Bargain buys: SuperCoach NBL Classic

Fifty-eight players sit under $100,000 in SuperCoach NBL Classic, and until this week almost nothing separated them.

Five days in Bendigo have done the sorting.

Eighteen of them did not play a single minute. Fifteen cleared 20 minutes across the tournament, and those 15 are on the buy list. The rest sat somewhere in between, playing without doing enough to be worth a rotation place yet.

Jason Spurgin ($69,000) was the best of them under $100K. The Sydney back-up big man scored 49 SuperCoach points across two games, and he did it in 37 minutes rather than 60, which is the part that matters when you are betting on somebody's role growing.

Ben Gold ($69,000) and Tom Wilson ($69,000) tied on 46 behind him. Lloyd McVeigh ($58,500) minimum, was fourth.

One name is missing from the book and it should not surprise you when you find him in the app. On the Cheapie Bible Bubble, Jayden Stone ($100,000) scored 58 points for Sydney across the Blitz, more than any cheapie below. Our Cheapie Bible line is under $100,000, we are holding it, but elite value near-bottom dollar.

Hunter Goodrick ($69,000) is owned by 44%, still the only floor-priced player in more than one team in three.

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SuperCoach Classic VNBL27 cheapies: The 13 with a track record

Hunter Goodrick (SEM, $69,000) — 11.1 rebounds per 36 at the floor price, and 5.79 SC points in 7.8 minutes. Second at PF behind Morin now, not first, but SEM run no deeper.

Johny Narkle (ILL, $69,000) — 5.56 SC points in 7.7 minutes and owned by 2.7%. Second at SG behind Tyler Harvey, two men deep. He did not play on Day 2 in a one-point game, and Day 5 gave him three and a half minutes and nothing to show for them. Still waiting for the game that tests it.

Matt Kenyon (ADL, $69,000) — Second at SF behind a man out for the season with an ACL, so second is really first. Played all 40 games for 5.42 SC in 10.4 minutes. Not in Adelaide's Blitz Day 2 squad.

Cameron Huefner (PER, $58,500) — Floor price and Perth carry no third small forward, which is why he was ranked on the chart rather than on a per-36 built from 45 minutes. Blitz Day 3 is the first real evidence there has been: 22 minutes 14 for the Wildcats against the 4.1 a game he averaged last season, for 12 projected points at 20.5 per $100,000.

Shaun Bruce (CNS, $76,500) — 7.37 SC points in 8.6 minutes at 35, and Luke Paul is out six to eight weeks with an ankle. The backup PG job is his for the opening month.

Tom Wilson (MEL, $69,000) — The best per-36 in the band at 32.2 on a real 156-minute sample, sitting behind a 37-year-old who gets managed. On Blitz Day 3 he turned 13 minutes 35 into 17 projected SuperCoach points at 24.6 per $100,000, the best return any cheapie with a track record managed at this tournament on the smallest workload. Then he won the last night of it: 29 projected points in 23 minutes 42, 16 points and 10 rebounds, the best single return by any cheapie at the Blitz. He finishes level with Ben Gold on 46 for the five days, done across 37 minutes in two games rather than the 12 a night this row projects.

Sunday Dech (CNS, $69,000) — 6.58 SC points in 9.8 minutes, but 37% already own him. Consensus rather than edge, and the hamstring is unresolved.

Daniel Foster (SEM, $75,600) — Played 31 of a possible 32 last season for 7.29 SC in 9.3 minutes. Third at PF since Morin moved up, and he is out of the Blitz.

Daniel Grida (ILL, $92,300) — 18.9 points per 36, the purest scorer in the band, but four men deep at SF for ILL and $23,000 dearer than the floor-price picks. 19 projected SuperCoach points on Blitz Day 2, 20.6 per $100,000, the best of any cheapie in this table that day. Day 5 produced the best rate of the whole night, 57.5 per 36, but it came out of 11 minutes 54, and three steals in a short burst is exactly the sample that flatters a per-36.

Anthony Drmic (TAS, $97,800) — Third-best average in the band at 9.43, and an ACL to Bryce Hamilton has cleared the man in front. Only 14 games, so treat it as thin. He then did not take the floor once across the five days of the Blitz.

Isaac White (ADL, $98,100) — 598 measured minutes across 40 games, backing up Bryce Cotton, who cannot play all of them. The safest floor here, and you pay for it. Eleven minutes and no statistics on Blitz Day 2.

Taine Murray (BRI, $99,700) — Highest average and by far the most minutes in the band, and still the poorest value in it: 15.1 per 36 is the lowest rate on this list. Out for the entire Blitz with a lower limb injury, four to six weeks from September 2.

Reuben Te Rangi (NZL, $97,100) — The chart says third string at small forward, last season says 18.5 minutes a night across 33 games, and Blitz Day 3 sided with the minutes. He played 24 minutes 24, more than any other cheapie on either list managed that night, for 10 projected points. Day 5 said it louder: 25 minutes 12 for 27 projected points, 18 of them his own scoring. Two nights, 49 minutes on the floor, and the chart still has him third.

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SuperCoach Classic NBL27 cheapies: the six with no usable NBL26 sample

Anzac Rissetto (NZL, $69,000) — Centre is the scarce position in this game; only 17 players carry it as a primary and you need two, and New Zealand carry exactly two. He backed the argument up on Blitz Day 3 with 20 minutes, 35 for 11 projected SuperCoach points at 15.9 per $100,000, and Day 5 gave him 11 minutes, 18 for two projected points, three rebounds against two turnovers. Nothing at this tournament has made his case.

Ben Griscti (ADL, $69,000) — The same argument as Rissetto with less evidence behind it. Adelaide carry no third centre, so Isaac Humphries' rest minutes are his. He had 13:56 for four projected points on Blitz Day 2 and then 19:26 for 14 on Day 4, built on 5-from-5 at the free-throw line, which leaves him on 18 for the tournament at 26.1 per $100,000 with Adelaide finished.

Preston Le Gassick (NZL, $69,000) — Backup point guard to an import at 4.16% ownership, and Blitz Day 3 was a reminder of why his row is a projection rather than a measurement. He had 16 minutes 35, three turnovers and four projected points at 5.8 per $100,000, the lowest rate of these six. Day 5 was the answer: 14 projected points in 19 minutes 54, with two steals, which puts him inside the top 15 cheapies of the tournament.

Ben Gold (TAS, $69,000) — Ownership has more than doubled since this table was first built, 6.06% to 14.72%, remarkable for a debutant, and the man above him is the least certain starter in the league. Double-double on Blitz Day 2, 11 and 11, 30 projected SuperCoach points and 43.5 per $100,000. Day 5 added 16 more in 27 minutes 24, and he closes the Blitz on 46 from 56 minutes, more court time than any other cheapie on either list.

Jason Spurgin (SYD, $69,000) — He was this document's cautionary tale, the man whose per-36 rate was built on a couple of minutes and meant nothing. We no longer publish a career figure for him, because our sources do not agree on one, and it does not matter here: the Blitz has supplied the court time that rate was only guessing at. 20 minutes 57 on Day 1 for 30 projected points, then 16 minutes 39 on Day 3 for 19, topping our Day 3 value table at 27.5 per $100,000. That leaves him on 49 for the tournament at 71.0 per $100,000, the best return of any cheapie at the Blitz. He is still behind an import at centre, so the chart has not moved. The minutes have.

Will Johnston (SYD, $69,000) — Left out first time on a source disagreement rather than on merit — the NBL tracker has him second at PG behind Kendric Davis, ours has him in the depth tier at SG — and the Blitz has not settled which position he plays, but it has settled the court time. He played 30 minutes 17 on Day 1 for 23 projected points, with nine assists, more than any other cheapie managed in a game all tournament, then 18 minutes 08 on Day 3. That is 48 minutes of Blitz basketball, second only to Shaun Bruce, for 35 projected points at 50.7 per $100,000, and 0.51% of coaches own him.

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