NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 16 - That's a Starling Choice

I don't want to trade Tuilagi or Bullemore this week, however trading one of them to Leo Thompson would allow me to get Haas.
Should I do it?

mattnz wrote:In case anyone missed it, Paulo is back on his old wing this week. Is a trade out.

I said that’d happen and it has.

Aardvark wrote:Leaning towards ditching Angus for Starling this week, don’t love the bench start or the low 40s in 80.

My feeling is, of my underperforming guns, Mahoney has the best chance of actually picking up his scoring and fallen gun Lolo can have another week. I can hold the money for a week or so and upgrade either to a reliable skipper if they fail again.

Also Russell for Leo….why the fuck not (mad jack can wait a week)

I've ditched Angus in 2/3 formats I play. Could make it 3/3.

So Tigers are in a form slump with huge pressue on the coach trying to save his career
Garner is back on starting edge, tried,tested and experienced vs boom youngster (Signed with another club within the last week and eaving end of year) out with HIA
Tigers play the Warriors which currently is winnable, do you drop Garner if you win?
Who is better off the bench?

Just some thoughts

standard-issue wrote:

I reckon Garner and Tuilagi are 50/50 to start over each other this year regardless of the HIA this week.  Bully more than likely loses his starting spot in the next few weeks.

Even when starting, Bully's minutes are questionable with both Davey and Lawton on the bench, as we saw last week.

Haumole and Jurbo get 80 minutes.
Croker looks to be getting 80, or very close to it, so Lawton is spending most of his time on an EDG, getting 28 minutes last week.
They would have played Walker for 50 minutes as a MID last week, without the HIA.
Paseka had 36 minutes last week
Then Davey is also getting EDG minutes.

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:

He’s looking into having a partial meniscectomy. Quick recovery but 3 weeks minimum and I’d guess 4

I skimmed this and misread it as "marital penisectomy"

The Goat Boys wrote:I don't want to trade Tuilagi or Bullemore this week, however trading one of them to Leo Thompson would allow me to get Haas.
Should I do it?

Haas probably overpriced after week 1 abnormal minutes and scoring. Next week Flegler is back and Haas doesn't need more than 60 minutes per week, may get 65 minutes some weeks.

TU: Leo Thompson
TD: Taylan May

mattnz wrote:

Even when starting, Bully's minutes are questionable with both Davey and Lawton on the bench, as we saw last week.

Haumole and Jurbo get 80 minutes.
Croker looks to be getting 80, or very close to it, so Lawton is spending most of his time on an EDG, getting 28 minutes last week.
They would have played Walker for 50 minutes as a MID last week, without the HIA.
Paseka had 36 minutes last week
Then Davey is also getting EDG minutes.

Croker has played 79 and 76 minutes in the first 2 games.
Rd 1 he was replaced by Lawton who got a head knock a minute later. Croker came back on and Lawton failed his HIA.
Rd 2 he was again replaced by Lawton and 4 minutes later Dylan Wanker got injured.
tldr: I don’t think the plan is for Croker to play 80.

SoylentGreen wrote:

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:

He’s looking into having a partial meniscectomy. Quick recovery but 3 weeks minimum and I’d guess 4

I skimmed this and misread it as "marital penisectomy"

You spelt skinned wrong Soylent

I am going to guess Matt doesn't own Paulo,Bullemor or Haas based on the advice above
And owns tuilagi, purely guesswork as a passer by

I always thought to myself what would happen if Nostradamus played fantasy
How big would his squad be and would he eventually get everything right if you could always make it right however you looked at it
On the same tangent, if he could always predict the bad things then he would always predict the good too
He would win every year I reckon

Chucky wrote:
Croker has played 79 and 76 minutes in the first 2 games.
Rd 1 he was replaced by Lawton who got a head knock a minute later. Croker came back on and Lawton failed his HIA.
Rd 2 he was again replaced by Lawton and 4 minutes later Dylan Wanker got injured.
tldr: I don’t think the plan is for Croker to play 80.

Even if Croker is meant to be getting 65 minutes, the plan seems to be for Lawton to play both HOK and EDG during the game in his time on field.

Looking at a bench of:
Fermor
Starling
JKing
Nanai

Thompson
Bullemor
Walters
Paulo

Any of the 18-21 should be in the 17?

Boozecluez wrote:I am going to guess Matt doesn't own Paulo,Bullemor or Haas based on the advice above
And owns tuilagi, purely guesswork

Imagine my thoughts lining up with my team in a consistent manner.

You should be concerned if I was saying things that didn't match with who I was trading in / out of my team (as would I).

mattnz wrote:

Imagine my thoughts lining up with my team in a consistent manner.

You should be concerned if I was saying things that didn't match with who I was trading in / out of my team (as would I).

I just assumed you were trying to justify not having them in your team, right or wrong.
It not criticism, just seems very invested in players you don't have or have no intention of trading in
And to some people there is a tight line between fact and opinion especially with minutes/coaching
Honestly, I look forward to seeing your take on more of these players, it's good to be honest

Matt your posts have been really good this year, keep it up.

SoylentGreen wrote:Looking at a bench of:
Fermor
Starling
JKing
Nanai

Thompson
Bullemor
Walters
Paulo

Any of the 18-21 should be in the 17?

First three definitely, but I guess you could make a case for a Nanai/Thompson swap. So hard to get a read on Nanai so far, so who knows? Assuming he plays 80min again, I guess you have to go with Nanai.

PS. That's a dreamy looking bench.

SoylentGreen wrote:Looking at a bench of:
Fermor
Starling
JKing
Nanai

Thompson
Bullemor
Walters
Paulo

Any of the 18-21 should be in the 17?

Looks perfect

wolfking wrote:



Ok, so Cook and Paulo are not in your fantasy team, good to know.

SoylentGreen wrote:Looking at a bench of:
Fermor
Starling
JKing
Nanai

Thompson
Bullemor
Walters
Paulo

Any of the 18-21 should be in the 17?

If you have a loop option, you could play Nanai at 18. I would expect Thompson to be more consistent in scoring, Nanai could score significantly more or less than him.