Bye round analysis: How to come out on top


<p>The byes are here and so are the headaches – suspended premiums, dud rookies and the sub-rule are wreaking havoc across the league. </p>



<p>Scraping together 18 players each week is going to be a challenge, let alone scoring well and upgrading your team. </p>



<p>The good news is you’re not alone – read on for a stats breakdown of how the rest of the top 1,000 are set up and some basic bye round principles.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Bye Strategy – The Basics</strong></h2>



<ul><li>As a goal, we want to exit the bye rounds with a completed full premium team and enough trades to cover injuries for the rest of the year (4-5 by my guess). We want to do this while fielding at least 18 players each week and hopefully climbing up the rankings.</li><li>At this point, you should have somewhat of a back-ended bye structure with more players having round 14 and 15 byes. We typically want to make minimal trades in the first round as you will be trading in a player with an upcoming bye.</li><li>We generally follow the rule of trading players who have a future bye with players that have already had theirs. Cats and Suns players are also golden at this point as they have the “easy” bye and will play each of the “hard” bye rounds. This means targeting the likes of Neale, Brayshaw or Steele after this week and having one or two of Stewart/Witts/Anderson/Rowell.</li><li>The best way to figure this out is to get out the pen and paper (or better yet &#8211; Excel!) and for each round map out trades, expected on-field numbers, trades remaining, spare salary and premiums. You will be surprised at the results and may end up like me with 13 on-field in one round and 1 trade remaining – time to change plans.</li></ul>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>How’s Everyone Else Looking &#8211; The Top 1,000</strong></h2>



<p>Below we can see the average top 1,000 structure as of round 11 and how they are set up for the byes as well as the top 20 most owned players.</p>



<ul><li>The top teams have around 18 premiums and will be using their average team value of $13.4 million to make those last 4 upgrades by the end of the byes (don’t worry, my team is worth less than that too).</li><li>Non-playing rookies are a big problem that is only getting worse – we are now up to 5.6 on average which will leave little room for error over the coming weeks (You’re not the only one with the likes of Constable, Roberts, Madden, Sharp and Drury …).</li><li>For round 12, the average coach should be able to put 18 on the field with an average of 8 players on bye (4 of which are premiums) plus another 4 non-playing rookies. This means the bare minimum of 18 players before trades &#8211; Eddie Ford is the only must-have this week.</li><li>About two-thirds of the top 1,000 have Sicily who is out suspended this week, though most of these will have Cincotta to come in and somewhat balance this out.</li><li>Round 15 is still looking ominous – 7 premiums out and 16 on-field. Try and set yourself up over the coming weeks to take advantage of this and don’t just leave it to that week.</li></ul>



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<p>Good luck for the upcoming four weeks!</p>


Bye round analysis: How to come out on top

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