2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

Thickshake wrote:Taking a break from my lurking to chime in on the scoring chat. When I was at uni in Canberra (~10 years ago), I did live stats recording for the raiders under-20s games for a season. It entailed going to the ground, I got a media pass to get in, and then I'd just call the stats company and dictate the stats to them as they happened. A couple of times my phone went flat with 10-20 minutes to go and whatever live stats they were providing would have just crashed. After the game I had to go to a van and get a copy of the recording to send through to the company for the stats review. Got $100 a game I think, plus got to stick around for the main game.

Obviously for the NRL all games are televised so the over-the-phone thing doesn't happen, but it's not hard to see how the live stats can be quite wrong when trying to dictate every tackle, missed tackle, hit up, kick metre, error, penalty, tackle break etc. in a continuous stream of numbers and gibberish.

Surely they get it fairly right when they have a chance to review the game with pause, half speed or whatever they do. Not that I've checked. Looking forward tot he season anyway!

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Most Super Rugby teams in NZ, or the ones I know about at least, have 1 sports analyst on their pay roll and therefore they do it all themselves. For the world leader in Rugby, I was shocked at how little resources get put into this side of the game, and that literally these guys are running a few metrics typically on excel spreadsheets. It really is quite amateurish stuff. Big niche out there for anyone that wanted to target that NZ market I reckon!!

Finch wrote:FWIW:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/jason-taylor-and-andrew-johns-hand-cooper-cronk-his-tricolour-version-of-cam-smith/news-story/ad1e10d2746f63a0dd41584aef2a7e1d

Friend saying he is looking to be more running more this year


I'm interested.


I hope Farah is in the 17 otherwise it's going to be tough picking Cook/Friend/Smith...

TheWeapon wrote:

Interesting. And also kicking more. Who played in the halves for the chooks rd 12/13 last year (I can't recall if origin players missed r12....I think it was 13...)? Interestingly he had 200+ kick meters in those games....and scored 82 and 70. In all but one other game, it looks like he put only one kick in, at most two....

wolfking wrote:

I think if you don't start with Smith,  it will probably be near impossible getting him in without major surgery and consequences.

mulvy wrote:

If you start him though are you keeping him during origin? I think he will miss 13, 17 and be rested for one more in there somewhere. So you either have to carry him for three or more games, or use two trades to trade him out and in again. So it's not all plain sailing starting with Smith it has it's downsides too. It also means less money being spent on the rest of your squad, and presumably no value ie he will score what he's priced at. Obviously it has it's advantages too. There are pro's and cons with both options and one isn't necessarily better than the other. Also there is always the possibility that Smith gets an early shower in a couple of games during the origin (gives Smith jnr a chance to develop also) period and I can pick him up cheaper. Probably won't happen but could be a master stroke.

Milchcow wrote:
I'm planning on keeping Smith. he only misses 1 extra game compared to non-origin players.

If it looks like he'll get more rests than just the byes, then i'll reevaluate and might trade him out.