(2024 update coming soon)
 

 

2023 Fantasy Footy Calendar

 

Tuesday 14 March -  Draft Night

Round 1-  Season underway

Round 2 – Champions league commences

Round 3 – KO Cup - Round 1

Round 4 – Entry Fees are due  by Monday 10th April

Round 5 – 2nd round Champions league

Round 6 – KO Cup – round 2

Round 8 – 3rd round Champions league

Round 9 – KO Cup – round 3

 Monday 15 May – Midseason Draft  (online)

 Round 11 – Semi finals Champions league

Rounds 12-15  The Bye weeks, 3 fantasy games across the 4  rounds

Round 16 – KO Cup – Qtr Finals

Round 17 – Champions league – final.

Round 18 – Final week of tipping

Round 19 – Final round of home and away games

 Round 20 –KO Cup, Semi finals -  Qualifying and Elimination finals in each division

Round 21 – Semi Final week

Round 22- Eliminator Concludes  (and preliminary finals in each division)

Round 23 – Grand Finals

Round 24 – Knockout Cup Final

 

 

Round 1 News

Welcome back to fantasy footy 2024 and after the anti-climatic (for fantasy players anyway) start to the season with round zero, we finally got underway this weekend.  The new season kicked off with some excellent performances, Caleb Serong’ 46 touches, Jesse Hogan’s 6 goals, Reilly O’Brien’s 45 hit outs and James Rowbottom’s 13 tackles being the pick of them… Interestingly there were no late changes from any AFL side either -lets hope that’s a trend that continues, albeit the naming 23 then dumping someone to “sub later” is another hurdle we’ll have to get used to..

In Div 1, there was no standout performer with 7 teams topping 180 but none going on to make 200.  Sash topped the charts with 199 but looked in trouble heading into the late game still needing about 50 from Daniher and Serong to knock over Mat… 31 touches by half time from Serong saw him cruise home by 3 goals in the end.  A couple more tight ones saw Uchitha pip Michael 195-188 with McInerney and Dunkley bring him home hard in the late game too – Gavin came from behind late to take the points off Janith 193-185 on back of Jye Amiss’ Sunday arvo efforts.. Janith had Charlie Cameron and a 15 point lead v Gavin and Amiss heading into the last game of the round.  0.2 to Charlie,4.1 to Amiss and Gav was home.  Other games were not quite as close with Rowbottom ensuring Nick eased past Juzzy in a grand final rematch and Loaf taking the points in the Ainge family derby in a game both will look to forget fairly quickly – Laird the difference.

If Div 1 was tight, Div 2 went the other way with 4 games won by 5 goals or more… Topping the charts was Raph with an impressive 215.  Hogan and Rowbottom the stars as he gave McRob a return to Div 2 to forget.  Tuddy had the biggest win of the round, smashing Hardsy by 50 points despite his forward line combining for 0.7 – not a bad effort to win comfortably without any goals at all….  Elsewhere Syd opened his account with a strong performance scoring 197 and cruising past Red without much stress, whilst Parma’s honeymoon was made all the better by a 6 goal win over Simon.  I’m sure he stopped whatever he was doing over in Thailand to cheer each of Rory Laird’s 10 tackles.  Finally in the close one Steesh and Big Morca both had below par weeks but Steesh did enough in the end to get the points 156-147.  Morca will be cursing his forwards accuracy with 4.10 between them.

To D3 and the star of this show was Frank who managed 215 of his own for a big win over Damian.  97 from his ruck/tackler combo (Obrien/Rowbotom) was enough to ensure he was home long before Serong added the icing sugar with 46 touches…  Des was the other to pass 200 here with a Hogan inspired 203 getting the job done against a luckless Ben, who with 190 might’ve expected a round 1 vicotry.  Ben will be disappointed as scoring 190 despite minimal input from your forwards is one thing, but when your reserve forward line kicks 10 goals, you are only a couple of selection decisions away from a 230 type score…  Other games saw Bangers small PaulType by 50+ points,  Richo edge past Kingy 153-40 in a fairly low scoring but tight encounter that was only sorted in the last quarter of the Freo game, whilst Willy started well with 190 and 4 points at Balls’ expense.

The early star in Div 4 was Nicko, looking to put back to back relegations behind him he managed 205 for a strong win over Dean J..  Dean picked up over 150 points from his 4 star players and next to nothing from his other 4…  All 3 promoted sides from Div 5 started their campaigns with wins… Mitch jumped out of the blocks with a 5 goal win over Adrian that seemed over early when Laird got 10 tackles,  Andy only managed to fit 3 of his 27 bombers players into his round 1 line up, but they did enough to get him over the line against DK, whilst Wayne had the latest of late wins – Patrick needed 9 tackles from Dunkley to take the points and had them when the siren sounded, but when the champion data boffins completed their review, Dunkley was down to 8 and Wayne had a 1 point victory, reminder for Pat of the rollercoaster of emotions this game can create… Finally Clayton and Cabbage did battle in a game that I’m sure had more than just 4 points hanging on it and Clay took the bragging rights 165-131 in what became a comfortable win.

On to the 5th Division and we had it all here, some thrillers, some thrashings and some impressive scores… We’ll start with our youngest entrant Jona who bounced out of the blocks with 211 for a great win over Danny.  Rowbottom  had set him up well but with Danny posting an impressive 190 it seemed the youngster might be in trouble til Serong and Amiss stormed home..  Brother Giorgi was at the other end of the scoring scale this week, having a bit of  a shocker to post 118 and be thrashed by Beamer. With little bro and dad over 200 this week I’m sure they won’t rub it in..  Speaking of brotherly rivalries Dools knocked over Jacko by 50 points to claim bragging rights at Dooley HQ too… The other games were the close ones… Piglet and Skeeta were both down from D4 this year and looking to return and Hogan;s 6 goals mean Piglet is one step ahead at this early stage, holding on to beat Skeeta by a goal.  The other one saw Sam and Rod trade blows all weekend – Rod looked well ahead when Laird got 10 but Sam’s midfield brought him back into it and in the end it was only 2 junktime goals from Joe Daniher that got Rod over the line..  Needing 3 goals for the win he was on 1 at the 25 minute mark of the last quarter but knocked over a couple of late ones to get Rod the points.

In the tipping majority took Port and would’ve hoped for more than 50, but still not a bad start.. The 4 tipsters who took the Bombers would be happy with a solid score whilst Des got his just desserts  taking Hawthorn to be 74 points off the pace already.

In the eliminator we lost Giorgi (118) Jacko (122) and Hardsy (127) – 3 down , 47 to go in the comp that rewards consistency… Added complication of some early season byes to make this even harder this year.

LIO is really a waste of time until about round 8 but for what its worth after 1.5 rounds Michael and Andy are early leaders on 66.

Champions League and Knockout Cup will both commence in round 4…

That’s all for this week – another Thursday start this week so get teams in early and don’t forget Brisbane and Carlton have the bye  (good time to play Sash without Curnow and Joe Daniher) ….