Comments on: CB AFL Dream Team and SuperCoach Podcast #98: Pre-Round 10, 2010

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:42:05 +0000

PS: Monty - reasons why you’re right on the high priced ruck strategy:

1) very rarely will you have cover for short term injuries in the ruck. Whereas a STI might cost you 30 points or even less per game in another line, it will cost you the full output of the ruck most times.

2) Rucks get injured a lot. it’s better to have high priced players get injured than low priced players because injury-forced double trades are bad because it can muck your cash cow timing up.

3) There aren’t very many rucks to choose from. This is bad for two reasons. One, if your midprice “improver” turns out to be a spud, you don’t have any downgrade options who are playing to free up cash like you might in another line. You pretty much HAVE to double trade up. And your trade up targets are going to be thinner, meaning it’s harder to catch a true premium at the bottom of the rollercoaster at the right time. You might have half a dozen forwards on your upgrade watch list but only one or two rucks, and getting them at the right price at the right time can be really tough (see people scrambling to get Sandi @about $600K during the upgrade period a few weeks ago when injuries and bad form started happening to guys like seaby, jamar, luenberger, nic nat.

This is why getting a midprice/speculative ruck is different to getting a similar type player in any other line imo. This opinion has been generally justified this year I think and you’re absolute right in your ruck strategy.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:37:06 +0000

… and this discussion on hille is pretty funny now

By: Molly

Molly — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:29:03 +0000

Aden, it was digusting and worst when it was just me on the audio track (as I was cleaning it up).

On Hille, I definitely made a mistake. I was thinking back as to why the injury stopped me picking him and it was probably as much I was worried about him splitting time with Ryder and if he was going to spend too much time up forward. As it has turned out I was wrong. It would have been better to have Hille then Hmac indeed. Others of the midpriced Rucks have been a bit streakier though (Seaby good early, Nik Nats quiet off, etc).

I guess the good news for me is that I haven’t used any trades in my rucks and haven’t copped any donuts.

Molly

By: Aden

Aden — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:42:39 +0000

Molly, molly, that was some of the nastiest coughs i have ever heard. I particularly enjoyed the coughing up of the phlegm….
Good to see you guys slowly starting to embrace David Hille as the true champion DTer that he is. Pity though that you are all too proud to admit the all premium ruck structure is overrated and each year there is almost always a good cheap ruck option

By: KUNG FU

KUNG FU — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:09:41 +0000

Thanks for the positive feedback guys.

I can assure Happy Gilmore that FL18 and I are very much different people. Very amusing suggestion though. Take our trading strategies for example.

By: Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:10:25 +0000

Are Kung Fu and Footylover18 the same person?

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:29:01 +0000

Thanks all for pointing the problem out. Seeing as we had this issue this week, we will give you next weeks show free of charge!

By: xplo

xplo — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:37:03 +0000

hehehe.. yeah it did seem like you were trying hard to cough. No worries.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:25:23 +0000

Thanks disco. I have fixed it up (well most of it) and republished it.

By: Disco DB

Disco DB — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:08:43 +0000

haha, I was wondering why the others didn’t mention the coughing, get better Molly!

Kung Fu should definitely do another show this year.