NRL Fantasy Part 74 - The Mods are Asleep Edition

Milchcow wrote:I'm sitting at about the same rank as you mtb.
We've got similar teams, but I only have 4 trades, so you have a bit of an advantage there.

So I am tossing up whether to use 2 trades this week bringing in guns and go for it hoping for a good run with injuries, or just play it safe and hope for a "good" ranking.

But I can go into this week with a team that includes Cook, McInnes, Haas, Taumalolo, Cleary, Teddy, Ponga
with a 17, 18, 19th men of Fogarty, Nikorima, Sironen  (Or Brimson instead of Nikorima) and no CTR cover for Talau/Crichton.
That would be carrying Munster, and only 2 trades for injuries

I can probably make it into the top 10 if I make the right choices (ie not having injured players), but without hindsight can't know who to pick beforehand.

Milchcow wrote:I'm sitting at about the same rank as you mtb.
We've got similar teams, but I only have 4 trades, so you have a bit of an advantage there.

So I am tossing up whether to use 2 trades this week bringing in guns and go for it hoping for a good run with injuries, or just play it safe and hope for a "good" ranking.

But I can go into this week with a team that includes Cook, McInnes, Haas, Taumalolo, Cleary, Teddy, Ponga
with a 17, 18, 19th men of Fogarty, Nikorima, Sironen  (Or Brimson instead of Nikorima) and no CTR cover for Talau/Crichton.
That would be carrying Munster, and only 2 trades for injuries

I can probably make it into the top 10 if I make the right choices (ie not having injured players), but without hindsight can't know who to pick beforehand.

robelgordo wrote:

If you're not first, you're last.

It's a strong final team IMO. I think Fogarty + Niko/Brimson is a good 17th man for a loop. You could get 50+ from one of them most weeks.

robelgordo wrote:

If you're not first, you're last.

Camo123 wrote:

Only problem with Fogarty/Brimson as loop is they're from same team so hard to loop. I reckon Nikorima would probably edge Brimson on average though anyway but Brimson does provide better coverage

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Things have been very quiet around here the last couple of days. Think it's mainly the lack of trades?

Milchcow wrote:

There are prizes down to 5th.

I mean who wouldn't want $750 of KFC

Also a prize for club winner going as well (should have been a Raiders fan, their current club leader is 86th overall)

Ironically, i am a titans fan for fantasy purposes as their league is generally easier to win. But the guy coming 4th is a Titans fan, and I'd be winning the Tigers league.

Milchcow wrote:

There are prizes down to 5th.

I mean who wouldn't want $750 of KFC

Also a prize for club winner going as well (should have been a Raiders fan, their current club leader is 86th overall)

Ironically, i am a titans fan for fantasy purposes as their league is generally easier to win. But the guy coming 4th is a Titans fan, and I'd be winning the Tigers league.

filthridden wrote:

He's probably as much a Titans fan as you are!

I will be a Melbourne Storm fan for fantasy purposes next year I think. Warriors always have a fan finishing near the top.

robelgordo wrote:

Yeah I didn't think that through fully. This is probably why the guys coming 27th and 28th shouldn't listen to the guy who just dropped out of the top 1000.

At least I am destroying my main Nearly Sport comp this year. Is there a NearlySportfanatics forum?

Rabbits21 wrote:
I have 6 left not sure whether to go Pearce to Moses or upgrade Lucy, Murray or Yeo to McInnes or Cook, thoughts?

6 trades and 179k spare:

Hunt
Haas MoFo
Murray Taumalolo Yeo
Cleary Pearce
Aubusson Latrell
Teddy Ponga Pap

Carrigan Taupau Lucy Sironen
S. Crichton Hammer Randall Niu

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

The concerns with Pearce were that he would lose kick metres with Green around which wasn't the case. He is still the same scorer he was before the signing which was a borderline keeper. He is a hold IMO

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Think I’m leaning towards Cook over McInnes at this stage. No idea why as they should have a very similar average come seasons end.

Milchcow wrote:

They'll both score well, so its a bit of coin flipping action to see who is better.

Cook has gone 2 weeks without a single attacking stat.
He's scored 100 points, 99 of them from tackles and run metres (and a sole kick metre point)

Surely he'll have to get something soon, even just a little slapsy TB

Milchcow wrote: I don't think Green's presence was a big impact on his scoring

I don't think its a major concern. I'd upgrade him to someone like Cleary, but Moses would be a more marginal benefit.

Milchcow wrote:

There are prizes down to 5th.

I mean who wouldn't want $750 of KFC