2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 5

Last nights minutes (anybody not mentioned below played 80 minutes)

Slater 40
j bromwich 46
cam smith 69
glasby 45
kaufusi 65
finucane 56
brandom smith 26
NAS 42
k bromwich 43
welch 48

Hey all, long time lurker here.

What's people thoughts on forced dropouts being added. It should be a natural boost to players in dominant teams like Cronk and Thurston. Probably won't hurt Smith either.

Does anyone have stats on these for last year?

Blake Green. Forced drop out king.

bluetige wrote:
cam smith 69

Interesting that welch played 48 but also probably jusg getting mins in his legs

The Whittler wrote:Hey all, long time lurker here.

What's people thoughts on forced dropouts being added.  It should be a natural boost to players in dominant teams like Cronk and Thurston.  Probably won't hurt Smith either.

Does anyone have stats on these for last year?

Forced drop outs 2017
Widdop 162
Green 150
Moses 126
A-Rey 126
Townsend 126
A. Taylor 126
DCE 114
Norman 114
Morgan 102
Cleary 96
SJ 96
Milford 96
Frawley 78
B. Hunt 78
Cronk 72
Keary 72
Moylan 72
Pearce 66

Forced drop out are usually from teams that struggle to score tries. The top teams don't have to rely on them because they score tries more easily so don't have to rely that much on repeat sets.

bluetige wrote:Last nights minutes (anybody not mentioned below played 80 minutes)

Slater 40
j bromwich 46
cam smith 69
glasby 45
kaufusi 65
finucane 56
brandom smith 26
NAS 42
k bromwich 43
welch 48

NAS is such a beast & will score a point a minute & with attacking stats on top of that. Also the previous page had his tackle count & he was quite busy for such a big man. I think 42 minutes will be about right for him.

White Lightning wrote:

Forced drop outs 2017
Widdop 162
Green 150
Moses 126
A-Rey 126
Townsend 126
A. Taylor 126
DCE 114
Norman 114
Morgan 102
Cleary 96
SJ 96
Milford 96
Frawley 78
B. Hunt 78
Cronk 72
Keary 72
Moylan 72
Pearce 66

Forced drop out are usually from teams that struggle to score tries. The top teams don't have to rely on them because they score tries more easily so don't have to rely that much on repeat sets.

So the guys at the top of the count are undervalued by about 10+ points per game.

The Whittler wrote:

So the guys at the top of the count are undervalued by about 10+ points per game.

Most halves will be undervalued because of the new scoring category. Thurston and Croft also not on that list for obvious reasons will benefit also.

The Whittler wrote:

So the guys at the top of the count are undervalued by about 10+ points per game.

Yes that is correct. Milchy has previously made the point that forced drop outs aren't reflected in the prices of all halves since it is a new scoring category in 2018.

For any Warriors fans their jerseys are on sale for $49.99 today.

I've boarded the airCroft... ready for takeoff!

WL - I'm pretty sure your list is SuperCoach points - 6 points per drop out.

Best halves will only average just over 1 dropout a game. But its a nice free 2 points that isn't in their price

Tariq Sims would have been of interest to me if he had 2RF/FRF DPP. With the role he played last year he should have received DPP, but he didn't

Don't forget Slater only played 40 minutes which gave a few free minutes around

(B Smith probably got the biggest benefit, would probably have only played 10-15 minutes otherwise)

Milchcow wrote:WL - I'm pretty sure your list is SuperCoach points - 6 points per drop out.

Best halves will only average just over 1 dropout a game. But its a nice free 2 points that isn't in their price

Now that I think of it you're right.

Warriors trial - apparently Paasi off with knee injury.

A couple of decisions to settle.
JLeilua V Inglis
NAS and 228 player V Connor Watson and Kane Evans (Evans will be emergency 18)

Thanks in advance

I think ill make my first change Munster to Croft. I like the role Croft played last night and think Munsters points came at FB not 5/8. He was already set to be dropped from my team because of the field stuff, i think that will affect him through the year.

Reposting as I didnt get a response:
Thoughts on Merrin, Munster and Jo Manu? Also what are people expecting from Watson?

And are you conscious of having too many origin players? Got 2 or 3 atm and conscious of adding to that myself.