Ticker

soon!

A closer approximation would be: This week.

But I'll get a post up when it's running, pointing y'all into it's magnificent direction!!

 

@Gonaddz
The ticker looks fine to me, I just don't think you can enter your team yet (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Jump on the ticker page, and read through the instructions. Just below them you'll find the colour coded legend - basically red means lots of points are expected for players in these positions, blue means not many points are expected. Its based on how many points (above or below the league average) a team gives away in each of the four positions.

Thus, if you scroll down until you see the crows on the left, and then across to round one you'll see they play the suns. The defence, mids, and forwards are pink, meaning that slightly more than average points would be expected from crows players in these positions. The rucks is red, thus you'd expect lots more points scored by crows rucks in R1 (many people use this as a guide to selecting a captain each week - look for players in the red category!)


...to be continued

 

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Following the crows to R2, against the doggies. Rucks are still red, so you'd expect more above average points for the crows rucks. The defence is pink, so as with r1 you'd expect slightly better than average scores from crows defenders. The mids are yellow, which means you'd only expect crows mids to score their average in R2. Finally the forwards are grey-blue, meaning that the doggies defence is rather stingy, and the crows forwards would be expected to score less than their averages in R2. Its the shades of blue that you want to avoid as much as possible, and the shades of red you want to see as much as possible when selecting players!

If you scroll down to the St Kilda and Sydney tickers you'll see a lot of red and pink over the first 4 rounds. This indicates a good start to the year for both teams, with their players expected to score at or above their averages, across the ground. When you're looking to trade in a player who looks to be hot right now, take a look at the ticker, because it could mean he's just player the easiest games of his season (reds galore), and then the next three weeks could be a dreaded dark blue with below average scores. It'll make your hot pick look like a tank, and cost you points and dollars!!!

Hope that helps! Good Luck

 

Sorry for the multiple posts in a row... Don't know why, but it wouldn't let me post the whole lot in one go. (is there a post size limit Walesy?)

 

Great explaination JPK! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Yeah, Boiling and Frozen- when I first made the ticker, those extremes didn't exist- however, when the GC first jumped onto the scene, I needed a way to differenciate just how many points they were leaking! Thus Boiling was invented. Of course, to keep it symmetrical, frozen popped up, those I never expected any teams to actually hit it. Who'da those the Hawkers would punish defenders just that much! (and Cox/Nitnat of course.)

 

The alternate is to simply insert your SC username (email) and SC password into the "my team" part of your profile page here on TS, then upload. This has worked for me, my team is now in the ticker, and I can see how my players should go.

 

Sorry mate, I should probably qualify that one.

Using the tid only works *after* round 1 lockout. Before then, if you were to visit your page using the tid, it would be a blank page (preventing everyone else from seeing your team). And since the world can't see it, neither can the site.