NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 17 - Crack'a'Corona Sunday

I’m sorry all, but anyone considering trades this week needs their head checked.

There’s one round (2 max) before an 8-16 week break.

Who knows what holes will need to be filled then? Or which regulars will recover from injuries? Think about it: MC9, Batman, Moylan, Brimson, Sutton, BS9, Best, SMat, Capewell, Hall.....

Everyone there was in discussion pre-season, and probably will be in a few months time.

Chasing points this week is just plain foolish. Save the trades.

Welshy wrote:
Tedesco is 870 mate will lose around 30K

Hahah I’m an idiot. Should’ve been asleep not offering advice.

EDIT: but if you replace Teddy with Turbo it’s not a bad shout to who to get

Rabbits21 wrote:Well played Viking Warriors, I only just got ya, what a tight tussle that was!

GGs. I think we only had 4-5 unique players and 2 of mine were Wakeham and TTurbo which hurt a bit. Until next time!

L-Jimmy wrote:Chasing points this week is just plain foolish. Save the trades.

Dont agree

I know this phrase 'dont chase points' is a fav of many. But you still have to be smart. If there was a player that got 50+ mainly in base stats, and is likely to keep his minutes or more, and has a low BE, then yes, chase those points.

Any period of corona lockdown is going to spent not singing out of balconies but obsessing over the 29 points olaying Wakeham over Walters cost me.

sets wrote:

Dont agree

I know this phrase 'dont chase points' is a fav of many. But you still have to be smart. If there was a player that got 50+ mainly in base stats, and is likely to keep his minutes or more, and has a low BE, then yes, chase those points.

I think he was referring to the fact that any trades made this week chasing a player that scored well could be pointless after the possible NRL suspension.

For instance let’s say your after Guler and there is only 1 round left. Things will be different possibly when Sutton and Bateman return, who knows.

L-Jimmy wrote:I’m sorry all, but anyone considering trades this week needs their head checked.

There’s one round (2 max) before an 8-16 week break.

Who knows what holes will need to be filled then? Or which regulars will recover from injuries? Think about it: MC9, Batman, Moylan, Brimson, Sutton, BS9, Best, SMat, Capewell, Hall.....

Everyone there was in discussion pre-season, and probably will be in a few months time.

Chasing points this week is just plain foolish. Save the trades.

There is no point not trading this week.

If we do play this week, we may not play again for months, there is no reason to leave anything in the bag. Why save trades for a comp that might not even happen.

We have no idea if there will even be a comp to have fantasy for this year, and if we do have a long break, we don't know if we'll get to keep our team or change it. We don't kow hoe many trades we'll get, or how many weeks we'll have those to use those trades in.

IMO the best thing to do is continue as if we had a full comp, because if/when the comp resumes they will do their best to make it look like that is the case.

sets wrote:

Dont agree

I know this phrase 'dont chase points' is a fav of many. But you still have to be smart. If there was a player that got 50+ mainly in base stats, and is likely to keep his minutes or more, and has a low BE, then yes, chase those points.

The bolder text is exactly my point. How many injuries were picked up in pre-season training? A couple of months is a looong time in professional sport - we have no idea who’ll be lacing up in July.

Until there is more information the only decisions that can be are bad ones.

Just play it as normal. What good are 30 something trades if there's fuck all weeks left?

Dunno how FailHub are even going to handle it if/when it shuts down anyway. Badly, obviously. Probably some clause that allows them to weasel out of paying anything anyway.

White Lightning wrote:Nice the Walters & L. Leilua score updates takes me up to 925 points. My only players that scored under 40 were Stimson & Shibasaki but it's only Stimson that disappointed. If the Grant transfer happens I might trade Stimson to Grant. If the transfer doesn't happen I would consider trading Simpson to Guler, W. Kennedy or E. Katoa.

Nice work WL, same as me

You're ranked 221 and I'm 222, so you must have a lower salary cap used than me.

Milchcow wrote:

Nice work WL, same as me

You're ranked 221 and I'm 222, so you must have a lower salary cap used than me.

Yeah I saw we had identical scores & that I was ranked 1 spot higher & wondered how they worked that out. You would think we would both be on the same rank.

L-Jimmy wrote:I’m sorry all, but anyone considering trades this week needs their head checked.

There’s one round (2 max) before an 8-16 week break.

Who knows what holes will need to be filled then? Or which regulars will recover from injuries? Think about it: MC9, Batman, Moylan, Brimson, Sutton, BS9, Best, SMat, Capewell, Hall.....

Everyone there was in discussion pre-season, and probably will be in a few months time.

Chasing points this week is just plain foolish. Save the trades.

Get the point about a lot will have changed in a couple of months, but for me rounds 1 and 2 have always been the most important 4 trades.

It’s correcting mistakes and it’s moving to the right cows and resetting your team now we have actual information. I will be trading for sure.

L-Jimmy wrote:I’m sorry all, but anyone considering trades this week needs their head checked.

There’s one round (2 max) before an 8-16 week break.

Who knows what holes will need to be filled then? Or which regulars will recover from injuries? Think about it: MC9, Batman, Moylan, Brimson, Sutton, BS9, Best, SMat, Capewell, Hall.....

Everyone there was in discussion pre-season, and probably will be in a few months time.

Chasing points this week is just plain foolish. Save the trades.

On the other hand, with the situation changing so rapidly and so many unknowns, why hold the trades and speculate? You don't know if holding trades is the smart thing to do, and we don't know if using trades is the smart thing to do. Play as normal, because if for some reason the comp can keep going and you save trades, you've missed valuable opportunities. If you use them and their wasted, who knows if we're playing again so why not just play now while we can.

Go hard out is my advice on the trades. As GM said it's time to get rid of under performing players & get in the players in form.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

I think he was referring to the fact that any trades made this week chasing a player that scored well could be pointless after the possible NRL suspension.
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ahhh fair enough

White Lightning wrote:

Yeah I saw we had identical scores & that I was ranked 1 spot higher & wondered how they worked that out. You would think we would both be on the same rank.

Tiebreakers are
a) fewest trades used
b) lowest salary cap value
c) registered first

They could restart the competition with trades culled on a ratio basis.
They could restart with full team-wipes
They could let us keep 34 and just go trade-happy.
It could not restart at all.

Using scare resources on zero-information events is playing the lottery. Which can be fun, but rarely a good call.

Sure, if there was an ACL done then fine - boot away. But I’ll sit happily on my 886-scoring spuds and wait until we know something.

White Lightning wrote:Go hard out is my advice on the trades. As GM said it's time to get rid of under performing players & get in the players in form.

Isn’t it hard to tell form after 1 round? My trade outs will be minutes based like Musgrove.

JMK and Stimson will get another week due to that game being a horrible game

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Isn’t it hard to tell form after 1 round? My trade outs will be minutes based like Musgrove.

JMK and Stimson will get another week due to that game being a horrible game

Yeah I used the word form which probably isn't accurate. What I meant is high scoring players who you think will will keep it up. For example I think Horsburgh will keep it up (because his score was mainly base stats) until Bateman returns & maybe he keeps his starting spot & Tapine goes back to the bench. Conversely even though Guler did very well his score included a try & ta so he had a bunch of attacking stats because he played the Titans & I don't think he can sustain that.

The more difficult thing this year is that there is no real standout must have cheapies. Walters but Grant is coming and maybe Kennedy. But back to Jimmy's point, like he says, Kennedy may only see one more game so players like that I think he refers to not bothering trading in.