattison, Jarryn Geary

Hawthorn
B: Brent Guerra, Stephen Gilham, Thomas Murphy
HB: Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Ben Stratton
C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Clinton Young
HF: Chance Bateman, Lance Franklin, Shaun Burgoyne
F: Cyril Rioli, Jarryd Roughead, Michael Osborne
Foll: Brent Renouf, Luke Hodge, Brad Sewell
I/C: Campbell Brown, Xavier Ellis, Wayde Skipper, Brendan Whitecross
Emg: Rick Ladson, Jordan Lisle, Shane Savage

In: Franklin
Out: Carl Peterson (wisdom teeth)

SATURDAY JULY 24Collingwood v Richmond
MCG @ 2.10pm

Collingwood
B: Nick Maxwell, Simon Prestigiacomo, Ben Reid
HB: Harry OBrien, Tyson...

Hi guys,

With all the chatter revolving around the imminent return of the worlds greatest football league (bar AFL) re-commencing in less than a month; it is time to get into one of the many SuperCoach off season games; Fantasy English Premier League, or FEPL for short.

This year, TS has 2 leagues running. One is a head to head type format where you play off against an opponent each week and collect 3 points for the win, 1 for a draw and none for a loss with the highest points after week 38 crowned the winner, and the other league is the traditional system where the winner is the team that scores most fantasy points after week 38.

League codes are classic: 32457-12154 and H2H: 32457-12169, and the site you need to go to is <a href="http://fantasy.premierleague.com/">here.[/url] Then simply just sign up, create your team and enter those 2 leagues.

Each week we will have a post up with information and advice, fixtures and weekly tipping predictions, injury/suspension news, global issues (eg: 2 games in one week), live TV schedule, etc and as we get closer to the first game, I will post a rate my team entry. If there is anything you guys want to see in these posts, let me know.

So the season starts off this year on August 14th with a big opening game of 4th vs 5th; Tottenham at home against Manchester City. This game should prove to be a cracker and will no doubt be shown live on Fox Sports at 11.45 on the Saturday night.

Other notable games for the round include newly promoted West Brom travelling to Stamford Bridge to take on the reigning champions, Chelsea (ouch...welcome to the premier league West Brom), the 2 teams in red play Sunday when Arsenal travel to Merseyside to take on Liverpool at Anfield, and finally Newcastle commence their campaign at Old Trafford against Manchester United on Monday.

I will finish this post with a joke that my lovely wife to be tells me every year and that is "Look at the table Josh, Arsenal is on top, so...