NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 42 - Did Someone Say Aubussson :heart:

robelgordo wrote:

Yeah he’s fast, looks a great athlete. Is up there for buys (for byes)

But it’s also not a race - Walsh is holding a footy, tiptoes the sideline, looks over his shoulder a few times. Luki sprints in a straight line on the angle that cuts the distance.

Not having a go, just bothers me when people carry on about chasers being fast or ball carriers being slow. Still a huge effort and try save

mrbrownstone wrote:What are Cook owners doing? BE of 85 this week, which he's obviously capable of beating at any point, but if I'm going to trade him over Origin anyway I wonder if it's worth doing now before he loses more value.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Future Australian Captain

wolfking wrote:What are Murray owners doing?  BE is crazy high but he hit that just a few rounds ago against the same opposition.  I'm 50/50.

WT Winfield wrote:4-6 weeks for Brimson, grade 2 left hamstring tear.

Foran looking good to go this week.

https://www.titans.com.au/news/2023/05/03/injury-report-scan-results-return-for-brimson-foran/

easytiger wrote:In response to JM's deep dive on Horsburgh (and questions around realistic minutes), I thought it might be interesting to look at Locks this year;

What are reasonable minutes for a lock in 2023 and what are outlier numbers?

	GAMES	MIN	AVERAGE	MAX	MINS	MINS-MEDIAN	PPM
Isaah Yeo	8	55	65.3	83	79.3	80	0.82
Jack De Belin	3	52	65.0	76	76.0	80	0.86
Tohu Harris	4	49	59.8	70	75.5	80	0.79
Corey Harawira-Naera	5	26	39.8	48	74.4	73	0.53
Ryan Matterson	2	51	55.5	60	73.5	73.5	0.76
Cameron Murray	9	45	58.9	87	71.1	72	0.83
Corey Horsburgh	3	46	59.0	77	70.7	71	0.83
J'maine Hopgood	7	35	65.6	86	69.1	70	0.95
Josh King	8	32	54.8	77	67.9	67	0.81
Jack Bird	4	47	54.3	64	66.8	70	0.81
Patrick Carrigan	9	35	53.4	65	65.7	64	0.81
Victor Radley	7	20	39.7	58	65.0	69	0.61
Tom Gilbert	9	35	47.6	64	59.7	59	0.80
Fonua Pole	6	27	37.0	49	56.3	55	0.66
Jason Taumalolo	7	21	39.3	56	53.0	52	0.74
Isaac Liu	8	15	34.8	64	52.5	52	0.66
Dale Finucane	5	35	44.6	56	50.8	50	0.88
Raymond Faitala-Mariner	5	24	35.2	59	49.0	50	0.72
Josh Aloiai	8	30	37.4	44	45.5	45.5	0.82

I've pruned out the one-off type games. I'm not sure if CHN actually played lock (didn't catch those games).

But yeah, quite surprising to me how many are in the 65+ minute bracket.
I guess the only real conclusion that can be taken away is that with a 71 minute per game average, same 0.83PPM leading to the same average, that Horse is the new Cam Murray, and probably a FAC.

Honey Badger wrote:

Can you cover Lemu next week if he is one of your starting 2rfs?

Genderbender wrote:Just on Luki, I’d be weary. If not for the upcoming bye he wouldn’t really be looked at.
He’s cheap for a reason…

Very rarely plays 80
Very often injured

They’ve also forgone the carrying of a back on their bench this week and put another 2nd rower on there (Finefeuiaki)
Gos can and has been playing 80
Payton’s not scared to put Granville there either
At the very least you’d want to wait a week to not only look at the rotations but have a look at his form post injury.
My 2 cents

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Yeah it’s not ideal if Bird isn’t the target next week. I mean Penisini could be a plan B. 

I can just imagine holding Alamoti for these next two weeks for cover reasons and he scores 20-25 in both games and then it’s like what was the point really

mrbrownstone wrote:What are Cook owners doing? BE of 85 this week, which he's obviously capable of beating at any point, but if I'm going to trade him over Origin anyway I wonder if it's worth doing now before he loses more value.