The team posted above has the top 28 most popular selections after the conclusion of the JLT series. The 29th and 30th popular selections are Brad Crouch and Jack Macrae, but we already have a full midfield line.

Rozee is the 33rd and D.Smith is the 35th most popular selection, but they are the next available forwards from the coaches' choice list so they fill out the forward line.

There are a few names in that team who might not get selected for R1, but that just makes it interesting!

Happy to consider proposals for changes in the comments below. I can see that it would be more useful to have DPP link between Burgess and Rozee for instance, instead of both on the same line.

Will definitely have another crack with either the "step-son's" or "neice's" team.
I would suggest moving Rozee/Burgess down back in place of Hore and look at someone like Willem Drew to slot in that fwd position.
What's the mail on Cavarra, is he likely to get a shot early? Bit concerned without any exposed JLT form.
Not sold on Parker and Hind tbh, can't see them generating much cash (that's if they get games early).
No Scrimshaw is a bit of a surprise, has looked ok in JLT and squeezing out 1 of the experienced defenders for him could free up cash to upgrade 1 of the questionable mids (Bewley/Hind) to a Brad Crouch.
Just a bit of food for thought (and to get some discussion going).

I'm inclined to agree with most of your suggestions Bear, but it starts to make things a bit arbitrary if we move away from the "most popular picks" approach is all that troubles me about it.

Another way to look at it is we could pick a cut-off date closer to R1 and have another look at the most popular picks then, making changes as required to this team at that time, before we lock it in.

There is no fixed number of participants for this Owen, everyone is welcome to join up. A forced 5 week ban on trading might actually be a masterstroke, because I know I burnt my trades too quickly last year's comp!

Kelli's Dragoons are in.
Like @stripey a bit nervous after last years last minute stuff, maybe your idea of the latter review Sunday afternoon mate?
Will cause challenges if we miss on some rookies, but the idea is to create the best team from a common starting point, not win SC

(nodding in agreement)
Yes, the danger of some teams having the wrong lineup is probably a greater peril than the danger of having one or two rookies that don't play in R1.

I’m in.
Thanks for organising, Jason

Don't forget to join the group:

https://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/afl/classic/#/?action=join-group&code=177853

It's more important to be in the group than in the league(s) for this comp. The main bragging rights are from finishing on top in the group, not the leagues.

Cavarra has a quad injury. Out for 3 weeks.

Still inclined to keep him in for this comp because he will play games sooner or later. Happy to discuss.

Hey does anyone remember who won this comp for 2018?

This was the last update I can find:
http://tooserious.net/forum/threads/trading-games-2018.90099/#post-206583

Maybe, @Buzzboys if you remember which login you used, check your final overall score and let us know. I’ll do the same.

With the history section I can see I won a league and also had the highest score in a league, but I can’t see anything about the group.

I finished on 51,937 pts to be ranked 1,620 overall. Unfortunately dropped in rank each of the last 3 weeks after being inside the top 1k after round 20.

How’d you finish @Buzzboys ?

From memory, I thought Buzzboys finished on top of the group last year, or was that the previous year? I certainly didn't come anywhere particularly close.