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Ozymandias wrote:
Reading from below - I thought they looked into the 5-8 'reserve' spots first and then, if there's none there, they go to the 1-4 Interchange and a replacement moves up to cover them.
7. INTERCHANGE PLAYERS
Each week you should select 4 Interchange Players. These 4 Interchange Players are designated by priority-order numbers 1 to 4 on your Reserves Bench.
All 4 Interchange Players’ scores count towards your Fantasy total score for that round, subject to potential automatic adjustments for Emergencies.
8. EMERGENCY PLAYERS
These are players whose priority-order is numbered 5 to 8 on your Reserves Bench.
A player from your Starting 17 who doesn't take the field will be replaced by a player from your Reserves Bench based on the rules for applying auto-emergencies.
If a member of your starting 17 (13 on field and 4 interchange players) do not play in any given round an Emergency will be automatically assigned. This Emergency’s score will be automatically added to the total points scored by a team in any given round. The assigned Emergency will be the highest-numbered scoring player from the Reserves Bench who receives a score for the round and matches the position of the non-playing Starting 13 player. If this auto-emergency player is listed within the Interchange Players they will be replaced as an Interchange Player by the highest-ranked eligible Emergency not currently in the Scoring 17. This process of automatic emergency substitution will continue as described until there are no more eligible emergency replacement players. If no player from the Reserves is eligible to substitute for a non-playing member of the Scoring 17 no emergency substitution will be made. If the process of applying automatic emergencies results in fewer than 17 players scoring points a team’s total score for that round will be the aggregate total of only those players who have scored points.
The confusion seems to be with the terminology. Reserves is all players 14-21. They are further divided up into interchange (14-17), and emergencies (18-21).
If a starting 13 player doesn't play, the highest ranked reserve of the same position replaces them. That is anyone from 14-21. Everyone ranked below that person moves up a spot, meaning if the replacement was an interchange player (14-17), the #18 player moves onto the interchange.
It's really not that confusing.
Example:
My reserves are set up as follows:
#14 HOK
#15 HOK
#16 FRF/2RF
#17 2RF/HLF
#18 WFB
#19 HLF
#20 CTR/WFB
#21 HOK
If one of my starting 2RFs doesn't play, player #16 replaces him, players #17-21 all move up a spot, making player#18 now a scoring interchange player.
If it was one of my starting CTR's that didn't play, then player #20 would replace them, and the rest of the team is unaffected.
It could get more complicated if you have multiple starting 13 players not play, but really it's fairly straight forward.
I actually think it's a heaps better system than what existed before, gets rid of the crappy AE problem and opens up so much flexibility for team structure and trade options.
