NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 85 - Who's being rested

Bethany_B wrote:Thoughts on who to captain?

As it stands now, I will have 17 players thanks to Randall being named, but that means my WFB is trash for the 2nd week in a row, with Ponga replacing Teddy as the one good WFB I have left.


Which one of the following guys should I captain?

* Cleary: The safest pick, and has a good matchup, but I'm very hesitant to do it as he's just had a big score, half the forward pack is getting rested and they have to fly up to Townsville on game day, which leads me to believe this will be one of the weeks Cleary only gets 55 instead of the 80+ that I want.

* Ponga: Has a great matchup, coming off a rest, but we've seen how low his floor is, and Ponga does have games where he gets a bit lazy, so that's a big risk.

* Wighton: He's been on a run of doubles in the last few weeks, and is up against a Warriors team with nothing to play for while his team is fighting for the top four, but if he doesn't get tries, he doesn't usually get over 50, and as we saw against Brisbane, even a good matchup doesn't mean that he'll necessarily score well. He is definitely a risky captain, but is the biggest "POD Captain" and he is the main point of attack for the Raiders.

At the moment I'm leaning Wighton because I feel my team is heavily outgunned by most of the others on here, and POD captains are fun, but I'm not entirely sure.

Camo123 wrote:

This logic makes no sense, he's averaging 70+ because he keeps getting big scores

StormTrooper96 wrote:Fuck it! 2 weeks left, Parra at home, Moses captain! In 4 a huge game! Let’s go.

mattnz wrote:
900 kicking meters again would be a decent start.

mattnz wrote:
With him, AFB and Thompson leaving, they are going to be really short of quality forwards.

Rabbits21 wrote:

Bayley Sironen to join Curtis over at Manly is on the cards.

Talk deal is nearly done.

robelgordo wrote:I've wanked up my bench for the first time ever. So it's got red dots 1-4, and green dots 5-8. Plus I have another 3 players in the last Sunday game. Even if I have a shit round and go backwards, the illusion of charging home on Sunday afternoon will be satisfying.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Looking at moses he only has 1 score above 67 this year.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Fuck it! 2 weeks left, Parra at home, Moses captain! In 4 a huge game! Let’s go.

mrbrownstone wrote:

And that was against the Titans where he got a try, 9 goals, and his most run metres and offloads for the season.

Remarkably, he's hit 67 three times though, 65 twice, and 62 twice. Pretty clear ceiling, but talk about consistency!

StormTrooper96 wrote:Sitting at 158th I feel like I can storm into the top 100 this week. I have lost a couple key players (Api, Papy, Teddy) but I feel I can make that up pretty well with my emergencies. The 3K difference between Haas and Lucy is proving to have worked out so far.

I am up against “American in Portugal” this week in the preliminary final and it is pretty evenly matched. He can only field 16 with no trades.

My blokes will be running out like this

CS9
Twal Carrigan
Fifita Matterson Bateman
Cleary DCE
Lomax Crichton
Cotric Ponga Tedesco(Loop)

Lucy Moses Randall Tino
Papy Hamiso Herbie Koro

QUICK QUESTION for those that know:
If this is the second last round of the year and there are still 8 teams left in the league then next week (last round) there will be 4 teams left, how will a winner be crowned?

wolfking wrote:

You won't.

my tv broke wrote:Ok lets say AFB is out. I can afford anyone up to 650k. Who would you pick? Position is irrelevant this week..

I think Ive ruled out Papalii and JFH just because they may get reduced workload over the last two rounds

wolfking wrote:

Murray?
Taupau?

my tv broke wrote:Ok, annoying post time. Lets say AFB is out. I can afford anyone up to 650k. Who would you pick, and why? Position is irrelevant this week..

I think Ive ruled out Papalii and JFH just because they may get reduced workload over the last two rounds

my tv broke wrote:

I want you to convince me!!

Im tempted by both of those.

Gutho also a contender. As well as Munster (resting risk), Twal (mins?.. boring player),  tommy T (fitness?).

Theres even Friend who scored 74 last week.

Manu a cheap option but could go big this week at fb and be a loop option in round 20 at centre