How SuperCoach works

SuperCoach is a salary-cap fantasy game. You’re given a budget and pick a squad; each player has a price and earns SuperCoach points each round based on how they actually performed. Score more than your rivals, and as players rise and fall in price you trade to bank cash and upgrade. Three numbers drive everything: how a player scores, how their price moves, and how many points they’re projected to score next.

AFL SuperCoach scores are built from Champion Data player ratings — the official AFL statistician. Every action on the ground is weighted by its real value: an uncontested handball in defence is worth far less than a contested clearance or a goal. It is not a simple “1 point per disposal” system, which is why a player can rack up touches and still score modestly, while a lower-possession defender posts a big number off intercept marks and rebound.

Broadly, you’re rewarded for:

• Effective/contested possessions, clearances and metres gained
• Marks (especially contested and intercept), goals and behinds
• Tackles, hit-outs to advantage, score involvements and goal assists

and penalised for:

• Turnovers — ineffective disposals and clangers
• Free kicks given away, and dropped/spoiled contests against you

A round score near 100 is strong; elite midfielders average 110–120, while cheap rookies might sit in the 40s–60s. The exact AFL weights are proprietary to Champion Data, but the system is deterministic — the same stat line always produces the same score.

Yes — closely. Because every player exposes both their total points and their full stat line, we can fit the scoring weights statistically. For NRL SuperCoach the formula is clean and we recover it exactly (R² = 1.00). AFL SuperCoach is more contextual (the value of an act depends on game state), so a straight fit lands at about R² ≈ 0.995 — very close, and enough to project from. In practice we don’t need to: SuperCoach publishes its own projected score for each player, which is what the Proj column shows.

A player’s price tracks their recent scoring. SuperCoach divides points by a “magic number” to set a dollar value, and updates it off a rolling average of the last few games (not the whole season). So price chases recent form: a player on a hot streak rises; a slump drops them.

The key trading concept is the breakeven — the score a player must post this round just to hold their price. Beat it and they rise; miss it and they fall. Cheap players who keep beating their breakeven are cash cows: you buy them low, let them generate cash, and sell before they plateau. Our Prices page tracks the round and season price change and flags the cash cows.

Players are classified DEF, MID, RUC or FWD. Some hold dual position (DPP)eligibility — listed in two groups — which gives valuable flexibility when trading. We show every player’s position(s) throughout, with DPP players carrying both chips.

Price

Current SuperCoach salary, in dollars. Round $Δ / Season $Δ are the change this round and across the season.

Proj

SuperCoach’s own projected score for the upcoming round.

Avg / L3 / L5

Season average, and the average of the last 3 and last 5 games — recent form vs the long-run.

Form

L3 average minus season average. Positive = heating up.

Consistency

100 × (1 − SD ÷ mean) across games played — higher means fewer cheap weeks.

Own%

Share of teams holding the player. Differentials are low-owned players projected to score well.

Value

Projected points per $100k of price — the best bang for your salary.

Avg v Opp / @ Ven

The player’s historical average against this round’s opponent and at the venue — a quick matchup read.

All figures are pulled live from SuperCoach’s public feed and refreshed through the week (prices settle after each round). We add the derived metrics — value, form delta, consistency and the round-by-round sparklines — on top. This is an independent stats resource and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by SuperCoach or the AFL.

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