KFC SuperCoach Plus Article: 11 things you need to know for Round 10

From a surprising Max Gawn stat to a Jordan Ridley role change and rookie trade tips, here are 11 KFC SuperCoach Plus numbers you need for Round 10.

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From a Jordan Ridley role change to a surprising Max Gawn stat and rookie trade tips, here are the 11 key stats you need to know ahead of Round 10:

TRADE GUIDE: FORWARD LINE FINALLY TAKING SHAPE

1. Tom Highmore is finally back on the active list, playing his third game for the season seven weeks after he played his second. The KFC SuperCoaches who held on — more than 87,000 of them — were finally rewarded with a 47-point return on Friday night that boosted the St Kilda defender’s price by $50,200. He has a new break even of -24 and is set for another $37k price rise if he scores 60 against the Bulldogs on Saturday night. If Highmore can keep his spot he will be valued at about $260k at the Saints’ Round 14 bye.

2. Jordan Ridley returned to form against Fremantle with his first 100-plus score since Round 4, but KFC SuperCoaches still have reason to worry if he can return to his heights of the first four rounds, when he averaged 133 points a game. The Bomber’s numbers in the past three rounds compared to his first month make stark reading — averaging 22 disposals (down from 29), 454 metres gained (down from 603), 5.7 marks (7.8) and two intercept marks (three). The most obvious difference is in behind kick-ins at Essendon. From Round 1-4 Ridley took 41, ranked No.1 at the Bombers and miles ahead of No.2 ranked Dyson Heppell. In the past three weeks he has taken just 12, two fewer than Mason Redman.

Jordan Ridley is no longer the go-to man for Essendon kick-outs.

3. Tackles are a great way to score KFC SuperCoach points but the definition of exactly what constitutes a tackle can be a little confusing. Champion Data will award a player points if they make physical impact on the ball carrier and it impacts their disposal. If a player attempts to tackle an opponent in the act of disposing of the ball, and that disposal is deemed to be effective, then no tackle will be awarded. If it leads to an ineffective disposal or a clanger disposal, or prevents a disposal, then a tackle is awarded. In either case the defensive player is credited with a tackle attempt. This year the leading player for tackle efficiency (for players who have attempted at least 50 tackles) is Gold Coast’s Touk Miller, who has laid 54 successful tackles from 72 attempts (75 per cent), just ahead of Patrick Cripps (74.6 per cent), Joel Selwood (73 per cent), David Swallow (71.4 per cent) and Adam Treloar (70.5 per cent).

4. It’s a barren week for bubble boys and some KFC SuperCoaches are considering picking up one of the top rookies they missed last week. Caleb Poulter has had one price rise already but still has the third-lowest break even in the competition of -43. Docker Stefan Giro, who hasn’t been sighted at senior level since Round 3, has the lowest BE in the comp (-49), followed by Port Adelaide’s Lachie Jones (-47), who is a chance to return this week.

Collingwood youngster Caleb Poulter.

5. Poulter’s value jumped $56,800 after he scored 66 points in his third game for the Magpies on Saturday. If he matches that against Port Adelaide this week he’ll add another $48k to his price tag, and he’ll be worth almost $300k by Collingwood’s Round 14 bye. Tiger Riley Collier-Dawkins is slightly more expensive than Poulter and has a higher break even (-22). But with a regular centre square role he has the potential to score more points. He has a projected score of 69 against Brisbane on Saturday night and is looking at a $40k price rise and a value of just over $300k by Richmond’s Round 13 bye. Against GWS he attended 24 centre bounces — the most in the game — won four clearances and laid seven tackles to go with his 18 disposals and two goals.

6. The highest break evens of active players belong to Taylor Walker (179), Trent Dumont (171), Joel Selwood (165) and Brodie Grundy, who has a break even of 163 despite averaging 133 over his past five games. The Pies ruckman climbed to $681,300 in value but lost $11,300 after scoring 109 at the weekend and is set to drop another $9k even with a projected score of 143 against Port Adelaide. This is why there are not many players ever valued over $700,000 in KFC SuperCoach!

7. The Max Gawn scoring juggernaut may have slowed a little — he has a three-round average of 97.3 after going on a spree from R2-6 when he averaged 150.6 points a game — but it hasn’t hurt his popularity. Gawn’s ownership has increased every week this season, with 1225 more trades last week taking his total ownership to 53 per cent of teams, ranked No.6 in the competition. Jack Ziebell tops the charts with 62.6 per cent ownership followed by Dustin Martin (60.8 per cent) and Grundy (56.7 per cent).

KFC SuperCoaches are finding ways to trade in Max Gawn.

8. Gawn could pump his scores back into the stratosphere by clunking a few more marks. In Rounds 3 and 5, when he scored 163 and 172 points respectively, he took nine marks (five contested) and 10 marks (eight contested). In his past three games he has taken just 10 marks in total, with just two of them contested grabs.

9. Gawn lost almost $50,000 in value on Sunday night but is still priced at $628,500 — or $4966.20 per point. In contrast, Ziebell is delivering $4852.10 per point, Grundy is scoring at a rate of $5350.50 per point, and Caleb Poulter at a bargain $2624.60 per point. Matt Rowell’s 2021 scores have come at a cost of $82,516.70 per point after he was injured while on just six points in his only game of the year.

10. A fallen premium is a well-known term in KFC SuperCoach, but is a fallen rookie a thing? Magpie Oliver Henry and Tiger Patrick Naish could be breaking new ground. Henry has averaged just 16 in his three games and has dropped $14,400 in value to $120,900, while Naish plunged $24,500 in value after his third game of the season. In Naish’s defence it was his first full match of 2021 after he started as the medical sub against the Bulldogs and Geelong and came on late in both games, scoring 5 and 1. His 46 points against the Giants — from 15 disposals and five marks — was a more realistic reflection of his talent, but it didn’t stop him falling to $156,000. He has a break even of 46 against the Lions so he looks to have bottomed out — snap him up now before he starts rising in value again!

Patrick Naish at Richmond training. Picture: Michael Klein

11. If you were wondering why Tom Mitchell scored so poorly from 28 disposals against the Kangaroos, see this tweet from The Phantom below. That came after a game-high 17 contested possessions the week before against West Coast. Mitchell also had just three score involvements against the Roos compared to eight the week before, and his clearance and tackle numbers were also down. Hopefully for his 32,000 owners — including more than 9000 who traded him in last week — it was just one off game.

Tom Mitchell's 3 contested possessions v North was the lowest non-injury-affected tally of his career.

He had 0 in 13% game-time against the Blues in 2013. In every other one of his 135 matches, he's had at least 4.#SuperCoach

— The Phantom (@ThePhantomSC) May 17, 2021