Dream Team Finals: Your Best 22

Posted by Warnie on 03/8/10 • Categorised as DT 101

This week we start what it’s all about… the Dream Team Finals. This means we have a crack to win the flag and the subsequent bragging rights for until next year. Some people (Tackling Tit-ed) are still living off past successes, but the fact is, they have their names etched in DT history… the all important league premiership.

This has got me thinking about how we set our teams for finals and going in with our best 22′s. This can be the difference between a win and for a lot… elimination out of the finals race!

I looked back at my team over each week this year to see how often I fielded my ‘best 22′ this year. This isn’t pretty!

Warne Dawgs 2010

Round 1 – OUT: Robbie Gray and Lance Franklin (covered by Gumbleton 17, Hitchcock 63)
Round 2 – OUT: Robbie Gray (covered by Hitchcock 43)
Round 3 – OUT: Robbie Gray and Heath Shaw (covered by Hitchcock 57, Maguire 111)
Round 4 – Best 22 played.
Round 5 – Best 22 played.
Round 6 – OUT: Dustin Martin (covered by Bastinac 51)
Round 7 – OUT: Lance Franklin (covered by Podsiadly 118)

At this point my trading meant that jPod was in my best 22

Round 8 – OUT: James Kelly and James Podsiadly (covered by Nason 70 and Gumbleton 58)
Round 9 – OUT: Robbie Gray (covered by Gumbleton 38)
Round 10 – OUT: Michael Barlow and Robbie Gray (covered by Howlett 65 and Gumbleton 55)
Round 11 – OUT: Ryan Hargrave and Lance Franklin (covered by Maguire 80 and Gumbleton 47)
Round 12 – OUT: Ryan Hargrave and Colin Sylvia (covered by no-one and Gumbleton 62)
Round 13 – OUT: James Kelly and Colin Sylvia (covered by no-one and Gumbleton 51)
Round 14 – OUT: Colin Sylvia (covered by Gumbleton 42)
Round 15 – OUT: Brendon Goddard (covered by no-one)

This one irks me because I could have subbed him into the backline and got 82 from Webberley.

Round 16 – OUT: Lance Franklin (covered by Gumbleton 72)
Round 17 – OUT: Heath Shaw (covered by Smith 52)
Round 18 – OUT: Heath Shaw (covered by Smith 73)

So only two weeks where I had my best 22 playing! Two weeks out of eighteen! Holy shit! Some bad luck in there (a few late withdrawals and short term injuries) and a bad injury prone selection (Robbie Gray) have hurt me a lot.

And the sad thing in a lot of that is that Scott Gumbleton played in half of the games this year. 9 out of 18. Yuk! He will be getting a medal this year when I win the flag!

This is a worry come finals… considering our rock on the bench in Gumby is done for the season, we could be copping a few poor weeks over these last four rounds and possibly losing games based on our bench cover.

Have a look over your team for the year and see how many times out of the 18 you had your best 22 playing.

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

847 Comments

Coasters
August 3, 2010 • 5:40 pm

Good post warnie, I think I was in the same boat except my bench players scored a tiny bit better and gumbleton only made my filed once, I’m also stuck with him now until the end.
- Coasters
  August 3, 2010 • 5:41 pm
  
  And it was the game he scored 17!
  
  I hate him, so so very much.
Brendan
August 3, 2010 • 5:57 pm

Here’s my run down:

R1 – Franklin, McVeigh
R2
R3 – Shaw, McVeigh
R4 – Bock, McVeigh, Franklin, Clark
R5 – Bock
R6
R7 – Clark
R8 – Clark
R9
R10 – Barlow
R11 – Bock, Hargrave, Franklin
R12 – Hargrave, Didak, Brown
R13 – Bock, Brown
R14 – Bock, Brown
R15 – Goddard, Bock, Brown
R16 – Bock, Dal Santo, Franklin
R17 – Shaw
R18 – Shaw, Bartel

I think poor choices at the start of the season cost me more though than ‘luck’. Namely Bock and Clark and to a lesser extent Gibbs and Shaw have been disappointing along with Browny, who I got for Riewoldt.
Spector
August 3, 2010 • 5:59 pm

Just a quick question.

Do you consider “best 22″ as the 22 you would select every week or the 22 best scoring?

I have a lot of weeks where I couldn’t decide between say Gumbleton and Hitchcock or Nason and Hunt earlier on. Swapped them around a lot and didn’t necessarily get my “best” score – say 40-80 pts overall for a round difference if I had chosen differently.
- Warnie
  August 3, 2010 • 6:04 pm
  
  The 22 you would select. For example, jPod was on my bench for the first 3-4 weeks he was in my side… so therefore not in my best 22 (I was playing Robbie Gray ahead of him).
  - Spector
    August 3, 2010 • 6:10 pm
    
    10 for me then… that is probably even low because I have held onto Johnno Brown…
Nothing
August 3, 2010 • 6:12 pm

I had 7 weeks but mine was low due to carrying players through LTI.

Voldt I held onto for the week after he did his knee.
Hille, though I had Tippett covering.
Hook
August 3, 2010 • 6:22 pm

Only 3 weeks of my best 22 for me which has been very frustrating

I’ve had Franklin who misses every second week
Mitchell who missed 4 or so
I held onto Brennan for 4 weeks
I’ve had Hurn who keeps missing games
I held onto JB for a couple of games
And then a few who have missed a one off, Pods, Barlow, Ablett and Goddard
.Nathan.
August 3, 2010 • 6:24 pm

Only 2 for me as well
the Mighty Boosh
August 3, 2010 • 6:24 pm

14 games with my best 22 but with rioli out this week and no cover/trades.. getting nervous
lucky i finished in the top 4 in all my leagues
Drew Martin
August 3, 2010 • 6:29 pm

8 for me. Rounds 1-3 when I had all my players up and going then another streak from rounds 13 to 17 (in that period I averaged 2195 – 2078 season ave ) Just goes to show what a team is capable of when at full strength
timmy
August 3, 2010 • 6:52 pm

4 weeks full strength, and ive counted 25 SEPERATE injuries/suspensions. not 2 week injury = 2 injuries, but 25 seperate injury incidents. with 8 of them being long enough to force trades. so thats a good indicator of how many trades u should set aside for injuries. i suppose you can always learn from it
kelso
August 3, 2010 • 6:59 pm

Only 1 for me, round 17 – geez, didn’t realise it was so bloody low.

Heres my run:
1- McVeigh
2- LeCras
3- McVeigh
4- McVeigh
5- Boyd & Mitchell
6- Boyd & Mitchell
7- Mitchell
8- Pods
9- Higgins & Kennelly
10- Barlow
11- Hargrave
12- Hargrave & Higgins & Brown
13- Brown & Higgins & Hille
14- Brown
15- Mitchell & Brown
16- Brown
17- BEST 22 PLAYED
18- Bartel

Bloody Ridiculous
buck
August 3, 2010 • 7:08 pm

lol. only had one. and it was last week! haha. between franklin and waite it was always going to be hard to field the best 22.
Samdogger
August 3, 2010 • 7:27 pm

3 for me but only ever copped 1 donut on my field, not a great year but averaged 2012.67 and I’m only 13 which is nice just outside top 20,000
wallcob
August 3, 2010 • 7:36 pm

6 times for me. still pathetic year. dont think i will field another full strength team for rest of season. interesting to see a poll with how many donuts people copped through out the year. i have copped 2 so far and prob will get 1 or 2 this week.
Samsa
August 3, 2010 • 8:00 pm

Heres my lot i had

R1 – Mcveigh,Gray
R2 – Gray
R3 – Shaw,Gray, Mcveigh
R4 – Mcveigh
R5 – Gram
R6 – Riemers, Gram
R7 – Best 22
R8 – Pods
R9 – Gram,Gray
R10 – Gray, Barlow
R11 – Gray, Hargrave
R12 – Brown, Hargrave
R13 – Hille, Brown
R14 – Hille, Brown
R15 – Hille, Brown
R16 – Hille
R17 – Hille
R18 – Pods, Bartel

Worst pick was clearly robbie gray
players i give votes who have let me down/injuired
5v Gray, 4v Mcveigh, 3v Gram, 2v brown and 1 vote to tippet who was just all round shit even though he didnt get injuired.
- Samsa
  August 3, 2010 • 8:04 pm
  
  This week i will be having a full squad,4 trades and about 70k to spare. Also carrazo,shaw,okeefe and gia have been average as well and are lucky to not get any votes
- timmy
  August 3, 2010 • 8:16 pm
  
  tippett had knee tendonitis for the first 2 months of the season or around that. so i suppose you could use that as another injury even though he played, it was just restricting.
sugnayeragam
August 3, 2010 • 9:14 pm

I had 10, so was good, but calling them my “Best” 22 is a joke. I need counselling after looking at what my team was in round 1. I can’t believe I have managed to salvage the team I have considering the shit that I started with, what drugs was I on!??! Also having Barlow on my bench round 1 brought back memories………
- :P
  August 3, 2010 • 10:30 pm
  
  I know
  its my first year of DT at my starting team was pathetic
  whats it like going back next year after having a team of guns, worth 10 mil to a cheap rookie team worth 8 mil
thomasgreen1994
August 3, 2010 • 9:19 pm

i had 6 rounds with my best 22.

A mixture of franklin, shaw and holding onto jono brown through his injury layoff
AJ
August 3, 2010 • 9:30 pm

11 rounds with my best 22players !

Pretty good considering i spent rounds 10-17 in Southern Africa (South Africa,Botswana,Zimbabwe) supporting our boys at the worldcup. .. with very limited access to internets. Still finished 1st in my family/workmates league.
takethepain
August 3, 2010 • 9:45 pm

Just the 2 weeks as well for me. Broughton, HilleDog, Mitchell and Franklin insured that getting my best 22 on the park was almost impossible.

Only copped the 1 donut this year though, thankyou Goddard!!!
Blue boys
August 3, 2010 • 9:57 pm

Only 3 weeks for me, rounds 1, 2 & 16!!!

Offenders:
Waite – 7 times
Sam Mitchell & Jono Brown – 4
Mitch Clark – 3
Heath Shaw – 2 (traded out last round)
Barlow, Bartel, Chapman, Goddard & Stanton – 1

Traded Stanton in the week he was late withdrawal (he was the only one to miss that week).

Only 1 donut for the year (Clark round 7), and somehow managed to cover all bases in round 15 with Goddard, Waite, Mitchell and Brown out at once!!!
2 trades left and with full side have Carrazzo on bench in mids, but with DPP i can bring him on as 1st emergency with anyone out!!!
- Blue boys
  August 3, 2010 • 9:58 pm
  
  ……..apart from rucks where i have Skipper as cover.
  - buck
    August 3, 2010 • 10:42 pm
    
    nice. do you think you could explain the carrazzo thing for me? about bringing him on as 1st emergency anywhere. i like the idea, but i don’t quite get it.
    - buck
      August 3, 2010 • 10:48 pm
      
      oh wait do you need dpps as emgs everywhere? dammit
      - Blue boys
        August 3, 2010 • 10:52 pm
        
        Yeah mate you do. If defender is out, switch Carrots with Farmer.
        If forward is out, again switch Carrots with Farmer and then move Waite forward for either P.Davis or O’Brien.
      - buck
        August 3, 2010 • 10:55 pm
        
        ahhh very nice. i got waite but not farmer or anyone similar. not sure if you set up your team for that in the first place, but it has worked out very well for you! good position to be in!
      - Blue boys
        August 3, 2010 • 11:23 pm
        
        Yeah mate i did. Has been good even with Waite missing so many games just to have the flexibility, think it has saved me trading to cover donut by being able to shuffle the team around. Will do the same next year.
- OXnFOX
  August 4, 2010 • 1:46 am
  
  Hello Blue Boys!
  
  Or should i say Mr .Tokejo?
  - OXnFOX
    August 4, 2010 • 1:48 am
    
    You sir, are a Dream Team slut!
    
    I think you may be more obsessed than me if thats possible!
    - Blue boys
      August 4, 2010 • 1:13 pm
      
      Hey mate you got me!!!
      Yeah i think i have a problem, but sure it can wait til the end of the season.
      
      How are the Rovers likely to feature in this year final mate??? Any chance we could face off down the track.
      Oh and i do miss our lengthy team selection meetings on the way to footy. Haha.
      - OXnFOX
        August 4, 2010 • 4:23 pm
        
        Ha me too.
        
        We will meet in two weeks after i beat Wobbles and you lose to the Wizards.
        Then you will knock me out of the finals.
        If you play Morning_Glory you should win but you may struggle against the Cash Cows.
        You have been the highest scoring team in the league (just) all year but the Cash Cows have been reeling you in by about 30-50 points every week for the past month.
        
        Good luck in chasing back-to-back.
        
        I have one trade left and have Heater Shaw and Bartel on the bench still, but i have plenty of bench cover.
        
        My biggest mistake this year was not getting Swan.
        
        Not through lack of trying, but i waited 1 week to late when his BE was high and he SMASHED it the following week and i couldnt afford him. He just rose in price from then on.
        
        Three times when tradingi could have afforded ANY PLAYER IN THE COMP EXCEPT SWAN!!!
        
        We had a good league this year except for two teams.
        
        I mean you were highest scoring team ALL year and still lost 5 games!
      - Blue boys
        August 4, 2010 • 5:25 pm
        
        Mate, if i don’t knock the Wizards off i will be devo. Pretty confident i will get over him…….and if me and the Cows both win should only meet the Cows in the GF!!! And barring major injuries will try to get Boyd into mids at expense of Mitchell.
        Need a few guns to step it up like ROK, Enright, Brown & Gilbert. Their averages suggest should be getting high 2200′s, but just doesn’t seem to happen.
        
        You still playing? Hows the knee holding up?
:P
August 3, 2010 • 10:16 pm

I only had 3 weeks with a best 22
which on each occasion wasnt my best anyway

Just a quick question
what is more important
defence Maguire, Hunt and Ladson
forward Pods, Fyfe, Playfair, Davis

should i trade magure to gram/gilbert
or trade Fyfe/Pods to Voldt

can only do one for now at least untill i get further into finals

i came 5th and the 2 crapest in the top 8 are 4th and 8th
so if i beat 8th will vs 4th and then im in the prelim

anyway who do i need out and who in?
OXnFOX
August 4, 2010 • 1:37 am

Mitch Farmer has been a revelation for me, not worth trading ever…his DP role allowed me to effectively “swap benches” throughout the season.

I just brought in Robbie Hicks last week (after he was named emergenceny) for the cash and now he can also help me swap benches. It doesnt matter if they even play, its about moving the squad around.

Backs/ Mids:
Goddard, Hodge, carrazzo, M.Farmer
Backs/Forwards:
Grundy, Hurley, Waite
Mids/Forwards:
Chapman, Didak, Higgins, Okeefe, Hicks
For/Ruck
Tippett, Lobbe

These combos have saved me 5 trades this season (or from copping 5 donuts anyway)
- OXnFOX
  August 4, 2010 • 1:40 am
  
  eg this week:
  
  Bartel comes back in….I move Higgins back to the forwardline, which puts Gumby on the bench.
  
  Hicks then moves from the forward bech to the Midfield bench.
jigojitoku
August 4, 2010 • 8:19 am

In my team, this years injuries hves been balanced out by th quality of the replacements. Having Pods and Rockliff on the bench in the forwards allowed me to swing Higgins, when fit into the midfield. Maguire’s early form got him ahead of Hunt and Hargrave at times.

There have been no excuses for having poor bench players this year.
- McScoundrel
  August 4, 2010 • 9:01 am
  
  I have Pods and Rockliff and spent all year hobbling a forward line together. You forget that Rockliff looked like mutton for half the year. Anyway, I’m glad you only remember the good times.
  - Blue boys
    August 4, 2010 • 1:05 pm
    
    Mutton maybe a little harsh.
    He had a slow patch, only really to bad games – 42 & 52. Those 60+ are okay for rookie imo.
    Remember some of the piss poor scores handed to us by our premiums and you will no what i mean!!!
    
    Gotta love rookie keepers!!!
Donk
August 4, 2010 • 9:39 am

Are you sure you had your best 22 in round 4 Warnie? I have Franklin out in round 4.
- Donk
  August 4, 2010 • 9:45 am
  
  I’m suprised of how many times I have had my best 22 playing:
  2
  3
  5
  9
  10
  17
  
  Franklin is my main reason for the early misses. Hargrave and Luke Ball in the middle part and J. Brown for that large chunk.
Matty_B
August 4, 2010 • 10:32 am

R1 – BEST 22
R2 – BEST 22
R3 – BEST 22
R4 – Stanton (covered by Jetta 65)
R5 – Gram, Hargrave (Maguire 95, Nason 61)
R6 – Gram (Maguire 54)
R7 – BEST 22
R8 – Pods (Gumby 54)
R9 – Gram (Maguire 65)
R10 – Gram (Maguire 80)
R11 – Gram, Hargrave (Maguire 80, Webberley 71)
R12 – Hargrave (No cover)
R13 – Chapman, Brown (Dangerfield 72, Gumby 51)
R14 – Brown (Jaensch 26)
R15 – Brown (Jaensch 64)
R16 – BEST 22
R17 – BEST 22
R18 – Bartel, Pods (Dangerfield 61, Jaensch 32)

Average Score with Best 22 playing: 2034
Average score in other rounds: 2111

Looking at those stat’s I wish I never had my best 22, my bench this year has been fantastic.

Average score of player out: 86 (season average used)
Average score of cover: 58

Meaning I only lost 28 points if I had to sub one of my best 22 on to the bench. Also shows that it’s just chance that the weeks my best 22 were playing weren’t my best scoring weeks.

Error’s for the year were holding on to Gram too long (& getting Carazzo just as he started his tagging role) and trading out Hall too early, + never getting Rockliff.
jvalles69
August 4, 2010 • 12:41 pm

5 rounds when the best 22 played.

R1 – Best 22 played
R2 – Best 22 played
R3 – OUT Brennan (Rockliff – 87)
R4 – Best 22 played
R5 – OUT Mitchell (Martin – 80)
R6 – OUT Mitchell & McKenzie (no cover with Martin & Shuey out)
R7 – OUT Mitchell & Maguire (Trengove – 91 & Hams – 39
R8 – OUT Griffin, Hmac & Brennan (Martin – 63 & Davis – 52, no cover for hmac)
R9 – OUT Hmac & Brennan (0 for hmac & Gumby – 38)
R10 – OUT Barlow (Howlett – 65)
R11 – Best 22 played, but Hille got injured on 10
R12 – OUT Maguire, Hille, Brown & Didak (Henderson – 51, Lobbe – 35, Gumby – 62 and a donut)
R13 – OUT Maguire, Hille, Brown (Davis – 59, 0 for Hille & Henderson – 60)
R14 – OUT Maguire & Brown (Henderson – 72 & Davis – 44)
R15 – OUT Goddard, Maguire, Mitchell & Brown (Henderson – 119, Davis, 44, Webberley – 82 & Martin – 93)
R16 – OUT Dal Santo (Martin – 93)
R17 – Best 22 played, but ROK scored 23
R18 – OUT Bartel & Maguire (Hardingham – 40 & Henderson – 57)
imisshird
August 4, 2010 • 3:47 pm

sylvia or pavlich upgrade…….. cant decide, any comments?
Hurl_the_Pears
August 4, 2010 • 8:06 pm

Haha, yer I had to rely on good ol Gumby alot more times than I would have liked!

But being a Bombers fan, I love the kid and Im so glad he played that many games this year!
Now hes gone down, I have no reliable bench cover… hope I dont need one so Gumby can be there till GF day! (when..if I make it)
LesFong
August 5, 2010 • 2:06 pm

This was pretty interesting to go back and look at. I managed to have 4 rounds where I had my “best” (and I use that term loosely) 22 available!

R1
R2
R3 – Prismall
R4 –
R5 – Boyd, Lockyer
R6 – Ablett, Boyd, Lockyer
R7 – Maguire, Lockyer
R8 – Kelly
R9 – Higgins
R10 – Barlow, Trengove
R11 –
R12 – Sylvia, Higgins
R13 – Sylvia, Kelly, Higgins
R14 – Sylvia, Waite
R15 – Waite, Goddard, Grimes
R16 – Grimes
R17 – Grimes
R18 – Grimes, Bartel

As far as Round 19 goes, I will either be without Grimes again or pull the trigger on a trade….not sure yet.

Fong’s Freaks

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