NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 61 - Picking origin reps for bye planning

Dttragic2016 wrote:

Edit: I'm obsessed with cricket (and always have been) but I only realised it's "Hazlewood" not "Hazelwood" about a year ago. Thought of this when I read "Simpkin" when trading him in today. Fucking kills me when I read people tipping the "Storms" to win lol.

Blocker with his "In Gold" area.

Parra might provide some updated info on the severity of Hodgson's injury tomorrow or maybe not.

Looking forward to round 19 for the first time, if I keep Tapine, I'll have 7 forwards with only 5 spots available (Tap, Horse, JDB, Preston, Matto, Hoppo, Bateman). Saying that, having 12 already playable plus a couple extra with still 7 trades after this week, I can probably afford to ditch Fifita and get him back post Origin.

Don't know why but something about the term 'bazball' really bugs me

wolfking wrote:Looking forward to round 19 for the first time, if I keep Tapine, I'll have 7 forwards with only 5 spots available (Tap, Horse, JDB, Preston, Matto, Hoppo, Bateman).  Saying that, having 12 already playable plus a couple extra with still 7 trades after this week, I can probably afford to ditch Fifita and get him back post Origin.

I’m leaning towards trading Fifita out now

Even if he averages 60 (he won’t) next few weeks he’ll go under 800k. He’s prone to reduced minutes as we’ve seen already so expect price and output will plummet

Getting him back should be easier. Eg when Tohu is on R22 bye, then bring Fifita back for rest of year

Or injuries will dicatate who goes for him. But his price will make it easier, I think

Shady2K wrote:when Tohu is on R22 bye, then bring Fifita back for rest of year

thanks for thinking about this for me

Mulvy wrote:

standard-issue wrote:Did we celebrate Mulvy becoming the Fifth Fanatic Immortal?  I missed a day or two last week.

I'm also out of the loop.  But feel free to immortalise me

20000 posts mate-you are the Fanatics Fifth Immortal, congratulations

standard-issue wrote:

20000 posts mate-you are the Fanatics Fifth Immortal, congratulations

Filth Immortal is still a couple of years away yet, I reckon.

Looking forward to the Ashes cmon my man Smithy as long as he goes well he’s my fav NO RUN NOT NOW!!!

my tv broke wrote:

it is my hope we can stop hearing this fucking term by the end of the ashes  

i have no predictions though, i've no idea what will happen. both teams are looking pretty strong. i hope it's a close series all the way with Australia taking the win.

its cool to see anderson and broad lining up for the first test.

I didn't think you could play like that against NZ in NZ, but they did. So I'm not prepared to write it off as a tactic but feels like against the Aus attack is the ultimate challenge.

The whole approach makes a mockery of all those times a child new to cricket has asked, "why don't they just score like a ODI/T20 in Tests?", and a dad/coach/relative has explained it as not possible.

my tv broke wrote:

thanks for thinking about this for me

I look out for fellow yeets

robelgordo wrote:

I didn't think you could play like that against NZ in NZ, but they did. So I'm not prepared to write it off as a tactic but feels like against the Aus attack is the ultimate challenge.

The whole approach makes a mockery of all those times a child new to cricket has asked, "why don't they just score like a ODI/T20 in Tests?", and a dad/coach/relative has explained it as not possible.

rather than not possible, maybe more accurately; less sustainable...

I'm out of the loop (on a lot of things), but has there been a test match 500 or 600-run innings at a run-a-ball or better?

Many years ago I took my wife to the last session of a test match vs England (her first to watch)
We watched Nathan Astle bring up his 100, then add a further 122 runs of the next 54 balls he faced - she thought this Test Cricket is actually pretty entertaining

ICC Test batsmen ranking;

1) Labuschagne - 903
2) Steve Smith - 885
3) Travis Head - 884


Bring on Baz ball

Shady2K wrote:

I think most teams by now would be around that $14m mark so any more would be marginal really

Are they?

Im sitting at $13.4m and i have been focusing on cash gen all season as a H2H

im seeing lots of teams in the top of the rankings with less then $14m

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Have you added your bank?
Maybe you have 600k in there

You won’t see a teams true value since it doesn’t show money in the bank

On desktop there's both team Value and squad Value shown in the rankings. Squad Value includes money in the bank.

But I think the app only shows team value

BCT05 wrote:

On desktop there's both team Value and squad Value shown in the rankings. Squad Value includes money in the bank.

But I think the app only shows team value

The team in 4th has a lower squad value than I do. $14M+ seems to be plenty to have a chance. You can have a really strong team with that, especially since many players are still undervalued for their scoring potential.