The fantasy season has been over for a few weeks now, and withdrawal symptons are beginning to emerge. To quench my keeper league hunger I thought I would go back and have a look at the responses to our pre-season coaches survey.
A couple of key takeaways:
- We’re not very good at foreseeing the future.
- Nobody predicted the eventual grand final matchup. In fact nobody thought Champs 16 would make a return to the granny, and only Alex foresaw Stranger Danger would make an appearance.
- It’s no surprise then that nobody predicted the premier correctly.
- The Minor Premiership is one area we did excel in, with 5 people correctly predicting Paul’s Defenestrators.
- We also weren’t too bad at predicting the teams that would miss the finals – though a few of us thought the runners up would miss the finals entirely.
Only one person predicting an outcome was a recurring theme throughout the survey:
- Greg was the only coach to predict the wooden spoon winner correctly.
- Greg was also the only one to nail all four ladder bottom feeders.
- Buzz was the only coach to predict the highest round scorer (Rico’s Roughnecks).
- I was the only coach to nominate at least one of the eventual Dangergawn Medal winners (Tom Rockliff got a lot of love here…)
Way off:
- Nobody predicted Tom Mitchell would average the most point across the season, or that he would be the highest scoring midfielder.
- Nobody predicted the highest scoring defender (Docherty) correctly – though in fairness Adams was only just behind. Special mention for Jordan and his Brent Stanton selection….
- Nobody predicted Matthew Kreuzer would be the highest scoring ruckman. Which probably explains why he was available in the pre-season draft
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