Holding or Folding Bye Premiums: Can We Really Trust Our Rookies?
Right now our rookies are good. Really good. So much so that the faithful Guns n’ Rooks strategy appears to be the recipe for success, only two rounds in. Coming into this season, players such as Tom Green, Lachie Whitfield, and Sam Flanders loomed as top options in their respective lines while still providing potential upside. In a regular year, we would have undoubtedly started with all of them, but the perceived threat of the extra bye meant coaches needed more to justify picking these players,...