Shot clock: Quickfire guide to setting up your SuperCoach NBL team for round 11

The biggest star in SuperCoach NBL is smashing records and one of the best picks of the year is back on the trade radar. Here’s how to maximise your score for round 11.

Sometimes SuperCoach can be a simple game.

The best fantasy player in the NBL was available for a bargain price last week and entering a double-game round.

More than 4000 coaches pounced on Bryce Cotton, and were rewarded with a record-breaking performance that equated to 200 SuperCoach points for the round for coaches smart enough to make him captain in round 10.

Cotton’s Wildcats are on the double again this week – along with five other teams. So prepare for some massive SuperCoach totals.

Check out these tips to get the biggest score in round 11.

ON THE DOUBLE

The schedule is the key to SuperCoach NBL success. Targeting players from teams that play twice in a round will give you twice as many opportunities to score points.

Round 11 is set to be a scoring bonanza with SIX teams on the double – Adelaide 36ers, Brisbane Bullets, Cairns Taipans, Melbourne United, NZ Breakers, and Perth Wildcats.

The Bullets are the best team to target when looking for a favourable schedule, with doubles in the next eight rounds.

New Zealand has three more doubles in a row and Melbourne United has doubles the next two rounds, making players from those teams great trade targets.

Perth, on the other hand, is coming to the end of its great schedule with one more double before a month of single-game rounds. So if your roster is stacked with Perth players you might want to offload one this round – Keanu Pinder will be straight out for many coaches after playing just once in round 10 and scoring 14 points, while popular bench picks Ben Henshall and Elijah Pepper can be cashed in after making healthy profits.

Melbourne United star and SuperCoach favourite Jack White is in demand again. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty Images

Adelaide players aren’t an immediate priority but they will be very relevant very soon – the 36ers have a double this week followed by a single, but after that they have only one more single-game round through to round 19. The two Adelaide players who should be on everyone’s radar are super scorers Montrezl Harrell and Kendric Davis, but that’s where things get tricky as both are priced over $400k – and both are currently suspended (Harrell is available to play the second game of the 36ers’ round 11 double while Davis will return in round 12). Both will be close to must-haves from round 13 onwards – so start thinking about how to find the required funds to make those big moves!

Any Sydney Kings or Illawarra Hawks players who were brought in for their round 10 doubles can be safely traded out this week.

TRADE IN

1. Jack White (MEL)

2. Casey Prather (BRI)

3. Rocco Zikarsky (BRI)

4. Carlin Davison (NZ)

5. Isaac Humphries (ADL)

TRADE OUT

1. Keanu Pinder (PER)

2. Xavier Cooks (SYD)

3. Ben Henshall (PER)

4. Elijah Pepper (PER)

5. Jaylen Adams (SYD)

Bryce Cotton take a bow 👏🐐 #SuperCoach#NBLpic.twitter.com/ofGBttZXCM

— SuperCoach NBL (@supercoachnbl) December 1, 2024

CAPTAIN CALL

After a slow start in Perth’s round 10 double with 23 points against Brisbane, Bryce Cotton showed why assigning the captaincy to anyone else is dicing with disaster with an insane 77-point game to finish the round. He will front up again twice in round 11 – against Illawarra and Adelaide – and it would take a brave coach to bet against another big total. Other players with high projected scores this week include Parker Jackson-Cartwright, Jack White and Keandre Cook. But why take the chance?

Originally published as Shot clock: Quickfire guide to setting up your SuperCoach NBL team for round 11