TooSerious

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Selecting your fantasy team before the season gets underway is always a tedious and time-consuming affair. It's always tricky trying to fit those big-name players into a budget that always seems just a little too small, as well as looking for that diamond in the rough that no one else will have in their side, but you have a feeling it's their time to shine.

Quite often, many people will have the same top-tier stars and it's usually the breakout players that tend to make the difference between winning and losing. We're talking about young talent that is about to have their best season yet, someone that is on the verge of unleashing their full potential upon the league. Predicting who these new game changers are going to be is no easy task, but if you can manage to pick them correctly, the rewards for your team will be massive. There are several things to consider when scouting for one of these players, so let's take a look at a few viable candidates that could be ready to explode in 2018.

Howdy gang,

I thought instead of using this thread to bask in the afterglow of my fourth ORFFL Premiership, I'd look towards the incipient future and post all the details and relevant info for the upcoming 2018 season ORFFL VII. So here goes:

2018 Pre-Preseason Draft Trade Period - Now to Feb 21st 9pm AEDT
2018 Preseason Delistment Deadline (down to 20 or less) - Feb 24th 9pm AEDT
2018 Preseason Draft - Mon Feb 27th 0:00AM till finished
2018 Post-Preseason Trade Period - End of draft to Tuesday 20th 9pm AEDT

If anyone disagrees say something. Also, thanks @stripey .

TRADES
Mid-Season Trade Period
Tarwin Lower Pigs trade 2017 MSD first round pick (P16) to Ivanhoe Knightriders for their 2018 PSD fifth round pick.

Popanyinning Pyrite trade Griffin Logue to Ivanhoe Knightriders for IKR 2018 4th Rd PSD

Ivanhoe trade Heath Shaw & Brandon Goddard to Mt.Buggery for Will Setterfield, Kyle Langford and MBD 1st Rd PSD

Pre-Season Trade Period
Sarah Island trade their 2018 PSD P54 to Mallacoota for Matthew Wright and their 20018 PSD P86

Sarah Island trade Koby Stevens to Woy Woy for Luke Hodge.

Popanyinning Pyrite trade Sam Powell-Pepper to Dajarra Dragons for Tom Langdon

Woy Woy Wizards trade 2018 PSD P58 to Mt.Buggery Disappointments for Adam Tomlinson

Woy Woy Wizards trade 2018 PSD P40 to Smiths Beach Seagulls for Harley Bennell

And here be the draft order:

Spreadsheet is attached with this same draft order and lists galore. I think (e.g don't know) that all the team/player details are correct now, but I always take notes updates as they come to light. Speaking of which, if anyone want's to google spreadsheet up this OP, or add anything else, just go for it. Team effort y'all.

SPREADSHEET CLICK HERE

AFLW season 2 sees a GF rematch in Round 1 and a 7 week plus Grand Final length season, as per 2017. Expansion is set for 2019 and 2020.

The first ever AFLW prospectus is out now, and discussion has commenced about getting a draft/keeper league up and running for the 2019 season so register your ideas and interest below as needed.
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2018 Round 7 AFLW fixture
GWS vs Brisbane, Fremantle vs Carlton, WB vs Melbourne, Collingwood vs Adelaide

Too Serious AFLW Round 7 All Star Squads (those who made the 2018 AFLW All Stars in red)

Team Marinoff - E Marinoff, D Pearce, C Gum, E Blackburn, K Donnellan, J Stanton, A O'Connor, J Lambert, B Jakobssen, C Molloy, H Miller, K Loynes, S Frederick-Traub, J Wuetschner, Sarah Hosking (aka GGDoL), H Scott, J Dal Pos, B Toogood, B Lochland, T Harris (replaced in selected side by Shelley Scott)

Team Eva - A Eva, C Randall, E Kearney, K Lutkins, E King, E O'Dea, E Bates, A Farrugia, A Anderson, K Paxman, E Phillips, K Brennan, J Barclay, C Staunton (replaced in selected team by Jasmine Garner), E Antonio, D Hooker, L Pearce, J Duffin, C Edwards, N Barr

Note C Bernardi (Coll), E McKinnon (GWS) and M Downie (Melb) did not get selected for Team Marinoff or Team Eva but were selected in the 2018 AFLW All Stars

Ok, I've got the first, most important step for the upload done.

SC and AFLF are in the house.

Currently a recalc is running on them, and it hasn't finished yet so I'll check it in the morning cause it's all late and stuff.

But salaries should be in, team movements and positional changes should all be good to go.

Nobody try to auto-upload their SC Team though. That thing has no chance of working!

Finally, Brandon Ellis is a Defender this year. Get in there son!!

hey folks,
Anyone interested in setting up a cash league this season?

I'm thinking $50 entry. 18 entrants = $900 prize pool

Prizes could be split up as follows:

35% best overall score/rank - $315
30% premiership winner - $270
15% grand final loser - $135
10% (next) best overall rank, excluding above 3 prize winners - $90
6% minor premier - $54
4% 9th place - $36

Im open to suggestions for an alternative prize structure, I just whipped this up quite quickly.

AFL Fantasy also.

No Dreamteam yet though, but I'll get the site prepped to rollover to 2018 this weekend and hopefully they'll be ready to go also.

And here I was thinking that I'd be productive today!!

The Herald Sun have begun releasing changes to Supercoach positions with the first installment coming out today. Will update this as new info becomes available.

the draft is a go, Rayner is #1, Brayshaw #2 and no doubt several of these players will be featured in the first 2 rounds

http://www.afl.com.au/draft/draft-tracker

Comment below

In here for AFL off-season discussion folks.

Tell us who's training the house down, etc.

All 4 drafts were held at the same time on Sunday night.

In total, there were 180 players selected in any of the 4 drafts. 135 of them were picked up in all 4 drafts, meaning a whopping 45 of the 180 drafted players went undrafted in at least 1 league.

Giannis was close to being an undisputed #1 pick.

Full results are within...