Gah, what a miserable season. Only one thing to do, and to keep it short and sweet, it is just too painful to go over it all in detail, a bona fide stinker! While not quite the worst season that I have ever had (309 places short of that!), it is damn close. An argument can be made that there were more people playing this season, so it is slightly tougher to make your way up the ranks, but I say poppycock to that! As I become more experienced with the game, there really is no excuse, even if I did pursue what I knew was a deliberately risky strategy of starting with Turbo, even against my better judgement. Add to that plenty of misfortune with late outs and injuries, this season was destined to be doomed. This season, I had at least 4 late outs affect me, as I was working and unable to check team lists, at least another 4 injuries that struck the week I traded a player in or the week after, not to mention at least another 4 players that stopped performing once I got them in my team! *Sigh* Yeah you could say I was UNLUCKY! But I would rather put it down to bad management on my behalf, which led to said bad luck.
| YEAR | FINAL RANK |
| 2015 | 13,890 |
| 2016 | 1,259 |
| 2017 | 3,221 |
| 2018 | 963 |
| 2019 | 16,625 |
| 2020 | 8,919 |
| 2021 | 1,109 |
| 2022 | 16,316 |
Anyway, plenty of bad decisions were made, and some of this mentality carried over to my FPL team, but that is another story. So without further ado, here are the NRL Supercoach cash competitions that I was a part of this year:
- The UNLUCKY! Cup
- Cash Kings $100
- The Bowman Cup XII
- Cash Kings $50
- Plenty Pineapples
- Sandow Memorial 8
To indicate how bad a season I had, I only reached the GF in 2 Bottom 8 Cups (Bowman XII Cup and Cash Kings $50), although I did win both. Unfortunately, only The Bowman Cup XII had a prize for this, which was a rather generous $100, so not a total disaster. The real kicker was that I did not qualify for any of the playoffs in The UNLUCKY! Cup (formerly the Tackle Happy League), something that has never happened before! Yikes! I also took part in the following FREE leagues:
- UNLUCKY! FS League
- ADDICTS CANBERRA 1
No such luck in these, wiped out also. So, where to from here? I will spend the off season licking my wounds, and dwelling on the fact that I pushed against so many of my usual strategies and philosophies that I have made for myself on how to play the game. Next season may spell a return to the more “conservative” approach, where I stick to the basics and go for a more risk averse approach. Plenty of time to think about it. Unlucky!
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