Sam Kerridge (Adel) $106,600 2011 No. 27 draft pick no games rookie Watch this, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/adelaide-2011-national-draft/story-fn4hg9de-1226220625723
<blockquote>Quote from lezyeoh on March 7, 2012, 14:59 To win SC you need good choices, good trades and a bit of luck. </blockquote> And TS. This stuff is gold!!
<blockquote>Quote from The_Swert on March 7, 2012, 13:22 What do you do if Franklin gets reported, Chapman does a hammy and Porp does his shoulder again? You're looking at donut in the forward line, but not if you have Smith/Pfeiffer/Treloar etc in the mids. Chapman moves to the mid bench and on comes the MPP to save the day. Saves you a trade/donut. And at this stage in the NAB Cup, who can say that a Stevens/Wingard will score more than a Smith/Pfeiffer? (They cost more too) </blockquote> Im tipping if that happens you will be trading one of them out because otherwise your extrememly weak in your forward line playing 3, possibly 4 or 5 (depends on how many rookies u started with onfield) rookies. Fact is that scenario is extremely unlikely to happen, and by weakening your mid bench spots for this once in blue moon scenario is downfall many seem to be tricked into. As Lucas said, it comes in handy in backend of season and around the multi bye weeks. By time they come around you can work them into your downgrades.
Extremely unlikely? You never had to deal with a donut before the bye came in? All you need is a couple of rookies to get dropped and an injury. Anyway it shall be interesting to see what we say at the end of the season. Either it will be 'i picked the best rookies and had some luck" or "it was lucky i picked some MPP players"
MPP isn't really that useful for bye rounds, unless you have a spare bench spot that you can swing a player into it isn't really that important.
If you factor in x amount of trades for injury purposes in your trading strategy then you should be covered considering there should be enough trades to cover downgrade/upgrade cycles and injuried players this season. Sideways trading is what kills teams more than anything.