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SuperCoach Draft 2020: The Phantom’s top 50 player rankings - January edition

If you’re playing SuperCoach Draft in 2020, start here. The Phantom unveils the January edition of his top-50 player rankings and predicts how a draft might ufold

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If you haven’t played SuperCoach Draft before, you’re missing out.

Arguably, it’s a fun, more-exciting way to play our favourite fantasy game.

Take part in a league with your mates – or join any available public league – and select a unique SuperCoach team through a live draft where each player is only available once.

You can then trade players with other teams throughout the season and pick up any undrafted player from the free agency pool as you go.

League settings – number of teams, squad size, trading and free agency options, gameplay and draft type, just to name a few – are customisable, allowing you to set up your competition your own way.

To begin, here is the January edition of my Top 50 player rankings. For new players, it will give you an indication of how a draft might play out.

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Brodie Grundy, left, leads Mason Cox during a Collingwood training session. Picture: David Crosling/AAP
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1. Brodie Grundy (Coll) RUCK

2019 Average: 130

The star big man has posted a SuperCoach ton in 38 of his past 44 home-and-away matches – 25 of them in excess of 130 – and has finished the past two seasons as the top-ranked player in the game. Don’t even think about doing otherwise.

2. Max Gawn (Melb) RUCK

2019 Average: 128

Gawn isn’t far behind, scoring 100 or more on 36 occasions in the past two years. By average, the third-ranked ruckman is 16-points adrift – there’s no such discrepancy in any other position.

3. Lachie Whitfield (GWS) FWD, MID

2019 Average: 111

The next biggest points differential between the top scorer and the rest of the field is likely to be in the forward-line, depending, of course, whether there’s another slow start from Dustin Martin or not. If you take out Whitfield’s two injury-affected scores last year, he averaged 119 from 15 matches.

Lachie Whitfield, right, at GWS training in January. Picture: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Lachie Whitfield, right, at GWS training in January. Picture: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

4. Jack Macrae (WB) MID

2019 Average: 123

With the three best positional players gone, it’s time to take the likely No. 1 midfielder. Or, at least, the safest bet. Macrae is coming off consecutive season averages of 123 or more and posted SuperCoach tons - six in excess of 135 - in every game following the Bulldogs’ Round 12 bye.

5. Patrick Dangerfield (GEEL) MID

2019 Average: 115

For as good as Macrae has been in recent seasons, Dangerfield has scored 362 more points over the past three years. He averaged less than 120 for the first time since 2014 last year but the Cats have added to their attack and there’s no Tim Kelly in the midfield this year.

6. Nat Fyfe (Freo) MID

2019 Average: 120

Some might go after Lachie Neale and Patrick Cripps at this point but the 2019 Brownlow Medallist, who posted 17 SuperCoach tons, six of them in excess of 140, last year, should outscore both if he stays fit.

7. Lachie Neale (Bris) MID

2019 Average: 121

The 26-year-old averaged 121 points per game in a career-best season and has only missed two matches since 2013. And, don’t forget he averaged 117 points in his final 18 games as a Docker.

8. Patrick Cripps (Carl) MID

2019 Average: 117

There would be a strong argument to make the Carlton co-captain the first-picked midfielder after 18 scores of 120 or more over the past two seasons, nine of them in excess of 150. You should be taking one of the big five here, regardless.

9. Jake Lloyd (Syd) DEF

2019 Average: 109

After posting SuperCoach tons in 13 of the final 15 matches of the previous year, Lloyd passed the 100-point mark 15 times to Round 18, 2019. Concern over the effect of teammate Jordan Dawson shouldn’t deter you from taking the top-scoring defender, ahead of the next-best midfielder or forward.

Dion Prestia evades a Dustin Martin handball at Punt Road Oval. Picture: Luke Hemer/Getty
Dion Prestia evades a Dustin Martin handball at Punt Road Oval. Picture: Luke Hemer/Getty

10. Dustin Martin (Rich) FWD, MID

2019 Average: 100

Inconsistent start to the year SuperCoach-wise but if you include the finals series, Martin averaged 115 in the final eight matches of 2019. It might be hard to overlook midfielders Josh Dunkley or Josh Kelly but, at his best, Martin is an absolute gift as a forward.

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11. Josh Dunkley (WB) MID

2019 Average: 116

12. Josh Kelly (GWS) MID

2019 Average: 117

13. Clayton Oliver (Melb) MID

2019 Average: 109

14. Rory Laird (Adel) DEF

2019 Average: 97

15. Marcus Bontempelli (WB) MID

2019 Average: 115

16. Adam Treloar (Coll) MID

2019 Average: 113

17. Zac Williams (GWS) D EF

2019 Average: 102

18. Tom Mitchell (HAW) MID

2019 Average: DNP

19. James Sicily (Haw) DEF

2019 Average: 94

20. Todd Goldstein (NM) RUCK

2019 Average: 112

21. Michael Walters (Freo) FWD

2019 Aveage: 101

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Tim Kelly, left, could go to another level at the Eagles. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty

22. Tim Kelly (WC) MID

2019 Average: 103

23. Rory Sloane (Adel) MID

2019 Average: 103

24. Tom Stewart (Geel) DEF

2019 Average: 98

25. Devon Smith (Ess) FWD, MID

2019 Average: 69

26. Reilly O’Brien (Adel) RUCK

2019 Average: 95

27. Stephen Coniglio (GWD) MID

2019 Average: 101

28. Tim Taranto (GWS) MID

2019 Average: 102

29. Matt Crouch (Adel) MID

2019 Average: 104

30. Hugh Greenwood (GC) F WD, MID

2019 Average: 85

Isaac Heeney, left, during a Sydney pre-season running session. Picture: Phil Hillyard
Isaac Heeney, left, during a Sydney pre-season running session. Picture: Phil Hillyard

31. Isaac Heeney (Syd) FWD, MID

2019 Average: 94

32. Caleb Daniel (WB) DEF

2019 Average: 99

33. Dayne Zorko (Bris) MID

2019 Average: 107

34. Sam Docherty (Carl) DEF

2019 Average: DNP

35. Zach Merrett (Ess) MID

2019 Average: 106

36. Rowan Marshall (StK) RUCK

2019 Average: 110

37. Scott Lycett (Port) RUCK

2019 Average: 101

38. Jordan Dawson (Syd) DEF, FWD

2019 Average: 86

39. Jack Steven (Geel) F WD, MI D

2019 Average: 74

40. Toby Greene (GWS) FWD

2019 Average: 94

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41. Jade Gresham (StK) FWD, MID

2019 Average: 84

42. Andrew Gaff (WC) MID

2019 Average: 107

43. Luke Parker (Syd) MID

2019 Average: 105

44. Taylor Adams (Coll) MID

2019 Average: 97

45. Dan Houston (Port) DEF, MID

2019 Average: 89

46. Elliot Yeo (WC) MID

2019 Average: 108

47. Nic Naitanui (WC) RUCK

2019 Average: 94

48. Hugh McCluggage (Bris) MID

2019 Average: 94

49. Shannon Hurn (WC) DEF

2019 Average: 103

50. Gary Ablett (Geel) FWD

2019 Average: 96

Originally published as SuperCoach Draft 2020: The Phantom’s top 50 player rankings - January edition

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