How to choose your 2024 SuperCoach team

Over time, dear reader, you can become a SuperCoach – a 30-player roster manager, a trading expert, and someone your friends look up to.

Whether it's dominating your office mates, earning on-site bragging rights, or hunting down that elusive $50,000 prize pool – with this quick guide, we'll get your super training to your satisfaction level in no time.

How it works

To select a SuperCoach team, you must gather 30 players in four different positions.

You will choose eight centre-backs, 11 midfielders, three central defenders, and eight forwards.

From these 30, you'll select 22 each week to be 'home', and use the points they score each week to add to your team's total.

Your total will be compared to your teammates and teammates in live leagues, which play similarly to the AFL to give you a ladder and finals at the end of seasons, while also adding up across the season to compare every other SuperCoach in the game.

You'll choose six defenders, eight midfielders, two midfielders and six forwards to make up your score each week, leaving two defenders and two strikers on the bench, plus three midfielders and one team player.

Some players will have multiple positions that you can select them into.

Popular choice Nick Daicos is one of those who can be selected either in defense or in midfield.

If you pick him in defence, and then choose another player in your midfield who has 'dual position eligibility' in defensive midfield, or DPP, you can swap him between either line, which can be useful when you need to cover for injuries or stoppages. .

Before the season starts, you have a salary cap hit of $10 million to spend on your team, starting with the most expensive player in the game, Tim English at $724,600, all the way up to a slew of rookies at $102,000.

You have an unlimited number of trades from now until the end of the first round, but once we finish the first round, you will only have 40 trades for the rest of the season.

Between rounds, you can trade players each week from your side for new players. This could be to cover an injury, replace an out-of-form player, or bring in someone who is a hit and has a 130 average.

Five times per season, you can activate the Trade Boost, which will allow you to use an additional trade for the week in which you used the boost.

Likewise, during rounds 12, 13, 14 and 15, you will be able to use three trades each week without using the boost because they are farewell rounds.

In the bye rounds, goals will be scored by your best 18 players out of the 22 players you have on the field to account for the players who will be missing during the bye rounds.

strategy

Players who get closest to the ball are the ones who tend to score well, as SuperCoach scoring bonuses impact the game.

There are 50 different points of data that go into scoring a player's SuperCoach score, but players who are able to win contested balls and intercept possessions tend to do their best, along with contested tackles and marks.

Likewise, players who turn the ball over with bad kicks or bad handballs will lose points, while kicks tend to score more goals than handballs.

So all you have to do is pick the really good players, right? Well, yes, but that's where the salary cap comes in.

Try as you might, you simply won't be able to squeeze 30 out of Marcus Bontempellis and Max Gowens alongside you.

You'll have an average of $333,333 per player to split, so for each Superstar player you pick — which is typically priced around $600,000 — you'll need to pick some entry-level players, who are typically priced between $100,000 and $200,000.

This is where the magic happens – prices change during the season, with prices for players who score good goals rising, while prices for players who score bad go down.

Beginners, who start at a lower price point, generally make a lot more money, ranging from worth, say, $150,000 to as much as $400,000.

Some, like Harry Sheezel last season or Nick Daicos the year before, become players you keep throughout the season.

But most rookie players will be replaced by other players in the basement, meaning you could trade two $350,000 starters for a $100,000 player and another $600,000 player.

That's cash, which is what I've reliably learned Kool Kidz are saying these days.

You can get very unorthodox when you look at players who started at cheaper prices due to injury or change of roles.

Therefore, most teams will be a balance of rookie players with bonuses under $200,000 and premiums over $550,000, with a few players like Zach Williams known as “mid-priced.”

Who should I choose?

If you find out, let me know, will you? This could be… I mean… our ticket to $50,000.

Things for beginners to pay attention to is whether they play – generally if they play they will make money and be worthwhile.

For the other players, you want to make sure their turn and make sure they get their hands on the ball.

We'll be publishing plenty of articles in pre-season to help guide you to the best and worst players to pick, but keep an eye out for players who are set to take on an additional role in midfield or out of midfield, or who move away to 'value voids' left by players who have retired or They left the club.

You also want to target players who are likely to outperform their price point.

Stick with us and we'll help guide you, but if you see a player you like or think will take over the world in 2024, trust your gut and find a way to pick him.

You'll be looking at $50,000 in no time.

Originally published as SuperCoach AFL L-plate guide: How to pick a team, how to win a SuperCoach, and the essentials for joining the fun in 2024