NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 60

StormTrooper96 wrote:Thoughts please guys?
A. JFH/Tolman/Arey/Sivo Out - Milf/CS9/Bateman/Carrigan IN +167K ITB

B. JFH/Tolman/Arey/Sivo Out - DCE/CS9/Bateman/Carrigan IN + 127K ITB

Pretty much DCE vs Milf - Also is there anyone above Carrigan you would prefer with the money I have left over?

Could also bite the bullet and grab SJ, this would allow me to grab Watson over Carrigan.

Rabbit wrote:Hello there punters. Thought I’d drop in and say g’day.

Rabbit’s Roundup
First of all, the important stuff. I know Milchy will love this. Picked up a new boat yesterday for mainly inshore and bay stuff. A Polycraft 4.1 powered by a 40hp etec.  Nice unit. Putting in a MotorGuide xi5 electric and a live well today, and taking her away to Kauri Creek tomorrow for a 3 dayer with the fishing club, so I’ll be missing games galore. In other words, the wily old Rabbit needs to be very shrewd this week with the trades, because there’ll be no opportunities for late changes. This is what fucked me up the freckle last year.

Currently resting at 157th.....thanks Deardon, you little pea hearted maggot

So, only two very pointed trades this week. Two R16 guns. Fuck stuffing around with spuds like Watson and the like.

Reyno > RTS, with Ponga sliding into the halves.
Mahoney > Smith

Leaves 13 trades. Probably too many, but I just don’t see any other worthwhile replacements, without straight sideways trades. They’ll pop up closer to R16 and having the luxury trades will enable some trade-backs, like Reyno, Twal. I’m still thinking about punting JFH, but want to give him  another week. I could be convinced though as he doesn’t play 16. Just don’t see anyone saying ‘pick me’.

Anyway, here’s the mighty Gumbies this week. Read it and weep suckers.

Cook, Smith, Mcinnes
Fifita, Haas, Taupau
Murray, Lolo, JFH, Havili
Milf, Ponga
Bateman, Nikora
RTS, CNK, Sivo

Garrick, Horsehead, Deardon, Brittain.

That’s 1200 points there. Have a nice day  

I agree with all the good stuff, gotta love a new vessel

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Could also bite the bullet and grab SJ, this would allow me to grab Watson over Carrigan.

Yeah halves are a little tough at this stage I reckon, no one really standing out. Would say DCE is a little safer than milf.

Rabbit wrote:For the record, anyone holding Reyno.....looks like he is out for another 3 weeks (maybe longer) according to club sources who are usually reliable. People are amazed he played 74 minutes with the injury.

Yeah I remember the injury happening really early in the game. Teammate threw a hospital pass on their own goal line and ARey got twisted pretty bad in the tackle and got up clutching his back and moved behind the play with the medic. I thought he looked gone for the game.

Mate of mine that wasn't watching and had him all year was talking shit about him being soft when he was ruled out later, and despite me saying he's made of glass prior to last year, I had to stick up for him when the injury was revealed Whoever had him should appreciate what he did score that bye round, because it would've been around 0 if he didn't tough it out.

I just have that feeling everyone’s gonna be dropping 1000+ scores this week

Milchy wrote:

The bunnies only play 1 game in the next 3 weeks though, so not all bad

This isn't a bad point, but if he misses that game it means he doesn't actually play again until round 17.

For me, that is too long to hold. Holding anyone with a back injury just seems risky, and they have no real need to rush him back.

He becomes J Trbo, or R Matterson. That itself is a really tough choice. J Trbo feels safer, but definitely misses round 16. RMat is touch and go for round 16, really hard to say what will happen with the Blues. He will probably be 18th man again to be honest. But will JTrbo get a rest in round 17? He didn't rest any games last year, though he is playing a bigger role for the Blues this season..

Second trade, I'm going to punt Havili for Staggs. I think he's the best of the cheap pick right now that A) play round 16, B) has job security, and C) holds some reasonable scoring potential as a back up player for the run home. I just can't bring myself to kill a position with someone like Carrigan right now. I'll likely bring Carrigan in for round 16 anyway, but will assess the cheapest options when that time comes.

18th_Man wrote:

Yeah halves are a little tough at this stage I reckon, no one really standing out. Would say DCE is a little safer than milf.

DCE avg 59.8 x 11 games = 657.8

Milf avg 54.5 x 12 games = 654

Based off this theory DCE will score more; however, I find it hard for DCE to maintain a 59.8 average whereas Milf has more chance maintaining a 54.5 average and DCE may also miss 2 more games instead of just the 1 (R16 and may be rested R17) putting that total score to 598.

Hi guys this is officially the most stuck I have been. Any recommendations?

Cook
Fifita, taupau
Murray, trbjovic, lolo
Hutchinson, Munster
Nikora, xerri
Rts, ponga, Tedesco
Haas
Tolman
Fisher Harris
Havili
Reynolds
Herbert
Brittain
To’o

I have 12 trades left and 169k. Only H2H

Community team polls

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t1032-2nd-trade-poll

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t1031-round-13-captain

Rabbit wrote:
So, only two very pointed trades this week. Two R16 guns. Fuck stuffing around with spuds like Watson and the like.

Reyno > RTS, with Ponga sliding into the halves.
Mahoney > Smith

Leaves 13 trades. Probably too many, but I just don’t see any other worthwhile replacements, without straight sideways trades. They’ll pop up closer to R16 and having the luxury trades will enable some trade-backs, like Reyno, Twal. I’m still thinking about punting JFH, but want to give him  another week. I could be convinced though as he doesn’t play 16. Just don’t see anyone saying ‘pick me’.

Anyway, here’s the mighty Gumbies this week. Read it and weep suckers.

Cook, Smith, Mcinnes
Fifita, Haas, Taupau
Murray, Lolo, JFH, Havili
Milf, Ponga
Bateman, Nikora
RTS, CNK, Sivo

Garrick, Horsehead, Deardon, Brittain.

That’s 1200 points there. Have a nice day  

Solid team, Rabs. With a few more upgrades you'll be well on your way and 13 trades is ridiculous. You should storm home in the late rounds when every man and his dog goes down with ankle sydismosis or whatever the fad injury is at the time.

Differences between your team and mine:

17:
JFH, Milford, CNK, Sivo
vs
Martin, Pearce, Tedesco, Cleary

18-21:
Garrick, Horse
vs
Lomax, Xerri

No interest in CNK to Teddy or are you waiting til after origin?

Last time SJ and Chad combined SJ averaged 53.3 for the year. Before the injury SJ was averaging 49. Im tempted to take the punt

Loomer wrote:Does Hutchison keep out Lam and play 16? Would be a nice cashout and vs Dogs this week

Any thoughts? Last week I asked about Watson and no one replied

british1987 wrote:Hi guys this is officially the most stuck I have been. Any recommendations?

Cook
Fifita, taupau
Murray, trbjovic, lolo
Hutchinson, Munster
Nikora, xerri
Rts, ponga, Tedesco
Haas
Tolman
Fisher Harris
Havili
Reynolds
Herbert
Brittain
To’o

I have 12 trades left and 169k. Only H2H

Over the next couple of weeks I would look at ditching Tolman, JFH, Reynolds, Havili, Xerri
with
Smith, Bateman, DCE, McInnes the trade in targets.

That gives you a near perfect final 16, but would need to find a bit of cash with your last few trades to get a 17th man.

Alternatively sacrifice someone like McInnes/DCE to get 3 slightly cheaper players to round out your 17
People like SJ, Twal, SST

For those that have both, who are you captaining?

Cook - upvote
Taumalolo - downvote

StormTrooper96 wrote:Last time SJ and Chad combined SJ averaged 53.3 for the year. Before the injury SJ was averaging 49. Im tempted to take the punt

I'm personally going to wait to find my 2nd starting half, just find their form can be inconsistent at times and want to get the one in form closest to the finals.

I reckon go with your gut feeling mate, no real easy clear cut choice.

Loomer wrote:

Any thoughts? Last week I asked about Watson and no one replied

Man, Watson has been talked about to death on here..

Re Roosters, its a guessing game, which is probably why no one has answered.. no one knows. Don't seem to be many ears to the ground with that club.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Last time SJ and Chad combined SJ averaged 53.3 for the year. Before the injury SJ was averaging 49. Im tempted to take the punt

Has Johnson been named yet? As a Flanagan owner I’d love some clarity. Don’t like any of the options, but it’d be nice to know for sure if I need to bring someone in for Flanagan. Will I need to wait until an hour before kick off?

Teeth Eater wrote:

Has Johnson been named yet? As a Flanagan owner I’d love some clarity. Don’t like any of the options, but it’d be nice to know for sure if I need to bring someone in for Flanagan. Will I need to wait until an hour before kick off?

Luckily they play first mate. Just wait til an hour before.

I'm in a dilemma regarding Matterson. Him playing Origin doesn't worry me, I think he's going to actually but he'll be a good POD if people are shying away from him because of it.

My dilemma is if I get him this week, I pretty much lock myself into having to trade SJ into the HLF's because I won't have the cash to get anyone better.

I mean conversely though if I get a gun HLF in like Milford then I don't leave room to get a good 17th scorer or at least nobody that has good scoring potential that's going to be priced in the low 600k range.

Teeth Eater wrote:

Has Johnson been named yet? As a Flanagan owner I’d love some clarity. Don’t like any of the options, but it’d be nice to know for sure if I need to bring someone in for Flanagan. Will I need to wait until an hour before kick off?

For certainty wait until an hour before kickoff, there may be an indication earlier than that .

Luckily its the first game, so I'd say just have 2 sets of trades planned to handle each situation, and then adjust this evening as required once teams are named