2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 8

surmo13 wrote:so i have:

Seggy, Luke
Woods, Evans, Grant, Packer
Surgess, Taia, LAM, Aubbs (Pauli, Alolai)
DCE, Hastings (Taylor, Jikorima)
Lawrence, Gutherson (Scott, Henry)
Teddy, Gordon, Feeney (Mitchell, Eden)

with 92k left over... I want to get Aubbs into CTR without having to use a <$134,000 in my reserves... any suggestions?

Personal preference would be blaw for packer.
Then put aubs into ctw，sub with Henry perhaps?
Then your 4th reserve would be Pauli right?

All this talk of Aubs and Sironen is making my abs hurt from purely rofl-ing...

And that's near impossible as I sport a keg, not a six pack.

Dttragic2016 wrote:

Personal preference would be blaw for packer.
Then put aubs into ctw，sub with Henry perhaps?
Then your 4th reserve would be Pauli right?

sorry, I prolly should've been clearer, when I said 'without having to use a <$134,000 in my reserves' I meant as the best option ie. I'd put the R on Taylor over Pauli if I had to choose between, what I'm looking for is what to downgrade to find the funds to move Aubbs into the CTR and replace him with another good mid-ranger... I've currently gone Teddy to Inglis, Seggy to Lichaa, and Eden to Whitehead, I'm not entirely sure about that option though

I've been on a self imposed Fantasy ban during the off-season. Figured it was time to come back and try to research a decent 25.

Do we have any planning spreadsheets floating around this year?

Is it just me or has JWH been training the house down in preseason? Fittest he has ever looked.

Might be the camera angle, but definitely looks leaner!

That photo looks off..

Anyway I remember seeing JWH up close in person about 2-3 years ago and he was an absolute monster

I think a lot of forwards will be a lot trimmer this year with the reduced interchanges.

Wilko wrote:I've been on a self imposed Fantasy ban during the off-season. Figured it was time to come back and try to research a decent 25.

Do we have any planning spreadsheets floating around this year?

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t128-break-evens-stats-spreadsheets-etc-includes-pgc-s-season-review

Break Evens, Team Planners, Player Stats

Random wrote:

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t128-break-evens-stats-spreadsheets-etc-includes-pgc-s-season-review

Break Evens, Team Planners, Player Stats

Legend!

Productivity at work will be back at an all time low for the next 7 months

Mearcats wrote:All this talk of Aubs and Sironen is making my abs hurt from purely rofl-ing...

And that's near impossible as I sport a keg, not a six pack.

Oh we'll see who's laughing after 10 rounds. People must have thought I was mad when I bought in Kevin Gordon instead of Isaac De Gois for a downgrade option to play in a bye round in 2014 but wasn't I laughing when Gordon scored 2 tries and got his best score of the year while De Gois scored lower than him. I was laughing then and I will laugh later on this year as well

Johnny B Goode wrote:

Oh we'll see who's laughing after 10 rounds. People must have thought I was mad when I bought in Kevin Gordon instead of Isaac De Gois for a downgrade option to play in a bye round in 2014 but wasn't I laughing when Gordon scored 2 tries and got his best score of the year while De Gois scored lower than him. I was laughing then and I will laugh later on this year as well

Gordon ya Johnny.

It's crazy some guys who are the best props around are tiny like Matt Scott, I remember seeing him in person and being quite a bit taller than him was so shocked. Then you have guys who are absolute monsters. I remember seeing Mason and thinking I'd never seen a larger human being in my life.

Honeysett wrote:It's crazy some guys who are the best props around are tiny like Matt Scott, I remember seeing him in person and being quite a bit taller than him was so shocked. Then you have guys who are absolute monsters. I remember seeing Mason and thinking I'd never seen a larger human being in my life.

Mason has a massive forehead so he looks bigger then he really is.

Honeysett wrote:It's crazy some guys who are the best props around are tiny like Matt Scott, I remember seeing him in person and being quite a bit taller than him was so shocked. Then you have guys who are absolute monsters. I remember seeing Mason and thinking I'd never seen a larger human being in my life.

Jesse Bromwich looks even more of a unit in person. Just tall and fucking solid as a rock

I'm seriously considering a CTR/WFB structure of this...

Aubusson, Auva'a, Chee-Kam, Henry
Barba, Feeney, Gutherson, Mitchell, Scott

Too risky? I'm not really worried about restricted scoring potential as I should make the points up with stronger selections elsewhere. Worried more about JS and cash flow.

superbucks wrote:I'm seriously considering a CTR/WFB structure of this...

Aubusson, Auva'a, Chee-Kam, Henry
Barba, Feeney, Gutherson, Mitchell, Scott

Too risky? I'm not really worried about restricted scoring potential as I should make the points up with stronger selections elsewhere. Worried more about JS and cash flow.

While the cash you saved there will let you get better scorers elsewhere, what do you do if they fail? You would have the ability to downgrade but that wastes valuable trades. Why not go with a few cheap options at the back and pad it out with some midrangers who are unlikely to fail or at the very least are not as costly to fix. Guys like CLaw, Mann, Fergo, Gordon, Mansour. Starting with them will only require less than 100k to upgrade should they fail. If you were to run with Feeney and Gutherson and they both fail, as well as the mid range options above then you are looking at over 200k to get them up to guys who are scoring well.

Slater/Fergo + CLaw

vs

Mann + Aubbs?

Edit: Aubbs and claw in the centres

What's the likelihood we will find out how many games Pearce will miss before lock out round 1?

All this talk of people running 3 cheapie halves (Hastings, Taylor, Jniko) has me all itchy.

I can't help but feel that it is too risky. IF Pearce comes back early (assuming we don't find out till round 2), let's say returns in 6 rounds, you've now got Hastings scoring not alot (assuming he is in your 13) because he won't be doing the kicking in play, Jniko not on the park at all, Taylor won't be a good option to have in your 13 because he won't be doing much kicking either I don't think.

Then it turns out none of them have made enough money to cash out and upgrade the other to a proper scoring half (min 340k)

I feel it could truly screw a team big time if a coach has spent ALL the salary cap, run 3 cheapie halves and then Pearce comes back after a few rounds. Where as running two cheapies as NPR and a mid ranger (with potential increase) + gun, while it might be more conservative, means Pearce's potential short punishment is not going to screw your whole season. (i.e having to burn important trades to fix a poorly scoring halves combo).

I guess it all comes down to whether you are the risk taker who might win the whole thing or might end up last, or whether you're the more conservative type who is happy to stand less of a chance of winning but would still have fun ending up top 1,000.

Thoughts anyone? Who's running 3 cheapies? Who's running 2 cheapies + Mid ranger?