2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 1

Warriors wrote:

Was thinking the same just now provided Johnson has the kicking tee. Plays the first big bye against the broncos as well so that helps, probably a 50 nil scoreline and 100 points there if he scores a few tries. Take out McGuire, Gillette, Thaiday, Boyd and possibly oates and maybe 1 of hunt/milford they could be in for a hiding.

Looks like my halves will be Johnson, Norman, Moses and Elgy at this stage provided nothing else changes. Have warmed to the idea of Moses.

Honey Badger wrote:Wasnt slater a bit like foran in terms of fantasy scoring

Warriors wrote:

I will just share a few strategies I had last year, ended up 24th overall after being about 10,000th after week 1.

I went with the guns and cash cows approach. I tried to pick 1 gun in each position, that would end up in the top echelon for their position e.g. for a hooker, a top two hooker end of year. 2nd rower - top 6 end of year etc

These were

Smith  - held all year
Woods - flop
Merrin and JDB - held all year
DCE - traded when injured
Croker - held all year
Tedesco - held all year

Early trades were to get LAM and K Evans out and J Trobjevic (for round 2) and E Whitehead in (for round 3). When Gallen went down I got Fifita, when Slater went down I got Munster.

So my rule was only trade in who I thought was going to be keepers. Also don't be stubborn with midrangers that haven't worked out.

Players I didn't start with that I missed not having - Jake Friend, James Graham, Sam Mataora, Pat Matau'tia and H Hunt. The thing to remember is you can't have everyone and don't ruin your team just to get 1 player in.

This year the cap is more restricting I feel. We also don't have a Parcel/Garvey type unless Cameron King does better than expected and/or Segy comes back.

Also 1 other thing I have picked up is that new or underpriced/returning 80 minute second rowers are where the money is. E.g T Harris in 2015 (that year I went with Finucane instead!!!), Rochow, Carter and Turner early last year, Cartwright and Whitehead all year. Also who will be this years Jake Trobjevic. I have my eye on players like J Wallace, Vaughan and McGuire.

Also after watching a few games of BJ Leilua last year I got him in early (maybe round 4 or 5) and together with Croker went a long way to why I did so well. I also started with Cody Walker along with the obvious cash cows in Hastings and Ash Taylor. Advice would be to go with your gut and not the crowd.

White Lightning wrote:Matulino knee surgery & won't start 2017.

Honey Badger wrote:Wasnt slater a bit like foran in terms of fantasy scoring

Welshy wrote:Still feel like I can't move off starting the season with Tedesco, every year I try and scrimp in the backs and load up on the more consistent forwards scoring and every year a sluggish start when a few wfbs bust out huge scores and I get a few low 30s from forwards as they adjust the pack rotations at seasons start

I have started with Tedesco in the past but his price was no where near the elite gun level it is starting at now

What are you guys who plan on starting with Slater

a) hoping for scores wise
b) plans if he gets injured again: Upgrade to a gun Munster?? or another WFB in his price range

2017ismine wrote:
DONT risk billy from the word go. I'm guessing your other two starting wfbs are Hayne and RTS. Why not start with someone priced say 250-300k (slightly above slater) gives you a chance to watch him. Plenty of mid range /possible guns around the $300k mark.teddy is expensive but could be sooooo worth it. Possible PODS everywhere. Like the look of JAC running off Cronk

Aardvark Ratnick wrote: one bloke that really interests me however is Shaun Fensom - why is he on the outer at Canberra???
As far as I know he is not injured hoping Green Machine or Archer can enlighten me.

my tv broke wrote:

i am honestly surprised he wasn't signed by another club in the offseason. he is on too many $$$ to play reserve grade, but ricky showed as of about mid last year that he wasn't part of his plans moving forward. even raiders fans seem to have forgotten the fence is still around.

Archer wrote:

my tv broke wrote:

i am honestly surprised he wasn't signed by another club in the offseason. he is on too many $$$ to play reserve grade, but ricky showed as of about mid last year that he wasn't part of his plans moving forward. even raiders fans seem to have forgotten the fence is still around.

We haven't forgotten him . There is a fairly recent thread about him on the GH and most still have a lot of love for him and think perhaps he needs to move to a different club (as much as it would hurt us to see him go) for the sake of his own career.

Mighty Fishes wrote:Semi to take it easy this year

flasSId* wrote:

The thing I see a lot is he "offers nothing in attack".  He may be an old school defender but more times than not he does actually look to offload.

And who can forget him stepping and tip toeing down the sideline for a meaty 1st round last year

Archer wrote:
We haven't forgotten him . There is a fairly recent thread about him on the GH and most still have a lot of love for him and think perhaps he needs to move to a different club (as much as it would hurt us to see him go) for the sake of his own career.