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Not a huge week for outs this week. I think Fyfe staying in, and Howlett getting a game are the biggest bit of news.

Boyd will make a lot of people happy as well.

Oh, thats right- ABLETTS BACK! YAHOOOO!!

Also, Lucas- good thing I didnt grab Wellingham.

IN: Boyd, Melksham, Howlett, STevenson, Sheppard, Peterson, Rockliff, Rohan, Ablett, Gram, aite.
OUT: J Macdonald, JKT, Wellingham, Maguire, Hannebery, Seaby, McLean.
EXTENDED: Duncan, Rohan, Jetta, Gram, Farmer.

Also, dont forget! Weve got 56 entrants into the <a href="http://tooserious.net/?p=1087">CCC Field of women[/url]

So now that you know the teams, youve got one more day to get your entries in! Combined Chauffeured Cars are giving two tickets and a chauffeured ride to the Big Day out. So get on it!

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FRIDAY MAY 7Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
MCG @ 7.40pmMelbourneB: Cameron Bruce, Matthew Warnock, James Frawley
HB: James McDonald, Colin Garland, Clint Bartram
C: Jack Trengove, Jordie McKenzie, Jared Rivers
HF: Brad Green, Colin Sylvia, Lynden Dunn
F: Nathan Jones, Matthew Bate, Aaron Davey
Foll: Mark Jamar, Jack Grimes, Brent Moloney
I/C: Jamie Bennell, Paul Johnson, Tom Scully, Daniel Hughes
Emg: Joel Macdonald, Neville Jetta, Michael NewtonIn: Johnson, Hughes, McKenzie
Out: Joel Macdonald, Ricky Petterd (shoulder), Stefan MartinNew: Daniel Hughes (Sandringham (VFL)/rookie list)Western Bulldogs

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B: Jarrod Harbrow, Brian Lake, Dale Morris
HB: Ryan Hargrave, Tom Williams, Lindsay Gilbee
C: Ryan Griffen, Daniel Cross, Andrejs Everitt
HF: Robert Murphy, Mitch Hahn, Shaun Higgins
F: Daniel Giansiracusa, Barry Hall, Jason Akermanis
Foll: Ben Hudson, Matthew Boyd, Adam Cooney
I/C: Dylan Addison, Jarrad Grant, Brennan Stack, Jordan Roughead
Emg: Will Minson, Josh Hill, Easton WoodIn: Boyd, Stack
Out: Nathan Eagleton (leg), Brad Johnson (groin)SATURDAY MAY 8Essendon v Port Adelaide
Etihad Stadium @...

[podcast]http://tooserious.net/podcasts/round6_bestbuy.m4a[/podcast]
Welcome to TooSerious Best Buys

Round 7 and now it’s time to consider some of the Best Buys as everyone is looking to improve their teams over the next few weeks.

As discussed many times on fantasy footy forums one of the ways to build a good side is to initially select a sample of rookie players and upgrade your starting team once the rookies gain value.

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The usual way this is completed is by selling a rookie once they approach their maximum value, down to another rookie who can in turn go up in value.

The cash increase you gain from this rookie sell down, commonly referred to as a Cash Cow, allows you the money to increase one of your current starters into a better player.

From Round 7-12 is probably the main time for upgrading your team, because this is a time when rookies peak in their value, and can then be sold.

Facilitating the best Cash Cows requires a few points to be noted.

1) Try not to pay full price for a player at any time. There’s generally a discounted player available, so look for them first.
2) Ensure your downgrade reasons are clear. If you are looking for maximum cash and you don’t need bench coverage from a rookie, choose one of the sub $100,000 players. If you need bench coverage, you might need to think about getting a player who can play multiple positions in your team, or someone slightly more expensive but will give peace of mind.
3) Keep an eye on the players who have played their 2nd game. This is the last week you can downgrade a current maxed out rookie to them before their price rises. By trading into players in this week, you can save yourself $60,000 to be used on upgrading your team. The TooSerious site keeps track of these players on the Stats tab, under the Fresh Meat heading.
4) Try not to sell a champion at their lowest point. If they have had a few issues in recent weeks, then think if there...

Ohhh! Lookee! Pink!
Why could that be?

In honour of the Field of Women Round of course!

Heres where Im going to remind you about the competition were running thanks to the awesome Combined Chaffeured Cars - The CCC Field if Women Competition. Inventive naming, yes? Go <a href="http://tooserious.net/tipping.php?page=tipping&display=tipping_SC_players">here[/url] and pick the players you think will get the highest SuperCoach score for each game and youll be in the running to win the awesome prize provided by Combined Chauffeured Cars - 2 tickets to the Big Day Out for you and your signifigant other with a chauffered ride to get you there.

Also, to remind you (in case you didnt get to the end of my last diatribe) that were also using this opportunity to support the Breast
Cancer Network Australia. For the first 100 people who enter the comp, well be donating a dollar to the <a href="http://www.bcna.org.au/">Breast Cancer Network Australia[/url]. If a woman wins the competition? Well be doubling that donation.

Wed also like you to consider donating to the cause yourselves, either by <a href="http://tooserious.net/?page=donate">making a donation to us[/url] and letting us know that youd like us to pass it on on your behalf or by donating directly <a href="http://www.bcna.org.au./store/component/virtuemart/?page=shop.browse&category_id=1&vmcchk=1">here[/url]. Like I said to Walesy the other day, if our daughter or myself gets breast
cancer, the last thing were going to regret is giving too much...
Its a great cause peoples.

~jo

Well, it seems were bigger than were allowed to be.

Im currently negotiating a new server which should make us faster, and also not suspended.

Ill let you guys know the deal when I do.

Alright, now I get a lot of questions asked.

Many of them more frequent than others. Well, its gotten to the point where I need to put together an FAQ for the site.

But before I tell you all what I think you need to know, Im curious to find out what your questions are?

So drop one in the comments- And Ill more than likely get it into the FAQ.

(Really, Im just struggling to come up with questions. Ive got:
1. How do I upload my team(s).
2. What is a Breakeven.
3. What does a Real Value do?
4. How is it that youre so ruggedly good looking?
5. When are you going to fix [so and so]?

Surely there is more right?

Michael Barlow is on track to become the first player to win a Brownlow Medal in his debut season since Brad Hardie achieved the feat in 1985 (Haydn Bunton is the only other player to accomplish this when he took home Charlie in his first year back in 1931.)

The similarities between Barlow and Hardie are quite remarkable.  Both were 22 at debut.  Hardie was drafted by Footscray from South Fremantle, whilst Barlow obviously went to Fremantle from Werribee (surely near Footscray???).

In any case, if its been done before, it can happen again.  Barlows 3 votes on the weekend takes him 2 in the clear of Ablett, and 4 in the clear of Hodge and Pendlebury who are now sitting in equal 3rd on 7 votes.

The bookies are slowly coming around too, with odds in the last two weeks going from $126 to $81 to $34....do yourself a favour: GET ON HIM!

All votes over the page...

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Dogs v Saints
3. J. Harbrow (3)
2. L. Hayes (3)
1. L. Gilbee (3)
....Giansiracusa, Goddard, Cooney

Roos v Dees
3. A. Swallow (3)
2. D. Wells (5)
1. S. Thompson (1)
....Firrito, Adams, Anthony

Crows v Power
3. R. Gray (3) - Guaranteed 3 of the week
2. K. Cornes (5)
1. D. Cassisi (1)
....Johncock, Porplyzia, Pearce

Dons v Hawks
3. J. Watson (5)
2. N. Lovett-Murray (3)
1. J. Winderlich (1)
....Stanton, Fletcher, Hurley

Swans v Lions
3. D. Bradshaw (5)
2. K. Jack (2)
1. J. Bolton (2)
....OKeefe, Banfield, Malceski

Cats v Tigers
3. J. Selwood (3)
2. P. Chapman (3)
1. S. Johnson (1)
....Tuck, Podsiadly, Enright

Blues v Pies
3. D. Swan (6)
2. C. Judd (6)
1. L. Ball (1)
....Pendlebury, Wellingham, Murphy

Eagles v Dockers
3. M. Barlow (11)
2. B. Ebert (2)
1. P. Duffield (3)
....Mundy, Pavlich, Hasleby

[span style="text-decoration: underline">Leaderboard
11. M. Barlow
9. G. Ablett
7. L. Hodge
6. S. Pendlebury, J. Brown, A. Sandilands, J. Brennan, C. Judd, D. Swan, N. Riewoldt

So, Round six, rivalry round, has come and gone. And what started with an absolute panic, has finished with a suprising amount of decent scores. One I noticed, and sorry for pointing you out, broke 2000 with Ablett, Mitchell and Rockliff sitting on the field. would have been close to 2300 had this round not been painful.

Luckily, its finally time to start cashing in our cows. Or as they say in the biz, MMOOOOOOOOO. Theres a handful of cows that are due to be led to the slaughter, and a number of delicious premiums to get into.

Anyways, the round started with a battle between two of the top4 favorites. St. Kilda and the Western Bulldogs. And what an... interesting... game it was. About a kajillion disposals, under 100 points scored. Gilbee top scored in the game with a 153. Hargrave looks to have bottomed out. Looking pretty delicious at under $400k. Robbie Murphy bounced back with a 73 so his owners would be crossing their fingers for another good game from him next week. Higgins disappointed, but not as much as B. Hall who was held to 6 touches for one goal. He would have lost so cash, so if youve got a spare trade this week, it might be time to upgrade him.

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Saturday saw North Melbourne take on Melbourne. Jamar continued with his ripping for knocking up a ton. As did Petterd, hitting a solid 76, and breaking the $400k mark. Trengove and Scully did enough with 60s each, but will be approaching slaughterpoint if they cant put up a decent score next week. Meanwhile, Sylvia disappointed along with Harvey and Cunnington, who isnt coming out as the cashcow we all dreamed for. Currently his BE is worse than many of the options youd trade down to him.

The other game on Satuday was the Showdown. Which saw D. Rodan continue his post-knee form with another ton on the board, but it was Robbie Gray who impressed the most, rewarding those patient coaches with a solid 127. But there was a lot to not like about this game....

Seems that Gary Ablett is out!

So last minute panicing is the modus operandi.

Its not so much what to do trading wise I wanted to discuss, but a topic that I havent thought about in a while. Non Ablett Captaincy.

One of the first things I do is go to the <a href="http://tooserious.net/example.php?page=gameday">TooSerious Live Scores pages[/url]. Click on the Pre game options. This is one of the little used features of TS, but was very handy before Gaz took the world by storm.

Using it, I can see that the following should make excellent captaincy options. (In no apparent order)
Goddard, Franklin, Hodge, OKeefe, Chapman, Bartel, Judd, Pendlebury, Swan, Simpson, Pavlich

Sure, theres not much time to go, but hopefully the page helps you a little bit!

So, did we all survive midfield-gate?

Either way, its too late now!

I guess the rumours of Gia running around with a broken rib were a little... exaggerated.

I gotta say though, those sainters are good at keeping the score down, arent they!

Also, Ive been screwing around in the code and have set something up you might like.

A delay feature on the live scoring. Currently its in its test phase, but if you want to see it in action, pull up the live score page.

Once there, add (&delay=60) to the URL and press enter.

Alternatively, you could just go here: http://tooserious.net/example.php?page=gameday&delay=60

Now any game you view will be delayed by 60 minutes - so set that timer to your liking! Ill figure out a better way to set it up in the future, but until then, we can test it this way. Now I can finally watch the stats and the game at the same time!

Also, adding &refresh=60 will make the page automatically refresh every 60 seconds.

Well, its official. My worst start to tipping...ever. And we have another really hard week here. Good luck, youll need it.

Friday April 30
Western Bulldogs v St Kilda at Etihad Stadium, 7.40pm Top Scorer: Daniel Cross, 132

Saturday May 1
North Melbourne v Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, 2.10pm
Adelaide v Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, 2.40pm
Essendon v Hawthorn at the MCG, 7.10pm
Sydney Swans v Brisbane Lions at the SCG, 7.10pm

Sunday May 2
Geelong Cats v Richmond at Skilled Stadium, 1.10pm
Carlton v Collingwood at the MCG, 2.10pm
West Coast v Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, 2.40pm

No Riewoldt, no Saints? No quite, but they havent looked quite as solid without him in the last two weeks. Bulldogs will be desperate to stamp themselves as premiership contenders, which they have failed to do so far in the regular season. Melbourne-can they win another? North were lucky to win against an insipid Hawks outfit last week. Im giving the Crows one last chance, as the Power will be sore after the Saints and we all know the Crows get up for the Showdowns. Essendon are looking like a bottom 2 side, and should be smashed by the Hawks (watch out for Buddy, especially without Pears!) Swans havent faced much opposition, but Im hoping they can get over the Lions, coming off a disappointing game against the Dees. Cats V Richmond, do I have to explain??? Carlton were great against the Cats, but big game fever may strike again, and the Pies are simply a better side. Freo have had an awesome start, and hold the wood over the Eagles in derbies.