The best option is to live it and learn it. Three AFL coaches have already been moved on inside a month of the Hawks nabbing the 2014 flag. And if you're not willing to put in the hard yards in November, December and January as a Fantasy coach, you can expect to join them - minus the exorbitant contract payout.

The technical geniuses at AFL Fantasy HQ heard the siren go on Grand Final day, and merely put out a call for a few extra barrels of midnight oil. Their latest exciting addition to the Fantasy product roster is Fantasy Pulse - the perfect fan-friendly tool for the off-season.

Based on NFL Genius, Fantasy Pulse is a fan-generated voting tool which allows you to have your say on the big issues in footy.

From contesting the value of big-name trades like Dayne Beams and Tom Boyd, to making a call on Port Adelaide's premiership chances with Paddy Ryder (or St Kilda's without Rhys Stanley), Fantasy Pulse has kicked off on fantasy.afl.com.au with a suite of polls for you to play with, and will be updated weekly with your suggestions.

And in coming months, there will be a host of funky additions to Fantasy Pulse that allow you to share your call on social media, create your own questions to crowd-source the best Fantasy advice, and create multi-part surveys to go from position to position in your Fantasy squad.

So take Fantasy Pulse for a test drive now, and make the call on some of the biggest trades in the off-season and what they'll mean to the AFL landscape in 2015.

The Traders have also dusted off the microphones which have lain dormant since the end of August to record a special one-off podcast where they go through the Fantasy worth of every trade, review the 2015 fixture and lay out the perfect pre-season training program to get Fantasy coaches in peak condition.

Keep an eye out for plenty more Fantasy announcements and all the numbers around the new guns set to join the AFL, as we get closer to the NAB AFL Draft at the end of November.