Fluke or Underperforming Gun?
Hello SCA readers it’s Alex here with a piece on someone I know a lot of people brought in this week, only for him to continue bad form this season. I think you know who it is, hope you enjoy ! 😉
Well as you most likely guessed yes it is him, Ryan Hargrave. After a stellar year last year playing 20 games at an average of 96.8 points per game with 9 games of 100 or more. Although last year was a breakout year and the rule suggests not to pick players on the back of a breakout year, he looked primed to keep on improving this year. But it was not to be, coaches who picked him up at the start of the year were immediately burned with him starting the year poorly with scores of 70 &79, his BE was sky-high and people were considering taking him out of their teams. Those who didn’t were further hurt by this underperforming ‘gun.’ Hurt early in the Doggies match against the Hawks, and didn’t return. Finishing the game with a poor score of 9, leading him to a price drop of 66500 first up. After this a lot of coaches started to look at him as a severely underpriced premium and quite a few traded him in, or watchlisted him for when the 9 came out of his rolling average. Those who brought him in were also hurt by another disappointing score of 67 and didn’t play the next week. Suddenly after falling from a starting price of 514200 to 396800.
This was when a lot of watched him score 95 against St.Kilda in what seemed to be the game that would see him return to his form of last year. But it wasn’t to be, he fell another 30k that week and then ran out to face the Dees last night. This is what convinced me he is not the same player he was last year, his average has dropped from 96 from last year to 64 this year. A 32 point drop in average. It is huge, almost to much. Can he recover from this? It seems not with Gilbee back to his best after being held back by injury last year. He looks like he just can’t get back to doing what he was doing. I may eat my words next week and at the end of the season. But to me it looks like Hargrave is back to averaging the scores he pulled out before last year. – 2008 he averaged 76, in 2007 he averaged 88. In 2006 he averaged just 67. This is the player he was before while Gilbee was at his best. Gilbee is back this year, and so are Hargraves ordinary scores.
Happy Supercoaching.
Alex.;)
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