So, Ive gone with the idea that because my team is off the rails, Im gunna try out this MPP thing to see how useful it proves as the season rolls on. Maybe even get an idea for how its going to work out next year.

To that end, Im going to need to post *exhales* my team. Feel free to level as many "thats crap" comments as you want, but try to be gentle cause I hurt easy and I carry a big ol banhammer.

Team over the break
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Hodge, Goddard, Malceski, Hurn, Enright, Kelly, Waters
Gram, Davis

Albett, Selwood, Barlow, Ball, Scully, Martin
Farmer, Shuey

Naitanui, Hille
Warnock, Lobbe

Pavlich, Grundy, Brown, OKeefe, Higgins, LeCras, Gumbleton
Hitchcock, Rohan

So, the current team has a smattering of M/Ds in the backline with Farmer in the mids.

Davis in the Backline and Grundy up forward.

And finally, Rohan and other F/Ms up forward, with a missing M/F link in the mids. But Goodes is calling.

Sadly, I think Im a couple of cashcows short of making it work. Podsiadly in for Hitchcock would have made a world difference, while Shuey being someone who made money would also have been nice.

So, with 13 trades left- Im thinking that Ive got 6-7 trades to finish the team- then hope that the MPP can cover zeros for a while.

One thing Im going to need to do is to downgrade Gram, in the teams perfect mode, hes redundant.

So, we refactor the team to perfect mode.

Hodge, Goddard, Grundy, Malceski, Hurn, Enright, Kelly
Waters*, Gram (downgrade) *Waters is essential covering for both Mids and Def.

Ablett, Selwood, Barlow, Ball, Martin (upgrade), Scully (Goodes)
Shuey, Farmer

Rucks

Pavlich, Brown, OKeefe, Higgins, Lecras, Hitchcock, Gumbleton
Rohan, Davis

So, as you can see, If Hitchcock was Pods- and Shuey was actually making cash, I would have the downgrade potential to turn Gumbleton in someone better. As it stands now, its going to make it difficult to secure the funds to upgrade Gumby. So Im probably going to have to go very cheap with my upgrades.

That said though, an injury in the backline can be replaced with Waters.

An injury in the Mids would be covered by Goddard, with Waters covering in the backline.

An injury in the forwards would be covered by Grundy, with Waters covering the backline.

So while technically its going to leave me with 10 trades and needing to upgrade Gumby and Hitchcock, I think with a little luck, Ill get those guys up and have the abliity to use all of my bench players to cover every line.

So what Im hoping to find out based on this, is exactly what benefits that will have on my team throughout the year. How many zeros it saves me from, and exactly how many more points it allows me to score- as opposed to if I traded in my players on a purely positional basis.