5 minutes ago, snomed said:

This is the same way it worked last year (I recall robbo getting screwed by doing this when he tried it when playing me  )

The thing that people (including myself) took advantage of was to put a player in the Friday game in as an emergency and put a player who isn't named (from a non Friday night team) on the field.  If the emergency did well then you leave it, or if the emergency was bad then you move the non-playing player who is on the team onto the bench and replace with another playing player.

also snomed any thoughts on the scoring and the team line up size. I'm pretty comfortable with the line up, but thought i'd put it up for discussion.

Just now, scarlett said:

ok. do we have a gentlemens agreement that we dont do this or change final teams to friday night. Or is it just not bigger deal if everyone knows they can do this and as lance armstrong once implied, its fair because everyone's doing it. Some people may find it tough to get there line ups finalized by friday night.

I don't think setting the final teams to Friday night is an option given the Sunday teams aren't announced until Saturday (I'd actually think the best way would be to be able to change all players until their game starts).  

I say fair game - everyone knows how to do it - it'd be easy enough to say you "accidentally" didn't change a player on time etc - let everyone do it and it's 1 less argument for the year

2 minutes ago, scarlett said:

also snomed any thoughts on the scoring and the team line up size. I'm pretty comfortable with the line up, but thought i'd put it up for discussion.

Just taking a look at the settings / line up size now.  All looks good at a glance.  As I said above, what we choose for scoring doesn't matter too much - we all have to build teams around what the scoring system is no matter what the values

1 minute ago, snomed said:

I don't think setting the final teams to Friday night is an option given the Sunday teams aren't announced until Saturday (I'd actually think the best way would be to be able to change all players until their game starts).  

I say fair game - everyone knows how to do it - it'd be easy enough to say you "accidentally" didn't change a player on time etc - let everyone do it and it's 1 less argument for the year

with the scoring if we put spoils up to 3 we would have to take a point off something to put it back an uneven number to try and eliminate to many draws for the season. we could drop one off hit outs take that back to 2, but I thought we'd want to keep the good ruckmen as real value to the team, unlike last year where a lot of the time you were better off playing a forward ruck who might snag a goal. As you stated you build your team around the scoring so I'm pretty easy on the the weights, just want to make sure everything is sorted before the season so there wont be to many arguments.

26 minutes ago, snomed said:

I'd say a spoil has a much bigger impact than a hitout.  That said, I'm not too fussed - as long as we know what the points are worth before the draft then we can build teams to those categories

By the way, haven't had the chance to get on here too much lately to say good work on all you've done!  

Hey Snomed & Scarlett

Fair call on Spoils.... Put it up to 3 also & scoring remains OK

as for a left field addition, how about we add a 2nd Utility into the onfield mix? :-)

p

One further question Scarlett have we confirmed the identity of all players this season?

Has the 12th position actually been taken up by JCB's mate "Chaser J"?

 

 

7 minutes ago, Old Man Rivers said:

One further question Scarlett have we confirmed the identity of all players this season?

Has the 12th position actually been taken up by JCB's mate "Chaser J"?

 

 

I believe that is jehads team.

12 positions have been taken.

PC Demon has all the pressure on him, will be having sleepless nights stressing about his number one pick. Last years number one pick ended up being a dud didnt it? out injured all year. No pressure at all PC

Less than 5 days to go all coaches.....good luck to all.

thanks Scarlett & OMR for getting 2016 off and nearly ready to fire on all cylinders....

I am ready....to give OMR the greatest hiding of all. 

But he and Scarlett are both extremely consistent and very hard to beat...

All the best in the draft to all coaches .

 

 

 

 

 

All looks good, pretty keen I reckon leave the players set up! Scoring is good! If we increase spoils to 3 I still think draws are highly unlikely because there are often category draws anyway!

On 12 March 2016 at 5:11 PM, snomed said:

I don't think setting the final teams to Friday night is an option given the Sunday teams aren't announced until Saturday (I'd actually think the best way would be to be able to change all players until their game starts).  

I say fair game - everyone knows how to do it - it'd be easy enough to say you "accidentally" didn't change a player on time etc - let everyone do it and it's 1 less argument for the year

Agree with this motion.But leave it as Scarlett has got it....Saturday, First game close off.

1 hour ago, Mad_Melbourne said:

All looks good, pretty keen I reckon leave the players set up! Scoring is good! If we increase spoils to 3 I still think draws are highly unlikely because there are often category draws anyway!

Agree with MM- spoils leave at 2,hit out's also 2 points.( as Scarlett initially proposed).

 

8 hours ago, jayceebee31 said:

Agree with MM- spoils leave at 2,hit out's also 2 points.( as Scarlett initially proposed).

 

So are we agreed?

Spoils to 3

Hit Out's remain @ 3.  This is the only way to bring elite ruckmen right back into the game. These 2 categories Change the entire drafting strategy. I like it......?

On 15 March 2016 at 8:09 AM, Old Man Rivers said:

So are we agreed?

Spoils to 3

Hit Out's remain @ 3.  This is the only way to bring elite ruckmen right back into the game. These 2 categories Change the entire drafting strategy. I like it......?

As I understand-.spoils/2, Hit out's /2....that's how I see it..or keep as is currently on settings on Ultimate footy - hit out's /2, spoils 3.total = 25, odd number ,no ties....

Great result in my opinion.

However, it is a MUST to complete this task or indeed,keep the setting,current on the Ultimate footy site ,as we have already basically locked in our draft thoughts.

.....this has to be fair to all and I believe to late to change now in my opinion.

Hit Out's at 2 is fine but that wipes out elite ruckmen again.

Will be all about playing the mobile ruckmen who drifts forward, gets a few hit outs & snags some goals. 

On 15 March 2016 at 8:09 AM, Old Man Rivers said:

So are we agreed?

Spoils to 3

Hit Out's remain @ 3.  This is the only way to bring elite ruckmen right back into the game. These 2 categories Change the entire drafting strategy. I like it......?

As I understand-.spoils/2, Hit out's /2....that's how I see it...

It is far to late to make changes - draft just over a days time...

we need to go as is .....

 

 

Hey JCB

Agreed leave as is now.

Either way I will kick your butt in 2016. Good luck tomorrow night , hope you have a great draft.

On 19 March 2016 at 6:48 PM, Old Man Rivers said:

Hey JCB

Agreed leave as is now.

Either way I will kick your butt in 2016. Good luck tomorrow night , hope you have a great draft.

Same to you old timer.

Well done to all in draft....we now wait for synopsis from MM.

I thought, nearly a three way dead heat...Scarlett , Goodvibes & unfortunately O.M.R, with a short head away to Shaker....but all close...nobody very far away,including me....it will be a very, very close year...lets have a beauty.

good luck to all

A great year was held, the WINNER was OMR whom excelled once again,I was lucky enough to WIN the Consolation Cup.

Thanks to all coaches for a great year, also sincere thanks to Scarlett for setting this year up and overseeing it.

wish all coaches well, and hopefully will be available to challenge Old Man Ricer once again in 2017 ,

best wishes to all till we hopefully meet again

JCB 

Are we going around again in 2017?

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