SuperCoach AFL 2025: Winners and losers from round 2, early trade advice
Round 2 was the final audition before the biggest week of trading in SuperCoach. Who showed they deserve a spot in our teams, and who failed the test?
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Welcome to the biggest week of the SuperCoach season.
This is the last chance to jump on, or off, most players before prices start to change.
No one gets every pick right to start the year. Use your two trades this week – three with a Trade Boost – to correct any mistakes and get your team in perfect shape for the long season ahead.
Round 2 made it clear that plenty of SuperCoaches have fallen for a classic pre-season trap.
Meanwhile, some mid-pricers have flown out of the blocks, and surprise premiums are dominating the scoring leaderboard.
Here are the heroes and villains of the weekend, and some early advice on how to use your valuable trades this week.
HOT
Jack Macrae – 162 points
It’s not exactly a revelation that Macrae is a gun SuperCoach scorer – he averaged over 120 points a game for four full seasons from 2018-2021. But Luke Beveridge might have thought his uber-premium scoring days were over when he moved him outside the centre square, to the point Macrae left the Bulldogs to join St Kilda. There is no confusion about his role at the Saints, starting at 25 centre bounces against Geelong and winning 35 disposals at 83 per cent efficiency, including 10 score involvements.
Tom Liberatore – 142 points
Just 2 per cent of coaches started Libba, eyeing an uptick in scores with Marcus Bontempelli and Adam Treloar missing the early part of the season. He has surely exceeded even their wildest hopes with an average of more than 130 two rounds into the season.
Bailey Dale – 141 points
Dale sat on 33 SuperCoach points at halftime but exploded after that with 21 touches in the second half. And he didn’t rely on kick-ins, taking just four of 16 opportunities against Collingwood. His price is set to leap after his next game – he’s just over $120k more than Harry Perryman if you’re looking to trade up from the Magpies defender.
Dayne Zorko – 136 points
Another who started slowly but the expected feast came in the second term when Zorko had 10 kicks in 10 minutes leading into halftime. That makes two scores in the 130s to start the season for the Lions veteran – who faces Richmond in two weeks.
Tristan Xerri – 136 points
The new ruck king in SuperCoach was a clear winner in his head-to-head battle with Max Gawn, winning 20 disposals, 12 clearances and eight hitouts to advantage. Gawn finished with 11 touches and just 67 SuperCoach points.
Connor Rozee – 130 points
Rozee flew the flag in a Port Adelaide shocker in round 1, and he led from the front again as the Power demolished Richmond. Thirty-nine disposals and two goals underlined a potential three-Brownlow vote performance, and there should be more big scores on offer before Zak Butters returns from injury.
Nathan O’Driscoll – 95 points
One of the Dockers’ best for the second week running, O’Driscoll is the exception when it comes to the wing being a dead zone for SuperCoach scoring. He roamed far and wide in Perth to collect 25 disposals and four tackles against Sydney, and he could have cracked the ton if the umpire hadn’t pinged him for a throw in the frantic final minute. He won’t be priced under $200k for long. Get on!
Nick Daicos – 125 points
Pencil in the Collingwood v Western Bulldogs clash when the 2026 fixture is released. Unfortunately for Daicos and his SuperCoach owners, these two teams don’t meet again this season. Nick loves playing the Dogs, scoring 125, 156 and 139 in his past three games against them. His price will dip after lower scores in the first two rounds but not by much, prepare to pounce after Collingwood’s bye next week.
Connor O’Sullivan – 88 points
Not premium level scoring but for a rookie-priced player in defence this year this is as good as 200. Fifteen disposals and eight contested possessions hopefully lock in his spot in Geelong’s team, making him a top trade target this week.
Xavier Lindsay – 78 points
It was the smart play to give the Dees draftee another week to show he was a player we needed to use a trade on. And he did exactly that, gathering 20 disposals at 85 per cent efficiency and laying six tackles. Put him high on the shopping list before prices move next week, along with $99k teammate Jack Henderson, who will also have a Break Even well into the negatives after scoring 72 points from 13 touches and a goal.
Riley Bice – 96 points
The must-have defensive rookie – but we can afford to wait a week to make the move with Sydney on the bye this week. Bice, a mature-age recruit from Werribee, missed opening round and started as the sub in round 1, but grabbed his chance with both hands when given a full game against the Dockers. A brilliant running goal in the last quarter helped the Swans claim a remarkable win – there’s no way Dean Cox can drop him now.
COLD
Tom Stewart – 9 points
Let’s call it the Stewart curse. Every year in the early rounds Geelong’s star defender cops some kind of strange injury that ruins the weekend of his SuperCoach owners. But the silver lining is it also results in a big price drop so we can all get Stewart at a much cheaper price after he returns.
Will Day – 76 points
Decision time for Day’s 71,000 owners in SuperCoach. After scoring 148 in opening round (113 of them in the first half), he has managed 77 and 76 in his next two games, copping some close attention from George Hewett on Thursday night. If you’re playing the long game you can be confident a player of his talent will come good (pencil in fixtures against West Coast and Richmond in rounds 7 and 8), but in the short term there could be more pain – Day has a date with GWS tagger Toby Bedford next round followed by a bye. How much do you value that trade, and is he your highest priority this week?
Jayden Short – 71 points
The theory that the footy would spend a lot of time in Richmond’s back half was accurate on Saturday, but unfortunately that didn’t translate into huge numbers for Short, who had 13 of his 21 disposals after halftime when the game was already over. A key stat – he took just one of Richmond’s 14 kick-ins. Ben Miller took eight.
Ryley Sanders – 62 points
Huge talent who hasn’t had the impact his owners were hoping in the first two rounds. On Saturday night he had just three kicks along with 13 handballs, and attended just three centre bounces. Those numbers are unlikely to improve with Marcus Bontempelli and Adam Treloar due back soon. Make a correction trade now and we can look at him again next year.
Harry Perryman – 57 points
Was the most traded out player after round 1 and his ownership will shrink dramatically again after the midfield role we saw in the pre-season evaporated. Missed his Break Even of 77 and is set to lose more cash after Collingwood’s bye.
The evolution of Harry Perryman.
— Fantasy Freako (@FantasyFreako) March 22, 2025
% of game time in the midfield:
Rnd 0 - 87%
Rnd 1 - 53%
Rnd 2 - 2%#SuperCoach#AFLFantasy
Jason Horne-Francis – 61 points
Most coaches pencilled in a big JHF score against the Tigers but he was barely involved early when the game was close and stats had their maximum value in SuperCoach, gathering just three disposals in the first term. Five free kicks against didn’t help, either.
Izak Rankine – 97 points
Harsh call on a player who almost hit triple figures but Rankine was on track to go well past that before coach Matthew Nicks pulled the pin on his day with almost a quarter to go, subbing him off to give Sid Draper a run.
Luke Trainer – 24 points
It was a tough weekend to be a rookie in defence. Bomber Zach Reid (36 points) didn’t do much better, Ben Paton was dropped and James Leake had a bye. Thank goodness for best 18 scoring.
Finn O’Sullivan – 42 points
North Melbourne’s No.2 draft pick will be a player. That was clear from some of his brilliant touches on Sunday. The problem, at least when it comes to SuperCoach, is he had only 12 of them. At $199k he needs to be scoring double this to make money – swap him to a much cheaper player who can score more points.
Matthew Flynn – 0 points
Dropped for round 2 and don’t expect to see him anytime soon after Bailey Williams played what was probably the best of his 73 AFL games. His only hope of a return to the AFL side was Williams being subbed off with what the Eagles described as “medical cramping”.
Originally published as SuperCoach AFL 2025: Winners and losers from round 2, early trade advice
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