Supercoachv3

This repository includes a comprehensive AFL SuperCoach 2026 CSV generator:

• Source prices: https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/supercoach_prices
• Output file (repo root): supercoach_2026_output.csv
• Script: python generate_supercoach_csv.py
• Team selection controls:
  • --salary-cap (default: 10000000)
  • --team-size (default: 30, includes bench)
  • --max-players-per-bye (default: 8)
  • --skip-positions (skip fetching per-position pages for faster offline runs)

Data scraping

The script scrapes the footywire SuperCoach prices page and extracts:

• Player names – clean full names from hidden spans (not concatenated abbreviations)
• Team – mapped to standard 3-letter codes (e.g. WBD, MEL, COL)
• Positions – scraped from per-position pages (DEF, MID, FWD, RUC) with dual-position support (e.g. MID/FWD)
• Current price and expected future prices used to inform growth projections

Model assumptions

• Rookies (lower-priced players) are projected to have stronger early price growth.
• Young/mid-priced players are given a development uplift.
• Premium players receive a smaller consistency uplift.
• Expected price data from footywire is blended with base growth factors for more accurate projections.
• Player news factors adjust for injuries, breakouts, and comeback candidates (e.g. Joshua Kelly injury, Jagga Smith breakout lock).
• Team selection respects salary cap, bye-round limits, and position limits (DEF ≤ 9, MID ≤ 11, RUC ≤ 4, FWD ≤ 10).
• Output CSV includes selected team rows only.
• is_overall_winner=yes marks the top projected selected player for end-of-season output.

Running the workflow

A GitHub Actions workflow regenerates the CSV automatically on every pull request. You can also run it manually without creating a PR:

1. Go to the Actions tab in this repository.
2. Select the Update SuperCoach CSV workflow on the left.
3. Click the Run workflow button, choose a branch, and confirm.
4. Once the run completes, the updated CSV will be committed directly to the repository.