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• GURUS HINTS AND TIPS • 2014 TEAM OF THE YEAR • TOP PLAYERS BY POSITION • LEGENDS OF LEAGUE Wrap Up • • TEAM PROFILES • 2014 STATISTICS • PLAYER GAINS & LOSSES • CLUB POINT SCORING ANAYSIS • BYE ANALYSIS • NRLCEO 2015 SEASON GUIDE 40 0+ 100 PLAYER STATISTICS TOP PLAYERS LISTED 16 TEAM PREVIEWS $7.95 Fellow NRLCEO Coaches, Thanks for coming back for yet another season. We’re bloody excited about this Now onto the questions that really matter this year: season and by purchasing this guide, I’m sure you are too! - Can Ben Barba shine again for the Sharks? Or will he hit Northies? We now move onto our seventh season running publicly, our second season in partnership with TheBench and we couldn’t be happier. I think you will all agree - Will Tim Grant get the minutes at the Bunnies to be a workhorse again? that last year was the best year of NRLCEO yet. - Will Rick’s Raiders avoid the spoon? The site ran smoother than a Craig Bellamy training run and some of the new features were great. Those of you in paid leagues would likely have taken - Will Jarryd Hayne fly home mid-season? advantage of the rolling lockout which brought a fun new element to weekends. - Will the 2015 Auckland 9’s top scorer shine again ala Radradra 2014? So what’s new in 2015? - Will the Broncos return to glory days? Well our developer has been working harder than George Rose’s baker in the off season to get things ready for another big year. - Will Sandow remain at the Eels? The first big inclusion is the Waiver Wire. This will mean that if you are in a league - Will Robbie Farah once again be the NRLCEO MVP? that includes school teachers who work 6 hours a day including 3 lunches and 4 …and most importantly – who will you pick in Round 1 of your draft? spare lessons for a whole 16 weeks a year you won’t need to spend your day in the office toilet watching for an opportunity to pick up another teams spuds. More With the countdown to round one well and truly on, our attention is now solely information about the waiver wire on the next page. on the initial (and arguably the most exciting) phase of NRLCEO - the Draft. Many of you will be super excited. Captains are back! This means that you will Please get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any questions or have the ability to select a Captain to score double points once again like we had feedback. We love hearing from you - much more than those annoying SEO on the old site. Check our blog at www.nrlceo.com to find out how to implement it for your competition. Good luck in the 2015 season and we hope you enjoy the NRLCEO Season Guide. There is also a fresh update to the iPhone App. A new interface looks clean and The NRLCEO CEO modern and allows users to follow the draft on the app too. We will also have a Super Rugby version of our game in 2015, so if you dabble in the Rah Rah make sure you check it out. We needed to reduce the workhorse qualification from 40 to 20+ for these lazy pricks. Other than that it is virtually exactly as the same as NRLCEO minus Line Break Assists and 40/20’s. Copyright © NRLCEO 2015 This Season Guide may not be reproduced without prior permission from the owners. HINTS FROM THE GURUS Two tabs make for the best drafting experience Using the Waiver Wire When you start your draft, a new page appears and you are directed The Waiver Wire is used to stop that trigger happy nerd in your competition who towards the Draft Manager page. The current drafting method is to then spends every waking minute on the Internet. type in a player’s name to draft him. As well as doing this you should open It stops them from picking up replacement players as soon as an injury happens another tab in your web browser and click the Players menu item to allow and allows the players at the bottom of the table to climb back up the ladder. It you to scroll through and find out who is left and use the filters. will also help stop the loophole of players being dropped for a few minutes on a bye weekend until teams are locked in and then picked up straight away. In our game, the Waivers are a way to better manage the drafting and dropping of players during the season. At the most simple level, it works like this: 1. If a Player is dropped from a Squad, they cannot be immediately drafted by another Club. 2. Instead, the Player is listed on the Waiver Wire where all Clubs are able submit a request to draft the Player. 3. After 24 hours on the Waiver Wire, requests are processed in reverse ladder order. The result is the lowest ranking Club’s request will be accepted and the player drafted and all other requests for the same player are rejected. 4. If there are no requests for the Player, the Player returns to the free agent pool and can be drafted by anyone at any time. In addition to dropped players being placed on the Waiver Wire, from the start of the first game of the Round to approx. 24 hours after the last game of the Round, Use our “suggestions” all players will be included on the Waiver Wire and so will require a Waiver It may be due to the terminology used, but the “Suggest For” links on the Request to be drafted. Players page is highly underutilised. If you click a positon link it will show you The Waiver Wire has been enabled by default but Competition managers can the best available players in order of the points they scored last year. This disable from their League Edit page. Look out for a follow up article on list updates to only show available players, so make sure you check it out! www.nrlceo.com with more details about using the Waiver Wire feature. HINTS FROM THE GURUS Don’t leave blank spots Prelist before you draft We don’t mean on a weekly basis. We know you’re not stupid… The new addition to drafting prelists this year will really benefit a prepared coach. You can now create and save multiple lists which will be updated as What we’re talking about here is utilising the Rolling Lockout to your advantage. players are drafted. The godfather recommends creating a list for each position We received many questions last year about why users couldn’t swap a player before your draft. I.e. Fullbacks, Wingers, Centres etc and one more for into a blank position even though they hadn’t played yet. The short answer is that miscellaneous.Get there by clicking “Prefences” from the home page (pictured you can only swap a player for a player (when they both haven’t played or their below left) team hasn’t played) – not a blank spot. There are many reasons why we can’t allow blank positions to be swapped including a cheat loophole which can be used. So instead we encourage you to always pick a player in a position if you think you want to be able to swap someone into it later. You can even pick up a Free Agent during the weekend and swap them into a positon – obviously if you have a selected player to swap. The tech savvy can bulk load a list of players from their spreadsheet or players can be added one at a time (the newest player goes to the bottom of the list so add in best to worst order) What makes these lists really powerful is that you can also set when you want these lists to be used (pictured above left). For example if you are certain you are going to be getting the best available hooker in round 1 select and save that and the top player available from your list will be chosen in that round automatically. I fancy myself as a draft trendsetter rather than a follower so I wouldn't set up more than one round in front because you may miss the last diamond in another position but prelists keep the draft moving and allow you to be thinking ahead rather than worrying about which of your top two players you will get while captain slow coach in front of you has his bubble bath instead of drafting. 2014 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WRAP CLYDE FROWGS LET THEIR TEAM DO THE TALKING The Champions League is the most prestigious NRLCEO public competition made up of qualifiers from the Legends of League competitions. It pits the best of the best against each other in a no holds barred grudge competition. 2015 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAMS The Clyde Frowgs were the dominant force all season cruising to the Champion’s League Minor Premiership. On the back of star recruits Thurston, Inglis, Segeyaro 2014 Qualification Result Champion and McGuire, the Frowgs didn’t have it all their own way, losing in week two of the finals and having to go st 1 Champions League Clyde Frowgs the long way to the Grand Final. nd 2 Champions League Wallalong Emus After a tense start to the Grand Final weekend, the “There is no doubt the new guys will do it tough. Frowgs piled on the points and were crowned the 2014 What they may have in enthusiasm, they lack in 3rd Champions League The Gurus* Champion of Champions and will automatically return experience.