NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 7 - Vegas, Baby

easytiger wrote:

Presume not in NZ?

I get feedback when I buy a bunch of 3 bananas that we won't get through them...

Lady fingers / Island bananas are a different story

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

You mean the minutes he played as a rookie will never increase for his entire career?

Milchcow wrote:
There was one guy who played 3 games in his first season, for scores of 22, 5 and 6

Because of this many people were sceptical about running with him in his second season, but those who took the punt on Payne Haas were well rewarded (and everyone else traded him in before his 2nd game)

Chewie wrote:

How do you like your banana?
barely ripe - firm, pale yellow with light green at the top
ripe - easily peel-able; medium-yellow, no (or few) brown spots
very ripe - soft but not mushy; a mix of yellow with brown spots
overripe - soft, mushy interior; highly spotted with brown or entirely brown

Milchcow wrote:
I guess Terrell May is the big question from the weekend.
We all knew he could put up big scores if given the minutes, but I assume most people questioned how often he would get the minutes.

1 game where he got extra time in part because of 2 injuries I don't think is enough to panic trade him in.
On the plus side, Roosters are a bye friendly team, so adding him to however many Roosters you already have shouldn't be a big problem

Chewie wrote:

Mrs Wookiee has a preference for the barely ripe banana, I personally tend more towards the ripe/very ripe variety
and as mentioned before, I have a weak spot for Pisang Goreng (fried banana)

mattnz wrote:

Milchcow wrote:
There was one guy who played 3 games in his first season, for scores of 22, 5 and 6

Because of this many people were sceptical about running with him in his second season, but those who took the punt on Payne Haas were well rewarded (and everyone else traded him in before his 2nd game)

He got injured in at least 2 of those games from memory

easytiger wrote:

I've just worked out Edge minute averages for last year:


Lower quartile is 71.8mins (equivalent to one 80min edge, one at 64 mins)

IF the Rooters went lower than North Queensland last year at say 68 minutes;
That would be enough for one 80min edge, one 56minute edge.

Anything lower would be pretty radical compared to what we've seen (noting that the Roosters were a very conventional 74ish minutes average last year)

If the 56 minute edge was Wong at his 0.69PPM (without any improvement), that would give a 38 point average, or about 6 points of upside.

Of course, those are averages across a season and don't really account for individual selections (e.g. Nat Butcher on the edge is almost always going to get 80, whereas both Sitili and Wong may be less likely)

TLDR: On a historical basis, there doesn't seem any reason to panic about the Roosters edges