2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 45

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Why am I so hesitant on Fonua, damn centres.

Surely he doesn't increase over 500k

If he was listed at Centre I'd find him more appealing. Too many better WFB's, although the bloke is an animal and could put some big scores on.

rhinoceroo wrote:

That all changes after Round 13 for Murray (but not JFH/Kikau) where he plays the same number of games as Jurbo and is a clear trade. Also, expecting him to average 46 off the bench is... optimistic. He got it last week but Sam got injured and they had a three forward bench - four this week and will be lucky to get 40 minutes without injuries.

I've had Harris from the start but the other massively underpriced 2nd bye player is Issac Luke. Averaging over 50 in games other than the two he got injured in but priced at under 40.

I've got Murray as a trade out R14 for Tohu, Havili might go this week for Crichton or Matterson as I need a better half to partner ARey and I don't want DCE without GK

have to work out who i wan in final team so i'm not stuck with too many 2RFs and not enough room on my bench for Macca and others

SI wrote:Kevvy has officially signed with St Helens according to NRL.com.  Probably helps Fonua's security.

For 2019

Man, I am so torn betweens Havili/Kikau to Tohu/Fifita or Havili/JFH to Tohu/Taupau.

Two weeks after last years N.R.L. Grand Final an email was sent from the bowels of the N.R.L..

"Dear Fiona and your team,
Thank you for your previous efforts in discouraging many people from playing fantasy football. You did drop the ball a little by nearly achieving a good product by the end of this year.
We need to shake things up again now. Lone Scout is such a pain and we are just totally sick of him in our offices. As you know we can't get rid of him because his contract says that while there are more than 10,000 players in fantasy he has a job. We will pay you well if you help get rid of him and we don't really care about this fantasy football stuff anyway.
So we would politely suggest that next year you change everything, literally. Maybe get rid of the Captains loophole to indicate progress but then introduce other loopholes. Two would be good and that would make plenty of players unhappy and hopefully they just loose interest.
Players love their statistics so maybe no match center to start the year with?
Once you launch an inferior product you could pretend to show you are making efforts to improve it. Then introduce a glitch or two to make more players give up.
Maybe in the lead up to the week before the first bye round is a good time to introduce a major problem. Stuff everyone's scores and head to heads around. This is when players are thinking really hard about how to set up their teams and so it's a good chance to make some more players angry enough to stop playing.
You've previously shown you are up to this task and we really need to get Lone Scout out of the building.
Thanks in advance
............"

Got a few hours spare if anyone wants to bandy some ideas about...

Need to trade Rein out for someone. Gonna keep Thompson until r13 with his move to wing and Lamb/Cogger until that situation settles down a bit. Keen for a cow, thoughts on Brimson and Fonua? Brimson looked decent for me last week.

Mearcats wrote:Got a few hours spare if anyone wants to bandy some ideas about...

Hey mate, what would you suggest between trading Kikau/Havili to Fifita/Tohu or JFH/Havili to Taupau/Tohu.

Current team

Cook
Kikau/Arrow
JTurbo/Murray/JFH
DCE/Matterson
Marsters/Aitken
Ponga/TTurbo/JMK

Smith/Su'a/Martin/RFM
Fonua/Katoa/Brimson/Havili

Not sure if already posted. JMoz out for 8 weeks

sorry @danseels1985

deleted one fo your double posts, and someone has deleted the other 

Kikau to Harris this week and then JFH to Arrow next week to try to squeeze a bit more cash out of JFH plus see if Arrow is selected for Origin?

All good welshy

danseels1985 wrote:Kikau to Harris this week and then JFH to Arrow next week to try to squeeze a bit more cash out of JFH plus see if Arrow is selected for Origin?

Arrow the exception to most other trade ins his average is an insane 63.5 playing his full time lock role and discounting his injury affected games. even if he misses an extra game he should be able to make up for it and you want his big scores sooner

my tv broke wrote:So my fanhub lockout fuckup loophole worked and im now in the top 20. Wahoooo

? Huh

@ Mearcut. I don't want to play Maloney this week so is Maloney to Matterson worth it even though his b/e is 73. Cheers mate.

sajjos wrote:

SI wrote:Kevvy has officially signed with St Helens according to NRL.com.  Probably helps Fonua's security.

For 2019

Yep. Figuring he plays Ressies now unless we have too many injuries.

@welshy yeah fair enough. Just pull the trigger on both trades then even if they aren't bye friendly? Think I just want my final 17 assembled ASAP regardless and I guess bringing in Arrow first is better and then find a way to bring Jurbo in after round 17?

Hey guys. Any love this week for big herman ese'ese?

5 game avg of 55.8, BE of 31 and now starting this week.....

$710k......... Yay or Nay?