NRLFF 2006 Fantasy thread - Round 5+6, I love fullbacks

SBW & Gallen have been mentioned but Nigel Vagana also named on Sharks bench.

Now I have a benching problem for round 6. Who would you pick to play (17th man) out of:
(a) Steve Turner or
(b) Tame Tupou or
(c) Ben Hannant

Cheers.

Milchcow wrote:
Kimmorley sprained ankle 4-6 weeks

Thanks.

Pending injury news on Hodges and Fitzgibbon I'll be going with this

Justin Hodges in for Chris Flannery
Tame Tupou in for Brent Sherwin

Round 5

Luke Covell
Darius Boyd
Greg Inglis
Justin Hodges
Dean Collis
Tim Smith
Andrew Johns
Craig Fitzgibbon
Michael Luck
Jacob Lillyman*
Steve Price
Ben Hannant
Cameron Smith
Shane Tronc
Michael Monaghan
Luke Douglas
Kevin Kingston

Darren Albert
Tame Tupou
Adrian Purtell
Shane Perry

Round 6

Luke Covell
Darius Boyd
Tame Tupou
Greg Inglis
Dean Collis
Tim Smith
Andrew Johns
Craig Fitzgibbon*
Michael Luck
Jacob Lillyman*
Steve Price
Ben Hannant
Cameron Smith
Shane Tronc
Michael Monaghan
Luke Douglas
Kevin Kingston

Shane Perry
Darren Albert
Adrian Purtell
Justin Hodges

The 2006 POD Champion of Champions: Round 2

Here are the standings after round 2 of the POD Championship.

This round saw 12 team POD's disappear as teams scrabble to get those common must haves.
Greg Inglis jumped to 100% ownership with all 22 teams now owning him (making his scores largely irrelevant now).

After a huge start Code Delta dropped back to a middling score of 9, allowing up and coming POD teams to close the gap. The standout this week was MrStephenB who showed it's who you get not how many, topping the scoring despite only owning 4 PODs.

Scoreboard:

This weeks all too popular players (with >67% ownership) were:
Greg Inglis (in 22 teams)
Cameron Smith (in 18 teams)
Hazem El Masri (in 16 teams)

Robelgordo is the first team to not have 2 of the super-popular players.

Overall Standings:

If people are keen, I can of course also run a parallel POD H2H with the same matchups as the main league. Give me a thumbs up if that's worth doing...
Three matches were decided by a single point. How did you do?

The Ultimate POD H2H Survivor:

Definitely a fan of the POD championship, I might actually win something

Camo123 wrote:

What hope have I got of beating you in H2H when you have a 25 man squad

Haha, math.

I should have said four of your starting 17.

Must be why I'm slipping in rank each week

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Definitely a fan of the POD championship, I might actually win something

Thanks.
I sometimes wonder if this is a good use of my time, so appreciate the feedback
I do think it could be a curious thing in comparison with the conventional competition.
Is being cookie-cutter the best strategy at the start, when does being POD focused become beneficial?
Is there really any benefit with grabbing an early POD, as POD's end up becoming common when they go well (lose a bit of gains, but far less risk)

As at round 4 - top 10 points scorers:
Gasnier 293
JT 284
Tongue 283
N. Hindmarsh 263
Steven Bell 263
Webcke 244
Amos Roberts 239
Matt Sing 239
Gorrell 229
Steve Simpson 222

Because the points scored is skewed because some players have only played 3 games these are the top 10 averages:
Gasnier 73.3%
JT 71.0%
Tongue 70.8%
Hodges 68.0%
El Masri 66.7%
N. Hindmarsh 65.8%
Steven Bell 65.8%
Andrew Johns 65.7%
Webcke 61.0%
Amos Roberts & Matt Sing 59.8%

One thing this game has shown me it the amount of highly skilled Spreadsheet Warriors that like Rugby League. Between us all there has been some serious data manipulation going on, I've almost got a semi.

Data is beautiful

White Lightning wrote:As at round 4 - top 10 points scorers:
Gasnier 293
JT 284
Tongue 283
N. Hindmarsh 263
Steven Bell 263
Webcke 244
Amos Roberts 239
Matt Sing 239
Gorrell 229
Steve Simpson 222

Because the points scored is skewed because some players have only played 3 games these are the top 10 averages:
Gasnier 73.3%
JT 71.0%
Tongue 70.8%
Hodges 68.0%
El Masri 66.7%
N. Hindmarsh 65.8%
Steven Bell 65.8%
Andrew Johns 65.7%
Webcke 61.0%
Amos Roberts & Matt Sing 59.8%

Very interesting cheers WL. Interesting to note I have zero of the top 10 total points scorers and only 1 of the top 10 averages

White Lightning wrote:SBW & Gallen have been mentioned but Nigel Vagana also named on Sharks bench.

Now I have a benching problem for round 6. Who would you pick to play (17th man) out of:
(a) Steve Turner or
(b) Tame Tupou or
(c) Ben Hannant

Cheers.

I like turner from those 3. Not sure what scores to expect from
Hannant.

White Lightning wrote:As at round 4 - top 10 points scorers:
Gasnier 293
JT 284
Tongue 283
N. Hindmarsh 263
Steven Bell 263
Webcke 244
Amos Roberts 239
Matt Sing 239
Gorrell 229
Steve Simpson 222

Because the points scored is skewed because some players have only played 3 games these are the top 10 averages:
Gasnier 73.3%
JT 71.0%
Tongue 70.8%
Hodges 68.0%
El Masri 66.7%
N. Hindmarsh 65.8%
Steven Bell 65.8%
Andrew Johns 65.7%
Webcke 61.0%
Amos Roberts & Matt Sing 59.8%

What sort of sorcery is a format that has bench hooker Aaron fucking Gorrell in the top 10

GreenMachine wrote:

I like turner from those 3. Not sure what scores to expect from
Hannant.

Yes I got enticed by Hannant's 48 points in round 1 even though my gut was saying Webcke & 70centsalitre would dominate minutes & Hannant would live off the scraps on the bench.

easytiger wrote:The 2006 POD Champion of Champions: Round 2

The week where Hazem El Masri scored 4 tries, 126 points and jumped from being in 12 teams to being in 16 teams (and now a Too-Popular player) - congrats if you didn't own him, you get a bonus POD point!  

Round 2's top 8 POD's and the bottom 4 are:



Congrats to the two owners of the great Shane Webcke, and to some great POD's this round including too Willies (Zillman & Mason) and a Tuimavave.

After taking out the title last week, Paul Whatuira's slumps to a lowly 17 and takes out second spot for worst value POD of the round, well edged out by all round nice guy and occassional face stomper Billy Slater.

Maybe I should concentrate on this comp as I'm actually doing okay in this one.

White Lightning wrote:As at round 4 - top 10 points scorers:
Because the points scored is skewed because some players have only played 3 games these are the top 10 averages:
Gasnier 73.3%
JT 71.0%
Tongue 70.8%
Hodges 68.0%
El Masri 66.7%
N. Hindmarsh 65.8%
Steven Bell 65.8%
Andrew Johns 65.7%
Webcke 61.0%
Amos Roberts & Matt Sing 59.8%

Is that meant to be % or normal numbers?

I started with those in bold, and have got another 3 since.

I could have had hindmarsh instead of wiki at the start which i reckon would have me in the leading pack rather than the chasing pack.

Also where is GI? I thought he was killing it.

Clack Bocks wrote:

Is that meant to be % or normal numbers?

I started with those in bold, and have got another 3 since.

I could have had hindmarsh instead of wiki at the start which i reckon would have me in the leading pack rather than the chasing pack.

Also where is GI? I thought he was killing it.

They are percentages mate.
GI has scored 212 points over 4 games (78, 56, 33 & 45) at an average of 53.0%. His last 2 round scores have dragged down his pts & average. He is 15th for points scored & 19th for averages.

White Lightning wrote:

They are percentages mate.
GI has scored 212 points over 4 games (78, 56, 33 & 45) at an average of 53.0%. His last 2 round scores have dragged down his pts & average. He is 15th for points scored & 19th for averages.

Isnt it points per game rather than %?

robelgordo wrote:

I was looking at the team trying to work it out. Maybe that Ian Lacey I've never heard of?

Yeah, would have to be.

These are my potential trades & teams for rounds 5 & 6. Milchy these are not final & I will confirm on Friday 5pm.
Dallas Johnson & Brent Sherwin out - Alan Tongue & Tame Tupou in

Round 5:
Gorrell
Douglas
Shillington
Kennedy
Hannant
Stapleton
JT
A. Johns
Tony Martin
Gasnier
El Masri
Purtell
B. Stewart
Tame Tupou
Rovelli
Ben Jones
Tongue
GI
Turner
CS9
Shane Perry

Round 6:
CS9
Douglas
Shillington
Kennedy
Tongue
Stapleton
JT
A. Johns
GI
Gasnier
El Masri
B. Stewart
Tony Martin
Gorrell
Rovelli
Shane Perry
Steve Turner
Tame Tupou
Hannant
Purtell
Ben Jones

Verbal Kint wrote:

Isnt it points per game rather than %?

It can be both like tomato or tomato.