Surprising SuperCoach ownership stats

Patrick Dangerfield has taken over as the most popular pick in SuperCoach, but why is Tom Mitchell in almost 800 teams? See the most traded in and out players this year and more head-scratching numbers.

Move over Sam Walsh, Patrick Cripps has reclaimed his SuperCoach crown.

It took nine rounds but Dangerfield has overtaken Walsh as the most popular player in SuperCoach.

Walsh has slipped to third, overtaken by Carlton teammate Patrick Cripps.

The No.1 draft pick was in more SuperCoach teams than any other player leading into Round 1 and climbed from 137,000 selections to 141,000 two weeks ago, but he has been traded out by 20,000 players in the past two weeks.

But that’s nothing compared to some of the massive ownership moves this season so far, headed by Port Adelaide rookie Willem Drew, who has been abandoned by a competition-high 71,692 players since Round 1 — more than 30,000 of them in a single round.

In contrast, there is a lot of SuperCoach love for Brisbane defender Noah Answerth. He has been traded in to almost 85,000 teams since making his Lions debut in Round 6.

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DUSTIN Martin was picked in 60,000 teams in Round 1, but by Round 4 he was in just 18,500. Has slowly crept back up to 21,000 as he looks to have recaptured his best. Now available for $51,200 under his starting price, can he get all the way back to 60k?

MARTY Hore could be the rookie of the season, rising in value by almost $280,000 and averaging a very healthy 87 points in the backline. He was selected in 92,000 teams in Round 1 and despite missing the next two weeks, he was dropped by only 9000 teams. He’s now in almost 100,000 teams.

Patrick Dangerfield is oin more SuperCoach teams than any other player.

BEFORE Round 1 all the talk was over whether we could afford to splash the cash on the two most-expensive ruckmen, Brodie Grundy and Max Gawn. It has turned out to be the right call, with Grundy (130 average) and Gawn (124) well ahead of the next-best ruckman, Todd Goldstein (103). Grundy started in 93,000 teams and is now in 109,000. Gawn started in 94,000 sides and is now in 101,000. The next most popular ruck is Bulldog Jordan Sweet, who is on 24,480 ruck benches. The next most popular playing ruckman is Fremantle ruck/forward Rory Lobb (10,979 teams).

BAILEY Scott is still in 77,000 teams despite not playing since Round 5. His ownership hit a

high of 104,000 in Round 3.

ISAAC Heeney was traded out of 23,000 teams after Round 2 then scored 137 and 130 in the next two matches.

TOM Liberatore has been a SuperCoach rollercoaster in 2019. He started in 66,000 teams, his ownership rose to 90,000 in Round 6 when he was averaging 111, and has since dropped to 56,000.

TRAVIS Boak has scored more points than any other forward this season, but started in just 4000 teams. His ownership jumped to 18,500 before Round 3 and now sits at 53,000.

SHANNON Hurn is the top-scoring defender but remains in just 36,000 teams (18 per cent). Just over 17,000 coaches were astute enough to start with him.

Trade or hold Tom Liberatore? It’s a tough all every week. Picture: Michael Klein.

Willem Drew has fallen out of favour with SuperCoaches. Picture: Sarah Reed

THE two least-selected players (not counting recently added mid-season draft selections) are

Fremantle’s Shane Kersten and Geelong forward Lachie Fogarty, who are both in 51 teams. Neither have played a game this season. Docker Brennan Cox is in just 70 teams but has played four matches for a 65 average. There’s also no love for North Melbourne veteran Scott Thompson. He has played eight matches for a perfectly respectable average of 75 but is in just 196 teams.

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LAST year’s 10 most-selected players at Round 1 were Max Gawn, Nat Fyfe, Tom Doedee, Dustin Martin, Rory Laird, Tim Kelly, Sam Murray, Tom Mitchell, Isaac Heeney and Dom Barry. Doedee started in 2300 teams this year but was traded out of all but 476 after suffering a season-ending knee injury in Round 1. Sam Murray is 109 teams and it seems 798 SuperCoach players aren’t paying attention — they all spent $700,800 on Tom Mitchell and still have the sidelined Brownlow medallist in their squad.

The most popular pick at Round 1 in 2017 was Sam Powell-Pepper, while Sam Kerridge was in more 2016 starting squads teams than any other player.

Most traded in players 2019

Player	Trades
1. Noah Answerth (Bris)	84,844
2. Tim Kelly (Geel)	64,315
3. Sydney Stack (Rich)	51,538
4. Robert Young (StK)	46,965
5. Travis Boak (Port)	46,965
6. Lachie Neale (Bris)	42,990
8. Liam Baker (Rich)	42,755
9. Tom Rockliff (Port)	41,517
10. Jack Ross (Rich)	37,266

Most traded out players 2019

Player	Trades
1. Willem Drew (Port)	71,692
2. Zak Butters (Port)	57,521
3. Charlie Constable (Geel)	56,909
4. Sam Collins (GC)	51,300
5. Matty Parker (StK)	48,619
6. Will Setterfield (Carl)	46,841
8. Dustin Martin (Rich)	44,185
9. Jack Scrimshaw (Haw)	43,871
10. Michael Gibbons (Carl)	41,305

Most traded in players 2019 (single round)

Player	Round	Trades
1. Noah Answerth (Bris)	8	55,889
2. Robert Young (StK)	10	43,271
3. Liam Baker (Rich)	6	31,091
4. Will Hayes (WB)	7	30,456
5. Sydney Stack (Rich)	5	28,346
6. Liam Stocker (Carl)	9	24,840
8. Noah Answerth (Bris)	7	24,052
9. Jack Ross (Rich)	6	21,527
10. Tom Rockliff (Port)	3	20,425

Most traded out players 2019 (single round)

Player	Round	Trades
1. Willem Drew (Port)	10	32,272
2. Willem Drew (Port)	9	24,824
3. Jack Scrimshaw (Haw)	7	24,185
4. Isaac Heeney (Syd)	3	22,474
5. Dustin Martin (Rich)	4	21,559
6. Zak Butters (Port)	5	20,730
8. Dustin Martin (Rich)	3	20,631
9. Darcy Moore (Coll)	10	20,444
10. Will Setterfield (Carl)	5	19,250

Originally published as Surprising SuperCoach ownership stats