How GWS probably killed your SuperCoach side

PICK with your head, not with your heart, they say, but there were a raft of enticing GWS stars SuperCoaches fell for who have fallen flat in 2017. Did you get sucked in?

WASN’T it just a delight to log onto your SuperCoach team and see those projections for 23-2400 after the weekend?

After suffering through three weeks of bye round pain, your SuperCoach side should be getting close to being set.

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That is, of course, unless you thought gun midfielders like Dylan Shiel or Patrick Cripps would make great PODs in your chase for SuperCoach glory.

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Sometimes you just fall in love with a player and, despite your better judgement, you just have to have them in your SuperCoach side.

I’ve been guilty of it in the past with Daniel Rich and Elliott Yeo (I was a year too early on him).

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Shiel and Cripps are among the upper echelon of midfielders in the competition but, apart from a rare outburst — see Cripps’ massive 157 in Round 8 — that superb on-field form doesn’t translate to the SuperCoach world.

It’s not that they are hopeless — Cripps averages 98.42 and Shiel 96.75 — but you want your starting midfielders averaging three figures at the bare minimum.

It seems an endemic problem at GWS. The Giants are the kings of the SuperCoach killer.

Captain Callan Ward has mustered a meagre 89.7 — almost 11 less than last season.

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Heath Shaw and Dylan Shiel are among a raft of GWS players who haven’t done what we wanted them to in SuperCoach in 2017.

Running defender Heath Shaw — one of the game’s most selected players at the beginning of the season — averages just 88 — a whopping 15 fewer than 2016. He’s still in 33.6 per cent of teams and is actually a buy option this week, given his low price ($444,900) and break-even (67).

It’s a case of too many cooks, with out-of-contract gun Josh Kelly (112.8) the only Giants’ midfielder churning out a triple figure average (one of only two Giants, with ruckman Shane Mumfiord, on their entire list).

Robbie Gray has not been able to maintain his pristine SuperCoach form in 2017.

Last season, Robbie Gray was just about the best forward in SuperCoach, churning out a tick under 110ppg. Those who stuck fat with the Port Adelaide gun after he was designated as a midfielder will have been left bitterly disappointed. He’s averaging just 90.1 points per game and dropped nearly $160,000 on his starting price.

If, like most SuperCoaches, you’re down to 10 trades or less, you’re probably stuck with the likes of Shaw, Cripps, Gray, Shiel or Ward and just have to cross your fingers that they will tear it up in the back end of the season.

The moral of the story is twofold — pick with your head, not your heart — and avoid the Giants like the plague.

Patrick Cripps is a marauder on the field, but that hasn’t translated to the SuperCoach world. Picture: Wayne Ludbey