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The donor team, where donors come together to put together the greatest team possible. By committee.

Great fun, so if you want to input your thoughts on the initial squad, head over to the official thread

http://tooserious.net/forum/threads/donor-team-2016.89309/#FgVsoPo5TUxv2X0I.97

What's that? Can't see the thread? Might need to hit that donate button up the top there.

You get access to the donors forum, downloadable spreadsheets of data, higher attractiveness levels to members of both sexes and various other awesome attributes from subscribing.

And there's also a pretty nifty secret new feature that will be going in this year, only available to donors (aka, the beta testing team. ) - but more details will be up on that as the season fires up.

So, it's been years and years since I've written an article about how salary movements work in this game, and you sometimes forget that not everyone has been around for the past 10 years.

Thankfully, Father Dougal from over at SupercoachTalk has put together this fantastic article on the matter.

Fecking Prices, How Do They Work?

Ok, the title isn't quite a work of art, but the contents are a fantastic refresher on some of the salary mechanics that make SuperCoach the quality product that it is. Well, well worth the read! (Even if just for the walesy cameo in the comments )

Luckily, they aren't FastasyAFLTalk though, cause Fantasy AFL's movements and their weighted scalings on past rounds is less fun to work with.

Ok, put it on the line here for fame, ridicule and all time. Extra points for bold predictions that come true.

LADDER
1. WEagles
2. Freo
3. Geelong
4. Dogs
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. Sydney
8. Richmond

9. GWS
10. Port
11. North
12. Gold Coast
13. Adelaide
14. Melbourne
15. St Kilda
16. Brisbane
17. Carlton
18. Essendon

Premiers: Hawthorn
Runner up: Eagles
Brownlow: Dangerfield
Coleman: Kennedy
Rising Star: Mills
Richmond finals wins: 0
1st Coach gone: Scott

The divisional SC leagues will be running again for TS this year. Sign up in this thread!

The SC leagues will be created based on ranking from the past two years. Post your top ranking, along with team name below, and you will be put in a league with players of similar ability.

There is a 12 day deadline - to guarantee your place in a league you will need to have posted in this thread by March the 11th.

If you have any further ideas, post them below or PM me. Don't forget the deadline!

Edit by TTH - and also don't forget to join the TS Group via http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/afl/classic/group?cic=980322

Apologies for the lack of posts this year.

We are now into the finals, so I wanted to get a post up to remind everyone of the agreed promotion and relegation rules for this season, as well as point out the situation in each league.

Firstly, remember we all decided on a different format for next season.
This:

All leagues still with 12 teams in each.
A Premier League
A Division 1 league
Any other leagues as conference leagues, could have 1, 2, 3, 4 or any ammount of these leagues which sit at the same level of the hierarchy and all feed into the Division 1 league through promotions.

We do still need to work out how many teams move between the leagues at the end of the season, but we can work that out prior to the '16/17 season.

It was decided that the promotion and relegation setup for the '15/16 season is the following:
Keep the promotion/relegation rules between Premier and Division 1 exactly the same as last season.
5 teams move from Division 1, down into the Conference leagues (allows for the wildcard to still come into play this season)
4 teams move up from Division 2 into Division 1 (same as last season)
1 team moves up from Division 3 into Division 1 (Grand final winner)

Promotion:

The 3 teams going up from Div 1 to Premier will be:
the GF winning team;
the team with the best regular season 'Points For' (excluding GF winner of course);
And (excluding 2 already promoted teams) the team with the best rank during regular season.

The 4 teams going up from Div 2 to Div 1 will be:
the two grand final teams;
and (excluding the two GF teams) the team with the best 'points for' during regular season;
and (excluding said Points For winner) the best ranked team at end of our regular season.

The team going up from Div 3 into Div 1 will be: the grand final winner

Relegation:

The 3 teams going down from Premier to Div 1 will be:
the bottom team at the end of the regular season;
and (excluding the team with the worst reg season...

So we've had a chance to see something of each team through the first round of NAB challenge matches. Always remember to take pre-season form with grain of salt!

Join in discussion, don't be shy!

Link is below, for those who are SC registered

http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/afl/classic/group?cic=980322

get in and compare team sizes

And here comes footy!!

Opening the Nab with Carlton v Hawthorn

3. Marc Murphy, 4. Bryce Gibbs, 6. Kade Simpson, 8. Matthew Kreuzer, 10. Harry McKay, 11. Sam Kerridge, 12. Blaine Boekhorst, 13. Jed Lamb, 14. Liam Jones, 15. Sam Docherty, 17. Sam Rowe, 22. Jason Tutt, 23. Jacob Weitering, 24. Mark Whiley, 30. Charlie Curnow, 31. Matthew Dick, 32. Nick Graham, 33. Andrejs Everitt, 34. Andrew Phillips, 35. Ed Curnow, 37. Daniel Gorringe, 38. Ciaran Byrne, 39. Dale Thomas, 40. Michael Jamison, 41. Levi Casboult, 42. Zach Tuohy, 43. Simon White, 45. Andrew Gallucci, 46. Matthew Wright

3. Jordan Lewis, 4. Billy Hartung, 5. Sam Mitchell, 6. Josh Gibson, 7. Ben McEvoy, 8. Taylor Duryea, 10. Bradley Hill, 11. Brendan Whitecross,13. Jonathan O’Rourke,14. Grant Birchall,15. Luke Hodge,
16. Isaac Smith,17. Angus Litherland,20. Dallas Willsmore,21. James Sicily,22. Luke Breust,23. Tim O’Brien,24. Ben Stratton,25. Ryan Schoenmakers,28. Paul Puopolo, 30. Kaiden Brand,31. Zac Webster,32. Jack Fitzpatrick,34. Kurt Heatherley,41. Daniel Howe,42. Teia Miles,43. Marc Pittonet,46. Lachlan Langford,47. Shem Tatupu,

Will be interesting to see how it's played by the clubs.

Thinking that overall, teams will play their stars in the 1st and 3rd games, with the 3rd game more closely representing the actual gameplan.

Lotta praccy matches going on at the moment, and I'm a good 8 hours away from being able to sit down and read through the reports- so if we want to start the chatter- or post any reports in here.

Go for it!

For those who take the selection of their fantasy football team seriously, you're probably already aware how the loophole works. For those who don't there is a refresher at the bottom of this article.

Explore the interpretation of "loophole value" in this analysis of the 2016 fixture.