It is indeed very frustrating. I also appreciate our unique rules to the game but it does add an extra challenge on top.
I don’t know if the 14-team comp would make any difference to the Sportsdeck game. They’ll still chuck random midweek games in, especially at this time of year. So it will still be uneven amounts of games for some.
There’s something weird going on with the Wellington v CCM game.
The players are showing up as DNP and there’s no game stats when you check on the match.
I assume it’s to do with the stats (Opta?) not being immediately available from the venue in Christchurch. The players were still locked right on kick-off so it should be updated eventually (they better, I traded for Doka as captain after Lolley did fuck all in the Big Blue ).
Another round is in the record books. Thankfully we have a normal-ish round coming up, 6 games between Thursday and Sunday this week, everyone plays except Auckland who are on bye.
Confirming clean slates remain for all players, scholars and gentlemen all of you.
Finally caught Ariba to get into a podium spot, have been chasing hard after what I thought was a disastrous opening. I don’t I’ll catch you for second though Hybrid.
Fuck all subs left though, with quite a few rounds to go. Hopefully not a tumble down the standings in my future.
Yeah, Lo g way to go yet… last few rounds can make a big difference if popular players get injured and coaches haven’t got any trades left. I probably burned too many trades trying to optimise for the silly combination of byes and double rounds… might hurt me at the end
I imagine the same rules exist as any other player who doesn’t play. If one of the subs in their position plays, the starting player who DNP’s should be replaced automatically. But they’re not replaced by someone from another position.
Yep, bye players are treated like any other DNP, the difference being they can still be moved and/or abused as tank captain right up until the final game of the round kicks off. As they don’t have their own fixture to assign a lock time to, it just gets tied to the final game / end of round.
I’m leaving Paulsen in as GK, Kelly-Heald on the bench despite starting this arvo, for this very purpose.