NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 85 - Who's being rested

Here's my rankings tracked, a lot of up and down early on but basically stayed in the same range since R12 until decent boost in last round. R9 was very nice for me (round rank 42) which massively helped my season get back on track

R1: 1657
R2: 602
R3: 130
R4: 421
R5: 628
R6: 1080
R7: 1060
R8: 1143
R9: 276
R10: 378
R11: 441
R12: 208
R13: 292
R14: 222
R15: 220
R16: 198
R17: 232
R18: 145

Thanks guys. Sitting on 15520 so yeah I'd be up around 10k so that's not too bad.

Looking forward to a big one next year

1. 1684
2. 2420
3. 1598
4. 3418
5. 1858
6. 1585
7. 2294
8. 1245
9. 1104
10. 2594
11. 2152
12. 2096
13. 1493
14. 1795
15. 1347
16. 1739
17. 1383
18. 1166

Pretty up and down year when I see it like that. Spent almost all of it stuck in mid-1,000s ranking purgatory. Hoping these last two rounds can see me finally jump into the top 1,000.

Only my second year playing and I'm a long way up on my rank from last year, so hard to complain too much though.

Next question, assuming no TLT surprises (big assumption I know) who would you guys be looking to upgrade here? I have 2 trades left and 69k ITB.

Cook
Haas, Taupau
Jurbo, Lucy, Jazz
Cleary, Pearce
Ramien, Pompey
Teddy, Ponga, RTS

JFH, Hunt, Starling, Bironen
HTF, Young, Randall, Fui

I could in theory have 21 green dots (wouldn't mind a red dot tbh), but plenty of sub-optimal players there. I think players on the chopping block would be Hunt, Young, maybe Lucy, and then any of the cheapies.

Love to hear your thoughts

FaringdonSwirl wrote:Next question, assuming no TLT surprises (big assumption I know) who would you guys be looking to upgrade here? I have 2 trades left and 69k ITB.

Cook
Haas, Taupau
Jurbo, Lucy, Jazz
Cleary, Pearce
Ramien, Pompey
Teddy, Ponga, RTS

JFH, Hunt, Starling, Bironen
HTF, Young, Randall, Fui

I could in theory have 21 green dots (wouldn't mind a red dot tbh), but plenty of sub-optimal players there. I think players on the chopping block would be Hunt, Young, maybe Lucy, and then any of the cheapies.

Love to hear your thoughts

I like Young to Munster with Tigers & Dragons to come.

This week/rank stuff is actually a valuable exercise. I have never done it before but it really gives a good insight into what you could have done better.

1. 1,938
2. 937
3. 161
4. 214
5. 284
6. 167
7. 43
8. 106
9. 116
10. 107
11. 165
12. 217
13. 188
14. 184
15. 102
16. 67
17. 73
18. 79

Basically my conclusions are
- Started out with high ranking after first couple of weeks which made me nervous so.....too many mid rangers in starting team
- Trades were effective to start with but it looks like after the first third of the season I wasn't making enough money for my trades to have any impact on my overall ranking
- This is probably consistent with how I feel about my team at the moment. 17th/18th men are weak and there are about three or four guy's in my final 17 who I thought I was using as a stepping stone
- I tried to be bold this year and jump on cows early but would likely have benefited form holding fire for a week or two to avoid duds (Clarke, Paix, Hopoate, HTF etc)
- Not a bad year but probs will finish up around the same as last year despite changing tactics

Moses a left field captaincy option this week as he flat track bully's his way to 90+ score against the hapless Broncos

Croft back at six for Brisbane. uhhh. Admittedly SOS has been absolute trash anyway.

Thoughts on DCE vs McInness for captain?

McInness the safer bet, but DCE with goalkicking against the Titans could be interesting - have a feeling it'll be high scoring with both teams having nothing to lose.

Revraiser wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Stunning and brave mate! If it’s any consolation I’ve had my worst season in a decade sitting at high 5000’s. Here’s to ripping it up next year!

Its gone hand in hand with u never being here anymore !!

Found other more amusing weird folk have we !?  

Haha, impossible to find more amusing weird folk!

The work filter has cut me off completely. I mean I can literally still watch a horse race or listen to an album on YouTube, but won’t let me on to Fanatics

robelgordo wrote:

Do you reckon if Dearden runs the team at 7, Croft at 6 just focusing on his own game will work? I feel like it's worth a try and better than SOS

They tried that for 3 games before Croft got dropped.

He just looks a player that is a long way from first grade standard.

R1: 3865
R2: 6213
R3: 1771
R4: 3765
R5: 7418
R6: 4458
R7: 3414
R8: 4528
R9: 3671
R10: 1655
R11: 1357
R12: 1947
R13: 1674
R14: 2060
R15: 1900
R16: 1744
R17: 1881
R18: 1935

Well it's been my worst season in a number of years, but I'm not sure I'll be calling in Phil Gould to conduct an investigation just yet.

Heading into the year I decided to aim strongly for the bye rounds, that backfired majorly and I was playing catch-up ever since. In retrospect it was a pretty flawed idea anyway, so probably got what I deserved with that one.

On the upside, I think I've improved some of my processes for trade decisions and initial setup, so I like to think I've improved a bit as a player even if the results suggest otherwise.

ShadowSabre wrote:Anyone else feel a little flat that the top 8 has been decided with 2 rounds to spare, bit of an anti-climax for the regular season

Nope I’m relieved I do not have to stress as much as Souths have made the 8. Not bad at all as many were calling our pack a bunch of reserve graders who’d miss the 8, I’m proud of every one of them. Top 8 was a pass mark for us this year after losing GI, Sam and Sutto and we’ve done it.

Still would be nice to get a 6th placed finish so plenty still to play for.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Nope I’m relieved I do not have to stress as much as Souths have made the 8. Not bad at all as many were calling our pack a bunch of reserve graders who’d miss the 8, I’m proud of every one of them. Top 8 was a pass mark for us this year after losing GI, Sam and Sutto and we’ve done it.

I do not recall this.. Murray (NSW/AUS), Turgess (ENG), Lowe (QLD), Knight, Tatola, Nicholls all had good 2019 years and then Su'a looked alright in limited minutes for the Broncos.

Looks like a good pack to me. I mean I understand how some might say they are reserve graders, I am just saying I don't remember anyone saying that or saying they would miss the 8.. especially with Latrell as your big market signing and then your outside backs.

my tv broke wrote:Moses a left field captaincy option this week as he flat track bully's his way to 90+ score against the hapless Broncos

Croft back at six for Brisbane. uhhh. Admittedly SOS has been absolute trash anyway.

Was talking to some Parra supporting friends last night. They are all of the opinion that Parra are done for the year.

The view (and i agree with them) is that they'll be ripe for the beating on the weekend. The main questions is whether Brisbane will be good enough to take advantage of it. My guess is Parra will just hold on in a shoddy game.

Milchcow wrote:

Was talking to some Parra supporting friends last night. They are all of the opinion that Parra are done for the year.

The view (and i agree with them) is that they'll be ripe for the beating on the weekend. The main questions is whether Brisbane will be good enough to take advantage of it. My guess is Parra will just hold on in a shoddy game.

We'll see. I think Parra are probably done in terms of finals, but they'll beat us by 40