2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread Part 3

Aardvark Ratnick wrote:

We shall see at seasons end I am tipping him to have the highest average of all halves assuming he plays Origin.

If he stays injury free which I highly doubt I will say top 3, can't see him beating out Cleary and Norman

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

2 out of 3 isn't bad...particularly for a known struggler like yourself.

On Reyno's hammy (I agree BTW), so who would be the Top 5 player Souths are sending over to the 9's now?

Angus !!!

User Name wrote:Ok Welshy

Smith Mortimer
Graham Gurgess K.Faufusi
JDB Surgess ET SMat
Norman Lamb LG
Idris Whare
RTS Hanye French

Probably upgrade French to Teddy and downgrade Graham or Surgess

I don't understand the Lamb pick. I think you should get rid of him before French.

I'm actually warming to J. Wallace as a pick now. No Douglas, Bird, Shillington. Paasi injured till round 6. Pettybourne is old, Peturu is raw & Pulu more of an edge forward. Wallace seems set for 45-50 mins.

White Lightning wrote:I'm actually warming to J. Wallace as a pick now. No Douglas, Bird, Shillington. Paasi injured till round 6. Pettybourne is old, Peturu is raw & Pulu more of an edge forward. Wallace seems set for 45-50 mins.

plenty of props around his price range that have perceived improvements to make. Wallace and Vete probably stand out as appealing to me but I keep thinking back to 2016 and Tim Grant, Kane Evans, etc etc

The problem for wallace, is James plays huge minutes, and if the titans play two edge 80 min players then the rotation between Wallace, the starting lock, and the three forwards on the bench may only see Wallace play low 40s a game, scoring low 30s

but without the emergence of some cheapie bolters some chances will need to be taken on these mid range guys i think.

Need 2 more entries to complete L3 in the NRL Fantasy Fanatics Ultimate League draft competition! Draft will kick off on either Thursday 9th or Friday 10th February!

Leagues so far...



LEAGUE 1:

Mearcats (promoted)
** ryno_ (promoted)
SI
B/L
Sauce Reed
Spectre
Bren
quicksand


LEAGUE 2:

** Random (relegated)
** Milchcow (relegated)
Welshy
rhinoceroo
User Name
Beast From The Big East
Franko
Archer


LEAGUE 3:

multiple.scoregasms
jelejasof
Aardvark Ratnick
BroncHose
Beepbeep_imaJeep
Russ
POSITION VACANT
POSITION VACANT

@ wackos. Taupau expected to play edge 2fr in 2017. Good for Fonua-Blake as he may be the starting frf.

I have no idea re Ultimate League draft competition but hey not gonna knock back a good flogging

The renegades fantasy prospectus is out. Haven't had the chance to look yet, but as big a bunch of tools as they are on there last year's was a good read.

Aardvark Ratnick wrote:I have no idea re Ultimate League draft competition but hey not gonna knock back a good flogging

I did post the scoring structure in the Ultimate League thread (it is very similar to NRL Fantasy). It is basically a snake style draft where it runs from positions 1-8 then 8-1 , rinse and repeat. The draft side of things is extremely fun and competitive, once the season kicks off your team is extremely easy to manage with an AE for each individual position so if there is a late withdrawal you are covered. There are no reserves just your on field players (13 in total) and an AE for each position. Field setup is as follows...

1 x HKR
2 x FRF
3 x 2RF
2 x HLF
2 x CTR
3 x WFB

And as there are only 8 players per League the spread of talent is much more even so you can build a fairly decent squad. I found it much easier and less time consuming to play Ultimate and Fantasy then Fantasy and SC where I sometimes got a bit confused with the different scoring structures.

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

2 out of 3 isn't bad...particularly for a known struggler like yourself.

On Reyno's hammy (I agree BTW), so who would be the Top 5 player Souths are sending over to the 9's now?

Big Dave Tyrell is there. That's all we need.

Nate Myles, Konrad Hurrell, Adam Reynolds, and Jake Trbojevic were originally selected in Bennett’s squad but have all withdrawn due to injury.

anyone know what Myle's injury problem is?

rhinoceroo wrote:The renegades fantasy prospectus is out. Haven't had the chance to look yet, but as big a bunch of tools as they are on there last year's was a good read.

The Prospectus was a thing of beauty last year, haven had a look this year's yet. Steve Nicholls does some awesome stuff. I know Milchy has a man crush on him.

Milchcow wrote:
This is probably the best page in the fantasy prospectus.

http://renegadesfs.com/index.php/nrl/nrl-fantasy/item/1461-fantasy-psychology-the-problem-with-your-gut

good read.

Congrats Shanbon

my tv broke wrote:Nate Myles, Konrad Hurrell, Adam Reynolds, and Jake Trbojevic were originally selected in Bennett’s squad but have all withdrawn due to injury.

anyone know what Myle's injury problem is?

Yeah, he is old as fuck.

Milchcow wrote:
I hear through the grapevine that  Shanbon Junior just came into the world.

Congrats dude.

Yeah congrats to Shanbon. He should name it Junbon if it's a boy or Shanior if it's a girl.