Due to MSD being on a Monday, resulting in too short a trade period considering the different timezones, the MSD trade period has been extended as follows:
Starts Friday 18th May 0800 WST
Ends Monday 21st May 1600 WST
Please note all trades made during this trade period will be FINAL so buyer beware!
e.g. if you trade on Saturday and the player you acquired does his ACL on the Sunday, you are stuck with him
However the Delistings Deadline will be a little bit earlier at Monday 21st May at 1200 WST to allow the draft order to be finalised earlier.
Currently the bench has no facility for calculating Home Ground Advantage (HGA). This creates extra admin work post game and complicates subbing.
With subbing we can make changes post game and it auto recalculates the score. However if we have applied HGA already, we can not do this because applying HGA means I have to manually override the scores and then this ceases auto calculations.
So in summary, as the bench currently stands, HGA is creating too much administrative work and complicating our ability to easily do subs post game.
I therefore am temporarily but indefinitely suspending regular season HGA until such time as the bench creates a facility for its easy application. I had planned to request this of the bench post season last season but forgot to.
“Reading the room” I don’t think the coaches will be devastated.
Please note that for finals HGA will still apply as it was earned (except for the GF). I’m agreeable to do the extra administrative work in finals due to its importance.
With the change to the tackling position post 2017 season and previous major position changes post the 2016 season I thought it useful to outline all our positions and how they score.
We have 2 forwards and 2 midfielders and 1 of every other position making 10 positions on field. We also have 4 subs.
Each position below (except the Forward) also has 2 x FA’s taken off their score post the calculations outlined below. Forwards are not penalised for FA.
A picture of the 2017 Dark Side Premiership team is included below demonstrating the positions.
Forwards: (6 x Goals) + (1 x Behinds)
Half-Forward: (I50 x 3) + (Goals x 2) + (Marks x 1)
Marker: 4 x Marks
Midfielders: Disposals x 1
Extractor: (specialised midfielder): (Disposals/2) + (Clearances x 3)
Tackler*: Tackles x 5
Half-Back: (R50 x 3) + (I50 x 1)
Utility: ((Disposals) + (Marks x 4) + (Tackles x 5) + (Goals x 6) + (Behinds) + (Hit Outs))/2
R50 = Rebounds from defensive 50
I50 = Inside 50’s
*Note this is the last season of the tackler position. In 2019 it changes to a Tackling Midfielder as per this vote
