seeing what difference good trades make

Very interesting looking at the trades made.
I feel I will have a few less ticks as I've seriously dropped down out of it as the season has gone on. curretly 1700 points off the top of our league ladder. Missing lockout for the second multibye was killer too!
Trades so far:
Round 3 - OUT Prestia ($148,600) IN Tapscott ($110,200)
OUT Hibberd ($103,600) IN Liberatore ($103,600) both fix up trades - tick
Round 4 - OUT Bewick ($133,300) IN Curnow ($206,800)
OUT Otten ($185,100) IN Smith ($123,600)(b.smith, adel) week late on curnow, but I still a good one. don't think otten to smith was great! he is still in my team at $210,600
ROUND 7
OUT Rioli ($459,800) IN Chapman ($541,400)
OUT Liberatore ($268,800) IN Iles ($121,700)
chapman is down to $403 and not the best trade as chapman has missed a lot too but not the worst as he's still averaging ok.
ROUND 8
OUT Curnow ($319,000) IN Mundy ($533,000)
OUT Duigan ($271,800) IN Jacobs ($113,600)
could have kept both duigan and curnow but someone had to be slaughtered for the one up/one down. happy with jacobs so far and was happy with mundy till the leg
ROUND 9
OUT Swallow ($332,700) IN Selwood ($526,800)
OUT Grimes ($382,700) IN Puopolo ($103,600)
grimes LTI had to happen and again v happy with selwood until the suspension!
ROUND 10
OUT Toy ($206,800) IN Adcock ($457,600)
OUT Tapscott ($264,300) IN Lynch ($138,600)
adcock big mistake. he was on fire and is now sitting on my bench injured at $370
ROUND 11
OUT Krakouer ($328,800) IN Pavlich ($499,400)
OUT Conca ($299,000) IN Mzungu ($110,200)
happy with these two so far
ROUND 12
OUT Iles ($244,000) IN Priddis ($503,700)
OUT Sandilands ($554,000) IN Vardy ($154,800)
Got rid of sandi a little late and now have my fingers crossed he doesn't come back till after the bye.
ROUND 13
OUT Selwood ($517,600) IN Boyd ($513,200)
OUT Mundy ($435,300) IN Ablett ($568,000)
most annoying so far. bringing in ablett is great, but not when it's forced from at LTI and boyd's performance on the weekend was disappointing to say the least!
only have 6 trades left which I'm quite worried about. Been a bit more aggressive with my trades in this team than my normal team and not sure it's payed off!

 

Wow Unbelievable Round of Scoring

Trading Games team – 2677
(with Pav Capt instead of G Jnr – OUCH!!)
I hope that doesn't cost me the weekly best score!!

16 Players over 100
Failures (if I can call them that!!)
Sylvia 65, Franklin 66, JRiewoldt 72, Scotland 85, Harvey 92, and NRiewoldt 90

6 Players went over 138 – Goldstein 138, Griffin 166, Ablett 185, Judd 180, Goddard 161 and Hodge 142

Remarkably there was a higher score in the Trading Games league with Buzz II going to 2692. (Congrats)

@Anthak - Yes you had the lead back (by 127 points), but it will swing again this week. This week my 2677 against your 2442 will see Casey Crushers back in front by 108. It's unbelievable how much difference there is in our teams week to week. Couple of hundreds point each time. Maybe will swing back to you next week. LOL this is actually turning out to be a very interesting exercise!!!

Congrats to Bird is the word too..cracking out 2608 also. And NT Thunda with a nice 2528

 

@ Julz - I agree with Anthak. Seems you have been a little unlucky with some of your timing but mostly I think youve made decent trades.

Missing Lockout R2...must have been a massive bummer!!

And I wish I still had 6 trades.. I'm down to 2..but I have pretty solid squad now
(and a lot of MPP..by design)

This weeks lineup

DEF Scotland, Deledio, Fisher, Gibbs, Goddard, Shaw, Enright Puopolo, Otten, Toy

MID Pendlebury, Thompson, Judd, Ablett, Hodge, Higgins Hibberd, Jacobs, Callinan

RUC Goldstein, Griffin, Cox, Keefe

FWD Pavlich, Harvey, Sylvia, Franklin, JRiewoldt, NRiewoldt, Mzungu Rioli, Prestia, Howe

 

League Standings

1. Casey Crushers 33,562
2. anthak II 33,454 (-108)
3. SaintsBoys 33,180 (-382)
4. Bird is the Word 32,939 (-623)
5. NTthunda 32,867 (-695)
6. Buzz II 32,794
7. bookie 32,206
8. Baron VonGinas II 31,932
9.Channel4NesTeam 31,791
10. D OfaPerfectSquare 31,533
11. Crown Julz the 2nd 31,510
12. Team Ramrod 31,200
13. PNG Raskols 31,182
14. Blackest Caviar 30,963 (-2599)
15. Have You Hird? 26,128
16. Swallow This!! 24,432

I don't think the last two teams are still playing. So I didnt look at how far behind they are because its huge.

But overall 2600 points between first and fourteenth.

Very Interesting Stuff!!

 

Thanks Anthak. Really happy with my score. Easily my best ever. And by the way easily ahead of my actual FSB team.

I'm in 132 overall now. (804 points off the leader Impromptu) But that's chopping and changing a fair bit each week. Was 390 last week.

I think whats interesting is that there is a slight lack of consistency in both our teams.

I think you and I and Saints Boys are the only ones now who can take this out. Its been really interesting and enjoyable this comp , esp over the last few weeks.

My trades now are for LTI. I still have Rioli on the bench too.

I had to bring in a Ruckman or I would have munched a donut this week. Brought in Goldstein who has been in smashing form for Sandi. I had brought in Griffin thinking that if Sandi were out then he would play (in which my thinking was correct) but I forgot about Cox having the bye!!

Anyway I'm stuck with 3 good ruckman, in any case until Sandi is back, but I suspect he will be out for a while. They wouldn't want to rush him back to quick again.

I still feel a little vulnerable with Higgins and JRoo. Ideally I wanted them as first emergencies. But my sideways trade around byes have left me little short. Still I feel I have a good team and I have made sure there is a lot of MPP so I can manipulate around byes and injuries. I would have preferred to be holding 4-5 trades but with the extras on the bench and my MPP I feel that I'm not too bad with two trades left.

My def bench seem to be solid apart from Toy not playing.

Mid bench is OK with Callinan the worry (injured this week but I used him for cash and MPP knowing he wouldn't be upgraded anyway)

Ruc bench is good till Sandi cames back and Griffin drops out. Then I am exposed and cant see Keefe getting a game.

Fwd bench. So So. Rioli is out for a bit and Prestia no certainty. Howe seems ok.

I would like to get Swan in though as per my original plan. It all worked out so well but I have run short of trades and cash to make it happen.

BTW I have 58.5 K left. So I can only really straight swap my last two trades.

 

Sorry for heaps of posts but I am right into this ATM..

Interesting also that we only have 1 Geelong player each in Enright.

I will try to do a bit more analysis this week and comparison of the teams we have built and look at the POD's and the bye scenarios And also see how we are placed for the finals.

 

Hmm..this week will be interesting I have some serious decisions to make. A donut will be on the cards unless I use at least one of my remaining trades.

Plus no bench cover MID with Thompson, Pavlich and Mzungu having the BYE

No FWD bench cover with Rioli, Sylvia and Howe on the pine. And with Callinan now injured apparently. That will bring about the iced confection.

 

Yep.. I think we have gone out too hard...LOL

But as I said quite a while ago the whole idea of this was too see the differences in methods so a couple of us have to "take one for the team".. So to speak..

You are in front of me by one point. Off the top of my head, You are 108 overall and I am 109, i think

 

Since I now have no trades left I guess I'm still going for overall..!!!!!

Even tho that is so far from the realms of possibility that it defies logic.

I'm just gonna see what happens. I'm at the mercy of the SC Gods now. Please be gentle......

 

Hi guys. Haven't been on here for awhile. Wow, FSB and Anthak, 109 to 108. How awesome is this league.