Fantasy football fans may be prepared to pay the exorbitant price tag attached to elite Rochester midfielder Chris Jansen if the extremely popular points-based competition comes to the Goulburn Valley League.
Jansen may even carry the colour-coded captaincy role for teams if his fantasy football score from the round four match against Shepparton United is any indication.
Now, all of this is, of course, completely my own hypothesis based on the arrival of fantasy football on our doorstep.
However, the introduction of GVL Data does make it an interesting exercise to transfer the weekend results into fantasy football form.
And this is how we do it. A kick is worth three points, a handball is worth two, a mark is three points and a tackle is four points.
A goal is six, a point is one, a hit out is also one point and in regard to free kicks, one point for a free kick in a player’s favour and minus three for one paid against the player.
A significant part of the fantasy football selection process is the budget to which participants must adhere. The better the player, the more he costs, hence the reference to the potential cost of former SANFL and VFL star Jansen.
Jansen scored a season-high 153 points against Shepparton United when he had 40 possessions (29 of those kicks), six marks, two tackles and — importantly — kicked three goals.
That was a week after he collected 135 points against Tatura in round three.
Proving his versatility, Jansen scored 144 points in a brilliant Rochester win against Kyabram, laying 10 tackles (40 points), collecting 28 possessions and kicking two goals.
He also attracted free kicks and only gave away two, finishing marginally in the positive on this front.
Individual players from opposition clubs haven’t registered too many significant tallies against the Tigers, but Mooroopna’s Ethan Hunt and Chris Nield would have had the fanatics that love the points-based game in raptures from the round 12 match with the Tigers.
Hunt’s 120 points came on the back of 33 possessions and eight tackles, while Nield’s eight goals heavily influenced his 124-point total (which would have been better if not for the three free kicks he gave away).
As far as value goes with the Tigers, Hugh Hamilton would have been a cheap buy given he only recently had his first senior hit out with the club.
He had a massive 116 points courtesy of 10 marks and 23 possessions, coupled with five tackles and one goal.
Mitch Bright’s aerial work and tackling ability allows him to regularly register triple-figure scores — an example his 31-possession, 10-mark and three-tackle game against Shepparton.
That equated to a 128-point game, the icing on the cake his one goal in that Tigers round seven victory.
Joe Atley’s round six game was an interesting case of trying to stay on the right side of the umpires.
His 32 possessions, 10 marks and three tackles netted him 123 points. However, that was severely reduced when 27 points were taken from the total due to the nine free kicks paid against the midfielder.
In the same game, his elder brother, Shaun, collected 102 points.
Jordan Harper’s best return is 127 points in the round five win against Benalla, when he kicked three goals, had 28 touches and took 10 marks.
FANTASY FOOTY STAR
Chris Jensen
153 fantasy football points
(versus Shepp United, round four)
29 kicks (87 points)
11 handballs (22 points)
6 marks (18 points)
2 free kicks for/1 against (-1 points)
2 tackles (8 points)
3 goals (18 points)
1 behind (1 point)