NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 49 - Trade Drama Island

Welshy wrote:
Was godly one year, rare for any sort of gun consistency from pure edge 2RF. Tapine around 50s. Guys like Matterson/DFififta a rarity

Thanks all, makes sense re form, sounds like it would be a big punt so might be the go to bring in Young instead

Mulvy wrote:

Was looking good until I saw your last five. What's your plan to get HTF out of the 17?

If I’m being honest.....I have no fucking idea haha

If you're in my position (rank 1047, been charging up the rankings but trying to go even harder), do you stick with Captain Haas or try to zag with Lolo?

H: Koro

FR: Haas, Carrigan

2R: Lolo, Matto, Horsburgh

H: Cleary, Munster

CTR: Latrell, S.Chrichton

FB: Pap, Ponga, Drinkwater

Bench: Grant, JTB, Rudolf, HTF

Res: E. Katoa, Niu, Williame, Paix.

I'm going Paix -> Hetherington and Horsburgh -> Faitala Mariner

Would I be better off with:

A: Saving both trades leaving 13 trades and 216k (playing Drink in halves)

B: Drink -> Teddy, Rudolf -> Field, leaving 11 trades and 19k

EDIT: C: Rudolf -> Robson leaving 12 trades and 48k left (Drink to HLF, Fidow -> WFB)

I've genuinely spent like 2hrs on this team today which is worrying but I've used 3 of my trades so far (Arrow > Butcher, JTB > Young, Paix > Hetherington) I'm banking on Butch being a keeper JS pending since I've been on him since renegades were hyping him in 2016/17. Got 357k bank and 13 trades, feel like I'm a couple of solid cashies away from hitting a final 17 I'm happy with. Any thoughts?

bigdog777 wrote:H: Koro

FR: Haas, Carrigan

2R: Lolo, Matto, Horsburgh

H: Cleary, Munster

CTR: Latrell, S.Chrichton

FB: Pap, Ponga, Drinkwater

Bench: Grant, JTB, Rudolf, HTF

Res: E. Katoa, Niu, Williame, Paix.

I'm going Paix -> Hetherington and Horsburgh -> Faitala Mariner

Would I be better off with:

A: Saving both trades leaving 13 trades and 216k (playing Drink in halves)

B: Drink -> Teddy, Rudolf -> Field, leaving 11 trades and 19k

EDIT: C: Rudolf -> Robson leaving 12 trades and 48k left (Drink to HLF, Fidow -> WFB)

Hudson Young is probably a safer bet than RFM considering that he's cheaper and more likely to get attacking stats (Dogs are garbage).

I would be going Horseburger to Young instead of RFM. The Paix to Hetherington trade is okay but idk how many mins Hetherington likely gets. I'm considering cashing out Wiliame to him since I've got shit tons of outside backs and not much forward cover.

For the last 2 trades, I like the Teddy trade but really don't like Field as a buy, he doesn't have a whole lot of time to make cash, and will just nuff himself out when Moses returns. If that's what you want out of him, then have at it.

Idk if you can afford this but you could sell Katoa instead of Rudolf and get Talau instead of Field, and then get Ted in for Drinky

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:

I’m waiting the week for cheap kapow personally. Will save you cash and give you a guaranteed 55 average for 650k. Not much not to love there

Except for the guaranteed part. That's just asking for trouble.

Mulvy wrote:

Except for the guaranteed part. That's just asking for trouble.

I’m not bringing him in actually so don’t mind but his track record speaks for itself

Player most likely to make 150k under 550k atm?

Milchcow wrote:
Haas still the favourite captaincy option, with 30% of people captaining him (40% ownership, so 25% of Haas owners captain someone else)

everyone over 1% captaincy

Payne Haas 29.89
Jason Taumalolo 10.2
James Tedesco 4.91
Damien Cook 4.6
Cameron Smith 4.04
Nathan Cleary 2.52
Kalyn Ponga 2.46
Apisai Koroisau 1.96
Harry Grant 1.89
Cameron McInnes 1.7
Mitchell Moses 1.45
Daly Cherry-Evans 1.2
Ryan Matterson 1

Cheers for that. Can I ask, where do you get these stats? Gimme, gimme, gimme? Thanks?

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:Player most likely to make 150k under 550k atm?

Talau maybe

Bethany_B wrote:If you're in my position (rank 1047, been charging up the rankings but trying to go even harder), do you stick with Captain Haas or try to zag with Lolo?

Stick with Haas, trust in the balance of the Force your team.
If you've been charging up the rankings there;s no need to change things up.
I was looking at my history and in round 3 I decided to captain Lolo (68) over Haas (85)... missed out on 17 points, not terrible, but not worth the gamble.

Pain wrote:Haven’t seen Ray Stone mentioned as an ok playing cash out?

I've mentioned that I might buy him because that was my grandma's name, but I'm probably going to need a more compelling reason than that.

He is squirreled away in my emergencies.

Milchcow wrote:
Sometimes second rowers just have a killer year that they can't replicate

Lachlan Fitzgibbon another one

The most annoying thing with KBrom for me was that we had this cheap guy, and we assumed that he was place holding for the injured Stimson. But hindsight tells us Stimson probably was never in the hunt anyway. One of my notes to self after last year, was about looking at guys who should score well, with questionable job security, but others would avoid for that reason. I mean not guys who are filling in for a one game Lolo suspension or similar. We thought KBrom was filling in for Stimson whereas in reality the spot was up for grabs when Hoffman retired. Assumptions. Seems obvious in hindsight, and he went on to make 200k.

Pain wrote:Double post.  @SI’s pills working nicely.

It's been a day.

LukaFarley wrote:Grant
Haas Fotuaika
Young Lolo Carrigan
Cleary Luai
Fuimaono Best
Papy Lomax Mitchell



Bench: Koro Brailey Robson JTB

           Niu Talau Moses Katoa



Horsburgh - Robson
Leilua - Young
Drinkwater - Talau
JMK - Cleary

44k leftover

Any thoughts?

Looks like you know what you're doing mate.

Hmm if I bring in Taupau instead of Lolo I can dump Paix instead of Lucy and play Carrigan in 17 as opposed to HTF. Which option sounds better?

Bethany_B wrote:If you're in my position (rank 1047, been charging up the rankings but trying to go even harder), do you stick with Captain Haas or try to zag with Lolo?

Normally I would say pick and stick, but with no byes to make up ground in, and goal posts constantly moving, yeah why not. And if I know Bethany, you like a good POD so have at it. You have Mulvy's permission.

danseels1985 wrote:Hmm if I bring in Taupau instead of Lolo I can dump Paix instead of Lucy and play Carrigan in 17 as opposed to HTF. Which option sounds better?

That plan sounds much better, as amazing as Lolo is, he won't get much more expensive than he currently is, and I think Carrigan + Marty scores more than Lolo + HTF