2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 31

Why are you talking about conserving trades etc? They're unlimited, right?

(just kidding)

Verbal Kint wrote:Why are you talking about conserving trades etc? They're unlimited, right?

(just kidding)

If they did two a week I’d be a happy man

Mighty Fishes wrote:Happy with my side but sick of using trades

Cook
Fifi, Lodge
Tolo, Arrow, RFM
Maloney, Townsend
Aitken, Mitchell
Dufty, Thompson, Ponga

Rein, Kikua, JFH, Murray

Rochow, NAS, Kennar, Doughie

ID be happy if that was my side.

Friend of mine started with Taumalolo and he's been pretty frustrating in his 2nd stints after sitting the bench for an age. He started on fire last game and was around 48 relatively early before dropping to 42.. so I was wary of him having another less-than-impactful second stint and only managing a 50-60 from there.

His price drops are attractive, but he's been vicariously frustrating to watch so far, so I'm gonna give him a couple more weeks before I look at him. Feels a bit chasing last week's points to get him in now.

Milchcow wrote:Biggest problem for those of us with Rein, Maloney etc, is that they will all be likely trade outs before origin. 

I am burning through so many trades right now that there is little chance of bye planning. Going to have to screw it and hope for the best

Won't they be perfect peaking right before the byes? Trade to cheap bye cows or straight to guns.

Apart from having no trades left of course...........

Cap'n Ranta wrote:

Won't they be perfect peaking right before the byes? Trade to cheap bye cows or straight to guns.

Apart from having no trades left of course...........

If only there was a mechanism that stops you from trading, like a self nominated lock out, similar to Sportsbet.

WT Winfield wrote:

... vicariously frustrating ...

I have a new favourite phrase, nice work!

I have traded Rochow and Croker for Sua and Rein. If you have max traded since the start of the year you would have 22 remaining after trading this week. I have 25 remaining so I have banked 3 trades so far. With my team I feel I wont need to make many more major trades before Round 13, barring injury. At this stage I have 10 RD 13 players and 11 RD 17 players. Rein will be a trade in 4-6 weeks. Players on my team that play RD 17 that will be traded for RD 13 players -
Rein
Su'a
Isaako
Jacks
Havili
TPJ - If he doesn't pull his finger out

So I am looking at making 6 out of a possible 14 trades (4 trades between RD 12 and 13) before RD 13. This means I can bank 8 trades in this time. Now presuming that all these trades are for RD 13 players I will have 16 players playing RD 13. Between RD 13 and 17 I believe there will be 12 trades (4 in between RD14 and 15 and another 4 in between RD 16 and 17...I think). This means at most I will have 17 playing RD 17 and 4 RD 13 players in the EMG. Because I have Jurbo, Turbo, DCE, Mitchell, Murray, Cook and Ponga who I believe will be in my final 17 means I am looking at only having 14 play RD 17 with these 7 as DNP (unless I trade Mitchell and Murray). This means if I trade to have 14 RD 17 players and these 7 as DNP I will have 10 trades for round 18-25 for injury cover and getting those last couple guns.

Well I hope it plays out this way

Two options I'm looking at, trading out Lodge and TPJ:

a) Taumalolo and Gosiewski
b) Surgess and Rein

Who can convince me on what option to take?

StormTrooper96 wrote:I have traded Rochow and Croker for Sua and Rein. If you have max traded since the start of the year you would have 22 remaining after trading this week. I have 25 remaining so I have banked 3 trades so far. With my team I feel I wont need to make many more major trades before Round 13, barring injury. At this stage I have 10 RD 13 players and 11 RD 17 players. Rein will be a trade in 4-6 weeks. Players on my team that play RD 17 that will be traded for RD 13 players -

belongs in the big calls thread

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Always wondered what FWIW is but I don't have Griffin and I traded Lodge last week. So only trade out options this week are Kennar, who I want to keep for now, Rochow and TPJ

For what it's worth.

StormTrooper96 wrote:I have traded Rochow and Croker for Sua and Rein. If you have max traded since the start of the year you would have 22 remaining after trading this week. I have 25 remaining so I have banked 3 trades so far. With my team I feel I wont need to make many more major trades before Round 13, barring injury. At this stage I have 10 RD 13 players and 11 RD 17 players. Rein will be a trade in 4-6 weeks. Players on my team that play RD 17 that will be traded for RD 13 players -
Rein
Su'a
Isaako
Jacks
Havili
TPJ - If he doesn't pull his finger out

So I am looking at making 6 out of a possible 14 trades (4 trades between RD 12 and 13) before RD 13. This means I can bank 8 trades in this time. Now presuming that all these trades are for RD 13 players I will have 16 players playing RD 13. Between RD 13 and 17 I believe there will be 12 trades (4 in between RD14 and 15 and another 4 in between RD 16 and 17...I think). This means at most I will have 17 playing RD 17 and 4 RD 13 players in the EMG. Because I have Jurbo, Turbo, DCE, Mitchell, Murray, Cook and Ponga who I believe will be in my final 17 means I am looking at only having 14 play RD 17 with these 7 as DNP (unless I trade Mitchell and Murray). This means if I trade to have 14 RD 17 players and these 7 as DNP I will have 10 trades for round 18-25 for injury cover and getting those last couple guns.

Well I hope it plays out this way

I got anxious reading that with the, "barring injury"
Pretty much what I was thinking id do in my head. Good to see it written down. So thanks.

NewyCoop wrote:Two options I'm looking at, trading out Lodge and TPJ:

a) Taumalolo and Gosiewski
b) Surgess and Rein

Who can convince me on what option to take?

Probably B. But im leaning more towards Tolo this week.

manlybeaver wrote:I'm going different to everyone this week gonna strengthen my centres there pissing me off
Dufty to Dugan
Inglis to cotric and play jmk in fullback

It's hard to question your track record, but these seem a little bizarre.

Verbal Kint wrote:Why are you talking about conserving trades etc? They're unlimited, right?

(just kidding)

Found slats's alt!

filthridden wrote:

Found slats's alt!

Finally! Eventually he’d show himself here

Oh hey there gents. So, did we get any further opinions on Cogger? I had a rather busy day yesterday (it's international trade fair time over here currently so had customers from Sweden and Vietnam over) but I have today free so looking forward to catching up on what I've missed.

So, anything further on Cogger, anyone leaning that way? Also, are people going cold on Rein folllowing Brennans update that 4-6 weeks is the outside for Peats? May be back in two to three?

Mearcats wrote:Oh hey there gents. So, did we get any further opinions on Cogger? I had a rather busy day yesterday (it's international trade fair time over here currently so had customers from Sweden and Vietnam over) but I have today free so looking forward to catching up on what I've missed.

So, anything further on Cogger, anyone leaning that way? Also, are people going cold on Rein folllowing Brennans update that 4-6 weeks is the outside for Peats? May be back in two to three?

Im not sold on Coggar. Dont know much about him truthfully but Watson back soon and Lamb could come back in at any time.

That article on Rein did make me a bit more hesitant but probably still worth it if he can get the fulltime gig for at least 3 weeks. Anything more is a bonus.

Peats and rein are 2 different players. Peats barely runs the ball and isnt a tackle machine. Rein loves to run the ball so should tackle just as much if not more as peats but get some attacking stats as well. Fingers crossed. Just my input