NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 68

Wildbux wrote:Hi guys, currently ranked 6th overall with the below team, 4 trades left and 417k itb. Current plan is to get Cook in for Watson either this week or next and go Milf for either Moses/Munster/Turbo but unsure what the best option out of those would be?

Also waiting on Milford injury news as my low trades might force me to hold him and keep the rest for injury cover. 18th man looking like CNK. Am I missing anything obvious? Appreciate any advice.

Smith
Fifita Haas
Murray Matterson Lolo
SJ Ponga
Bateman Nikora
CNK Tedesco RTS

Mcinnes Mahoney Taupau Watson

Carrigan Milford Brittain Walters

You’re coming 6th so don’t listen to any of us, just keep doing what you’ve been doing

Hi, I’ve been stalking this forum for about one month and though I should actually register.

Never played NRL Fantasy before this season, only draft games, and put in a team last minute and picked like 5 centres because I did not know what I was doing. Also N Brown as captain.

So from 37k-ish after R1 I’ve traded my way up, slowly spending more and more time each week on this game. Then from about R13 I went a bit full obsessive and started googling for all of the info, of which this forum was the only thing I’ve come back to.

Not sure the extra effort has helped tho - I tried to plan for byes and the run home but might’ve done better just trading to zero...

I think this week to finalise my squad I can either trade Mann/Watson for Turbo/NPR, which gives me cover of all positions but I kinda never wanted Turbo. Or I can trade Xerri/Watson and get anyone (Jurbo or Matterson likely) but not have CT cover and ride my luck with 2 trades. I’m kinda leaning towards the latter, even with the extra risk

Current squad:

Cook
Fifita Haas
Lolo Murray Taupau
Reynolds SJ
Bateman Nikora
Ponga Tedesco Wighton

CS9 CM9 SST Fainu
Watson Xerri Mann Kerr

robelgordo wrote:Hi, I’ve been stalking this forum for about one month and though I should actually register.

Never played NRL Fantasy before this season, only draft games, and put in a team last minute and picked like 5 centres because I did not know what I was doing. Also N Brown as captain.

So from 37k-ish after R1 I’ve traded my way up, slowly spending more and more time each week on this game. Then from about R13 I went a bit full obsessive and started googling for all of the info, of which this forum was the only thing I’ve come back to.

Not sure the extra effort has helped tho - I tried to plan for byes and the run home but might’ve done better just trading to zero...

I think this week to finalise my squad I can either trade Mann/Watson for Turbo/NPR, which gives me cover of all positions but I kinda never wanted Turbo. Or I can trade Xerri/Watson and get anyone (Jurbo or Matterson likely) but not have CT cover and ride my luck with 2 trades. I’m kinda leaning towards the latter, even with the extra risk

Current squad:

Cook
Fifita Haas
Lolo Murray Taupau
Reynolds SJ
Bateman Nikora
Ponga Tedesco Wighton

CS9 CM9 SST Fainu
Watson Xerri Mann Kerr

Welcome to the site

You have a very good team.
What's your rank?

I think the Trbojevic option is better since it gives you that extra WFB gun and centre depth

Yeah I think it is too, just was not the plan so being stubborn looking at other options. I think the Xerri HIA a few rounds back plus Lomax injury stuffed my backline plans.

Rank is way down at 3924, but I think I should get a bit higher with some injury luck?

Wildbux wrote:Hi guys, currently ranked 6th overall with the below team, 4 trades left and 417k itb. Current plan is to get Cook in for Watson either this week or next and go Milf for either Moses/Munster/Turbo but unsure what the best option out of those would be?

Also waiting on Milford injury news as my low trades might force me to hold him and keep the rest for injury cover. 18th man looking like CNK. Am I missing anything obvious? Appreciate any advice.

Smith
Fifita Haas
Murray Matterson Lolo
SJ Ponga
Bateman Nikora
CNK Tedesco RTS

Mcinnes Mahoney Taupau Watson

Carrigan Milford Brittain Walters

So you're the guy topping the Reddit League. Well look forward to joining such illustrious company like myself and Thril_hou as winners of the coveted /r/nrl fantasy league.

Honestly if you're in 6th and you never post here then you're probably best off not listening to anyone at all. You've got this far on your own, listening to anyone else just going to drag you down.

Huge week with 646 sees my rank go from 1090> 545, inside the 1000 for the first time this year
Got the cash to go Staggs/Lomax to Cook but that means holding SJ as a starting half until Fainu peaks and leaving out a 50+ scorer each week(will be able to loop to decide)

Will probably play it safe and go Crichton/Taupau>Cook and Fainu>any half once he peaks

Kudos to John Morris for his stance with SJ. Hopefully he has a good look at himself and doesn't sulk.

Where did u get to @Welshy, after the bye round ? We still on a similar trajectory ?  I'm 2022 now, up every round since round 3.

Revraiser wrote:Where did u get to @Welshy, after the bye round ? We still on a similar trajectory ?  I'm 2022 now, up every round since round 3.

Only had 10 go mate but up another few hundred to 1785! Wooo

2 trades
Watson - Cook
Papy - Fainu

got 3 left and this for the run in!

Cook
Fifita, Haas
JTurbo, Taumalolo, Taupau
Moses, SJ
Nikora, Bateman
RTS, Ponga, Tedesco

Smith, McInnes, Twal, Fainu

Robson, Burns, Clark, Dearden

Welshy wrote:

Only had 10 go mate but up another few hundred to 1785! Wooo

2 trades
Watson - Cook
Papy - Fainu

got 3 left and this for the run in!

Cook
Fifita, Haas
JTurbo, Taumalolo, Taupau
Moses, SJ
Nikora, Bateman
RTS, Ponga, Tedesco

Smith, McInnes, Twal, Fainu

Robson, Burns, Clark, Dearden

Ahh ok, the Fainu trade, he is a final player ? Not coming back out ?
I have Pappy to, but have no other WFB. Can squeeze Martin or Xerri and upgrade Pappy to any WFB though.
3 trades left, none done as yet.

Maybe I'm left with Pappy to Maumalo, Martin to Fainu and 1 trade for injuries  

Or Is Martin as gud as Fainu anyway...

Revraiser wrote:Maybe I'm left with Pappy to Maumalo, Martin to Fainu and 1 trade for injuries  

Or Is Martin as gud as Rainy anyway...

Good to see you climbing those rankings mate.
Also who is Rainy?

Revraiser wrote:

Ahh ok, the Fainu trade, he is a final player ? Not coming back out ?
I have Pappy to, but have no other WFB. Can squeeze Martin or Xerri and upgrade Pappy to any WFB though.
3 trades left, none done as yet.

Ride Fainu to Klemmer or JFriend I reckon or whoever is affordable at that point mate

Just 10 players for me last week but no big change in rank, from 16th to 18th. Burns in for Watson this week and also need to bring in Teddy or TTurbo. Ideally it will be Teddy due to Roosters upcoming fixtures but cant afford for Teddy to be a late out if he is rested

Dropped about 100 spots to 1654 with only 483 and 9 players. I am in a bit of a pickle and have to get Fifita back but I don't think I can do it this week without sideways trading. Really backed myself into a corner here.

My halves combination is Wighton/Pearce right now.  Is this something I need to look at upgrading urgently? Apart from CNK the rest of my team is set really.

Weiland wrote:My halves combination is Wighton/Pearce right now.  Is this something I need to look at upgrading urgently? Apart from CNK the rest of my team is set really.

Don't think it's urgent, if you have cover for Pearce who probably won't back up 2 days after Origin. 

Other than that, those are two of the halves who *might* score best until the end of the season (others being DCE, ARey, Ponga, Munster, Moses, Hunt, SJ, Cleary/Milford if fit). Hard to pick which two or three will be best but any trade between them seems marginal at the moment unless you have trades to burn.

Weiland wrote:My halves combination is Wighton/Pearce right now.  Is this something I need to look at upgrading urgently? Apart from CNK the rest of my team is set really.

I think it all depends on trades and cash. Pearce is obviously a concern but he might bounce back just as quickly as he's dropped off.

Wighton seems to just keep scoring well so no real concern there.

Hey fellas, I need some help on decisions here,
I have kept ponga throughout his injury, and have no cover in my reserves, should I trade him for ttrbo/wighton/burns? Aiming to trade him back in asap. Also considering twal to klemmer/lodge, anyone wanna help with that? Too sideways? Got 10 trades left, cheers guys

Wildbux wrote:Hi guys, currently ranked 6th overall with the below team, 4 trades left and 417k itb. Current plan is to get Cook in for Watson either this week or next and go Milf for either Moses/Munster/Turbo but unsure what the best option out of those would be?

Also waiting on Milford injury news as my low trades might force me to hold him and keep the rest for injury cover. 18th man looking like CNK. Am I missing anything obvious? Appreciate any advice.

Smith
Fifita Haas
Murray Matterson Lolo
SJ Ponga
Bateman Nikora
CNK Tedesco RTS

Mcinnes Mahoney Taupau Watson

Carrigan Milford Brittain Walters

Welcome mate.

We are set up very similarly.

I would of liked to have held Milford with the news that he should play this week. Its a tricky one though as he is a bit of an unknown at FB, and if his knee isn't great that might hurt his scoring. Assuming he plays this week, he could score pretty well against the warriors at Suncorp