Welcome back to another edition of Calvin’s Captains. It’s round 21, we are almost there but there is still work to be done. Last week we saw the highest score for the year with Nasiah hitting 182. Will we see the same again this week?
On a whole captains were pretty good last week so fingers crossed we can do it again.
FORM v OPPONENT
This week we are looking going to look at a top-6? Why? We’ll… because I want to included Sheezel in there as well, because this week my top-3 is very clear cut… whereas Dawson, Nasiah andSheezel will take some splitting, so you can decide for yourself.
Form (F) v Opponent (O) is always a huge issue when it comes to picking a captain. Players like Dawson (great O, poor F), Sheezel (great F, poor O), Nasiah (great F, poor O, and possible tag) – will be a huge issue and a topic of debate for captain picking this week.
My decsion this week has been nased on – who could you roll with as the C… going all in? Choosing someone with a tag or poor match-up just seems way too risky for my liking.
Hopefully… we get a great VC score from Thursday/Friday night and then we won’t have to make what is a very tricky decision.
🏴☠️ 1 – Cameron v GEEL
@ MCG, THURS 7:30pm
✅ Form – 137, 102 and 121
⭐ Rucks v Cats: 110 (Gawn), 139 (Marshall) and 134 (Briggs).
✅ DC had 78 v Cats in Rd. 9 (with Oscar Steene) … 140 and 147 before that.
🏴☠️ 2 – Smith v COLL
@ MCG, THURS 7:30pm
⭐ Smith v COLL = 127 and 119
✅ Form: 95, 118 and 120
✅ MIDs v COLL – Berry 112, Rankine 103… Cripps 133, Walsh 106… Sheezel 124 and Simpkin 121
🏴☠️ 3 – Ashcroft v CARL
@ Marvel, SAT 7:40pm
🐽 Avg. 130 in last six games
🤷♂️ Last two v Carl – 79 and 115
🏟️ 121 and 120 at Marvel this year
🏴☠️ 4 – Dawson v ESS
@ Marvel, SUN 4:40pm
✅ ESS #1 easiest team for MIDs and DEFs
✅ Last wk v ESS – Ward 122, Macdonald 108 and Mackenzie 105
🤷♂️ Form – 99, 102 and 112
🏟️ At Marvel – 156 this year… and 103 and 129 last year.
✅ Last scores v ESS – 134, 81 (inj), 155 and 124
🏴☠️ 5 – Nasiah v SYD
@ Marvel, SAT 1:05pm
🐽 Form – 182, 76 (tagged), 119, 160 and 136
✅ 105 on the Swans (no tag)
🏷️ Surely tag happens here
❌ Sydney #2 hardest for MIDs
🏴☠️ 6 – Sheezel v HAW
@ UTas, SAT 1:35pm
🐽 Avg. 139 in his last five games
❌ 65 v HAW last year (at UTas)
🏷️ Has copped attention in the past
❌ 3 MIDs have hit 100 v Haw in last 4 wks
🏟️ UTas isn’t what it used to be. Scores could be low.
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I’ve decided to get Brad Hill and put the VC on him, because you know when the next injury hits, he at least can cover every position. lol
What about Luke Jackson vs the Dogs? A lot of the mid options are tag risks, and he might kick a few.
He’s been a bit down lately
Dear Traders, I assume you have a high degree of influence on how the AFL fantasy game is structured each year.
As you know this year has been beyond ridiculous for injuries, managed and late outs. I think this should be considered a new norm rather than aberration. Without specifically looking I suspect I have had less than 4-5 rounds for the year where I have not had 1 or more significant forced trades and many rounds where I have not really been able to trade out of problems for a round. The year has been very frustrating for many from round to round as well as for the current finals. Even the mid bye rounds with 3 trades and 18 players was unusually difficult due to the rate of premium outs.
I would ask you with respect to consider a large think tank on how the game can be structured to match and compensate for the modern injury, Illness and managed frequency as well as late round late outs. Whilst I realize each coach should have bench options and emergencies, these players in a team have not been immune to outs also and you may not be able to refresh your bench if you have to replace premiums every week.
Possible solutions not in any order could include:
Please considers and let’s hope that not too many coaches have been lost to the never play again list -Thankyou.
You just want it easier. Injuries are part of the game. I play FPL and we only know the lineups after lockout.
Its just a game at the end of the day, I had Newman and Milera out this week and have to shuffle the deck, RoMar late out last week, Ive had non playing rooks in the Fwd line for months now, just do the best you can every week.
Maybe you get the average of that player.