NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 63 - Stalling of the Robson train, Choo Poo

Is looping Talau/Niu a somewhat acceptable long term strategy?

Need to trade 2 out of Mitchell, Luai & Young to Ponga & Starling/Asi/hetherington

Can only afford Hetherington if I keep Mitchell, meaning I would play 2/3 of hetheringon, talau,niu.

If i trade mitchell i would have to play one of Talau/Niu long term.

8 trades left -> 6 makes me nervous trading out a potential keeper in mitchell

any help would be amazing!!!

Team:

Nathanator000 wrote:Is looping Talau/Niu a somewhat acceptable long term strategy?

Need to trade 2 out of Mitchell, Luai & Young to Ponga & Starling/Asi/hetherington

Can only afford Hetherington if I keep Mitchell, meaning I would play 2/3 of hetheringon, talau,niu.

If i trade mitchell i would have to play one of Talau/Niu long term.

8 trades left -> 6 makes me nervous trading out a potential keeper in mitchell

any help would be amazing!!!

Team:

Niu is likely dropped this week from what I've heard

megaturtle wrote:

Niu is likely dropped this week from what I've heard

well that's not good....

KingTeddy wrote:Who should I play as my 17th man out of Young, Paix (Assuming he starts) or Hethrington? Shame that it's come down to this with Young as I thought he could've put up some good scores but oh well.

I think Young still has a few good scores in him

is there another DPP wave coming so CM9 could get 2rf added? the rarely seen septuple hooker strategy could come to play in that case

edit: actually sextuple but the spirit was there

Yeah the yarn is Milf to fullback, Herb, Boys, Staggs, Coates with Niu and Isaako gone.

We'll see tomorrow but if so yep another fucking round of centre drama.

Lrkn wrote:is there another DPP wave coming so CM9 could get 2rf added? the rarely seen septuple hooker strategy could come to play in that case

Round 12

Upgrading the last few guys in ya team is tough going.

Robson > Hunt
Leilua > Twal
Butcher > Munster/Moses

Just thoughts for now, would leave me 6 trades

Regulator wrote:

Round 12

good news, might see if I can squeeze Cook, Smith, McInnes, Koro, Grant and Macca in together

Thoughts on my trade plan? I think I've got it set this week, pending any curveballs at TLT.

Team before trades: 9 trades left and 29k ITB

Grant
Haas, Fotu
A Crichton, Lolo, Yeo
Mann, Flanno
Lomax, S Crichton
Ponga, Papy, Teddy

Api, Carrigan, Luai, Field

Talau, HTF, Averillo, Niu

My plan for this week is as follows:

If Field is OUT (from Moses returning), then I sell Field to B Sironen (if he starts) or McIntyre (if Siro doesn't start).

If Field is IN (i.e. Moses doesn't play), then I hold trades.

I'm set on holding Angus for at least this week since I only have 9 trades and suspect I will have other injuries pop up that I need to cover.

While I could sell Angus to Cleary from the money raised by Field - Siro, I worry that I'll get caught without trades very soon. Also, if I go Cleary, I can't jump on a bottomed out Moses, who could score close to Cleary's output for much less money.

Lrkn wrote:

good news, might see if I can squeeze Cook, Smith, McInnes, Koro, Grant and Macca in together

I'd recommend opting for some better cover if possible. Lots of people are running out of trades and if injuries continue at this rate you'll be playing with 16 or less by the end of the season if you have a full bench of hookers.

Empyreal wrote:

What MVP system do you think is done better around the world? All of them seem to end up being a popularity/opinion contest unless pure statistics are used.

I do like the coach MVP system they have in the AFL were both coaches vote 5-1 for their game each week.

Well if you use fantasy points to give out Dally M points each week the top 20 would be:

Payne Haas 8
Harry Grant 7
Damien Cook 7
Daly Cherry-Evans 7
Nathan Cleary 7
James Tedesco 7
Jason Taumalolo 7
Cameron McInnes 6
Cameron Smith 6
Kalyn Ponga 6
Ryan Matterson 6
Alex Twal 6
Mitchell Moses 6
Api Koroisau 6
Shaun Johnson 5
Sione Katoa 5
Isaah Yeo 5
Tohu Harris 5
Dylan Brown 5
Adam Reynolds 5

Lrkn wrote:is there another DPP wave coming so CM9 could get 2rf added? the rarely seen septuple hooker strategy could come to play in that case

edit: actually sextuple but the spirit was there

Septuple could be right. You could play 7. Hunt at half, CM9 at 2RF then 5 more hookers between a starter and 4 bench spots. If somehow CS9 got half DPP as well then you could even go up to 8. Keep Havili and play 9 hookers.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Upgrading the last few guys in ya team is tough going.

Robson > Hunt
Leilua > Twal
Butcher > Munster/Moses

Just thoughts for now, would leave me 6 trades

I wish I had 3 trades this week. Not sure how you rigged the system

Found this on Wikipedia. Never takes long for someone to sneak something like this in...

megaturtle wrote:Found this on Wikipedia. Never takes long for someone to sneak something like this in...

Bulldogs wouldn't be the worst place to start your career. If it goes poorly there's already plenty of easy excuses to justify the poor performance but if he goes well then he's suddenly the next Bellamy/Robinson.

The worst place to go would be the Storm after Bellamy leaves. Don't want to be the first coach not to take the Storm to a finals series after 10+ seasons, there's more expectation of performance there than the Broncos.

Empyreal wrote:

Bulldogs wouldn't be the worst place to start your career. If it goes poorly there's already plenty of easy excuses to justify the poor performance but if he goes well then he's suddenly the next Bellamy/Robinson.

The worst place to go would be the Storm after Bellamy leaves. Don't want to be the first coach not to take the Storm to a finals series after 10+ seasons, there's more expectation of performance there than the Broncos.

Not sure if you were just saying “start your career” in general or not but Barrett was the coach of the Sea Eagle for a couple years 2016-2018 and they were atrocious that year. Record of 29-43.

Thanks cow!
I don’t like to put pressure on you, but I was starting to get the shakes.
I find that these days, if my breakevens arn’t in this patented cow format, I don’t wanna know about it.

Tesi Niu out due to wrist injury, likely needs surgery. Not actually dropped, it would seem