Snatchpato wrote:I pretty much had zero idea what I was doing the first 3 weeks, blew a whole bunch of trades, picked players I liked etc, and have only been focussing and trying to make wise choices for the last 3-4 weeks. I have 12 trades, with 209k in the bank, and my team currently stands as:
Grant
Papali JWH
Jurbo Matto Lowe
Nikorima Flanno
Averillo Litchell
Papen Mansour Best
Macca JTB B.Sironen Stone
E.Clark Hopoate Starling (doesn't play ever) Kepaoa (doesn't play ever)
I was wondering whether I should be focussing on getting rid of the two in my team that have zero chance of playing (Kepaoa and Starling) by getting in some cheapies who might make some cash (thinking Talau, McIntyre, HTF)?
Or should I be focussing on getting rid of Hopo and upgrading some of my poorer players (Nikorima, Lowe, Sironen, Stone)?
I have few trades because I wasted so many early on, so was looking for some advice as to how best manage it from here. My main goal is to learn, make good decisions, and move up the ranks (currently 32k and aiming for top 10k by seasons end). Thanks for any and all advice!!
Hi Snatch, and welcome to the forum
One issue with your team - one is that you don't have a reliable captaincy option. You'll notice every other team here has a at least 1 of Haas, Taumalolo, McInnes as the top 3 reliable captaincy options. You are also missing other possible contenders Cook and Cam Smith as well as the top backs Tedesco, Ponga and the top halves DCE/Cleary/Moses.
Guys like Jurbo, Flangan are OK but they need some better team mates
If we look at improving your team for the rest of the year, trades remaining is the biggest killer. This is a problem for almost everyone, but with only 12 trades there is really not a lot of wriggle room to get your team going.
Nethertheless, lets have a try.
12 trades and 21 man squad mean that there are 9 players in your team that are guaranteed to stay there all year. And if anyone you trade in gets traded out again later, then thats another player that has to stay
For a start , anyone averaging over 50 (or 45 for a back) gets to stay
Grant, Papalii, Jurbo, Matterson, Flanagan, Latrell, Papenhuyzen, Best, McCullough
You'd better hope those 9 players stay fit - because you don't want to have to trade any of them all year, but lets allocate 1 trade as a spare to replace any of them if they go down (obviously 1 trade is not a lot for this sort of thing, but you are far from alone being in this position)
Secondly, Starlign and Kepaoa might as well stay too. You don't have trades to stuff around with too many cash cows and you generate no cash by downgrading them. Keep them in your team, learn how to loophole.
Averillo can stay for now. He's not the best option, but not the worst, and for his price he is OK. If you pick up a better WFB you can play Best in CTR with Latrell and Averillo can stay in emergencies and not score for you unless you have someone injured anyway.
JWH and Mansour are on the edge of keeperville. The dilemma is they are 2 of your better scorers, so you don't want to lose them, but as expensive players they are also the easiest to upgrade.
Lets assume JWH and mansour will go for now, but if the other 3 stay in your team with the 9 keepers, then now we have 11 trades to use on 9 players.
3 types of trade-ins
Cash Cow - someone you trade in with the goal of trading out later at a profit. You want to make at least $200k if you can. not many obvious targets here. Tommy Talau might be OK, but he won't score 3 tries every week. I wouldn't trust HTF. You probably only get to bring in 1-3 cash cows, so have to be as confident as possible they'll do well, or you'll end up with a team of $300k players you can't move on who are either not playing, or scoring shit.
Keepers - best scoring player you can to score for you every week. Affordability is the biggest issue so just have to get value wherever you can.
Cash Outs - cheap players brought in to fund upgrades elsewhere. Ideally not part of your 17except to cover short term injuries. if you get McIntrye he'd fall into this category, same with Niu. Trading in a $212k player who doesn't play for looping purposes can be OK, especially later in the season, but you already have 2 red dots so probably not something you'd deliberately do.
I'm not sure which Hopoate you have, Will or Jamil, but either way I'd consider downgrading to Tesi Niu as the cheapest player likely to play (assuming he doesn't get dropped this week)
Other priority is to upgrade the 2 worst scorers in your 17. Sironen and Stone just scored tries themselves, so not necessarily trade them out this week, hope they can make a bit of money off the back of a good score before ditching.
For upgrades - you aren't going to be able to go to Haas, Cook, Tauamalolo. Far too much money involved so you have to target the cheapest guys you can.
Martin Taupau is cheap for his scoring after injury. 2-3 weeks after he comes back from injury Mitchell Moses might be too.
Raymond Faitala-Mariner is pumping out pretty good scores for someone only just over $500k. He is an affordable upgrade over JTB who is just about maxxed out in price.
Reece Robson another one you might want to look at (although he was best 3 weeks ago). As is Luke Thompson the new Bulldogs prop.
Good luck improving your rank.
Just by sticking it out and making trades each week you will be able to improve, and with a bit of luck with injuries you should be able to make significant gains
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