2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 19

Whats the general thought on pulu from titans? Looking at swapping bhana to another cow that might make money as unlikely bhana will start once sims returns

Just to think if only Carter was suspended last round we wouldn't be in this situation haha

Anyone thinking of bringing in grevsmuhl?

CubanMafiaSandSlugs wrote:I'm still laughing at all the people Aubusson conned. Yet again. Despite all the warnings. Despite his history of sucking people in. He's worse than a 90's stock broker.

Can't wait till 2017 when he appears as a good fantasy option yet again and the same thing happens yet again.

He has played 3 80 minutes games in the 2RF, this is the reason why people got Aubbs, just a lack of form causing him to average 30

If peoples main problem is trying to dump Aubbs then you must be sitting pretty

Hey Lads!

Does JDB keep his lock role once Creagh returns?

Job security at lock?

Time to get serious and win some H2H matches while everyones still messing with their teams

This week im going
Carter -> JDB
Green -> Dugan

Gives me starting 17 of

Smith (Garvey)
Surgess JBrom (Graham)
Taupau Parker Cartwright (JDB Saifiti)
Hastings Walker
Hunt Dugan
Inglis Mitchell Barba

Honeysett wrote:
Bhana is likely not going to be playing much again this year, anyone would be better than him I think.

Just gotta somehow figure a way to get rid of him while bringing in pulu and one of munster/rts while at sometime keeping aside 120k to bring in Tolman for carter next week......Easy

Now im thinking DCE > Gordon via a couple of switcheroos and Mann > Mansour, leaving me with 108k for an upgrade next week should i need it.

Leaves me with red dots of Feeney, Scott and Littlejohn, each player taking up a spot in the Halves, Centre and WFB and also leaves me with a back up player in each of the WFB (Mitchell) and CTR (Aubbs) spot.

Is that an ideal way to play it??

Aubbs has got the " Kavorka" ya need a Sh..load of Garlic if you want to get rid of him!

Ryan James cleared to play

Maubliebers

CubanMafiaSandSlugs wrote:I'm still laughing at all the people Aubusson conned. Yet again. Despite all the warnings. Despite his history of sucking people in. He's worse than a 90's stock broker.

Can't wait till 2017 when he appears as a good fantasy option yet again and the same thing happens yet again.

I sold Aubbs last week, but I don't blame anybody for bringing him in. They were banking on him getting 80 mins in the second row, which he did get (mostly). He has always been a 50 point player in that position, and for the first time he underperformed in his games, rather than not getting the mins. If you believe in hoodoo, then more fool you

With Maubbs, the trap has always been that he is so versatile. So you bring him in when playing 80 in the backrow, and then he gets shifted to Centre to cover injury, or benched to play hooker.

Except for that shift to centre to cover injury this season, he has been given exactly what Maubbs owners wanted-80 minutes in the Second Row. Historically that means he averages 45/50 plus. The trap this year is a new one-the Roosters are playing worse then they have for decades and Maubbs on top of that has been average in his own form.

So I guess technically yes, we got sucked in again, as Maubbs is the only player who could manage to find another new way to be involved in poor scores.

Pookus McFly wrote:

CubanMafiaSandSlugs wrote:I'm still laughing at all the people Aubusson conned. Yet again. Despite all the warnings. Despite his history of sucking people in. He's worse than a 90's stock broker.

Can't wait till 2017 when he appears as a good fantasy option yet again and the same thing happens yet again.

I sold Aubbs last week, but I don't blame anybody for bringing him in. They were banking on him getting 80 mins in the second row, which he did get (mostly). He has always been a 50 point player in that position, and for the first time he underperformed in his games, rather than not getting the mins. If you believe in hoodoo, then more fool you

This. But yeah, it's Maubbs, so he found a way to screw us 7 or 8 years running

In saying that, I'll take his 30 average with the potential to smash out some very good scores.

SI wrote:With Maubbs, the trap has always been that he is so versatile.  So you bring him in when playing 80 in the backrow, and then he gets shifted to Centre to cover injury, or benched to play hooker.

Except for that shift to centre to cover injury this season, he has been given exactly what Maubbs owners wanted-80 minutes in the Second Row.  Historically that means he averages 45/50 plus.  The trap this year is a new one-the Roosters are playing worse then they have for decades and Maubbs on top of that has been average in his own form.

So I guess technically yes, we got sucked in again, as Maubbs is the only player who could manage to find another new way to be involved in poor scores.

I wish I could like that twice.
Fantasy wise, the Roosters being poor should be good for Maubs. Poor teams give up plenty of ball and make more tackles, and for a tacklebot 2nd rower Maubbs should have eaten that kind of game up. But he got -26 in penalties across those three games and was pretty underwhelming. You are right, he really did come up with a new method of fucking people over. But since I don't believe in curses and hoodoo (53 from Cam on a Monday night seems passable to me!), I will still argue that it was a reasonable decision for chumps like me who brought him in- and I have no regrets!

SI wrote:

This.  But yeah, it's Maubbs, so he found a way to screw us 7 or 8 years running

In saying that, I'll take his 30 average with the potential to smash out some very good scores.

This.

Highly unlikely to go under 30 when playing in the 2RF, he has lost what $30,000? Boo Hoo! and that is when he has been playing at his absolute worse stats wise

Cordner is still another 3-5 rounds away, definate hold for me!

So when the others are fit, aubbs back to bench?

The problem with Fantasy is that there is so much luck involved in it. How often do you see a player of yours make a 20 point play only for it to be pulled for a shepherd and you lose those potential points. Football can go either way, and so does the fantasy points. But everybody likes to gafaw and slap each other on the back about players they "knew" were going to go badly and they "tried to tell everybody", as if it was all so obvious when in reality things could have so easily had a different outcome. May as well brag about what a good Bingo player you are.