Good evening all, This week's Team Of The Round scored an impressive 3142. You needed: Rance - RCH - 132 Bock - GCS - 130 Deledio - RIC - 127 Gibbs - CAR - 123 Reid - COL - 120 Gibson - HAW - 117 Thornton - CAR - 115 Swan - COL - 156 Mitchell - HAW - 155 Houli - RIC - 148 Sloane - ADE - 145 Stanton - ESS - 141 Lewis - HAW - 133 Leuenberger - BRI - 172 Ryder - ESS - 130 Rioli - HAW - 350 (c) Franklin - HAW - 162 Davis - COL - 128 Staker - BRI - 122 Pavlich - FRE - 115 Knights - ADE - 111 Smith - HAW - 110 bench of $91,700 no-namers with $67,700 left in the bank. The original team was $310,100 over budget so 3 omissions to get in under $10m (for the loss of only 8 points). Apologies to: OUT: Ablett $514k - 134 Betts $381k - 115 O'Keefe $416k - 113 IN: Lewis $407k - 133 Knights $270k - 111 Smith $257k - 110 Last week's TOTR dropped 1021 from 3166 to 2145. Repeat appearances: 9 - Gibbs (impressive) 7 - Deledio (2nd consecutive), Pavlich 6 - Swan (3rd consecutive), Franklin 5 - Bock (3rd consecutive!) 4 - Davis (2nd consecutive) 3 - Rance, Gibson, Thornton, Mitchell, Ryder, Rioli and Knights. For the first time this year, a TOTR has been comprised of 6 players from the one team! Gibson, Mitchell, Lewis, Rioli, Franklin and Smith all from the Hawks. I had 8 players make the TOTR in my score of 2486 (Deledio, Swan, Mitchell, Ryder, Rioli, Franklin, Pavlich and Smith). Meanwhile, the weekly winner of the $1000, (Blews Boys - 2738) also had 8 players make the cut. I was out Saturday night so taped Before The Game... just getting the chance to watch it now. The awesome thing is that now it feels like Saturday night so I'll have two more days of work before it's the weekend again! Anyway, good luck with your team and commiserations to Rodney Eade (or is it a good thing to be outta there??? lol) take care, The Silverback
Cheers Silver My amount of players in the TOTR reflected my miserable week which was NOT helped by Captain Goddard, I had a miserable 3 players make the cut (Gibbs, Swan, Pavlich). Not looking at Montagna's current price, but with 60k-odd in the bank could Montagna of made the cut or is he too expensive now? Cheers Silver!
@ Sainter Yes, you are correct! At the start of R21: Lewis - $407,700 Montagna - $452,300 a difference of $44,600 which would still fit in under the salary cap (leaving $23,100 in the bank). I'm guessing that when I was sorting for 'cheaper' mid-fielders Lewis came up first so I used him and looked no further. Dale Thomas also scored 133 points but his price of $508,500 would have exceeded the $10m budget. kind regards, The Silverback
Cheers Silver for that, was just unsure. Makes my amount looks slightly better being able to take a pick between Montagna and Lewis, yet 4 players is terrible regardless and is probably close to if not lowest amount make the cut since I've been commenting on this. My bad score of 2248 came at just the right time, didn't it? First week of finals, lost all 5 leagues but did have 2nd chance in all, I have jinxed my teams in finals, in the final four rounds before finals I had scores of 2415, 2438, 2505, 2523 and then come crashing back to earth in finals....sigh! Anyway thanks Silver your work is terrific.