NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 28 - too many guns

Done a lot of thinking on Lolo, I’m holding*

I punted Cleary last week, but it was to get Haas, and that’s probably the only player I’d consider moving on Lolo for. Even then it felt like a panic move because I needed to “catch up” for earlier mistakes. Having now done so, I don’t want to repeat the chase.

The other determining factor for me is I don’t think you can assume you get a gun back - there is too much advanced planning and hindsight involved to guarantee it.

While I can imagine a final side excluding Cleary, say running two of Moses/DCE/SJ/Hunt/Munster etc., I can’t see a very good final side excluding Lolo from the backrower... yet.

If Aubs plays, I think I’m actually going to save four trades.




*reserve the right to change my mind and panic sell sometime on Sat afternoon.

my tv broke wrote:

i'm very on the fence re using the trade.

using 10 trades in 3 rounds to leave 18 trades for the next 16 rounds.. its not sustainable.

One of the key decisions is whether you are spending one trade or 2 on Lolo. If you trade him out for a non keeper, then that's 2 more trades, 1 to brign Lolo back in, and 2 to cashout/upgrade the guy you've traded in.

Most people are probably trading him out for Haas, Tedesco or someone else they'd be targeting as a keeper anyway, sop its less of a wasted trade.

It depedns on what happens to Aubusson, but I should have the cash to bring in Haas and Mofo without losing Lolo, so I am now leaning towards holding, but I am concerned he misses additional weeks and/or comes back at less then top condition.

Its basically straight swap Lolo to Tedesco or not for me

Look I fully understand people selling Taumalolo but I've done this sort of thing before & what happens is 1 of your emg's goes large e.g. Luai is capable vs the Warriors & the player you sell Taumalolo for doesn't go as big as you expect & then you regret the wasted trade because you could of just played the player sitting in your emg's.

Milchcow wrote:

I'd be surprised if many people have all 5

I think Koro grant + 2 of the others is the goal, but probably going to be tough, unless a shitload of cash appears

I don’t think you even want all 5. I started with Smith, but after seeing R3 I think it was a bad call. he’s borderline to bring in if you don’t have him IMO. Koro is scoring as well, Grant might go close, Friend looks like a keeper, Cook is going to get a bump, even players like Turpin and Levi are regularly going to pump out 50+

White Lightning wrote:Look I fully understand people selling Taumalolo but I've done this sort of thing before & what happens is 1 of your emg's goes large e.g. Luai is capable vs the Warriors & the player you sell Taumalolo for doesn't go as big as you expect & then you regret the wasted trade because you could of just played the player sitting in your emg's.

much easier to cover/loop in a good score in round 4 as well.

in round 20 if a gun doesnt play and you're out of trades you may not have cover. speaking from experience haha

my tv broke wrote:

much easier to cover/loop in a good score in round 4 as well.

in round 20 if a gun doesnt play and you're out of trades you may not have cover. speaking from experience haha

Also to further the regret Taumalolo comes back in round 5 & busts out an 80+ & you don't own him because in round 4 one of your top 17 players gets injured & you need to deal with that & you can't trade Taumalolo back in.

It's fantasy & if you sell Taumalolo will you anger the fantasy gods.

I'm considering Lolo to McInnes or Yeo as one trade. Yeo is now priced at 49, and given his heavy workload it wouldn't surprise me for him to be given a breather by Martin. Leaning to McInnes with less than 2% ownership and is the second equal highest priced player with Lolo, and can match his scores.

Have locked in Flegler to Katoa and will bank the $98k. Other two trades will definitely be saved.

Not going to bite on the cherry with Paix, Clark, Fogarty etc. will probably end up like Magoulias 51 one week, 5 the next and then dropped.

Upvote - Lolo to McInnes
Downvote - Lolo to Yeo

White Lightning wrote:Look I fully understand people selling Taumalolo but I've done this sort of thing before & what happens is 1 of your emg's goes large e.g. Luai is capable vs the Warriors & the player you sell Taumalolo for doesn't go as big as you expect & then you regret the wasted trade because you could of just played the player sitting in your emg's.

I regret buying Lolo last week then I wouldn't have to worry about selling him now

Requesting someone who has any clue at all to give their 2 cents on Mag. Unsure if Mag --> someone like Paix is the answer

Haven’t seen Tex mentioned much. Even with 20-30 mins off the bench he could do some damage with the new format. Ala lil Papi. Not to mention an injury and he’s straight in. 8 weeks and potentially more, Paix, Clarke etc can wait. Thoughts ?

ytsb wrote:Requesting someone who has any clue at all to give their 2 cents on Mag. Unsure if Mag --> someone like Paix is the answer

I don't have a clue but I'm holding. Talakai plays a very similar style to Sorensen, so I don't see them both playing.

Erin Moleman wrote:Haven’t seen Tex mentioned much. Even with 20-30 mins off the bench he could do some damage with the new format. Ala lil Papi. Not to mention an injury and he’s straight in. 8 weeks and potentially more, Paix, Clarke etc can wait. Thoughts ?

If Pearce out and he starts definitely but then I'd have to sell Guler and keep Walters instead of Walters>Paix but with no info if Turpin out short term. Hoy with 1 more start and bench games would make decent money

I wonder if Pearce was out would Hoy play or bring Lino into 17?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I don't have a clue but I'm holding. Talakai plays a very similar style to Sorensen, so I don't see them both playing.

This, plus another loss and Morris will be forced to change things up, AKA, Magooooooolias into the starting side or bench

Loomer wrote:

If Pearce out and he starts definitely but then I'd have to sell Guler and keep Walters instead of Walters>Paix but with no info if Turpin out short term. Hoy with 1 more start and bench games would make decent money

At least we should know this my Tomorrow afternoon.

I guess it's a blessing in disguise we will know info about Maubbs and Turpin early in the week.

What to do with Drinkwater? Take away the Rd 2 try and his stats look ordinary. I've not watched a Cowboys game any improvement likely?

Loomer wrote:What to do with Drinkwater? Take away the Rd 2 try and his stats look ordinary. I've not watched a Cowboys game any improvement likely?

Borderline keeper for mine. High floor with tackles, run metres and kick metres. High ceiling with his attacking opportunities. Will end up around a 45 average imo

Loomer wrote:What to do with Drinkwater? Take away the Rd 2 try and his stats look ordinary. I've not watched a Cowboys game any improvement likely?

Looks to me like Val is doing what everyone thought Drinkies would do.

Lolo out and 4 trades for the round makes the team look sexy

Bit off topic but just wondering if humans think that the new rules in the game will help stamp out Turbo's 20-30 point games? Do we think his level involvement last week will be standard practice?

I want to bring him in for fear of missing out, as well as the cheap price that will soon escalate. But I do wonder if Teddy is the better option. Teddy is obviously in your final 17 but I don't see his purchase quite as urgent as Turbo. For me, I feel like I either buy Turbo this week or I pass on him this year.

Anyway, thoughts on if the new rules will help stamp out his really low scores?