Author: Logistix

Setting up your Draft Preferences on the bench

You can create lists of draft preferences in advance of the draft. This will make drafting lot easier and quicker at the time. When your turn comes up the top available player on the relevant draft preferences list will be suggested for your selection.

If you have “draft auto-picks” option enabled that player will be automatically selected – you won’t have any control.

If you don’t have “draft auto-picks” option enabled that player will only be suggested. You still have the final say and discretion whether to choose him or someone else. I’d recommend this as the safest option. Consequently I’m turning this “draft auto-picks” option off for all clubs. If you choose to turn it back on (not recommended) you can do so by doing the following:

 

Enabling draft auto-picks

  • Click on your team name at the top right of the screen and choose “My Profile:
  • Then on the left hand side under “My Games” under “HFFL 2017” you can select the “Edit Club Details” button (you have to hover over the button that looks like an edit button to see these words).
  • Then under “Enable draft auto-picks”. It should be deselected. Check the box to select it.

 

How to create draft preferences

Go to “Home” at top menu

Then on the left click on “Preferences” (just to the right of “Clubs”)

At this stage you can start adding players to a single list of draft preferences.

However better than this, if you click on “Advanced Options” which is in small grey writing jus a few lines below “Add a Player” you will get a greater range of draft preference options.

e.g. you have several lists you can make for your draft preferences. It would make sense to make a list for each of the different positions (e.g. Midfielder, Marker etc) and have a set of draft preferences in each list.

You can then assign which list the bench should look at for which of your picks. e.g. for my 1st pick look at my Forwards list and then for my 2nd pick look at my marker list.

 

I believe that you can update all this on the fly during the draft – ie change who is on which draft preference list and change which draft preference list the bench suggests from for different turns.

 

Remember as long as the “Enable Draft Auto-picks” is deselected (as I’ve made it for all) these players will not be auto-selected, they will merely be suggested to you.

 

 

 

2017 PSD Draft Order

  1. Roofa’s Squadron
  2. Rhubarbarians
  3. Karl’s Krushers
  4. Real Saints
  5. Buddha’s Brewsers
  6. Mayblooms
  7. Mustard Pots
  8. Twaddstars
  9. Rapid Sossage
  10. Dark Side

then reverses 10-1, 1-10 etc

 

Picks 1-5 were the result of the lottery ball final series and resultant lottery draw

Picks 6-10 are the reverse finishing positions in the actual finals series

Bench Player Stats are ready for 2017 PSD

I’ve created the new positions and changed the ute stats to the new version so all the formulas are correct.

Also all players have been delisted from each squad.

So now we have accurate bench stats for all players and it will demonstrate whether player is drafted already or not.

 

Go to Players then Player Performance

https://thebench.com.au/clubs/7344/players/round/0/page/0

 

Then from the “Select Round” option on the left select “Average – Last 12 months”

2017 New Positions & Starting Lineup Clarified

Reminder to coaches that we will have the following starting lineup this season

 

Forward, Forward

Half-Forward

Marker

Midfielder, Extractor, Midfielder

Tackler

Half-Back

Utility (new)

 

= 10 starting players.

That’s 3 new positions and 1 position that has changed – The utility (Hit outs added)

 

We will also have an expanded bench – likely 3 or 4 players, TBC at the PSD vote.

 

The scoring for the new positions are as follows:

Half-Back:  R50 x 3  + I50 x 1 – FA x 2  
Half-Forward:  I50 x 3 + Goals x 2 + Marks x 1 – FA x 2
Extractor:  Disposals/2 + Cl x 3 – FA x 2
Utility: (Disposals + Marks x 4 + Tackles x 5 + Goals x 6 + Behinds + Hit Outs)/2 – FA x 2
[[R50 = Rebounds from defensive 50, I50 = Disposals into the attacking 50, Cl = Clearances, HO]

Check the eligibility of your retentions

Coaches,

 

It is your responsibility to makes sure your retentions are exactly the category you say they are (e.g. elite, 11-20, sub-20, rookie).

 

Use the stats sheet provided to check

 

You may think they are sub-20 but they may be say 11-20 in one of the new positions. So make sure you check each of the published lists.

 

AFL & HFFL 2016 Season Stats including Elites & Top 20

 

If you make a mistake your retention will be disallowed and you’ll go into the PSD at a great disadvantage. So be diligent.

HFFL MSD Date & Time Set – Kind of

– Monday 29th May
– Tuesday 30th May
– Wednesday 31st May
– All coaches are advised that the MSD will be held on one of the 3 dates above. Coaches are required to keep all 3 dates free – put them ALL in your calendars now. The exact date will be fixed closer to the time.
– The time for submitting preferences has passed.
– The exact time of the draft on that evening WST will also be determined closer to the time. It might be anything from 1900 WST (early 0600 wake up for NY – clearly not our 1st preference) to 2100 WST start.