NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 78 - Haas or no Haas Edition

Mulvy wrote:

Money games? Pfft, Mahoney fucking my Survivor team! That's the important stuff! How are you travelling mate? Had a chance to see the orthodontist yet?

Nah mate, haven't been able to pick myself up off the floor yet. Haven't eaten a tooth since Tuesday night. Considering changing my name to Crumpled Heap.

Hope you're still enjoying the game, though. I'm, uh, totally cool with being out of it.

Out of the top 50 of our FOG league:

17 captained Hunt
14 captained Cleary
12 captained McInnes
2 captained Taumalolo
1 captained Bateman
1 captained D. Fifita
1 captained Moses
1 captained Ponga 
1 captained Nofoaluma

Rabbits21 wrote:
1 captained Nofoaluma

Was that Wolfie?

Rabbits21 wrote:
You have Matto aye? Geez he was awesome. He just offloads at will.

I used Papy in a loop just in case but am stoked with his 57.

I captained McInnes. I’m just gonna go and check the top 50 of our FOG league and see the captaincy split.

Yeah Matto's awesome, never said a bad word about him, even when he was a late out, five point HIA, and out again

Seriously though, love the guy, hope he can stay on the park.

McInnes will be a good shout for captain, wouldn't even bother yourself.

I nearly put Pappy in the loop for safety reasons. But while I was reading bedtime stories for my five year old, my face went as purple as Wiliame's dot and I thought, fuck, what if he actually plays and I have to take his score? Suffice to say, I'm happy with his 57.

Bethany_B wrote:

Was that Wolfie?

Nope Andy I think.

Dttragic2016 wrote:

Draftstars can be like that if you go in with the one team mate. As a long term nrl fantasy player, you focus on the guys that are popular in classic..however when you play dfs I guess you start giving a shit about a broader bunch of players.

Guess what I'm trying to get at is there are always injuries and HIAs that can either make or break your dfs line-up.

The nas hit on niukore looked like it'd ruin my one good team...but because penalty and sin bin aren't negative points in draftstars and niukore actually came back on it helped me! Equal 3rd atm, could go to 2nd if updates are kind!

Nice work.

I've really wanted to submit a few teams, but at the moment I'm losing too much money (and I'm only starting out with the $2 comps, lol) as it is with one team, so I don't want to escalate my spending until I can justify it. I just worry that if I submit extra teams I'll somehow dodge most the better players and end up submitting a bunch of teams that all feature the guy who gets a HIA, injury or the guy that get's Mahoney'd. Obviously no way of knowing who that's going to be.

Anyway, yeah, it's a different process, selecting teams for sure. For me, picking the WFB/CTR is basically like trying to place an any time try scorer bet. Got lucky with Ado-Carr last week, he was a thorn in my eyeball this week.

Any surefire tips on how to go as good as you are, lol? I would love to finish 2nd or 3rd, obviously, but any tips that would at least help me get my money back would be sublime too.

Turn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams

Updates are in:

Gutho 43
D. Brown 38
Moses 62 (massive update)
RCG 22
Matterson up to 86
N. Brown up to 63

Pap down to 54
Brenko 48
Welch 65
T. Eisenhuth 48 (read someone on here who is playing him as 17th man)

Teeth Eater wrote:

Nice work.

I've really wanted to submit a few teams, but at the moment I'm losing too much money (and I'm only starting out with the $2 comps, lol) as it is with one team, so I don't want to escalate my spending until I can justify it. I just worry that if I submit extra teams I'll somehow dodge most the better players and end up submitting a bunch of teams that all feature the guy who gets a HIA, injury or the guy that get's Mahoney'd. Obviously no way of knowing who that's going to be.

Anyway, yeah, it's a different process, selecting teams for sure. For me, picking the WFB/CTR is basically like trying to place an any time try scorer bet. Got lucky with Ado-Carr last week, he was a thorn in my eyeball this week.

Any surefire tips on how to go as good as you are, lol? I would love to finish 2nd or 3rd, obviously, but any tips that would at least help me get my money back would be sublime too.  

Managing how much you're putting into it is a good start mate. With how top heavy the prize structure is, best bet is to back your gut and just pick the team you think will score the most points. Could go in to way too much detail but if you're putting in 1 or 2 teams into the $2 comp I'd start with looking at forward packs, change in role and obviously underpriced players.

Eg in today's game I thought storm with no smith, jbrom and finucane meant I'd want to go big on Welch, nas and eisenhuth (who was available at ctr).

Backs are a bit of a lottery, but it's kinda fun as you get to back your gut on which team will do better and potentially picking backs from those teams.

Anyone that's been playing, we try to keep the dfs thread ticking over so it'd be great to have more of you posting updates on there!

Boozecluez wrote:Turn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams

Make believe I'm everywhere
Given in the light
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a never ending story............. Oh oh oh ohohhohohohohohohohoh

Rabbits21 wrote:Updates are in:

Gutho 43
D. Brown 38
Moses 62 (massive update)
RCG 22
Matterson up to 86
N. Brown up to 63

Pap down to 54
Brenko 48
Welch 65
T. Eisenhuth 48 (read someone on here who is playing him as 17th man)

I'm playing him at 17th aswell hahahah. Pure luck his score tonight - i'll take it though!!!

Boozecluez wrote:Turn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams

Mulvy wrote:

Make believe I'm everywhere
Given in the light
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a never ending story............. Oh oh oh ohohhohohohohohohohoh

Fuck yeah boys, made my night.
Artax forever!

Dttragic2016 wrote:

Managing how much you're putting into it is a good start mate. With how top heavy the prize structure is, best bet is to back your gut and just pick the team you think will score the most points. Could go in to way too much detail but if you're putting in 1 or 2 teams into the $2 comp I'd start with looking at forward packs, change in role and obviously underpriced players.

Eg in today's game I thought storm with no smith, jbrom and finucane meant I'd want to go big on Welch, nas and eisenhuth (who was available at ctr).

Backs are a bit of a lottery, but it's kinda fun as you get to back your gut on which team will do better and potentially picking backs from those teams.

Anyone that's been playing, we try to keep the dfs thread ticking over so it'd be great to have more of you posting updates on there!

Oh shit, I didn't know there was a thread for it here. That's awesome. I'll find it after I post this.

To be completely honest, I think I've been going pretty well with my picks so far. Love the look of my team every time I submit one. Like I say, just getting dudded here and there by something really unexpected. For instance, I was definitely on Welch and NAS tonight... but admittedly, didn't get on Eisenhuth. But yeah, I love my underpriced gems to support the guns. Anyway, won't bore everyone else here. I'm going to find this other thread. Thanks for the tips mate.

Pookus McFly wrote:



Fuck yeah boys, made my night.
Artax forever!

Oh dear, would you be upset that I've only seen half of it once, before falling asleep as a child, and don't know who Artax is, and only know what's going on because this song is actually on my (adult) play list?? That, and Peter Griffin going Yeah! All the while watching V for Vendetta for like the 13th time?

Mulvy wrote:

Oh dear, would you be upset that I've only seen half of it once, before falling asleep as a child, and don't know who Artax is, and only know what's going on because this song is actually on my (adult) play list?? That, and Peter Griffin going Yeah! All the while watching V for Vendetta for like the 13th time?

Don't know if you guys dig a bit of rock n' roll, but a group of musicians I'm into were doing this lockdown project this year and covered a bunch of cool tunes... and this was one of them.

Just listen, don't watch the clip... It's all wicked cringey, but I'm kind of into it. Brings back memories, in a style of music I can get down to;

So I ended up going with Haas to McInnes and Aubbs to Koala leaving me with:

McInnes (C)
Carrigan MoFo
Murray Taumalolo Yeo
Cleary Pearce
Latrell Crichton
Teddy Ponga Pap

Hunt Lucy Taupau Koala
Sironen Hammer Randall Niu


4 trades and 367k spare so enough to bring Haas back in for sure and maybe make another move/upgrade in coming weeks.

Teeth Eater wrote:

Mulvy wrote:

Oh dear, would you be upset that I've only seen half of it once, before falling asleep as a child, and don't know who Artax is, and only know what's going on because this song is actually on my (adult) play list?? That, and Peter Griffin going Yeah! All the while watching V for Vendetta for like the 13th time?

Don't know if you guys dig a bit of rock n' roll, but a group of musicians I'm into were doing this lockdown project this year and covered a bunch of cool tunes... and this was one of them.

Just listen, don't watch the clip... It's all wicked cringey, but I'm kind of into it. Brings back memories, in a style of music I can get down to;

Clip isn't that bad in the big scheme of things. Great sounding cover.

The thing that annoys me about DFS is wanting players to do well that will hurt my ranking in NRL fantasy.

@surmo13 when does the supporter gear sale on nrlshop end?

Rabbits21 wrote:Updates are in:

Gutho 43
D. Brown 38
Moses 62 (massive update)
RCG 22
Matterson up to 86
N. Brown up to 63

Pap down to 54
Brenko 48
Welch 65
T. Eisenhuth 48 (read someone on here who is playing him as 17th man)

Assuming this was for me? Haha cheers Rabs. Quiet couple of games for old RCG. Hopefully he's just catching his breath for the past month and can AVG 50 from here.