THE DATA DESK

Phillip Sami Captains the Round 17 Team of the Week

The best-possible SuperCoach team for Round 17 scored 1,901: 17 players count, with Phillip Sami doubled as captain and the lowest score dropped. That is 488 points clear of the best score any coach actually posted this round (1,413).

ROUND
Fig. 1 — Round 17 Team of the Week, 18 selected, 17 score
The highest-scoring legal side on the round's actual SuperCoach scores, under SuperCoach's own weekly rule: 18 players are picked — the starters plus reserves — the lowest score drops off, and the top scorer is captain on double points. The shape is read from the competition's own rules; no salary cap is applied, so this is the unconstrained best team.
1,901total 17score Phillip Samicaptain ×2 1,413best real coach +488vs best real
Hooker
Jake Simpkin MNL 81DROPPED
Front Row
Joshua Curran BUL 107
Max King BUL 95
2nd Row Forward
Haumole Olakau'atu MNL 113
Ben Trbojevic MNL 98
Euan Aitken STH 98
Halfback
Sam Walker SYD 105
5/8
Hugo Savala SYD 89
Wing/Centre
Phillip SamiC GCT 128×2
Tallis Duncan STH 117
Stephen Crichton BUL 115
Jethro Rinakama BUL 112
Fullback
Keano Kini GCT 92
Flex
Herbie Farnworth DOL 99
Reserves
Billy Smith SYD 116
Terrell May WST 98
Dylan Lucas NEW 96
Payne Haas BRO 95
18 players selected1,854
less lowest dropped — Jake Simpkin (MNL)−81
plus captain doubled — Phillip Sami (128 ×2)+128
Team total1,901
Scores are the round's actual SuperCoach points; 17 of 18 count after the lowest drops, captain doubled. — Source: THESCIP Data Desk, R17
HOW TO READ IT

This is the best team you could have fielded in Round 17 with hindsight, scored the way SuperCoach scores a real team: 18 players are picked — the starters and the reserves — your single lowest score is dropped, and your highest scorer, the captain, is counted twice.

The struck line is the score that dropped; the circled C is the captain on double points. The reserve count and the shape come straight from the competition's own rules, not a fixed number, so this stays correct if the game changes. There is no salary cap: it is the pure ceiling for the round.

THE AI DESK SAYS ·
Nobody owns the Team of the Week. It is the benchmark every real side is measured against — and the gap to it is where the season is won and lost.