NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 71 - zero trades left

my tv broke wrote:

Just a general comment - there isnt a lot wrong with playing a man short at centre for a week if it means you use a trade somewhere more worthwhile at some point (eg trading an injured gun to another gun who can give you 60+ points a week).

In any given week weve seen ctrs score poorly.. lomax just had a bad week. Talau has been lucky to save his score a few times, averillo has had one or two duds

If you look at it from the perspective of only losing 15 pts by playing 16 for a week, maybe you make those points back elsewhere

Intrigued and will look more closely at this. Might be better to stick to original plan and play w/16 instead of bringing in a dodgy centre.

robelgordo wrote:

Intrigued and will look more closely at this. Might be better to stick to original plan and play w/16 instead of bringing in a dodgy centre.

Its one of those things where you need hindsight to know what the right decision is.

But yeah, bringing in a crappy player just for a one week score usually ends badly in the long run.

elviskilledkennedy wrote:Okay, injuries did me mischief this week, but I think this should work out.

9 Trades left w/ 158k in the bank (Trades for this week used)

B Smith
Haas Mofo
Carrigan Lolo Leilua
Munster Luai
Talau Manu
Ponga Hammer Teddy (C)

Bench: Arrow, B Sironen, Starling, Simmonsson (Loop)
EMG: Mann, Rudolf, Hethrington, Pape

Traded out Best & Grant for Smith & Munster (the logic being that I have enough in the bank to bring back Grant next week and Smith should get 80min).

I need Centre/WFB cover but with 9 trades and MITB I should be able to sort that next week...

I have to say I really detest the 2nd trade of Grant for B Smith. Early report on Grant injury looks to be only one week, which would be waste of trade & B Smith won't have 80 min role for more than 2-3 weeks max (C Smith probably comes back earlier if anything)

You don't need the trade to fill HOK as you have Mann in EMG and then can still loop Rudolf/Hetherington if you want

Fermor in 21 means he is probably a long way off getting another game right? Would hate to trade him out only to find out that he plays this week and I could have banked it

It's either Fermor(if not named) or Hammer(if Fermor is named) to Moses this week. With all 3 playing Sunday I guess I can wait it out for more info

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Fermor in 21 means he is probably a long way off getting another game right? Would hate to trade him out only to find out that he plays this week and I could have banked it

It's either Fermor(if not named) or Hammer(if Fermor is named) to Moses this week. With all 3 playing Sunday I guess I can wait it out for more info

Didnt see him there. Sam Stone appears to have gone missing this week. Hard to tell what to make of it..

my tv broke wrote:

Didnt see him there. Sam Stone appears to have gone missing this week. Hard to tell what to make of it..

Looks like I'll be sweating on team lists 1pm Sunday. This just seems like the kind of week Hammer finally scores a few tries being in everyone's 17

Camo123 wrote:

I have to say I really detest the 2nd trade of Grant for B Smith. Early report on Grant injury looks to be only one week, which would be waste of trade & B Smith won't have 80 min role for more than 2-3 weeks max (C Smith probably comes back earlier if anything)

You don't need the trade to fill HOK as you have Mann in EMG and then can still loop Rudolf/Hetherington if you want

Didn't look at it in that light, might roll them back and review.

Cheers

Well that was one of the more chaotic team list Tues that I can remember and I have been playing for a decade. It came somewhat out out of left field as well. This is why they should have allowed the 4 trade week to be used at anytime rather than that random round only.

I can field 17 without trading which is somewhat lucky given I have been running with no FRF & 2RF cover for some time. Although McInnes getting dpp will help moving forward and it looks like Jones is on the bench for the Knights, not that I need him. Might do one or both of the following. Fog to Moses and Nui to Sironen.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Fermor in 21 means he is probably a long way off getting another game right? Would hate to trade him out only to find out that he plays this week and I could have banked it

It's either Fermor(if not named) or Hammer(if Fermor is named) to Moses this week. With all 3 playing Sunday I guess I can wait it out for more info

Same scenario for me.
Another 1 or 2 games from Fermor at 2RF would be marvellous.
Surely Hipgrave is overdue for another suspension.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Looks like I'll be sweating on team lists 1pm Sunday. This just seems like the kind of week Hammer finally scores a few tries being in everyone's 17

hope not (not in everyone's 17)

I’m worried that my two trade outs play the first game.

And my trade ins play on Sunday

Makes me really uncomfortable

Ok I guess I’m leaning towards going Niu to McIntyre as I don’t have CTR coverage and Talau/Averillo don’t exactly have rock solid JS. Leaves 3 trades but as long as Matto or Grant is back next week(would be great if CS9 was too) I’ll only have to play HTF for this week. Sound good?

Best and Grants injuries are going to dictate my trades this week. I'll be deciding on Thursday I guess. Might be running a team of 15 this week lmao

I've made some questionable trades lately but with Best and Papi out getting Ikuvalu DPP a few weeks ago and 3 other playing CTRs looks like I've come up Millhouse

Need to 2 trades to get 17 including HTF though but former part was planned and they don't need to be a CTR

Hopefully Talau actually playing at CTR will be good for him

Not really sure why people are worries about Talau getting dropped. He'll be in the side if fit.

It is interesting that Mbye has been named to start at hooker and not Walters tho

Bethany_B wrote:

I disagree, I would think Randall will push Crossland off the bench next week. Keep in mind Randall failed his HIA last week and has to go through concussion protocols anyway.

Why do Newcastle need a hooker on the bench? They have one at 13.

The guy I'm playing in League 1 set up a team for the first round and then went AWOL, not changing his team, scoring about 600 each week and getting a 0-12 record.

He has Fifita and Katoa in the second row, Moses and Mann at half, Aubs and Shiba at centre, Api at hooker. Has a fair chance of beating me this week.

Anyone know the logic in naming Rudolf at lock and then just putting him on interchange come game day? It’s Happened like a handful of times. Weird

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Looks like I'll be sweating on team lists 1pm Sunday. This just seems like the kind of week Hammer finally scores a few tries being in everyone's 17

I hate it when that happens. When everyone is forced to play an iffy player and that player scores well. #byebyeadvantage #fantasylife