Supercoach - One man, many plans

Supercoach 2025 – question the AI

February 24, 2025 by Almigo

Would you look at the clock? It’s Supercoach 2025 time! And just in time for the glory that is draft day, I came up with the genius idea of using artificial intelligence to help me build a team this year (because once again I’m quoting Sgt Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes ‘I know nothink! Nothink!’)

It turns out however that while I asked it plenty to help streamline a fighting force worthy of Supercoach 2025, apparently I didn’t ask it enough questions. Which is why at the end of draft day, 26% of my team are currently working their way through rehabilitation.

How did I manage to screw this one up? Let’s find out!

Supercoach 2024 – the sizzling season that was!

August 26, 2024March 10, 2024 by Almigo

Edit: 14,148 words, 59 revisions, 75 minutes read time. Buckle up, it’s been a massive year for Supercoach!

Yes faster than you can say ‘I say good sir, is it Supercoach 2024 time already what?’, it’s suddenly Supercoach 2024 time again. Time to hastily throw together an AFL team on draft day and hope they a) do something remarkable and b) Don’t break themselves in the process.

My experiences of the last couple of seasons have been mixed at best. But this year is my year, I can feel it right down to my coaches box!

Wait, that didn’t sound good did it?

FTM Round 18 – Turn up and do a thing

July 15, 2023 by Almigo

Yegads people, it’s Thursday already! Luckily it’s not Thursday night yet though which means I won’t repeat the same mistake as the last two weeks and actually put in a fully functional Supercoach team in this week.

Or as close I can humanly get to one with this lot really..

FTM Round 16 and 17 – Coach M.I.A

July 10, 2023 by Almigo

So there I was, just walking down the hallways of Feed The Machine stadium when I bumped into Hunter.
‘Hey mate, did you know you look like our coach? I wonder where he is at the moment?’
‘But…I am your coach!’ I stammered, finally after he’d already walked on, too little, too late.

Interestingly while I’ve been M.I.A as coach for the last two rounds (and phoned in the one before that), it’s actually gone better than I’ve thought. If you count a 50% success rate in this Supercoach game something to brag about after clean forgetting the footy was on..

FTM Round 15 – just phone it in

June 26, 2023 by Almigo

Ugh, another bye round in the AFL that’s caused merry hell for team Feed the Machine. And come the Thursday just gone, I could either plan diligently or phone it in.

No money on which option I took. Although strangely that turned out to be the correct one..

FTM Round 14 – who’s available in this AFL bye round?

June 19, 2023June 15, 2023 by Almigo

Glory be, it’s the 3rd week of the AFL bye round and it’s a big one: Adelaide out, Collingwood out, not to mention Essendon, Melbourne, West Coast and Hawthorne also having a break this round, possibly off to sun themselves somewhere nicer than wintery Australia.

Which while nice for all the players and coaching staff involved in reality, you can imagine the merry hell this causes for anyone playing AFL Supercoach at the moment, possibly wondering what to do with the gaping big holes suddenly formed in this week’s line up..

Well I was until I started to shuffle the deck chairs around on the titanic..

FTM Round 12 – Supercoach team structure ‘PATCHY’

June 13, 2023June 8, 2023 by Almigo

I’m a day early for my usual ‘Oh god the footy starts again tonight, better hash together a semblance of a team’ usual Friday because for the next four weeks the AFL are doing Thursday night games again. Thanks to Ross Noble, I’ve got the brain power of a gutted slug – but luckily I made some sweeping changes across the week early that’ll hopefully will come good over the weekend.

And yes anytime I’ve emphasised hope before, it’s backfired spectacularly. So on that note, let’s continue to drive this team into the ground then!