2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 26

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

I would say as a Cartwright owner to rid yourself of his frustration thus prolonging your life and picking up some valuable points.

i nearly rid myself of him after his first disappointment. I already have SJ. Don't need two roller coasters in my team. Get too many of those and I'll have a theme park.

Haha I've just added my first Warrior for the year, so shits about to get bumpy

Oh fuck it. After pondering how I'm going to work in those 2nd row trades and manage my byes, I decided to finally take a look at how few players I have in that first big bye. I can't remember the exact number, but it was like 6 or something of my current numbers.... not pretty.

The problem I have is that there really doesn't seem like there is a lot of good options out there I can pick up without making some big changes to free up the cash...

What is a good number for the first bye round? 13 players

Its rape and pillage before and after the bye rounds in order to survive.

Would any of you guys prefer it if the bye rounds were omitted from fantasy, and we were the ones who actually had byes from the game ??

I dont see what the problem is as everyone is in the same boat re byes. Its trades left that will decide who shoots up the rankings especially if more injuries hit to key players.

Oh no, I love the bye rounds, its such a challenge and its fun to see how everyone approaches it differently.
It's just I stress over it in the leadup and throughout

The ole sink or swim basically

Yeah I think after this round I'll start to conserve trades.

- Wise Man not named Liverpool_Bulldog

Bren wrote:

Say what now?

Ben Hunt is a naughty boy who can't keep curfew.

i've never done particularly well over byes but there's no way i would want them to be removed from overall scoring.

this is the first year i have saved more trades than alot of other people (usually ive burned through them) so i'm hoping i can make a bit of a run over bye period. haven't really put much thought into it as yet.

Milchcow wrote:

Ben Hunt is a naughty boy who can't keep curfew.

Oh right! The way I read it I thought he meant Ben Hunt had a weeks NRL suspension.

Too sideways? I'm starting my trades now for byes. 526th overall, so want to try and maintain and improve on that. Plus I bet a bit of cash to upgrade my high mid rangers into guns after byes.

Thoughts?

Smith (C) / Parcell
Alvaro / S.Burgess
De Belin / Ma'u / Whitehead / Taumalolo
Johnson / Hastings / Lolohea
C.Lawrence / Aubusson / Holland
Barba / Munster / Tedesco

NPR's - B.Lawrence / Packer / Henry / Leuluai / Feeney / Gutherson / Mitchell

144k in the bank.

Thinking Taylor > Norman and Mataora > Graham. Thoughts?

Smith Parcell
Graham JDB JTurbo Leuliau
Surgess Taupau Whitehead Mannering Cartwright Henry
Milford Norman Hastings Feeney
Holland Kennar Auvaa Scott
Barba Gordon Mansour Mitchell Githerson

Goondalf wrote:Thinking Taylor > Norman and Mataora > Graham. Thoughts?

Smith Parcell
Graham JDB JTurbo Leuliau
Surgess Taupau Whitehead Mannering Cartwright Henry
Milford Norman Hastings Feeney
Holland Kennar Auvaa Scott
Barba Gordon Mansour Mitchell Githerson

Looking extremely good mate. Fractionally light in the CTR position, but I'm sure your aware of that. But overall looks really good.

Thinking Jifiti>Bateman and Walker>Bunt

Was strongly considering Norman but the Eels salary cap situation has got me a bit nervous.

I'm looking at strengthening my team next week by bringing in Mannering & maybe Graham.
I might opt for Tolman as he is at bottom dollar and use the cash for other upgrades.

I'm just a bit hesitant on Tolman, I know his scores have been affected by concussion and injury.
I'll see if he will pump out a descent score on the weekend and let that be the decider.

Any decent 2RF/FRF trade down options? I can see Bateman's there possibly until Soliola returns rd 12 although he's not getting minutes at the moment. Any one else to look at?

Chewie wrote:I'm looking at strengthening my team next week by bringing in Mannering & maybe Graham.
I might opt for Tolman as he is at bottom dollar and use the cash for other upgrades.

I'm just a bit hesitant on Tolman, I know his scores have been affected by concussion and injury.
I'll see if he will pump out a descent score on the weekend and let that be the decider.

Decent. It's spelt decent.
I don't know why but this has been really bugging me for a week or so now.

Descent = going down