LORD of the BYES

LORD of the BYES:

It's 2021 and the Bye's are back.
Forget the rough start, or lack of Captain Cleary, now is your chance to shine!

Have you got what it takes to navigate the Bye period and come out smelling like roses?

Then join the OFFICIAL Bye competition.
An action packed 6 leg shoot-out to maximise points (between R13-R18) and reveal which Fantasy Fantatic is the best BYE-round navigator as we crown:
The Lord (or Lady) of the Byes

Winner gets:
Mass-respect!
Lot's of reputation (I will LIKE most, maybe even all of your posts for literally Ages i.e. a till the end of the year).
A title that you can to your profile.

Additional Awards:
The biggest rank gain (you have to be in the FOG comp to contest this).
BYE rounds Master: most points accrued in Round 13 and Round 17 specifically.

JOIN UP HERE:
https://fantasy.nrl.com/fantasy/league/join?code=M3XVZHKH

A few rules:
Get your entry in before the first game of Round 13.
The competition runs from Round 13 through to (and including) Round 18.
Use your existing FOG team. No new registration teams allowed (it's about managing the tricky period with probably only 14-20 odd trades left)

What is encouraged:
- Encouragement to your competition
- You are welcome to list your Bye-friendly squads.
- You are welcome to flex.
- Numbers are great, how many are you playing for Round 13, Round 17?
- Strategy ideas
- Having a crack, even if it goes peer-shaped
- POD's and no-brainer selections
- How much your ranking has moved
- You are welcome to use GIF's whenever, where-ever

I will post some summaries and fun tables... maybe even some post Bye-period rewards

are we using our existing team?

ytsb wrote:are we using our existing team?

YES - Absolutely
It's a Real-Life comp for how you manage the bye-period on your primary team (i.e. who you registered in the FOG comp)

I may as well post my team first:

JBrailey
Watson  Papali'i  Lodge
Matterson  Fitzgibbon
Fogarty  Moses
Bird  Roberts
Hynes  Doueihi  Laurie

Brooks  Simpkin

Starting the week with 17 trades left.
Likely looking at trading Simpkin > Burton for 15 players in total (aiming for a 700+ score)

I have joined to make up numbers. Will probably have 13 in R13

This is my kinda league

My potential 17 for round 13 (with 14 trades left)

Brailey
Ipap, Watson, Lodge
Barnett, Lucy
Moses, Fogarty
Bird, Burton
Hynes(c), Laurie, SCrichton

Mahoney, JDB, Brooks, Roberts
Teddy, Cleary, Schuster, SWalker

I'm going BIG this round, but will probably only have 8 or 9 for rd17
Hynes and Burton should do score really well, Lucy had a great last game and will be a big IN if he wins at the judiciary. Barnett should play big minutes and have the GK, Lodge is also in good form.

rank at the start of this round: 3596

Teeth Eater wrote:Shit, already made a meal of it. I clicked the link when I was signed in with my 5% POD team. Now I can't seem to remove myself from the league. Any tips on how to do it? I remember it being really easy at the start of the season?

I have also entered my FOG team, just to make up the numbers.

That's no problem at all.
Just let me know the name of the team you want removed

great idea, will be interesting to see how it pans out.  I don't bye plan at all, so happy to participate as the counter-factual.

Teeth Eater wrote:Shit, already made a meal of it. I clicked the link when I was signed in with my 5% POD team. Now I can't seem to remove myself from the league. Any tips on how to do it? I remember it being really easy at the start of the season?

I have also entered my FOG team, just to make up the numbers.

I did the same as i was logged into my 5% team. You can remove it yourself. Go to league, then settings and its down the bottom to remove your team from the league. My overall team is in now so i can show MS how its done

Jele wrote:great idea, will be interesting to see how it pans out.  I don't bye plan at all, so happy to participate as the counter-factual.

Everyone is welcome!

I'll try an match up all entrants with their overall rank in the FOG league, so am also planning to keep track of who makes the most ranking gain over the period

Just jumped in let's see how this turns out

I’ve jumped in

I'm in but with an autofill team (which is my only team this year).

Edit: potential team prior to TLT

Jbrailey
JFH Watson
Matterson Leilua
Scrichton
Laurie Hynes Dedwards
Ramsay Mahoney

I'm in cheers

Just joined... Aaaand now I feel instant pressure to waste my precious trades to win a bye round comp

Mr peanutbutter wrote:Just joined... Aaaand now I feel instant pressure to waste my precious trades to win a bye round comp

I know, right! Chewie has me rethinking that while 15 is good, 17 is soooo much better....