NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 2 - What's the magic number ?

Lchy wrote:First time having a proper look at bye rounds. Got to round 13 and already a crisis- Cleary, DCE, Munster, Burton, Hynes, Boyd, Doueihi all out on either bye or origin. That's just the fucken halves, and that's just the fantasy relevant ones. So to field your 2 halves you'd need to own two of BHunt, Sullivan, Moses, DBrown, TMM, Hastings, Schuster or Milford who are the only fantasy relevant guys I could think of. Fuck this. Too hard.

Welshy wrote:

That’s is though I’m buying him at 54 to average 60 and be a cut price keeper.

Finding the value early season. Sort of like a sub gun. Maybe I should patent that thought process?

L-Jimmy wrote:

You didn't ask, but as someone who used to work in patenting I'll give you a detailed answer!

What you're after is a business method patent, which are harder to get in Australia than in the UK, so I'd suggest filing there. Charmingly most patent examiners live in Wales, so you've a tiny mote of commonality.

Now, the first hurdle will be 'inventiveness', i.e. if it is obvious to a skilled person in the field it isn't patentable. I'm very confident UKIPO has a bunch of fantasy football players, so you'll find out about this quite quickly after filling your provisional application. But, why not take a shortcut and ask like DK or someone around here who's pretty good?

Second, it has to be novel. Now here's where you might run into trouble. The oldest similar role I can find in a quick search would be the olympic games competitors of ancient greece. These runners up were awarded nothing at all, as they were losers and not deserving of the laurel wreath. Your patent examiner may not quote this, but they'll know what you deserve with subguns. No laurel.

Finally, the invention must have utility, or be useful (typically in carrying on some kind of enterprise). So you'll need to show how much your Sportal earnings were derived from this.

Good luck! And don't forget: just because leeks are phallic doesn't mean you should insert them in your spouse/sheep.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:

I don't, but I would say quite a few people have Te Maire Martin and Tanah Boyd in their team. That'd cover it???

Lchy wrote:

Boyd is on a bye too, there's also the concern of whether TMM or somebody like Schuster (who is nowhere near my side but is in a few) has the shelf life to last 12 weeks in your side.

Somehow Milford is the best option. It's always Milford

Welshy wrote:

You absolute howler

Lchy wrote:

Boyd is on a bye too, there's also the concern of whether TMM or somebody like Schuster (who is nowhere near my side but is in a few) has the shelf life to last 12 weeks in your side.

Somehow Milford is the best option. It's always Milford

Camo123 wrote:

If he starts edge and gets the patented hybrid role (25-30 EDG, 30-35 MID), TPJ is probably my pick of that high 500k-600k MID

Rabbits21 wrote:
Not big on Adam Elliot?

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Munster averaged roughly the same as Cleary last year and is priced 71 k less. A big factor is his increase appears to be playing with Cameron Smith (average 50) without Cameron Smith (average 60). He does have a bye in R2 but Cleary has an early bye as well.

filthridden wrote:Trying to come up with a team name that encompasses my dislike for PVL and how I want him nowhere near the game or making any decisions around it's future but also a low chance of him Elon-Musk style personally permabanning my NRL account/being sued for defamtion, ie; I can't use "Peter V'Landys is a corrupt Murdoch stooge" but maybe "PVL is selling the game out for his own interests" might be OK? Thoughts?

mattnz wrote:

Doueihi should have an even better year this year than the previous 2:
- Locked in with a defined role as the 6 without worrying about being moved around.
- Not coming back from injury (played 2 games off the bench last season for scores of 13 and 32).
- Behind a much better forward pack and with a great 9 feeding him the ball to get time and space.
- Going to have either iPap or Bateman as his EDG partner to work with, will help give him time, space and great options to use as they can't just rush up on him with one of those guys to slip the ball to.

robelgordo wrote:Is this useful for byes?



Black = Byes
Pale yellow is team plays, but Origin reps unavailable

Green is where if you buy a player in that team you get 5+ games before a bye happens e.g. at R14 it's Panthers, Storm, Roosters
Not sure if 5 games is a good number, would be happy to tweaking my highly advanced coding*
Also you obviously want to use judgment rather than rule players in/out solely based on approaching byes

Some quick takeaways, many of which I'm sure have already come up in the last 30-40 pages I haven't read:
- Eels are the only team to not play in an Origin round, but they still miss 2 games in the Origin period
- Panthers, Storm, Roosters, Broncos and Titans miss 2 Origin rounds, but the first 3 have 5 games running from R14-18, so are actually very handy to navigate that period
- Warriors and Dolphins are the only teams with 1 bye during the R13-20 period, which covers the Origin big bye weeks and the 3 medium bye weeks immediately after each state game
- Rabbitohs and Broncos have the latest 1st bye (R16). Titans have their 3rd and last bye the same week!
- Aside from Titans, Tigers and Sharks finish early (R17)




*I coloured the cells in Excel