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

Aardvark wrote:

rhinoceroo wrote:

I mean, I tick both cliché boxes of being in finance and growing up with league, but knowing the real life game can sometimes get in the way of fantasy decisions. It's almost like I run an ethical investment portfolio and while I know Lachlan Lewis gets mass kick metres and Wade Egan is a cheap starting hooker I won't be investing in them thank you very much because they morally devalue my whole portfolio. For a long time I avoided the Turbos because Manly players have to jump through extra hoops of due diligence to make the cut.

Clinging on to the fact that the thing about ethical investments now is they generally outperform the market.

my tv broke wrote:DT Late Mail is hedging their bets

"Matterson will be given another 24 hours to prove his fitness before the Eels make a call on his availability."

my tv broke wrote:DT Late Mail is hedging their bets

"Matterson will be given another 24 hours to prove his fitness before the Eels make a call on his availability."

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Ignore the tries that boosted last weeks score because it is already gone, I'd be surprised if he scores 2 tries in a game for the rest of his career

Ignoring that game he averages 59 as a starter and priced at 55. In his price range(let's call it 730k and under) I prefer JFH, Tevaga(in a few weeks), Brown, Hunt, Taupau. If you can squeeze a little bit of extra cash I prefer SJ, Munster, Klemmer, Fifita

Teeth Eater wrote:Something I hadn't really considered but might become a consideration now. Who to play in centres out of Talau or Averillo if he is good to go? You'd have to stick with Talau against Broncos I guess?

Ben Marlin wrote:
Well if you ignore just the points he got from tries last week then he still would've scored 79 points and averaged 63.2 as a starting hooker this year

Who would be better out (or more likely to play 80 minutes) out of Hunt (at hooker) and Brown?

WT2K wrote:

@Loomer

Ben Marlin wrote:
Well if you ignore just the points he got from tries last week then he still would've scored 79 points and averaged 63.2 as a starting hooker this year

Who would be better out (or more likely to play 80 minutes) out of Hunt (at hooker) and Brown?

Shady2K wrote:

Thrashed Sharks last week and he only got 30 odd too hmm. Will still probably go with him with his ceiling. Rudolf probably end up with 30-40 and who knows how Fermor will go against a Storm thrashing

Nathanator000 wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Nice!

Was actually thinking last week it’s weird how you don’t see many newbie questions nowadays.

Figuring there are so many pages and so much information out there as opposed to 10 years ago. Probably my the most common question in the early days was “what are base stats?”

The other reason maybe that Fantasy isn’t really attracting that many new players.

I'm an AFL man 100% and done AFL fantasy for last 3 years

Joined in NRL Fantasy this year to try to beat my mates who all live in QLD

I barely watch 1 game/week (only when an AFL game isn't on), have barely any idea of players names who aren't from origin, and yet am ranked 1,500 thanks to the help of this thread hahaha

So there may still be newbies, we're just lurking and learning

standard-issue wrote:

Streets ahead of my rank this year and I’ve been playing for a dozen years now! Also played till I was 17 and grew up in diehard League towns in NQ.

I remember getting a PM from LB about 6 years ago asking how to play as he didn’t have a League background, bloke hasn’t stopped since! Although he probably could have chosen a better person to ask for pointers

Boozecluez wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Nice!

Was actually thinking last week it’s weird how you don’t see many newbie questions nowadays.

Figuring there are so many pages and so much information out there as opposed to 10 years ago. Probably my the most common question in the early days was “what are base stats?”

The other reason maybe that Fantasy isn’t really attracting that many new players.

Aren't 99% of the people here involved in finance/computers haha ? (Myself excluded)
Didn't watch much league at all until I came to Australia about 10 years ago with nothing more than a backpack, never played the game, left school at 15 and no finance degree in sight.
Closest thing to a pool I have is the puddle the dog made near the back door.

I feel way out of my depth compared to most with statistics,spreadsheets,trends analysis,graphs,Stock market principles,day trading etc

But I see things ok, and if I can without all those real life money ball advantages that most do with their day job, then no reason most can't see the same.
Or for you computer money nerds apply that financial shit to NRL fantasy haha

standard-issue wrote:

The amount of Accountants we worked out that we had on here was ridiculous. Explains the dry sense of humours though.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Streets ahead of my rank this year and I’ve been playing for a dozen years now! Also played till I was 17 and grew up in diehard League towns in NQ.

I remember getting a PM from LB about 6 years ago asking how to play as he didn’t have a League background, bloke hasn’t stopped since! Although he probably could have chosen a better person to ask for pointers

Diehard when they're winning. You don't hear peep from them when they're losing.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

It's not just the 8 points from tries. He also got given 2 linebreaks (-8 ) and multiple tackle breaks (-12)

That is the magic question of the week. Brown is the safer option in terms of point scoring (will score well while he is on the field), but could be injured or suspended at any time

Hunt if playing 80 at hooker and kicking for 300 metres each week will score more points than Brown, but his minutes are the concern.

Personally I would go with Brown because you at least know he will get points while on the field. Hunt could easily serve up a 35 in 60 minutes, or he could score 70 points in 80 minutes