NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 70 - Origin, Bye & lock downs

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:The pool of around 17 players that double as keepers is absolutely dire

filthridden wrote:

Yeah I'm having a look through possibly "gun" halves to bring in and as far as I can tell my options are Reynolds and.... Townshend?
(already have a Johnson)

Bethany_B wrote:

I'm just buying DCE in despite playing Origin, he should make up the loss of one match from his other games, plus there's every chance Reynolds plays Origin

Bethany_B wrote:

I'm just buying DCE in despite playing Origin, he should make up the loss of one match from his other games, plus there's every chance Reynolds plays Origin

Mulvy wrote:

Do you see your Maryanne walking away?

Bethany_B wrote:I think I'm selling Cleary because it can significantly improve my trade-ins this week (getting DCE in).

Best case scenario for Cleary it seems is for him to come back in round 20 and play from then to the finals, which would be 6 games, but I reckon he'll get rested in the last round and could miss round 20 as well if they want to give him one more week's rehab, which would make it 4 games.

DCE by contrast seems like he'll back up in both 16 and 18 (he backed up in R14, 2 days after Origin I), and doesn't have any lingering injuries to rule him out of any more games, so best case he plays 9 games, could be 8 if he gets a rest in R18 but either way, if Cleary only plays 5-6 games then I think DCE can beat him with his 8-9 games

Add to that the fact that the trade frees up 350k that I can use to get Fifita back with.

ytsb wrote:Ok so trading in a 50 point R17 scorer for 9 rounds earns you 450 points. Trading in a non-R17 scorer this round needs to average >56.25 over 8 rounds to become worth it.

On these grounds, surely a Haas trade in this round is worth it? Surely the big beautiful man can average over 56.25 with the absolute state of the Broncos bench atm.

ytsb wrote:Looking at the recent Bulldogs minutes, it looks like Josh Jackson's minutes are remaining high whereas Thompson's have taken a slight dip. Jackson seems the better buy to me?

Shady2K wrote:WFB options are kinda iffy into this round. I need to get one to field 17, but they're all going to miss games

Turbo 810k
- could be a late out this week
- misses R17
- R18 is 2 days after Origin, likely out

Ponga 760k
- misses R17 bye/origin regardless
- R18 is 3 days after Origin, may or may not backup (against Storm)

Latrell 583k
- best value, may not reach the heights of the others for the year
- plays this Sunday, 1 week turnaround from Origin, think he'd play
- misses R17
- R18 is 5 day turnaround after Origin, may backup

Already have Ted, Hynes and Walsh (out). Thoughts on who you would bring in?

ytsb wrote:

Thank you for that insight, didn't even see it. Thanks mate

Ozymandias wrote:

Alex Johnston $530k
5.2% ownership
plays R17 (as long as Cowboys are available)
Averages 38, last 3 average 68