I'm not sure there can be much more said on the topic , unless a coach has not put his thoughts forward. Could be a good time to collate the data and post a vote
My suggestion would be, reduce each squad to 26 players, keep the emergency setup as is, but reduce the onfield interchange scorers from 2 to 1. And remove the 4 list changes a year rule.
Hey all, please don't take my lack of input in here as a lack of interest, it's just I don't have anything great to add. I am happy with the current way things are. If it changes because that's what the majority wants, then I am onboard with that as well. If it was easy enough to change the back end software, I would love the option for a flex player, perhaps something to consider next year.
While we're in the middle of the draft, I've just had a thought for another rule change opportunity. I still think that all picks should remain active and tradable, but every time that issue gets brought up it gets shot down again. So, how about in-draft delisting? The AFL seem to be dragging out SSP and other list finalisation for as long as they can, which effects us in some way too. To allow for this, I'm proposing that any coach can delist a player at any point during the draft (up until the final pick is taken), and will then be given a pick after the last pick in the draft. Each delisted player would need to be named in the delistments thread, and if there's multiple cases of this then the order of delistment is the order of the new end-of-draft picks being made available. My thought is that the player wasn't hoarded, because any other coach could have traded for that player if they really wanted to. Its also unlikely that the player is a star, because who delists such a player anyway? But it does provide for some more flexibility to later in the pre-season, where an LTI or something may effect team balance, or there may be a FA player that shines during pre-season matches (if the draft lasts that long), and a coach want's to take a chance on him, but has to give up on one of their current listed players to do so. Obviously no team would be able to go over 28 players on their list, so the delistment would have to occur prior to the draft pick, which means that any other current live picks could also take the targeted player (its a risk), and even pick up the newly-delisted player (another risk), leaving the coach at a loss. So yes, I'm proposing in-draft delisting, and an end-of-draft pick as compensation.
People already take long enough when the options are "take a pick" and "trade". And yes, it's possible that a player gets picked then injuries happen or the AFL do something bizarre and a new option arises that wasn't there at the start of the draft. But on delists specifically, we get 4-5 months between end of season and the end of delist time for PSD.
yes, but... In-Draft delisting will not slow down the existing draft, it will only add picks to the end of the draft. Much of that 4 months sees little-to-no activity at all. Do you ever get to the end of the draft, see a player or two available, and think "if I had another pick now, I'd take that guy"? Well I do, and sometimes I'd like the opportunity to get rid of one of my players that I probably only held onto for sentimental reasons, and take the player I'm eying off, who somehow has made it all the way through the draft without any of the other 17 coaches noticing him. Because drafting is fun, and I'd love for there to be more of it.
Well I tend to disagree with that......if you held onto him for sentimental reasons......then you had 3-4 months to decide to get rid of him before the Draft and that would have given you that extra Pick you needed to get that player you were eyeing off. So I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.... And I'm against Trading during the Draft too but definitely the minority there.
Would holding the draft later help? Seems i need to enter my carlton and richmond players on 12/03 and the rest 13/03. My draft was over on 14/02. I can understand trying to get the draft done by opening round, but draft starting on 27/02 likely gets that done.
I reckon we’re doing it well. The timing of the draft (before pre-season games) raises the speculation and intrigue about who’s being trialled in a different role, who’s “burning up the track” etc. Makes it more difficult and more fun to figure out what’s real and what’s just “smoke and shadows behind the mirrors” as the “great” Travis Cloke once opined. I don’t like the idea of delisting during the draft to add sliders - I think this would be a fun addition but would water down the MSD pool too much.
Not much of one. A lot of the MSD nowadays is picking top up players and players who proved themselves in rounds 1-12 or whenever it is now.
Hmm. But therein lies the skill. The decision of who to hold onto, in exchange for not taking a pick, and who to drop so you can take a pick.