Sportsdeck VSDT 2020 Part 1

I now have 2 trades left

I have 3 trades left.

I have five. Elected to only do one this week after getting paranoid reading recent posts.

One trade was flanno to Cleary which I predict I’ll regret in 2 weeks when I’m playing Williame in my 17

Just did the one trade before the game, Flanno to Koro.

Good start to eliminator, my opponent had Papy and Aubo who scored low. If I feel like I got the edge, should I just match their captain choice? He’s gone with Cleary but could play funny buggers and change at last minute.

Me:
Koro, Harris, McInnes, JTrbo, Klemmer, Talau

Them:
53, Tevaga, EKatoa, Rudolf, DCE

Roger8 wrote:Just did the one trade before the game, Flanno to Koro.

Good start to eliminator, my opponent had Papy and Aubo who scored low. If I feel like I got the edge, should I just match their captain choice? He’s gone with Cleary but could play funny buggers and change at last minute.

Me:
Koro, Harris, McInnes, JTrbo, Klemmer, Talau

Them:
53, Tevaga, EKatoa, Rudolf, DCE

I'd match but don't make the same mistake as me and forget to check and recheck before lockout lol. Ended up not mattering for me, but since the captaincy choice looks like their only way of winning at this stage, they're definitely gonna try pull some shenanigans

Aubusson in the eliminator hurts me.

Might have to POD captain it and hope for a big one.

Papy hurt me last night against his Butcher. But not as much as his newly stacked team is going to hurt. He seems to have traded well this week.

My opponent traded Grant to Koroisau who has hit his projected score at half time !!
Also changed captain to McInnes

I kept checking my eliminator throughout the day and my opponent changed his captain 3-4 times trying to trick me. In the end he captained Cleary and I captained McInnes and also my trade ins were a masterstroke (Koro and NBrown in for Flanno and Taupau).

Me: 220 + Klemmer + JTrbo + Talau

Them: Rudolf + JSaifiti + Taupau + DCE

We've both still got most of our players to play but I'm not loving the position I'm in. Captaining McInnes again seems to have kept me in the early portion of the hunt. He's outscoring me with 3 players played each, but it's only by a few points. Gutho killed it for him. Papy dudding it for me.

For the record, he's captained Lolo.

Going to be tight, but I think I'll lose it on Papy and maybe Mann if he doesn't go well. He's solid as balls with no potential weak links. Only way I see myself being any chance is if DCE and Bateman absolutely kill it.

I was gone after the 2nd game of the round. Their new guy Koro scored 92. (well done to my opponent)
Also, what kind of fuckwit coach plays a workhorse like Jazz for 38 minutes ? Off at 24 min and back at 66 minutes. Obviously didn't want to win !


See ya's all next year ?

Opponent has captained Lolo

I'm behind so need to change to have a hope of beating him, which basically means Haas, Fifita or random stab at Ponga.
VC Cleary not good enough to loop

Milchcow wrote:
Opponent has captained Lolo

I'm behind so need to change to have a hope of beating him, which basically means Haas, Fifita or random stab at Ponga.
VC Cleary not good enough to loop

Haas is the play IMO. Floor is high enough that he won't ruin you if it doesn't come off. Ceiling up there with the best of them

Who knows, one of your other PODs might end up with a hat trick

My opponent is 54 ahead with Jurbo and Klemmer to play.

I have Mann, DCE & Leilua to go. I feel like I need one of them to go, shall we say, "bonkers," to have a chance in this one. I think I'm done though...

I got knocked out by Peter Griffin

This will be my peak I think, 937 with Mann, ponga and leilua to go. Had to play talakai in my 17. With 2 trades left no more upgrades for me

Its a tough matchup for me

I have 48 points+ Jurbo + Eisenhuth
against
DCE + Lucy + Aloiai

Captaining Haas worked, but I traded Twal to Papalii to play over George Williams, but that cost me 15 points. Trading someone in for their lowest score of the season is almost as bad as trading someone in the week they get injured.

Scored 1040 and got beat in all 3 of my H2H. Clacks 1128 could go close to the weekly.

Fairly convincingly beaten in eliminator

Only way I could have won would have been not playing Aubbs, which was never going to happen going into the round, so happy that I wasn't killed by captaincy/sub choices