NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 16 - David Fifita broke Valentine Holmes ankles

multiple.scoregasms wrote:If you didn't pick Horsburgh it was due to job security not scoring potential. Now that we are one week closer to Bateman returning I don't see how anyone could be considering trading him in if they didn't start with him. Screams chasing last weeks points to me

Yeah he's not the cheapest player around, good pick for those that got him in. My priority is picking up the cheap cows that I've missed after after this round

I think players like Stimson/Hess deserve second chances. You know they are playing 80 minutes (I think Stimson will okay 80 going forward). Players like Horsburgh and Guler won’t be playing the Titans every week. Hoping Mann can run a muck against the Warriors today


Only trades you should really be making are for long term injury or from one cow to another (ie Rudolf kills it but Musgrove shits the bed... you trade to rudolf)

multiple.scoregasms wrote:If you didn't pick Horsburgh it was due to job security not scoring potential. Now that we are one week closer to Bateman returning I don't see how anyone could be considering trading him in if they didn't start with him. Screams chasing last weeks points to me

Nah, scoring potential too- I thought there were midrange guys who would make more money than Horsburgh playing on the edge. But as a middle I think I would’ve rated his scoring potential higher.

But I agree - there’s no chance I’d trade him in now.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:If you didn't pick Horsburgh it was due to job security not scoring potential. Now that we are one week closer to Bateman returning I don't see how anyone could be considering trading him in if they didn't start with him. Screams chasing last weeks points to me

But what if Horsburgh is playing like he did last up until Bateman returns then Tapine could be the one to make way. That's what I'm weighing up. The very fact that we all thought he'd be on the edge & nek minute he's in the middle indicates to me Ricky could persist with him there. Tapine all pre season saying he wants to play lock then Ricky chucks him on the edge & prefers Horsburgh at lock.

StormTrooper96 wrote:
How is Verbal always near the top every year

My 9 year old put that second place team in. I helped a bit

Verbal Kint wrote:

My 9 year old put that second place team in. I helped a bit

Verbal junior child prodigy

Wonder how the coding will handle Haas going over 1 million and if it has any problems after lockout

When researching Horsburgh a few comments on the Raiders forum put me off him.....saying he would suck on the edge due to his poor lateral movement so I passed on him. Then as we all know he starts at lock & plays 62 minutes straight without a rest.

StormTrooper96 wrote:
How is Verbal always near the top every year

Because it seems Verbal and I are the only 2 people who created teams entirely made of players in action on Friday night. These are "joke" teams that were made just in case Corona scares means the rest of the round got cancelled, in the hope we could claim overall honours. Neither is our actual team.

Khany wrote:So one of the knights ctrs will get bumped when sione returns hey ?

The assumption is Ese'ese to bench, Barentt to lock, Sione to edge.

That seemed to be the plan before Sione got injured. It might change based on performances whilst he is out.

407/7. Seems about average if not slightly below. Stimson I tolerated but Hess has fucked me off. Every year I fall into the midrange trap.

I have 339/5 (c)

Taumalolo (c) 124; DFifi 76; Carrigan 52; GWilliams 64 & Sivo 23

Milchcow wrote:

Some of the big movers overnight

Arthars got +8
Cotric +6
Isaako +6
DFifita +5
Cartwright +8

Croft -6
Horsburgh -7


"Call It Off Now" up to 919. 45 ahead of Verbal
119 ahead of 3rd place

Wtf. You’re on over 900 points???? How many players to go.

Insane!

[ok have caught up on your joke team reference]

Whew. MS has to suffer me in fantasy fantasy due to not being able to pick himself, so can’t have you characters sneaking away to a 400pt lead

I've got 455/7 so doing well enough to not want the season cancelled just yet. JMK only real let down but was in a horrid game for fantasy.

StormTrooper96 wrote:I think players like Stimson/Hess deserve second chances. You know they are playing 80 minutes (I think Stimson will okay 80 going forward). Players like Horsburgh and Guler won’t be playing the Titans every week. Hoping Mann can run a muck against the Warriors today


Only trades you should really be making are for long term injury or from one cow to another (ie Rudolf kills it but Musgrove shits the bed... you trade to rudolf)

Hess was against Fifita for 80 minutes. Hardest assignment in the league.

Ozymandias wrote:I have 339/5 (c)

Taumalolo (c) 124; DFifi 76; Carrigan 52; GWilliams 64 & Sivo 23

Also 339/5c but with different players

Haas (c)
Dfifi
Carrigan
Moses
Stimson

Off on a brewery tour in an hours time so won't see the games today sadly. :/

StormTrooper96 wrote:I think players like Stimson/Hess deserve second chances. You know they are playing 80 minutes (I think Stimson will okay 80 going forward). Players like Horsburgh and Guler won’t be playing the Titans every week. Hoping Mann can run a muck against the Warriors today


Only trades you should really be making are for long term injury or from one cow to another (ie Rudolf kills it but Musgrove shits the bed... you trade to rudolf)

Agree re minutes. Can’t see them being high on my priority to drop, until they are dropped in real life.

Fkn middies

mattnz wrote:
Hess was against Fifita for 80 minutes. Hardest assignment in the league.

No excuse. He had so much criticism last year and won his spot back. He looked as ordinary as last year. Had the opportunity to really stand up but failed. Hard assignment yes, but could have been so much better. Getting the ball passed to him would have helped too.

GreenMachine wrote:

Wtf. You’re on over 900 points???? How many players to go.

Insane!

[ok have caught up on your joke team reference]

Whew. MS has to suffer me in fantasy fantasy due to not being able to pick himself, so can’t have you characters sneaking away to a 400pt lead

You were probably a chance at my wildcard even if I could pick myself. Sensing a big year coming up

Hurts to have to deathride Mann today after being sold on him as a cheapie option all preseason, putting him in most team iterations, talking him up, believing in him, and then promptly having a brainfart 5 minutes before lockout when someone mentioned Wakeham and seeing I could save 10k, going completely cold on him. I can take the bad Stimson pick because I was convinced by him (and kind of still am), but this one will hurt far more because I still don’t know why I picked Wakeham. Pre season jitters I guess.