SuperCoach Number Crunch: Champion Data explains Round 13 scoring quirks
GET the inside word on Kade Simpson’s remarkable comeback, Jack Billings’ rebirth and the real impact of Jack Macrae’s injury as Champion Data lifts the lid on the SuperCoach scoring system.
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LIVE SuperCoach scores are a fantastic way to track your players — and your league opponents’ — in real time. They can also send you a bit crazy.
Midfielders generally score evenly across a match — so if one of your starters has 30 points at quarter-time or 60 at halftime, they are usually tracking for a three-figure score. If they enter the main break with just 25 to their name, you’re in strife.
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But other players can be far more volatile. Just ask the 61,000 SuperCoach players with Carlton gun Kade Simpson in their team.
Scroll down to see the numbers behind Simpson’s rollercoaster day, the secret to Jack Billings’ return to form and the full impact of Jack Macrae’s hamstring injury as Champion Data lifts the lid on the quirkiest SuperCoach scores of Round 13.
SIMPSON RISES FROM GRAVE
Like Carlton, Kade Simpson was lacklustre in the first half against Fremantle and his score was indicative of this, heading into the major break with 37 points to his name.
But he was rampant in the third term as he piled on 66 points from 18 disposals and seven intercept possessions. He scored 40 points from disposals alone, adding a further 5.3 points from a big pack mark off the opposition. Simpson also earned points for one block and one running bounce.
He wasn’t as prominent in the final term, but he still added 20 points to his score to finish with 123 for the match, ranked third on the ground behind Nat Fyfe and Lachie Neale.
THE REBIRTH OF BILLINGS
A move to the wing, where he spent 69 per cent of the match against Gold Coast, was the catalyst to Jack Billings’ form reversal.
He had his most prominent match since the season opener against Brisbane, recording a season-high 27 disposals and four tackles.
Billings finished with 99 points for the match and lost just six points from two disposal clangers. He also did the little things, scoring 4.6 points from one smother and two effective spoils.
Billings’ most prominent act of the match was a contested mark in the opening term which earned him 4.7 points.
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GRESHAM’S BIG FINISH
Jade Gresham proved to be the matchwinner for St Kilda in the come-from-behind win on Saturday, scoring 59 points in the final term. With the match in the balance late in the quarter, his goal was worth 14.5 points. If you add the gather from the hitout and the kick short for goal, then the whole play was worth 25 points.
Daniel McKenzie (45 points), Seb Ross (32) and Hunter Clark and Billy Longer (30) were all prominent in the time-on period of that quarter. Jack Billings, on the other hand, had zero points during that time.
JACK POTHOLE
Owners of Jack Macrae were dealt a double blow on the weekend. He scored an injury-affected 51 points and plummeted in price by a massive $73,600.
We have to go back to the first price changes of the season in Round 3 to see a bigger drop, with Tom Rockliff (-75,600) and Zach Merrett (-$86,100) both losing significant value.
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