Game Day 2025 Fantasy Round 3 Discussion

[kozi]

Imagine fantasy being free of byes completely. Would be so good

 

[Milo Cyrus]

Imagine fantasy being free of byes completely. Would be so good

Rolling lockouts can piss right off too!

 

[amazingjoshy]

Rolling lockouts can piss right off too!

Bit of an X/twitter discussion about that going on this morning



The whole survey argument is ridiculous. The only people doing a fantasy survey is the hard core nuffs that obviously want to keep the rolling. Hell I'm constantly posting fantasy stuff on this board and even I rarely do the survey

 

[Barrybran]

Or just 1 round of no footy half way through the season. Like the world is gonna fall apart with no games for one week

As someone with nothing better to do, I like being able to watch football every week

 

[Milo Cyrus]

Bit of an X/twitter discussion about that going on this morning



The whole survey argument is ridiculous. The only people doing a fantasy survey is the hard core nuffs that obviously want to keep the rolling. Hell I'm constantly posting fantasy stuff on this board and even I rarely do the survey

Who the hell wants to waste portions of their life checking for subs prior to every fukn game.

 

[kozi]

As someone with nothing better to do, I like being able to watch football every week

Well they’re working towards 1 bye a week and the complete illusion of any footy being lost due to byes

 

[happy_eagle]

Bit of an X/twitter discussion about that going on this morning



The whole survey argument is ridiculous. The only people doing a fantasy survey is the hard core nuffs that obviously want to keep the rolling. Hell I'm constantly posting fantasy stuff on this board and even I rarely do the survey

Hopefully the sub rule can go first, which 100% alleviates the need for rolling lockout.

 

[kozi]

Rolling lockouts can piss right off too!

The stress of locking your team away on a Friday arvo. Good times

“Farrk it I’m going with this guy”

 

[Milo Cyrus]

5 mins X 9 games per week x 23 rounds... approx 137K players?
= 1035 mins per season per entrant.
or 17.25 hrs is absolute dog shit amount of time for every engaged player.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Hopefully the sub rule can go first, which 100% alleviates the need for rolling lockout.

Oh the sub rule sucks, but relying on the AFL to get rid of it means nothing will change

Imo they should just put in a TOG threshold or something like Emg score counts if they outscore someone on your field

Gets rid of looping too

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

1220 with Sheezel, Dawson C, Powell Xerri & Daniel to come not as good as last week. I don't think i've ever had this many north players since like 2006/7

 

[kozi]

5 mins X 9 games per week x 23 rounds... approx 137K players?
= 1035 mins per season per entrant.
or 17.25 hrs is absolute dog shit amount of time for every engaged player.

The AFL doesn’t give af about the people who follow it. The same people it relies on to live.. talk about backwards priorities

 

[amazingjoshy]

Speaking of subs

Draper and Stephens subs

 

[juppy]

Yep rolling lockout is balls. Rewards the no-lifers and actually makes the game easier for them, putting more distance between them and the casual player. A casual player will ensure they have good cover, massage their bench, while someone checking before every game quite literally has a terrible bench by round 8 or so and it won't affect their rankings because points on field and no repercussions from late outs.

They won't change it though. It gets the engagement clicks throughout the weekend.

 

[Corkintheocean]

The AFL doesn’t give af about the people who follow it. The same people it relies on to live.. talk about backwards priorities

This is what boils my p*ss. Only fantasy players are watching North v GWS at 11am Sunday in Rd17. In their pursuit of chasing their new viewer KPIs, they've completely forgotten to service their diehard fanbase. Game's ripe for a breakaway league.

 

[happy_eagle]

Yep rolling lockout is balls. Rewards the no-lifers and actually makes the game easier for them, putting more distance between them and the casual player. A casual player will ensure they have good cover, massage their bench, while someone checking before every game quite literally has a terrible bench by round 8 or so and it won't affect their rankings because points on field and no repercussions from late outs.

They won't change it though. It gets the engagement clicks throughout the weekend.

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

 

[Milo Cyrus]

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

Checking the subs.

 

[amazingjoshy]

They won't change it though. It gets the engagement clicks throughout the weekend.

This is what i thought was the real reason but in that discussion on X above Warnie reckons it's not, it's purely on survey results




Hes right in that you'd still have people checking scores etc but it probably would result in less clicks

 

[Milo Cyrus]

 

[amazingjoshy]

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

I've done the survey maybe two or three times and I'm a pretty huge fantasy nuff. The only people taking time to do the survey are the hardest core players

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

No idea but the AFL will continue to do what they want regardless of survey results. The surveys are only exist to give supporters the illusion of voice.

Rolling lockouts probably mean more engagement and clicks through the weekend.

 

[Corkintheocean]

This is what i thought was the real reason but in that discussion on X above Warnie reckons it's not, it's purely on survey results




Hes right in that you'd still have people checking scores etc but it probably would result in less clicks

The more clicks in the early rounds would be more than offset by user disengagement midseason by the social player abandoning their team once their season is torpedoed by missing one too many late changes.

 

[stallon]

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

People who are happy with the game arent going out and complaining about it, theyre happy with it as it is so why make noise?

There used to be people asking for rolling lockouts years ago before it was brought in

 

[Milo Cyrus]

The more clicks in the early rounds would be more than offset by user disengagement midseason by the social player abandoning their team once their season is torpedoed by missing one too many late changes.

I'm still waiting for WaynesWorld19 to post the 2026 pre-season thread so I can start on next years assault on mediocrity.

 

[juppy]

What surprises me though is (according to Warnie) approval rate for rolling lockout in the survey is consistently like 60%.

But all I hear about it are complaints. Where are the people voting for rolling lockout?

It's just confirmation bias. The people happy to spend all weekend riding the ins and outs will overwhelmingly fill out the survey.

Most others wont.