2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 3

patience my dear boy, patience!

Beast From The Big East wrote:

Smith is a better scorer than Peats though. If you are able to afford it, might not be too bad running with Smith to start then downgrading to Peats when you start bye planning. As others have said in the last day or two having those reliable scorers early on could be a great help. And to me it seems easier to go from Peats/Seggy to Smith than it is to bring in a gun 2rf depending on your potential lineup as many are going lighter in the 2nd row this year

So will you downgrade to peats over origin and buy smith back after the byes finish? Maybe smith and peats would be a better combo so that you dont have to sell smith and save a trade

White Lightning wrote:Will Edwards even be in the 17. nrl.com has De Gois, Moeroa, Wicks & Gower as the bench then you have Alvaro in the mix & in any case Edwards is injury prone.

Does anyone know where Alvaro stands in the pecking order? Did he get his good scores at the end of last season because someone was out? Looking at him or NAS for a bench spot

Honey Badger wrote:

So will you downgrade to peats over origin and buy smith back after the byes finish? Maybe smith and peats would be a better combo so that you dont have to sell smith and save a trade

Seggy has the best potential of any of the big guns to increase his average by a reasonable bit so I'm looking at starting with him. Never like having key players if they have to deal with Origin when you can just as easily trade to another reliable high scorer who has great byes over that period. As long as you plan for it those 2 trades will hardly break the bank

Honey Badger wrote:

White Lightning wrote:Will Edwards even be in the 17. nrl.com has De Gois, Moeroa, Wicks & Gower as the bench then you have Alvaro in the mix & in any case Edwards is injury prone.

Does anyone know where Alvaro stands in the pecking order? Did he get his good scores at the end of last season because someone was out? Looking at him or NAS for a bench spot

Conicided with Danny Wicks being out.

Just playing around but I quite like my latest version. The halfs are thin but I've got plenty of dpp's (Ah Mau, Grevsmuhl, Cooper, MCK, Lawrence, Copley, Henry, Mann, Ferguson, Gutherson)
Smith, McCullough
Ah Mau, Trbojevic, Grevsmuhl (Nuffie)
Parker, M. Cooper, Rochow, Tapine (MCK, Nuffie)
DCE, Hastings, Taylor (Nuffie)
Lawrence, Copley (Auva'a, Henry)
Ferguson, M. Gordon, Mann (Gutherson, Anderson/Mitchell)

White Lightning wrote:Just playing around but I quite like my latest version. The halfs are thin but I've got plenty of dpp's (Ah Mau, Grevsmuhl, Cooper, MCK, Lawrence, Copley, Henry, Mann, Ferguson, Gutherson)
Smith, McCullough
Ah Mau, Trbojevic, Grevsmuhl (Nuffie)
Parker, M. Cooper, Rochow, Tapine (MCK, Nuffie)
DCE, Hastings, Taylor (Nuffie)
Lawrence, Copley (Auva'a, Henry)
Ferguson, M. Gordon, Mann (Gutherson, Anderson/Mitchell)

I like this team, especially the two nailed on captain choices you have in Parker/Smith

Any reason for Macca over the popular Seggy and Peats?

love Ah Mau and been in all my drafts, JTurbo the same and taken over J.Paulo as my 3rd FR, Grevs could be a great pickup up if he gets that stating backrow job over Turner/Carter

great second row, personally i have Merrin over Parker in my latest draft, purely down to cash and i think Merrin who was severly underused at times last year will be a monster this year
cooper is about as consistent as they come and almost locked in for 55 points a game. love him

Have also antagonised over going DCE with Hastings, Taylor and a nuff, but I'm on the J Reynolds train atm and can't get off!

with Edwards potentially out for a few rounds and maybe more working back to fitness, Lawrence should become more valuable, not sure on Copely would likely prefer Gutherson if he gets the parra CTR spot oppostie Jennings

Swap Fergo with Mansour and that's my backline, will likely swap Mann with Fergo if he doesn't grab the Dragons FB spot

good balance, great captain options, very nice team mate

@ Welshy. Cheers mate on the input. I've gone Macca as he's one of my favourite players as he's a tackle machine so he's essentially like having an extra backrower. Again the same with CP13. Parker has it all with workrate, run metres, tackle breaks, offloads & goalkicker. I agree with you on Merrin & I had in in my team over Parker until I read a comment on another forum that Merrin & ET will adversely affect each others fantasy output. I reckon Merrin will start at lock & ET in the 2nd row & they could both steal each others stats.
Actally after posting my team I realised that my halfs are really lacking so I've now got Pearce, J. Reynolds, Maloney & Taylor & I've replaced Macca with Hodgson/Granville, Grevsmuhl with NAS & Parker with Cartwright.
Now I just have to decide which team I like as losing Macca & Parker just seems wrong haha.

I think examples of forwards adversely affecting each others stats is rarer than people think.

Gallen, Graham and Fifita all get good stats despite each other.

I remember Myles joining what at the time was a stacked Titans pack. His workload didn't suffer for the move.

There's always tackles to go around, what difference does it make if 1 more guy flops on.

White Lightning wrote:@ Welshy. Cheers mate on the input. I've gone Macca as he's one of my favourite players as he's a tackle machine so he's essentially like having an extra backrower. Again the same with CP13. Parker has it all with workrate, run metres, tackle breaks, offloads & goalkicker. I agree with you on Merrin & I had in in my team over Parker until I read a comment on another forum that Merrin & ET will adversely affect each others fantasy output. I reckon Merrin will start at lock & ET in the 2nd row & they could both steal each others stats.  
Actally after posting my team I realised that my halfs are really lacking so I've now got Pearce, J. Reynolds, Maloney & Taylor & I've replaced Macca with Hodgson/Granville, Grevsmuhl with NAS & Parker with Cartwright.
Now I just have to decide which team I like as losing Macca & Parker just seems wrong haha.

Where have you read that on Merrin mate? Yes Taylor is a tackle monster but Personally I don't agree with it he had Frizell, Cooper, even Joel Thompson avg nearly 30 tackles a game, wheras his new back row buddies Cartwright and Peachey are much less active in comparison

Merrin is always going to get his attacking stats with his big RM and TB's

Love Hodgson, would be in my team if Baptiste fucked off, his avg playing 80 is above 55 i think

Milchcow wrote:
I think examples of forwards adversely affecting each others stats is rarer than people think.

Gallen, Graham and Fifita all get good stats despite each other.

I remember Myles joining what at the time was a stacked Titans pack. His workload didn't suffer for the move.

There's always tackles to go around, what difference does it make if 1 more guy flops on.

Agree whole heartedly on this mate

may be slightly different in respect to attacking points on offer like someone mentioned about Dugan as an example with Lafai etc with more attacks centralised around the better player leading to more opportunities

As Milch mentioned busy defenders like those sharks 3 all get their share of tackles in

Yeah I agree with both of you in hindsight. I might lose Parker & use the money elsewhere.

Merrin to me will play a similar style but I think his offloads might drop off, can't imagine having your lock and second rowers constantly offloading being a good thing. I don't know how many 80 min games ET will play, especially first up, I remember watching him tackle himself to a stand still.

Keen to get Fensom this year, I can only seem him playing the same way he did last year and he really started to build up an attacking game. More off loads and good lines.

I just cant start the season without Parker and Fensom. Will want both in your side at some point and its not like they are going to drop much in value if at all.

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Anyone think James Roberts is under valued? I mean he is very expensive for a centre, but considering he was playing for titans last year and will now be playing outside Ben Hunt you'd think his try scoring opportunities will increase dramatically. Am seriously considering him. Hmm.

Bren wrote:I just cant start the season without Parker and Fensom. Will want both in your side at some point and its not like they are going to drop much in value if at all.

It is tough, even tougher to figure out what Sticky is going to do with that raiders backrow, especially after the addition of Whitehead

Fensom at the very least won't lose any more minutes, so you pay for what you get, i think with the likes of Merrin and Surgess at the same price and there being room for growth in points potential I'am edging towards one of the latter two

Also, here is my early team:

Seggy Peats
Surgess Trbojevic Moa 128k
Fensom Rocho Turner Henry 128k
DCE Areyn Hastings Taylor
Lawrence Hurrell Avua’a 128k
Moylan Gordon Ferguson Gutherson 128k

33k leftover

Pookus McFly wrote:Also, here is my early team:

Seggy Peats
Surgess Trbojevic Moa 128k
Fensom Rocho Turner Henry 128k
DCE  Areyn  Hastings Taylor
Lawrence Hurrell Avua’a  128k
Moylan Gordon Ferguson Gutherson 128k

33k leftover

First team I have seen running 2 GUN halfs, think Arey is underpriced and i like the overall look of it

What's the thinking behind Moa? Think is priced around his past 2 season avg so can't see much room for improvement, would personally use the leftover cash to squeeze someone like Sue in there who has a decent chance at the tigers lock spot and a bigger points potential, there are a few options below Moa's price who have a better ceiling IMO

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First team I have seen running 2 GUN halfs, think Arey is underpriced and i like the overall look of it

What's the thinking behind Moa? Think is priced around his past 2 season avg so can't see much room for improvement, would personally use the leftover cash to squeeze someone like Sue in there who has a decent chance at the tigers lock spot and a bigger points potential, there are a few options below Moa's price who have a better ceiling IMO

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Yeah I think I feel safer with two guns. If one or both of Hastings/Taylor happens to fire they can still do so from my bench. And based on how many teams are chancing that either fires, the case of them both flopping will put me ahead of the pack!

Yeah I like your idea of Sue. Moa is more playing with my gut than my head. I think Moa is a bit of an unsung hero in the actual game (and this is coming from a bunnies fan!), but one thing that always caught my eye with him is that when the Roosters forwards are depleted (or during one of JWH's routine suspensions ), he steps up his game. I've never had him in my team because his regular scoring isn't terrific, but my gut tells me that he will start the season well trying to cover the loss of firepower until Jarred's pec heals. My smokey! Shhhh