@Dreamteam_Guru Cheap Midfielder #3 David Swallow, Gold Coast $160,500

@Dreamteam_Guru rated 533^rd player in the league

Swallow will be close to the most selected player in AFL dreamteam this year.

What does this mean? It means that you have to have him too.

He won’t win you any games by having him in your team, but you may lose a few by not having him.

Why? If (If!) your opponent has him in his team, your David Swallows will cancel each other out.

If you don’t have them and play another young midfielder instead (say Tom Liberatore), the expectation is that 99% of the time David Swallow will outscore any other rookie.  This means that the money you saved on the cheaper rookie may in fact become a loss as you weren’t able to nullify your opponents use of David Swallow.

The other scenario is you play an opponent without David Swallow.  In this case, they probably haven’t done much Dreamteam research and you were probably going to win anyway.

The big questions is do you keep for the year, or do you sell him when his price goes higher?

I don’t have the answer for this one yet.  See how he goes during the year, and then make a choice.  He might be the Barlow of last year – a cheap(ish) player that you keep as a starter for the whole season (until he did his knee of course).

So make sure you have Swallow in your team – even if its just to nullify everyone else.  For $160K, you don’t have anything to lose.  It’s almost a rule – pick pick 1 every season!

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