by Jele Sat Aug 12, 2023 2:57 pm
Teeth Eater wrote:
Haha, thanks mate. Leads me into a few thoughts that have been bouncing around my head over the last couple of weeks-
Appreciate most folk here are here for the Overall party, but any other H2H campaigners find that they abandon the game-plan that got them to finals once the finals start?
You get to the finals by not making stupid sideways trades and building that bank, but once the finals start, basically every trade you do is sideways and has a potential to end your season.
Broke even last week with Manu to Latrell, but now I dread what Manu (whom everyone else still has) will do this week and next. And this week I've shot myself in the foot trading Hopgood in for Ipap/Preston.
And now I ask myself, is it better just to finish the H2H season with 8 trades in hand and only trade for injuries? Who knows?
Just the disgruntled thoughts of a not-quite-broken-yet, but heavily dismantled man on the brink of a sad defeat.
Teeth, you're doing it right. It's just that H2H finals come down to 50:50 calls. You win some, you lose some...
Having trades can be a curse, as the sideways ones you do to manage a difficult match-up make perfect sense but can backfire. But you pretty much can't win a H2H finals series without a few up your sleeve.