2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 48

Anyone care to have a look at my team and tell me what they would do with it this week?

Welshy wrote:Apologies in advance for this long winder

Was looking at my trade ins, team for R13 and team for R14 and had a thought of whether it's worth field a decent 13 this week if my team next round would be too mid range punt heavy (JFriend + WGraham with JFH also on the bench)

R13 team after trades

Cook - Surgess
Capewell - JFriend
Isaako - WGraham

Friend
Fifita, Surgess
TLolo, Murray, Barnett
ARey, TMM
Dugan, Fonua
Ponga

WGraham
Cogger

(smith, kikau, martin, JFH, Mbye, Ted, RFM, Arrow)

So I'm now considering only bringing in only one of Friend/Graham and getting in Doui instead as it generates an extra $207,000 minimum, then lobbing Barnett for Harris this week which would allow me to get in both McInnes and SJ next round for Murray and Cogger)

theory behind that is not leaving so much money on the bench (Graham, JFH, RFM) and getting gun Top 17 keepers in quicker

so R14 team would look like

Smith
Fifita, Arrow
TLolo, Harris, Surgess
ARey, SJ
Dugan, Fonua
Ponga, Tedesco, Mbye

Friend/RFM
McInnes
Martin
Kikau

JFH, TMM, Doui, Friend/RFM

Does that makes sense?
sacrificing Barnetts score this week to allow me to get in 3 R17 and top 17 keepers in?

As above I am not sold on Friend yet, and would want to see him post up another good score or two before I bring him in. As I said he won't cost that much extra and you can bring in guys for this round anyway.

How many trades do you have? I can't believe people are trading out Cook, I mean point wise it is a positive. However the same fallacy was always with C. Smith. It isn't as if you are going to just leave that money there to bring him in, you will use it and then need the funds to bring him in again. S. Burgess I like, and I hope to see him return to form once again. On the same vein have you actually checked W. Graham. He has played 80 minutes 5 times this year and is averaging 37 points. His BE is 42 so he could still hit his 80 minute average this year and lose cash. (Minuscule amount.) Then he will be a slow burner to get back up in cash.

Barnett looks to be a trade out for sure, however if he gets 35 points this week he only losses $13k in cash. Johnson can wait an extra week and could drop cash. Returning from a year long niggling injury.

JFH -> Hipgrave
Capewell -> Hodkinson
Isaako -> Doueihi
Mariner -> S. Burgess

Not sure if that gives you enough cash to make the moves you want next week. But it lets you keep Cook, keep Barnett for a week, stockpile some cash (I think), gives you a Rd 17 player, 3 Rd 13 players. If you want McInnes, and don't want Cook. Wait to see if Cook is rested or performs poorly in Origin. If he gets dropped for McInnes you did the trade for nothing.

Edit: Should leave you with $691k for upgrading which is great, and you keep Cook. You can also look at guys like Segeyaro/Brimson or even potentially upgrading JFH instead of downgrading him. It doesn't make sense to bring in guys like Harris, Johnson or McInnes this week when you aren't losing out on that much cash.

zorasdomain wrote:Anyone care to have a look at my team and tell me what they would do with it this week?

Have you posted it up? If so repost, if not PM me the details.

Yesterday I thought the idea of selling Cook was absolutely crazy, but now I'm coming more and more round to it. As well as a guaranteed extra player this week, the more I think about it the less likely Cook is to play full part Round 14, two days after Origin, or 18, early game three days after, when Souths actually have a very good back-up hooker. Other planned trades plus getting him back in would only leave me with 4 or 5 trades for the run in so big risk but need something like this to have a shot at the top 100, which is my current aim.

wolfking wrote:

I paid 930K for a guy last week that decided to stay home instead of turn up to the game.

I know Taupau will burn me at that price, he did it last year, but I'm going to get burnt again.

If it helps, he did show up to the game. He just sat in the crowd, a few rows in front of me. I didn't get close enough to be able to tell him he was a big jerk for not playing.

code delta wrote:
Hiku has Beale looming.

Why do you think Kearney will drop Hiku?

wolfking wrote:JFH - Doueihi (or Martin)
RFM - Tauapau

Griffin
Fifita
Taupau Tolo Murray
Coggar Reynolds
Fonus Marsters
Thompson Ponga

Doueihi

Smith Crichton Arrow Teddy Martin Mitchell Cook Isaako MBye

I could go Isaako to Doueihi instead as trading JFH means I'll have no forward cover in my EMG, they will be all backs.  The 150K I save from JFH lets me upgrade Murray easily next week though.

So not sure who to ditch Isakko or JFH.

I think you are solid on selling JFH this week, it makes sense to get cash to upgrade Murray next week.

Looking at that Souths team I cant shake the feeling Doueihi plays half and Walker back at fullback

Random wrote:

Have you posted it up? If so repost, if not PM me the details.

Thanks guys. Here it is.
Never posted my team before but now everyone can see it pretty easily I might as well.

Cook
Fifita Arrow
Taumalolo Jurbo Crichton
ARey Matterson
Mitchell Marsters
Tedesco Ponga Mbye

Smith Taupau JFH Martin
Fonua JMK GJennings Gosie

Gives me 10 for this week, pre trades.

Am 74 points ahead of 2nd.

Just looking to see what others would do this week in my position.

Random wrote:

As above I am not sold on Friend yet, and would want to see him post up another good score or two before I bring him in. As I said he won't cost that much extra and you can bring in guys for this round anyway.

How many trades do you have? I can't believe people are trading out Cook, I mean point wise it is a positive. However the same fallacy was always with C. Smith. It isn't as if you are going to just leave that money there to bring him in, you will use it and then need the funds to bring him in again. S. Burgess I like, and I hope to see him return to form once again. On the same vein have you actually checked W. Graham. He has played 80 minutes 5 times this year and is averaging 37 points. His BE is 42 so he could still hit his 80 minute average this year and lose cash. (Minuscule amount.) Then he will be a slow burner to get back up in cash.

Barnett looks to be a trade out for sure, however if he gets 35 points this week he only losses $13k in cash. Johnson can wait an extra week and could drop cash. Returning from a year long niggling injury.

JFH -> Hipgrave
Capewell -> Hodkinson
Isaako -> Doueihi
Mariner -> S. Burgess

Not sure if that gives you enough cash to make the moves you want next week. But it lets you keep Cook, keep Barnett for a week, stockpile some cash (I think), gives you a Rd 17 player, 3 Rd 13 players. If you want McInnes, and don't want Cook. Wait to see if Cook is rested or performs poorly in Origin. If he gets dropped for McInnes you did the trade for nothing.

Those trades lose me the 2 guys I'm keeping for R17 then upgrading to JTurbo  R18 mate which is what i want to avoid

I'm pretty positive in my own mind cook get's rested next week, if he doesn't Burgess still outpoints him on averages...just It's a risk I'm willing to take

If I stick with my trades and just get Doui in instead of Friend, I can get Harris, McInnes and SJ in and still have $200,000 banked for help when getting Cook back in R18

rhinoceroo wrote:Yesterday I thought the idea of selling Cook was absolutely crazy, but now I'm coming more and more round to it. As well as a guaranteed extra player this week, the more I think about it the less likely Cook is to play full part Round 14, two days after Origin, or 18, early game three days after, when Souths actually have a very good back-up hooker. Other planned trades plus getting him back in would only leave me with 4 or 5 trades for the run in so big risk but need something like this to have a shot at the top 100, which is my current aim.

Nooo, you're talking me into doing it again! I just talked myself out of it. It could prove to be such a good move but it's so hard to tell. I probably shouldn't be playing risky but this is the kind of thing I like.

Loomer wrote:

code delta wrote:
Hiku has Beale looming.

Why do you think Kearney will drop Hiku?

He shouldn't Beale offers nothing. Beale will play off the bench in the utility roll. Kearney likes two utilities on the bench.

Welshy wrote:
Those trades lose me the 2 guys I'm keeping for R17 then upgrading to JTurbo  R18 mate which is what i want to avoid

I'm pretty positive in my own mind cook get's rested next week, if he doesn't Burgess still outpoints him on averages...just It's a risk I'm willing to take

If I stick with my trades and just get Doui in instead of Friend, I can get Harris, McInnes and SJ in and still have $200,000 banked for help when getting Cook back in R18

That is fair, I still wouldn't risk Friend/Graham imo. Bringing in the last three are good trades with some risk.