In the midst of all this chaos, we deal with byes, at least I think we do I don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha at the moment.

Can someone please explain to me how Georgiades scored only 55 SC points, but Charlie Dixon scored 76. I’m perplexed

So far I've got Dusty, Cripps and Mitchell... and didn't have the Cap or VC on any of them. VC'd Gawn, that wasn't good. Was worried Dusty's been erratic, Cripps having a down year (physically abused most weeks), thought Mitchell might suffer a Curnow tag.
I don't have Neale as I was holding off for his price-drop.

Now having to hope Kelly (or Danger?) scores highly.

I think its disposal efficiency. During the game late on he had 3 goals and was on 36pts, but had been at 39pts a few mins earlier.

I have him in AFL Fantasy too, where disposal efficiency (or generally being good at footy) doesn't matter much, its just whoever gets tons of ball and/or kicks goals, and he scored 72 (which is pretty high, as AFLF also doesn't seem to be adjusting for shorter games, so anything above 70 is comparitive to about 90 in normal years).

Fantasy Freako covered it on Twitter:

Cheers JC... that explains it clearly. Looks like I wasn’t the only one curious if fantasy freako had to deal with it

Thanks. I had no idea they graded your acts in the game based upon how close the game was - that's pretty heavy analysis!

Its only 17 games and by round 13 St Kilda for example will have played 13 games. I can see round 14 potentially being barely a 1 day gap to round 13 (e.g. round 13 ending on a Monday, round 14 starting on a Wednesday or Thursday) and it being 6 team bye.

I'm intrigued as to how this 20 days of footy goes for net viewing figures. If the AFL find that overall spreading their games out during the week nets better figures, they'll potentially renegotiate with the broadcasters.
Think we could be seeing 5-day breaks between games become more common, Monday games, Wednesday games etc. Fantasy footy might never be the same!

Thanks @walesy... an issue I see is that the round 10 bye players are locked in the ORFFL, can’t remove them from the next rounds team

Clear your team and then re-select your available players. see if that works.
Earlier this evening, my team was still locked out as stats were only partially completed so I cleared it and then all players were available for Rd10.

It was worth a shot. I was able to clear my team but then again I didn't have any players who had the bye this Round (10)...will need the Chief to weave his magic...

Meh, this season has been a disaster for me anyway but I'm now looking at only 16 players on-field.
Benches of Stephen Hill, Gould, McInerney, Green, Xerri alongside having guys like Cerra and Bewley (who have actually been decent value) catching up with me.

But instead of chasing 18 points scorers, do I just prioritise upgrade/downgrades?
Surely Curtis Taylor to Draper (via Xerri DPP) is an obvious one.
But that also allows me to go Bewley to Oliver (via Brayshaw DPP) and Devin Smith to Skinner; makes a lot of sense?
I could afford Neale over Oliver, but thinking he's going to score more total points due to no bye. Also gives enough cash to turn Cerra into Lloyd post-bye.

Or is ok to run with Stewart and take the cheaper option? (would likely mean never getting to Lloyd and finishing with Stewart, Sicily, Ridley, Houstin, Docherty and Hill).

Draper in seems obvious given the price, ruck cover, and he's likely to play rest of the season. I had Xerri as Ruc/Fwd for that kind of flexibile move.
I could trade out Taylor, or keep him this week to try avoid playing a donut, and instead trade out Bewley, Green and McInerney? Taylor will lose cash though, I'm not sure him scoring 40pts and me losing games anyway matter over avoiding losing $.

As for second rookie trade in, Skinner is a fair bit cheaper, but I think Bell has better job security and gives me more bench flexibility?
I think Close is likely to stay in the Cats side (watched their last 2 games, he's pretty decent and composed with the footy) and I can then either hold Budarick or cash him in but have Close & Bell as mid/fwd bench cover. Is Bailey Scott a waste of money at this point?


This is the sort of thing I was thinking (and can't decide on Neale, Oliver, or even Whitifield/Coniglio for value, or Stewart/Lloyd to add to Def).
So hard to envisage ever getting to full premo now. I think it was possible this year, but you couldn't afford mistakes and I've made too many already, and its too expensive now to get likes of Petracca.