Community Team 2022

We can do starting squad the same we always do

Everyone nominates 25 players with a weighting of 1-5 on how much they want that player in the team. We'll come up with the most popular cap compliant squad and go from there

Last couple of years we have created the team with everyone sending in their preferred squad of 21 players, rating everyone from 1 to 5 on desirability.
Then we plug those votes into excel and it gives us the most popular cap compliant team.

Default is that we will select team again that way, but open for considerations on otyher ways to go about it.

One thing I have thought about is - coming up with a shortlist of players and get people to estimate an average fantasy score for those players.
Then come up with an average of averages to work out which team we think will score highest this year. If you believe in the wisdom of crowds then we can't fail.
It has a high barrier to entry as coming up with estimated averages for a heap of players will put people off contributing
For reference last year 48 players got votes from at least 2 people so that is about the size of the shortlist we'd be working with - and you wouldn't need to vote for all players on the shortlist, just as many as you could be bothered
If that is too much work we'll just stick with what we have used in the past

Another question - in the past we have limited our team selections to people playing round 1.

That impacts a lot of potentially popular picks this year - Grant, Papenhuyzen, McInnes, maybe Cleary too.

Are we happy with a hard and fast "must be playing" rule, or is there leeway to have a round 1 red dot?

Personally I definitely won't be picking anyway missing round 1 due to injury, as no guarantee they will be back round 2. Missing through suspension is a more justifiable claim, but its potentially a fair bit of cash on the sidelines from the start

Can't remember what we did last year, but do we want to enforce backup in every position

Current draft has Randall as the only hooker (everywhere else has at least 1 backup)

The 2nd hooker will probably be someone like Clark, Paix or Hetherington. Unless we get a good option on TLT. But they'd still be better than nothing

Its a conundrum I am facing for my own personal team.
Don't really want Randall to be my only good hooker, so tossing up getting in a Cook/Grant/someome
If grant played round 1 he'd be an easier sell, might have to find the money for another premium