Finals Fantasy - week 1

400 exactly 
Verrills 61, Haas 65, Bateman 81, Gallen 28, Milford 32, Roberts 22, Sivo 69, Papenhuyzen 42.

I think this is the top scoring team

Sam Verrills/Damien Cook (61)
Addin Fonua Blake (72)
John Bateman (81)
John Sutton (57)
Mitchell Moses (86)
Moses Suli (66)
Maika Sivo (69)
Clinton Gutherson (58)

550 points for 4387k or 4752k depending on HOK

Picking a CTR for this week's finals team is an interesting exercise

Verirlls - 61
Papalii - 41
Bateman - 81
Murray - 36
Reynolds - 60
Staggs - 49
Papenhuyzen - 42
Gutherson - 58

Total - 428

Staggs managing 49 in a 58 - 0 bloodbath really helped. Murray the only real letdown, Papalii a little under par but not disastrous.

Here are the scores.

Camo's the winner, with the highest legal score. If you make a victory post in this thread we all promise to give you lots of upvotes for a prize.

perfect	4387000	550
Camo123	4955000	481
Wt2K	4967000	450
mrbrownstone	5003000	439
sajjos-fake	6397000	433
robelgordo	5000000	428
Falcon Sloth	4967000	427
megaturtle	4990000	427
white lightning	4985000	423
verbal	4991000	407
chewie	4990000	400
Rabbits21	4983000	393
canebeatwinners	4923000	389
Cookie Monster	4967000	385
bethany_b	4987000	383
filth	4983000	383
NoWorries	4932000	382
ms	4952000	373
Wolfking	4999000	370
Milchy	4984000	366
quicksand	5000000	364
StuDogg101	4975000	363
Zazu	4940000	363
Rinoceroo	4975000	358
welshy	4975000	358
Bullbender	4974000	355
MilfordtheMagician	4996000	346
my tv broke	4923000	335
stormtrooper	4983000	329
Code Delta	4983000	327
Clack Bocks	4123000	316
Jumping Marlin	4906000	313
khany	4978000	306
sajjos	4994000	305
liverpool_bulldog	4961000	269

mrbrownstone actually scores 428 - as you can see from his post above mine I forgot to change Sivo to Gutherson to make his team cap legal.

WT2K 2nd place
Sajjos's 1st attempt at a team would have come close, except he went over $1million over the cap. His rejigged team came 2nd last. obviously the league decided to dock all his points as a penalty for cap violations.
mrbrownstone and robelgordo equal 3rd place. Having a team at exactly $5million was sort of a sign.

The worst possible team, of players picked at least once, was as follows

imperfect	Reed Mahoney	634000	34
imperfect	Braden Hamlin-Uele	461000	22
imperfect	Kurt Capewell	283000	16
imperfect	Jaydn Su'A	358000	19
imperfect	Adam Doueihi	414000	7
imperfect	Justin Olam	427000	14
imperfect	Corey Oates	286000	11
imperfect	Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad	518000	18	3381000	141

Milchy wrote:Here are the scores.

Camo's the winner, with the highest legal score. If you make a victory post in this thread we all promise to give you lots of upvotes for a prize.

perfect	4387000	550
Camo123	4955000	481
Wt2K	4967000	450
mrbrownstone	5003000	439
sajjos-fake	6397000	433
robelgordo	5000000	428
Falcon Sloth	4967000	427
megaturtle	4990000	427
white lightning	4985000	423
verbal	4991000	407
chewie	4990000	400
Rabbits21	4983000	393
canebeatwinners	4923000	389
Cookie Monster	4967000	385
bethany_b	4987000	383
filth	4983000	383
NoWorries	4932000	382
ms	4952000	373
Wolfking	4999000	370
Milchy	4984000	366
quicksand	5000000	364
StuDogg101	4975000	363
Zazu	4940000	363
Rinoceroo	4975000	358
welshy	4975000	358
Bullbender	4974000	355
MilfordtheMagician	4996000	346
my tv broke	4923000	335
stormtrooper	4983000	329
Code Delta	4983000	327
Clack Bocks	4123000	316
Jumping Marlin	4906000	313
khany	4978000	306
sajjos	4994000	305
liverpool_bulldog	4961000	269

Woohoo

Camo123 wrote:

Woohoo

Well done Camo!

Will run a comp again for week 2.

Is everyone happy with the format or does anyone have any tweaks they'd suggest?

Can't believe I've been ranked below bethany even though we scored the same and she paid $4000 extra for her points.

Ridiculous. There needs to be an investigation.

I hit more boundaries during the game too if we're going to any of those kind of tie-breakers.

Milchy wrote:Will run a comp again for week 2.

Is everyone happy with the format or does anyone have any tweaks they'd suggest?

Thanks for running this finals comp Milch!
I'm happy with the format, I already have a team in the making for this week, but I'll wait until after team lists.

filthridden wrote:Can't believe I've been ranked below bethany even though we scored the same and she paid $4000 extra for her points.

Ridiculous. There needs to be an investigation.

I hit more boundaries during the game too if we're going to any of those kind of tie-breakers.

Ladies first filth...ladies first

Milchy wrote:Will run a comp again for week 2.

Is everyone happy with the format or does anyone have any tweaks they'd suggest?

I'd say keep it the same for ease, might be even harder to create an 8 man team for 2 games and 1 game in the next 3 weeks

filthridden wrote:Can't believe I've been ranked below bethany even though we scored the same and she paid $4000 extra for her points.

Ridiculous. There needs to be an investigation.

I hit more boundaries during the game too if we're going to any of those kind of tie-breakers.

The tie-breaker was whoever registered their team first (or more accurately whichever I entered into the spreadsheet first, which should equal the same thing)

The only change I'd like Milchy is a team limit. I reckon this round you can only pick 2 players from each team. This will make it more wide open & our teams will look different. This will stop the loading up of players in the perceived easier game & force us to pick players in the perceived harder game.

White Lightning wrote:The only change I'd like Milchy is a team limit. I reckon this round you can only pick 2 players from each team. This will make it more wide open & our teams will look different. This will stop the loading up of players in the perceived easier game & force us to pick players in the perceived harder game.

Do you think that was a problem this week?

We had a nice spread of different players picked. Other than Papenhuyzen, no 1 player dominated (admittedly with 2 extra games to pick from)

Milchy wrote:Will run a comp again for week 2.

Is everyone happy with the format or does anyone have any tweaks they'd suggest?

Great comp. Only thing I would suggest is a captain.

Milchy wrote:

Do you think that was a problem this week?

We had a nice spread of different players picked. Other than Papenhuyzen, no 1 player dominated (admittedly with 2 extra games to pick from)

That is true I'm just trying to add an extra layer of diificulty. To me Souths v Manly will be the game to have plenty of players in because it will be higher scoring & Storm v Eels will be a tighter game.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Great comp. Only thing I would suggest is a captain.

I like the absence of a captain, it keeps the playing field a bit closer together