This is first of three weeks
the AFL where one-third the clubs have bye. So to replicate feeling that
football supporters during these weeks I removed every third word this
paragraph. The paragraph silly? Does feel incomplete? That pretty much we are
to feel the next weeks.
I initially thought this week
that I had fully accounted for the byes in my Excel sheet when I did my
assessment of each club’s draw for this season. I
groaned when I realised that I hadn’t. This means that instead of copying the
formulas for all sixteen clubs, pasting them one cell to the left, updating the
far right column for the most recent round, and then patting myself on the back
for how quick it all is, I had to repeat this process four times at each part
of my spreadsheet. I give a slight cheer when the AFL schedules byes for clubs
that are next to each other in alphabetical order; for example, Carlton and
Collingwood this week, and Richmond and St. Kilda. The ten minutes extra it
takes me to update the sheet when some clubs are not playing is part of why I
only update the rankings once during the finals.
And then, as thousands of
other football followers will know about, there is the havoc that the bye
rounds have on my fantasy AFL side. One season, when I was going really well, I
spent several hours building a spreadsheet carefully planning my strategy over
the bye rounds. Now I basically say bugger it, it’s all too hard, and do the
same types of trades I would do any other week. Thankfully in SuperCoach now
only your best eighteen players count towards your score, which takes some of
the worry away.
Anyway I don’t like the bye
weeks. Although it does give me an excuse not to watch Richmond play for at
least one week.
Geelong is the big mover in
the rankings this week, rising from sixth to third with their big win over
fellow top eight-side the Western Bulldogs. And Essendon is off the bottom of
the rankings after a reasonable performance against GWS, with the last spot now
going to the Brisbane Lions.
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