NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 61 - Captain Teddy hype-train edition

robelgordo wrote:

I feel I was racing (Ponga traded in at 861k hahah), but have put the brakes on a bit now as it dawned on me late trades may be even more useful than usual.

Having said that I think the overall winner is the one person out of hundreds who has raced to their 17 that manages to avoid all future injuries. Skill early then mega luck late.

I was pumped with my team after having brought in Mitchell, Best and Teddy. A back five of Teddy, Ponga, Turbo. Ctrs. Mitchel, Best. Chrichton and Capewell (in 2rf) as cover.

Then it all just turned to custard. Turbo, Horse, Moses, Capewell, Katoa all go down. Tapine and Teddy had a week or two off. Mitchel went back to been Lazy. Best was not at his best.

And the people i brought in to clean this shit show up? Drinkwater, Young, Avarillo, Clune, Heatherington.

What a debacle

The Young trade in is much more palatable if you pretend the cash that Tevaga is losing each week is instead being made by Young

multiple.scoregasms wrote:The Young trade in is much more palatable if you pretend the cash that Tevaga is losing each week is instead being made by Young

Young's next month of footy looks pretty good for the Raiders.

I think he will still get a couple more chances because I know he is a 40+ scorer. Hope the last two are just outliers.

Teddy is fucking me over but I just don't want to spend 920+ on him. Although I might be waiting a while for him to come down.

With Herbie injured I can grab a look at Fermor tonight. Anything under 35 and I will take Luai against the Cows.

Stuffness wrote:Used on trade so far (Paix - Havili)
Any advice on what i should do? I've missed weeks of info and trades so stuck now.
Koro
Haas Carrigan
Lolo katoa Leilua
Cleary Croft
Best Niu
Ponga Pap Lomax

Grant Friend Havili Rudolph

Luai HTF Drinkwater Williame

20 trades and 309k itb

Your team is better than mine, with 10 more trades and 250k more ITB. Im doing shit house so don't use that as a measure of any success.

Young just seems lazy across the park. It's like Ricky has pumped his tyres up and he he thinks he can just coast. I don't know, maybe I'm biased and salty. In his defence, he doesn't get many runs of the footy. When he does he goes okay. Adequate 18th man if you can swing it.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Young's next month of footy looks pretty good for the Raiders.

I think he will still get a couple more chances because I know he is a 40+ scorer. Hope the last two are just outliers.

Teddy is fucking me over but I just don't want to spend 920+ on him. Although I might be waiting a while for him to come down.

I'll be holding Young for the next few weeks at least, but he will probably spend a little while as 18th man.

It came to the point in my season where I could either have Haas or Teddy and I went with Haas. Can't justify paying that much for Teddy when I know he will eventually score in the 30s

Tigers players and staff cleared of covid
https://twitter.com/Danny_Weidler/status/1283912191234551808?s=19

I absolutely love my WAGs team.

Grant
Carrigan Taupau
Matto Lolo Murray
Fogarty Munster(c)
Lomax Niu
Papy Ponga Teddy

Koro Robson Thompson Starling
Herbie Staggs Hoffman Magoulias

Fogarty to a gun HLF soon and then one more bench spot and she is probably done.

wolfking wrote:Young just seems lazy across the park.  It's like Ricky has pumped his tyres up and he he thinks he can just coast.  I don't know, maybe I'm biased and salty.  In his defence, he doesn't get many runs of the footy.  When he does he goes okay.  Adequate 18th man if you can swing it.

Im surprised by everyone slagging Young. I thought he played okay. I wasn't watching super closely, but he seemed fairly involved. Surprised to read here somewhere he only had 5 hit ups though. Looked busier than that.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:The Young trade in is much more palatable if you pretend the cash that Tevaga is losing each week is instead being made by Young

This has made me feel so much better

multiple.scoregasms wrote:The Young trade in is much more palatable if you pretend the cash that Tevaga is losing each week is instead being made by Young

I was a bit concerned with Young's lack of tackling technique. Often opting for the bump instead of the wrap around

I'm surprised Young only had 2 missed tackles in the stats.
Credit to him for taking Teddy down a couple times though

Looking at Young's 70+ minute games from last year, his missed tackles are actually down - had 1, 3, 5, 6 last year, compared to  2 each in the past 2 games. Metres gained slightly down from 80ish to 60ish, but he's only ever run for over 100m once. Tackle count fairly steady in the mid 30s - mid 40s on a good day.

It's the tackle busts that are missing to push his scores into the 40s. Had 1, 4, 4, 2 in 70+ min games last year, plus a couple of interchange appearances where he had 3-4 tbs. Only has 4 total this year (none last night). Needs to get back to that.

Fortitude wrote:

Im surprised by everyone slagging Young. I thought he played okay. I wasn't watching super closely, but he seemed fairly involved. Surprised to read here somewhere he only had 5 hit ups though. Looked busier than that.

It's the fantasy goggles mate. He has some dumb penalties and missed tackles in him but even though his score was the same as last week, I do think he played a lot better last night than last week.

I think I’ve decided just to score 950 points this week and trade next week haha

mrbrownstone wrote:Looking at Young's 70+ minute games from last year, his missed tackles are actually down - had 1, 3, 5, 6 last year, compared to  2 each in the past 2 games. Metres gained slightly down from 80ish to 60ish, but he's only ever run for over 100m once. Tackle count fairly steady in the mid 30s - mid 40s on a good day.

It's the tackle busts that are missing to push his scores into the 40s. Had 1, 4, 4, 2 in 70+ min games last year, plus a couple of interchange appearances where he had 3-4 tbs. Only has 4 total this year (none last night). Needs to get back to that.

His TB ability was one of the reasons I took the punt on him. Needs some more ball first though but as I said before, he's a strong runner.

If you're team is fairly average. You've wasted to many trades on Ctrs and missed the quality cows. Is it crazy to start considering trades like Haas out?

My thought is. Haas (70av) and someone like JTB (37av) (sitting in my 18) would raise about 1.4m. I could get Hunt (50) and Twal(60av) for about that 1.4m.

This would let me have a two decent players in my 17, rather than one awesome one and one average on outside of the 17.

Its not ideal, but i need better balance across the team.

While I hoped for more, Young was always a punt (as was Butcher) I feel better about giving him a few more weeks now that I don't have to play him in my 17 but as soon as Jazz drops a bit (and more importantly plays more minutes) he will be on his way*

*If this year has taught me anything it's that this will not go according to plan

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

His performance was good enough that I think both Starling and Havili won't be all that fantasy relevant, which is not great as a Havili owner

I agree Havili wont be fantasy relevant because you could have got Starling who played same minutes and will score similar for over 100k cheaper.