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Alright boys and girls,

The <a href="http://textoutsms.com.au/">TextOutSMS TooSerious Leagues[/url] are FULL!

However, its turns out that there is still a bit of interest in creating an extra league. So heres the plan.

Because its getting real close to the cutoff point, I dont want to start the league until I know we have 15 people willing to participate.

So, if you want in, then comment in here and Ill chalk you up as interested. Well work it out from there.

While Im talking leagues, let me remind you that the <a href="http://www.sideways.com.au/">Sideways Cup[/url] is open to everybody.

All you need to do is plug your Supercoach ID into the Supercoach Ref field on the Accounts screen to be in the running.

Now, Ive noticed that a couple of people seem to have entered invalid details (either the whole URL, or a number that looks much too high) - So a reminder on what to do (cause I dont want anyone missing out!)

- Log OUT of your supercoach team, and go here: <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/?p=topcoaches">http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/?p=topcoaches[/url]
- Search for your team.
- Copy the link to your team into a program like Notepad or something.
- grab the tid (The bolded bit in: http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/?p=other_teams&tid=24&lid=1 )
- enter that number into the SuperCoach Ref on the Accounts tab.
And youre done!

EDIT - Latest teams are over the break (click more)

Alrighty, its the last weekend of footy before lockout. Meaning this is our last chance to see anything before getting our team locked in for the year.

Also, its this week that is usually a good indicator on what a team thinks their best 18 will look like.

So the final challenge matches are out, lets see what weve got.

BRISBANE LIONS V HAWTHORN


<blockquote>Brisbane Lions
1. Mitch Clark, 2. Albert Proud, 4. Travis Johnstone, 5. Brendan Fevola, 6. Luke Power, 7. Jed Adcock, 8. Matt Austin, 9. Ashley Mcgrath, 10. Daniel Rich, 11. Justin Sherman, 12. James Hawksley, 14. Brent Staker, 16. Jonathan Brown, 17. Jared Brennan, 18. Todd Banfield, 20. Simon Black, 21. Daniel Merrett, 22. Tom Collier, 23. Matthew Leuenberger, 24. Joel Patfull, 29. Andrew Raines, 30. Jack Redden, 31. James Polkinghorne, 32. Cheynee Stiller, 33. Amon Buchanan, 35. Michael Rischitelli, 36. Matt Maguire, 38. Tom Rockliff, 39. Josh Drummond.
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There are some definite rookie priced options on the table up in Queensland. Itll be great to get a look at their gametime this weekend.



<blockquote>Hawthorn
2. Jarryd Roughead, 3. Jordan Lewis, 4. Rick Ladson, 5. Sam Mitchell, 6. Josh Gibson, 7. Michael Osborne, 8. Xavier Ellis, 10. Chance Bateman, 15. Luke Hodge 18. Brent Guerra, 19. Jarryd Morton, 20. Rhan Hooper, 23. Lance Franklin, 25. Ryan Schoenmakers, 26. Liam Shiels, 27. Stephen Gilham, 28. Garry Moss, 29. Tom Murphy, 30. Campbell Brown, 31. Matthew Suckling, 34. Brent Renouf, 39. Ben Stratton, 41. Taylor Duryea, 42. Wayde Skipper, 45. Jarrod Kayler-Thomson, 48. Carl Peterson.</blockquote>

Lewis and Ladson not being injured makes for some great news for Hawk fans.

JKT should be on our radars as well!

CARLTON v ADELAIDE
<blockquote>Carlton
1. Andrew Walker, 2. Jordan Russell, 3. Marc Murphy, 4. Bryce Gibbs, 5. Chris Judd, 6. Kade...

Time and time the question comes up- What the heck are we suppposed to do about rucks this year?

Never before have we been this spoiled for choice in the rucks. It was lock in Cox and the flavor ruck of choice, and its gangbusters from there.

This year, weve a great supply of premium rucks to chose from, all with their unique downsides, and nice handful of bargain rucks- who as with all players returning from injury, look to carry their own risks.

Tonight we have myself, lucas and last years SuperCoach Chris weighing in on the discussion over the break.

(And read the post under this one for a league update as well as a brand new FREE competition!)

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So, its a tough topic tonight, so I think Ill weigh in first.

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When Lucas first raised this as a topic to discuss, my initial plan was to mock up a gag dartboard, complete with each of the "choose-able" rucks displayed, and Port Adelaides Daniel Bass on the outside- Its just that hard a topic.

Sadly my mad skillz in paint arent quite as mad as I had hoped and that gag will never see the light of day.

The good news is that youll get a serious response from me.

Now, I figured the two ways to take this discussion is to discuss the three viable rucking strategies available.

Firstly, let me say- those of you with the plan to run with two bargain rucks and a prayer- I wish you guys luck, I dont think I would ever have a cajones to do such a thing. Plus I definitely see better value in mid-priced players in every other position. Though if you do do it, either plan to start with Tippett, or look to upgrade to Petrie in that forward line!
- The players from this category I would count as Ottens, Hille, Naitanui, White, Seaby, Mumford, Leuenberger, Warnock and now Skipper

Next, we come to the Set and Forget. Here we have two premiums *hopefully* batting out the entire year for you. I say hopefully because we all saw what happened last year in the rucks! This strategy,...

So, the league codes have been sent. Were now officially closed off to making any new leagues.

We have three TooSerious50 leagues and one TooSerious20 League.

Currently, we have 7 openings left in the TooSerious50 league, and 6 unpaid positions.

In the TooSerious20 league, we currently have 1 unpaid position.

So get those payments in guys! I would hate to have to bump you for someone else!!

Now, we have some big news. The TooSerious leagues now have a sponsored grand final prize.
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So I will now be refering to them as the TextOutSMS TooSerious Leagues.

The good people over at <a href="http://textoutsms.com.au/">TextOutSMS[/url] have been kind enough to offer 1000 free SMSs to the grand final winners of the TooSerious50 leagues, and 400 free SMSs to the grand final winners of the TooSerious20 league.

So get over there and have a look, they offer some fantastic deals with SMS.

So thank you!


Now, to all of you who have read down this far, I would like to announce a new competition.

A free, sponsored competition by the good folks down at <a href="http://www.sideways.com.au">Sideways - Radio Controlled, Dirt Racing, Road Racing, Drift Cars, Crawl Cars, Slot Cars | Racing[/url]

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So, the fine folk down at sideways have offered a corporate package for ten people, worth $500 to the winner of the Sideways Cup.

So, what is the Sideways cup, and how do you enter?

The beauty of the Sideways cup is that it will operate outside of the SuperCoach leagues.

To enter, simply log into your TooSerious account, click on the account tab and enter your Supercoach number into the SuperCoach ref field (Then save).

What is your supercoach number I...

So, just the two seen games this week, but Ill try to post anything I find on the challenge games

Though I hear that the Collingwood/Richmond game was essentially a seconds mate. Ball cleaned up though- as he should have.

Tonight, the Doggies snuck over the line against Port.

It was great to finally get a look-in at Gray. And man, slow down mate! You dont need everyone to jump on board!

The biggest stories would have had to have been BBBBBH (The extra B is for BBB) and Higgins though.

Baz is looking freaking great with that Doggies midfield delivering to him. I can see him fighting for a spot in my squad with Murphy as the bargain-priced forward whos expected to go down throughout the year.

And Higgins. 62 points in a half of football. Not a bad return!

What do we think about Banner, Hitchcock and Moles? Any other them do enough to cement a spot in your squad?

Banner still has a lot of chips left from his last two performances for mine.

Ah well, bring on the Dockers! Lets see what Barlow can pull out against an awesome Saints outfit. Or if Morabito can do anything to redeem himself!


Oh, and just quickly, Im currently bringing in the last guy for the $20 league. But there will be a big post this weekend about the leagues. Happy news.

Alright, its ugly, and it may or may not help you, but its up for general consumption.

The Season Ticker. Just click the ticker tab and youll see it in all its technicoloured glory. (ps- if someone wants to suggest less obnoxious colours, feel free- Ive gone with generic colours to start with.)

Anyways, the nuts and bolts of things.

Firstly, its based on the last 12 weeks of games. So it will change week by week.
Its based on the positions provided by the prospectus- not by Virtual Sports- So Im hoping that adds to its accuracy.
It rates things based on a teams performance in relation to every other team. So if a team has come up against a firing Cox twice within the 12 games, its going to rate them harshly.

So, I havent had too much of a play- but at first glance, I can see that Geelong looks nice- while the Hawks look to have an ugly start.

Meanwhile, Cox look a tasty prospect from day 1 while Fremantles defenders and mids might find themselves in for a little pain at the start.

One thing of interest. Sydney crushed rucks last year. I wonder if that is a game style thing, or a Jolly thing- and I wonder if that will translate to Collingwood?

Anyways, have a play. Let me know what you think about it.

OK its time to put something out there for discussion and its a further refinement of a ranking system I devised earlier.  Its still got some tweaks needed, but effectively it rates players on their 2009 efforts, takes into account price and score fluctuations (generally the more consistent the better), uses some durability data from 2008-2009, and tests this against the 2010 price.

Ive tried to keep this system out of my hands as much as possible and let stats do the talking, but in any system there must be bias.  Mine is probably the players overall performance and 2009 (as distinct from 2008) performance.  If you didnt play 2009, too bad.  (It means youre in line for the 2nd year blues!  Haha!).  Note also that I have not taken into account such things as preseason injuries or suspensions leading into the 2010 season.  Effectively these stats could have come out the day the price points were reached for the 2010 SuperCoach year.

To regular watchers of price valuations and the consistent players, the results probably wont shock you much.  I will list the top 20 in overall (out of 1000 points), then the top 5 in each category I rated them on (Scoring Consistency, Price Consistency, Value, Durability and Captaincy Suitability).

[span style="text-decoration: underline">[span style="color: #ff0000">OVERALL
1) JIMMY BARTEL 871
2) Brett Kirk 866
3) Nick Riewoldt 852
4) Chris Judd 851
5) Ryan OKeefe 845
6) Marc Murphy 843
7) Jude Bolton 842
8) Joel Corey 841
9) Brendon Goddard 839
=10) Daniel Cross 837
=10) Joel Selwood 837
12) Luke Power 831
=13) Simon Black 829
=13) Leigh Montagna 829
=13) Corey Enright 829
16) Brett Deledio 827
17) Shane Tuck 826
=18) Dane Swan 824
=18) Cameron Bruce 824
20) Nick Dal Santo 823

Scoring Consistency (/100)
1) Gary Ablett (OA23) 100
2) Leigh Montagna 99
=2) Dane Swan 99
4) Chris Judd 98
=4) Marc Murphy 98

Price Consistency (/100) - (Showing only top 10o players only...

Holla all.

Live scoring is updated to the next round of the NAB.

Ive also put in a feature that will allow you to go to past or future rounds. Which will prolly go alright.

I am stoked to get another chance to see the Hawks, Coasters, Ports, Sydney, Kangers and Freo- In fact, I think 21 of my current list is playing, so that makes me smile.

Tonight we have the Hawkers lining up against the Doggies. Should be one *hell* of a match.

Can Buddy do what he did last week against *not* Richmond. And hows the Hawks midfield going to hold up against some real quality opposition. (Sorry Richmond. )

And a Bulldogs gameplan when *not* playing in a swamp- how will that work?

Theres a lot of potential premiums out there tonight, and I know Ive got 5 of them playing. Lets see how they are used.

So, ive been asked, hows the SuperCoach leagues going?

So, heres the official update.

Ill be sending out the league codes next weekend. Ill also be closing off any new leagues at that time, so well have a definite list on how many leagues well be running.

Currently the leagues are running as follows.

TooSerious50 Leagues- 26 people, plus whichever writers we get in.
So essentially, 2 leagues. Maybe a third if we can get enough signing up.

TooSerious20 leagues- 13 people, 2 places left.

LeagueOfLeagues- 9 people have applied. Since I havent had any solid details on in yet, Im thinking Ill send out the league code next weekend and we can work out payments from then.

So get in peoples. We want to fill these leagues. So if you have anyone you can get in, then get them in!

Also, Im thinking Ive got a DreamTeam league. So Im thinking, if any of the regulars here has a free league open, drop me a line- Ill send out the league code.

For details on how to join the leagues, or for a more detailed description on each of them, please, read <a href="http://tooserious.net/?p=715">over here[/url].

Also, just a quick note on the EPL- Im imagining that everyone is swimming in more cash than they need? Cause with the AFL season arcing up, Im losing the inspiration to keep it up to date. Anyone want me to keep going? Still trying my darnedest in that iinet comp-though its not looking great for us. Darn Whirlpool!

Why use TooSerious?

So, why is TooSerious one of the biggest fantasy football support sites on the internet?

To answer that, youve got to ask yourself the following question: What makes for a good year in Supercoach?

Two things play a huge part in your year.
1) Your starting squad.
2) How well you trade throughout the year.

So, how can we help? Well firstly- your starting squad. We have made it our duty to provide excellent analysis of which premium players will do you well, which mid priced players look to be stepping up and which rookies will give you the best chance to cash up.

Ok, so I would love to take *all* the credit for that, but weve also got a fantastic array of writers on board as well as a fantastic community backing it up. Just take a look through the comments, any of them really, for an inciteful and intellegent discussion on Supercoach.

Now, while we offer advice, we also have a tab up the top there called stats. Under here, you can find a history of every player playing the game- as well as snapshots of how they were going in years gone by. Weve got the usual stats as well as your more fantasy specific stats like highest/lowest salary/points. Standard deviations as well as handy "average against" including a players last 3 game average over the past three weeks, against the team theyre coming up against and at the ground they will be playing at.

Now, Im hoping that that will be enough to get you a decent starting squad. But once youve got one of them, the rest of your season will come down to Team Management. Which is the area that we shine.

The first place to look is over on that stats tab. Over there, the first thing to notice would be the breakeven column. This column informs you what score a player will need to get in order to hold their current salary. Next are the salary movement fields (next round, Two Rounds, Three rounds and Movement (3 rounds)). These fields will give you a fairly accurate approximation of a...