NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 23 - Trade-a-palooza

Bethany_B wrote:How do we all think Milf will rank in terms of top halves? I'm trying to decide between him and Teddy.

I'd go Teddy, especially for essentially the same price.

Teddy is clearly going to be one of the best 3 WFBs this year. There are a heap of other HLFs that will go close or beat Milf for points.

Chewie wrote:

Yeah I'll probably opt for Walters... I'm just looking at options, playing around with ideas

My current team is this:

Koroisau
Haas Carrigan
Knight Leilua EKatoa
Moses Mann
Aubbs Shiba
Papy Drinkwater Isaako

Friend Brailey Dfifita Walters
Lomax Rudolf Williame Luai

No real urgent trades... so I thought Knight to Tolo, Aubbs/Isaako to Grant, Walters to Fogarty.

Nice team mate.

Have you considered upgrading Friend to a keeper as well? I don’t think Friend is gonna score much more than mid 40’s tbh.

But yeah I’d go Walters to Fogarty.

Good on ya for not having Williams.

Compared to some other sides I have seen you don’t have as many issues.

I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking too and that is get Taumalolo in and friggin do it now!

KingTeddy wrote:

Obviously a bit bias coming from myself ahahah but go Teddy mate. He will get you 35 points alone from meters and tackle busts and has an extremely high ceiling.

I’d also pick Teddy, easy decision.

If Aubbo is benched I think I’ll trade him out and get Teddy.

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Is there many other teams that kept Su'A after R1. I feel like I'm one of not a lot

Scored 29 & 53 so seriously confused about how long I should be keeping him as it looks like he has 100k to make but may be inconsistent. 53 was marking against D Fifita as well

Probably going to use him as makeweight to get Cleary in R5

Camo123 wrote:Is there many other teams that kept Su'A after R1. I feel like I'm one of not a lot

Scored 29 & 53 so seriously confused about how long I should be keeping him as it looks like he has 100k to make but may be inconsistent. 53 was marking against D Fifita as well

Probably going to use him as makeweight to get Cleary in R5

playing close to 80 it’s floor vs upper scoring limit minus tries. Don’t think it a too much to expect him to average 40 Long term so decent scoring and money making. Can’t really go wrong

People who are bringing in Cotric, are you expecting him to be a season keeper or just a launch point to RTS/TTrb/Ted later?

Warriors are targeting Ben Murdoch Masila (already contracted for next year) and Matt Eisenhuth to join them this season. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/warriors/121590623/i-know-what-theyre-feeling-warriors-eye-ben-murdochmasila-matt-eisenhuth-in-nrl-loan-deals

Regarding Levi.. remember when Des was at the Dogs and told Lichaa he's not allowed to run the ball. Worried that Des has put similar restrictions on Levi.

As everyone has said he is probably a punt, but I still might give him one more week. I haven't really looked at trades properly yet though.

Camo123 wrote:Is there many other teams that kept Su'A after R1. I feel like I'm one of not a lot

After Rnd 1 I wanted to grab Katoa and my options for trade out were Williams, Levi, and Su'A. I punted the bloke who scored 53 in round 2

my tv broke wrote:Regarding Levi.. remember when Des was at the Dogs and told Lichaa he's not allowed to run the ball. Worried that Des has put similar restrictions on Levi.

As everyone has said he is probably a punt, but I still might give him one more week. I haven't really looked at trades properly yet though.

For me the key to Levi is whether he has come back really fit. I had him in round 1 and at half time was really pleased with his great work rate, tackling anything that moved. From memory he was on about 30 at half time and looking like Api 2.0 In the 2nd half he had no involvement, after gassing himself from being so involved in the first half.

mattnz wrote:
For me the key to Levi is whether he has come back really fit. I had him in round 1 and at half time was really pleased with his great work rate, tackling anything that moved. From memory he was on about 30 at half time and looking like Api 2.0 In the 2nd half he had no involvement, after gassing himself from being so involved in the first half.

Yeah that's true. I refuse to believe that Croker will play any real part moving forward, and its all about Levi's fitness.

Regardless, he played 72 mins in rnd 2 with only 10 mg for a score of 23.

He's shown in the past he is capable of those kinds of crap scores but in 2018/2019 he had hardly any really bad scores when playing big mins.. rnd 1 can be put down to fitness.. maybe rnd 2 was a one off........... (let me convince myself!!hah)

EDIT: Just went looking for hints on the sea eagles site as to his fitness. FMD the sea eagles media videos are hard to watch.

[u]Thoughts on this team/trades

Koroisau

Haas Knight

Horsburgh Leilua Carrigan

Moses Croft

Aubusson Wiliame

Papenhuyzen Hughes Drinkwater


Katoa Grant Magoulias Rudolf

Cleary Musgrove Luai Kerr

Trades were:
Burns -> aubbo Williams -> Grant Fifita -> Magoulias Walters -> Moses

My bench looks pretty thin and I panic traded hughes in last second in round 2 and am regretting it

robelgordo wrote:

Hes 33yo and has spent the last 6 years playing NH rugby. I think he’ll be way off the pace.

Te'o likes to be the enforcer and is good for a penalty or two. He can be hard to handle and was playing
in the Super rugby comp. with the Sunwolves in the centre position. He is rocks and diamonds, more rocks these days.

Trajan wrote:

Te'o likes to be the enforcer and is good for a penalty or two.

My favourite time Te'o was the enforcer was when his own teammates were tearing strips off him in the ingoal for putting in a pea-hearted defensive effort.

Milchcow wrote:

My favourite time Te'o was the enforcer was when his own teammates were tearing strips off him in the ingoal for putting in a pea-hearted defensive effort.

Yeah quite a few stories around about how he wasn't the most liked bloke.
Could definitely be worse players to bring back to the comp though!

Rabbits21 wrote:
Nice team mate.

Have you considered upgrading Friend to a keeper as well? I don’t think Friend is gonna score much more than mid 40’s tbh.

But yeah I’d go Walters to Fogarty.

Good on ya for not having Williams.

Compared to some other sides I have seen you don’t have as many issues.

I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking too and that is get Taumalolo in and friggin do it now!

Yeah I've avoided a few bullets

like a boss:

I've got the luxury to tinker with my team for the sake of improving it, and not for putting out a dumpster fire.
I don't mind starting the year with some low risk mid-rangers with the aim to trade some of them out for the "must have" cashcows
It looks like Grant and Fogarty are those must have hot options which will enable me to get Taumalolo in.
With Dfifita out for a bit I really want to bolster my 2nd row without having to trade him out

I'm liking the Cowboys next 3 games - Titans, Sharks & Warriors - so I'm trading in Holmes:
D. Fifita out - Yeo in
Watkins out - Isaako in (via Shibasaki)
Knight out - Holmes in

Koroisau
Haas (vc), Carrigan
Taumalolo (c), Yeo, L. Leilua
Moses, Drinkwater
Shibasaki, Aubusson
Holmes, Isaako, Papenhuyzen

B. Brailey, E. Katoa, K. Mann, B. Walters
Luai, Rudolf, JTB, Wiliame

Leaves me with 11k bank & my last trade will be used if necessary if example Grant starts/Walters doesn't or Aubusson is starting off the bench.
I'm also deciding whether to play Wiliame over Shibasaki & Luai over Mann.

Chewie wrote:

Yeah I've avoided a few bullets

like a boss:

I've got the luxury to tinker with my team for the sake of improving it, and not for putting out a dumpster fire.
I don't mind starting the year with some low risk mid-rangers with the aim to trade some of them out for the "must have" cashcows
It looks like Grant and Fogarty are those must have hot options which will enable me to get Taumalolo in.
With Dfifita out for a bit I really want to bolster my 2nd row without having to trade him out

I am with you Chewie. I dont have any real fires to put out, unless I decide to trade Fifita, just looking at either going with cash generation or bolstering up. At the moment I am looking at cash gen.
I already have Tolo, Leilua, E.Katoa who can sit in at 2RF. Looks like my first three trades will be Walters, Williams, Musgrove out -> Magoulias, Grant, Fogarty in. Leaves me 496K in the bank and obviously hoping Kennedy still gets a run.

Leaves me with
Api
Haas Carrigan
E.Katoa Tolo Leilua
Moses Mann/Fogarty/Luai
Maubbs Lomax
Kennedy Papy Drinkwater

Brailey, Grant, Magoulias, Fifita
Mann/Luai/Fogarty Mann/Luai/Fogarty Rudolph Wiliame

Do we have a magic number this year?