Melbourne AFL Fantasy Prices 2016

With each AFL Fantasy team price reveal, Peter from aflratings.com.au takes a look at five potential targets from each club. Click here to read Roy’s look at the Demons over on AFL.com.au.

Max Gawn RUCK $509K

Probably one of the most intriguing AFL Fantasy options for Melbourne in 2016 will be Gawn, the big Ruckman is entering his 5^th year and primed for another surge in points. In 2015 Gawn had a mini breakout year averaging 91.9pts, this represented a 33.6pt increase compared to his 2014 season. Gawn has never played over 13 games in his short career at Melbourne, but Ruckman do take time to develop and it is likely he will be the No.1 option to begin the 2016 season.  Gawn hit 100pts or more in 4 games last season 3 of which exceeded 120pts or more, make sure you keep a keen eye on him and his competition for the No.1 Ruck spot in the pre-season.

Jack Grimes DEF $432K

Sometimes the back end of a season can tell a story of what is to come for certain players & teams, Grimes could be that diamond in the rough AFL Fantasy coaches are searching for to get a jump start on the field in the early part of 2016. Grimes averaged 105.7pts in his final 3 games of the 2015 Home & Away season, in an 8 year career that seems as though injury has restricted his ability to shine in Fantasy 2016 could be a long awaited break-out year. Back in 2012 Grimes averaged 92.0pts playing 21 games, 7 of those games exceeded 100pts or more but since then he has only averaged 15.0 games in his last 3 years. Obviously the key for element for Fantasy coaches to consider Grimes will be a full pre-season, if there is no mention of him on any injury list over the summer then he has to be considered given his status.

Tom McDonald DEF $446K

Mc Donald has the potential to be a good AFL Fantasy option for many coaches but 6 games fewer than 60pts in 2015 has to alarm just a few, but he also averaged 99.5pts from his final 4 games of the season to round off at an 80.5 average for the year. Mc Donald appears to be a durable option entering his 6^th AFL season, he has played an average of 20 games in his last 4 seasons for Melbourne. 2015 Represented a 21.2pt increase from his previous year which could be a good sign of better things to come at the Demons for him, he has to be on your watch list over the pre-season.

Bernie Vince MID $512K

Melbourne players only hit 100pts or more 44 times in the 2015 Home & Away season, Vince had the equal most  (Tied with Nathan Jones) finishing with 8 100pt games all of which came in his final 15 games of 2015. Melbourne will definitely have more options in the midfield next season with plenty of the younger guys to get a fair share of opportunities, this could be a positive for Vince especially considering his nearly 100pt average in those final 15 games of 2015. Vince won’t be amongst your first premiums selected, but he could be a great point of difference with a low ownership rate expected.

Jack Viney MID $462K

If you are looking at player career trends heading in the right direction entering their 4^th season then it is Viney that fits in to this criteria, he averaged 83.6pts in his 3^rd year at the Demons in 2015 an increase of 8.6pts compared to 2014 and 14.5pt increase compared to 2013. The back end of 2015 increases the interest even further when he averaged 98.8pts from his final 5 games, with the midfield growing in depth for Melbourne some players are going to take advantage of lesser attention from their opposition and Viney could be that player. Melbourne were ranked 16^th for AFL Fantasy team points in 2015 and 17^th in 2014, but this was designed in an attempt to reduce opposition scoring. If the Demons can find a better balance of game style in 2016 then this is likely to increase the amount of AFL Fantasy points the team scores, one of the beneficiaries of a balanced game style is likely to be Viney who could average over 90pts in 2016.

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First Name	Surname	Club	Position	Games	Average	Price
Bernie	Vince	Melbourne	MID	21	92.43	$512000
Max	Gawn	Melbourne	RUC	13	91.92	$509000
Nathan	Jones	Melbourne	MID	22	85.77	$475000
Jack	Viney	Melbourne	MID	16	83.56	$462000
Dom	Tyson	Melbourne	MID	15	81.13	$449000
Tom	McDonald	Melbourne	DEF	22	80.55	$446000
Jack	Grimes	Melbourne	DEF	12	78	$432000
Jesse	Hogan	Melbourne	FWD	20	74.2	$411000
Aaron	Vandenberg	Melbourne	FWD/MID	14	73.93	$409000
Jack	Watts	Melbourne	FWD/MID	20	68.15	$377000
Lynden	Dunn	Melbourne	DEF	22	66.363	$367000
Christian	Salem	Melbourne	DEF	10	65.1	$360000
Jake	Melksham	Melbourne	MID	18	64.83	$359000
Ben	Newton	Melbourne	FWD/MID	11	64.36	$356000
Jeff	Garlett	Melbourne	FWD	22	63.5	$351000
Colin	Garland	Melbourne	DEF	20	62.3	$345000
Angus	Brayshaw	Melbourne	FWD/MID	21	61.67	$341000
Jake	Spencer	Melbourne	RUC	7	66.14	$333000
Cameron	Pedersen	Melbourne	FWD	7	66	$332000
Jack	Trengove	Melbourne	MID			$332000
Tomas	Bugg	Melbourne	DEF	16	59.06	$327000
Heritier	Lumumba	Melbourne	DEF	19	56.95	$315000
Chris	Dawes	Melbourne	FWD	14	56.79	$314000
Viv	Michie	Melbourne	MID	11	54.55	$302000
Billy	Stretch	Melbourne	DEF/MID	11	47.55	$263000
Neville	Jetta	Melbourne	DEF	16	45.56	$252000
James	Harmes	Melbourne	FWD	8	48.125	$250000
Matt	Jones	Melbourne	FWD	9	46.56	$250000
Christian	Petracca	Melbourne	FWD/MID			$238000
Clayton	Oliver	Melbourne	MID			$238000
Alex	Neal-Bullen	Melbourne	DEF/MID	11	41.64	$230000
Mitch	White	Melbourne	DEF	1	63	$227000
Ben	Kennedy	Melbourne	FWD/MID	5	43.2	$221000
Sam	Weideman	Melbourne	FWD			$216000
Oscar	McDonald	Melbourne	DEF	2	53.5	$210000
Jay	Kennedy-Harris	Melbourne	FWD	8	38.63	$201000
Dean	Kent	Melbourne	FWD	4	37.75	$171000
Dean	Terlich	Melbourne	DEF			$160000
Sam	Frost	Melbourne	RUC/FWD	3	35.67	$156000
Liam	Hulett	Melbourne	FWD			$136000
Mitchell	King	Melbourne	RUC/FWD			$136000
Jayden	Hunt	Melbourne	FWD			$125000
Joel	Smith	Melbourne	FWD			$125000
Josh	Wagner	Melbourne	DEF			$125000
Max	King	Melbourne	RUC/FWD			$125000

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