2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 48

zorasdomain wrote:

Good point. If Arrow could get himself dropped that would be great. Also potentially puts the brakes on any benefit of Latrell to Aitken. Though I was under the impression that Curtis Scott had a spot before he turned into an idiot. I don't know if he's blown his chance forever now.

BroncHose wrote:

zorasdomain wrote:

Good point. If Arrow could get himself dropped that would be great. Also potentially puts the brakes on any benefit of Latrell to Aitken. Though I was under the impression that Curtis Scott had a spot before he turned into an idiot. I don't know if he's blown his chance forever now.

He punched Dalker in the face. No way that he's blown his chances forever. He'll probably captain the side in game 2.

Welshy wrote:Apologies in advance for this long winder

Was looking at my trade ins, team for R13 and team for R14 and had a thought of whether it's worth field a decent 13 this week if my team next round would be too mid range punt heavy (JFriend + WGraham with JFH also on the bench)

R13 team after trades

Cook - Surgess
Capewell - JFriend
Isaako - WGraham

Friend
Fifita, Surgess
TLolo, Murray, Barnett
ARey, TMM
Dugan, Fonua
Ponga

WGraham
Cogger

(smith, kikau, martin, JFH, Mbye, Ted, RFM, Arrow)

So I'm now considering only bringing in only one of Friend/Graham and getting in Doui instead as it generates an extra $207,000 minimum, then lobbing Barnett for Harris this week which would allow me to get in both McInnes and SJ next round for Murray and Cogger)

theory behind that is not leaving so much money on the bench (Graham, JFH, RFM) and getting gun Top 17 keepers in quicker

so R14 team would look like

Smith
Fifita, Arrow
TLolo, Harris, Surgess
ARey, SJ
Dugan, Fonua
Ponga, Tedesco, Mbye

Friend/RFM
McInnes
Martin
Kikau

JFH, TMM, Doui, Friend/RFM

Does that makes sense?
sacrificing Barnetts score this week to allow me to get in 3 R17 and top 17 keepers in?

zorasdomain wrote:Anyone care to have a look at my team and tell me what they would do with it this week?

Pacey's Best wrote:

Zoras mate, here's an idea that I thought I'd share. At the moment you have round 13 (10 players), round 17 (5 players) and Origin (6 players).
Leaving the 10 round 13 players and coming in to round 17, being the leader, you don't want to have only 6-8 players, as many teams just behind you will certainly have 5 or 6 more and your lead will be gone, so I wouldn't touch those 5 players either and build on your round 17 team. So that just leaves the 6 Origin players to play with. Personally, I don't like the idea of trading out obvious guns, only to have to bring them back (unless you have plenty of trades left) and it's impossible to predict an injury or even if players will back up or not, so the definite keepers I would want in my final 17 is, Cook, Arrow, J.Trbojevic and Tedesco. the other 2 players, Crichton and Mitchell, I think, have a lot of players similar in averages, for eg, would it matter if your final 17 had E.Aitken instead of L.Mitchell. Once you get through this round, I can imagine you will have a lot of round 13 players you won't want to keep so depending on how many trades you have left to see how many of the 12 trades you will use before round 17.
If you have plenty of trades left, then I would trade one or both Crichton and Mitchell to round 13 players. If not enough trades, then probably sit tight till this round's over.

What do you guys think? I think it's sound advice but what the hell would I know as I'm one of the ones who's kept Rochow all this time, and I don't want to give Zoras a bum steer.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

If you have the time then obviously working out total score predictions between now and round 17 is the best way to figure out what the better option is. But my thinking all along is that a bye strategy (of bringing in mid-rangers) will likely be detrimental to the long game. Like you say, a few mid rangers will up your round 13 score, but more than likely it hurts in the long run as you have to carry those guys through round 14 , 15, and 16 at the expense of an extra gun or two.

I don't like the Cook trade (but we've discussed our reasonings either way on that one), beyond that though I definitely prefer your second option but to be honest I'd be adding Taupau now too. The extra money you get from grabbing Doueihi should allow you to get Taupau too right? Then you have another set and forget for the season and a guy that looks like a top 5 player this season.

Pacey's Best wrote:

Zoras mate, here's an idea that I thought I'd share. At the moment you have round 13 (10 players), round 17 (5 players) and Origin (6 players).
Leaving the 10 round 13 players and coming in to round 17, being the leader, you don't want to have only 6-8 players, as many teams just behind you will certainly have 5 or 6 more and your lead will be gone, so I wouldn't touch those 5 players either and build on your round 17 team. So that just leaves the 6 Origin players to play with. Personally, I don't like the idea of trading out obvious guns, only to have to bring them back (unless you have plenty of trades left) and it's impossible to predict an injury or even if players will back up or not, so the definite keepers I would want in my final 17 is, Cook, Arrow, J.Trbojevic and Tedesco. the other 2 players, Crichton and Mitchell, I think, have a lot of players similar in averages, for eg, would it matter if your final 17 had E.Aitken instead of L.Mitchell. Once you get through this round, I can imagine you will have a lot of round 13 players you won't want to keep so depending on how many trades you have left to see how many of the 12 trades you will use before round 17.
If you have plenty of trades left, then I would trade one or both Crichton and Mitchell to round 13 players. If not enough trades, then probably sit tight till this round's over.

What do you guys think? I think it's sound advice but what the hell would I know as I'm one of the ones who's kept Rochow all this time, and I don't want to give Zoras a bum steer.

BroncHose wrote:Hypothetical:

Cook plays origin.
Farah plays hooker during origin period. Farah plays well.

Could Farah earn a bench spot for the rest of the season and Cook is no longer an 80min hooker?

mulvy wrote:

I mean fair call to the Terepo owners, but you guys must admit being lucky as fuck with the Brown thing and enjoying our misery!

Blain wrote:Next week I'll have 2 strong players in my EMG (probably Friend & Martin), the thought of downgrading Thompson to a non playing reserve scares me a little, considering I can only afford 1 trade a week from then on. Injuries are always on the cards, I'm thinking of getting Olive for back cover/cash out, and banking on the fact I can loop injured players if I get them.

What are peoples thoughts on NPR's? Leaves you short on numbers, but could potentially boost your score each week if you dice roll well. A big if I've found. Perfect NPR would be a round 17/origin fill in player I guess, easier said than done though! That Panthers half would have to be the most logical ATM.

Still thinking Dugan over Aitken BTW.

GreenMachine wrote:

Great advice really. Well done.

And no interest from my end trying to catch a team as strong as yours that far ahead with already a stronger team than most of us! Know it’s only one match but Both players you’ve mentioned I completely lost interest in once named for origin. I can’t see how you could even consider Cook for the axe, he’s been the only closest thing we’ve had to a set-and-forget captain.

BroncHose wrote:Hypothetical:

Cook plays origin.
Farah plays hooker during origin period. Farah plays well.

Could Farah earn a bench spot for the rest of the season and Cook is no longer an 80min hooker?

GreenMachine wrote:

Great advice really. Well done.

And no interest from my end trying to catch a team as strong as yours that far ahead with already a stronger team than most of us! Know it’s only one match but Both players you’ve mentioned I completely lost interest in once named for origin. I can’t see how you could even consider Cook for the axe, he’s been the only closest thing we’ve had to a set-and-forget captain.