NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 86 - Fantasy is a 15 man game

Brandon Smith a good chance at a great score looking at that Storm team for anyone short on cash and needing to trade.

Bethany_B wrote:

I would think he wants an easier week 1 matchup, since finishing 5th over 4th means they play the Sharks instead of the Panthers.

They're basically going to be against the same team in week 2 anyway if they win week 1 of finals if they were 5th or 4th assuming Panthers win

If 4th: Win and get prelim final at home, lose and play winner of 5 v 8 (Eels v Sharks)
If 5th: Win and play loser of 1 v 4 (Panthers v Eels), lose and you're fucked

Camo123 wrote:

They're basically going to be against the same team in week 2 anyway if they win week 1 of finals if they were 5th or 4th assuming Panthers win

If 4th: Win and get prelim final at home, lose and play winner of 5 v 8 (Eels v Sharks)
If 5th: Win and play loser of 1 v 4 (Panthers v Eels), lose and you're fucked

If that's the case, it's so dumb that they would rest everyone, since if they get 4th, they at least have a chance to get a week off in the finals, and don't risk getting ambushed by the Sharks.

Smith and Chricton out for me. Will be playing 16 due to no centre cover

On the plus side I got on dragons at +16.5 when the rumours of mass storm restings first arose, now dragons have come in to be favourites! (still think they probably lose)

Camo123 wrote:

They're basically going to be against the same team in week 2 anyway if they win week 1 of finals if they were 5th or 4th assuming Panthers win

If 4th: Win and get prelim final at home, lose and play winner of 5 v 8 (Eels v Sharks)
If 5th: Win and play loser of 1 v 4 (Panthers v Eels), lose and you're fucked

If they lose to sharks this week it means they play sharks again next week too.. weird situation

robelgordo wrote:8 of 17 players in squad for draft unavailable. To the free agency pool!

I only needed to change 1 CTR but opponent in GF is bloody hoarding all the good ones (Best, Sione, Capewell, Peachey)

Still think I should beat them (me top, them bottom)

Koroisau/Grant
Carrigan SST
Harris Barnett Tevaga
Fogarty Brimson
Staggs Momirovski
Teddy Ponga To'o

Starling
Welch Tolman
Taumalolo Talakai Capewell
Pearce Flanagan
Peachey Sione
Lomax BMoz/Best Tupou

Typical for this year

Been fighting tooth and nail the last several weeks with playing 15 and 16 but the week ive been knocked out of everything and have nothing to play for i have 19 players and center cover for the first time since the restart....

16 including HTF, Randall, Talau, Tevaga. Not pretty.

Smith, Johnson, Fifita, Crichton out certainly stings.

One of the rule changes for Broncos v Cowboys is 6-again calls for 10m infringements.

Captain Haas ahead.

Less chance for penalties conceded, and more ball in play for tackles and run-metres

Chewie wrote:Stephen Crichton was a dud buy for me

got him in rd 16 for scores of

27, 19, 31, and 32

I traded him out in round 14 so I could balance my squad more. Since then Koroisau(my trade in target) has missed 2 games but should still end up outscoring Crichton

Wow - I scraped through with 16 players (so far) I have no transfers. It could have been a lot worse.

Chewie wrote:18 green dots! YEW!

phew:

There is no way I can field 17 with Bateman, Fifita and TIno out.

Looks like the GF will be

Api, Twal, Matterson, Herbie, Hamiso, Randall and Cotric + Cleary Captain (+65)
VS
McInnis, Haas x 2, Yeo, Sironen, Averillo, SST, Fogarty, Niko

Unless you get some HIA’s, late outs, injuries, early showers…. I have you beating me by about 110 points.

Milchcow wrote:
I think us Munster owners are going to need a support group in the off-season.

And 40 minutes after we'd traded him in, it looked like we'd made the right decision.

I also grabbed him the week he got injured over the likes of Tevaga/JTurbo, but used another trade to get rid of him. Could use that spare trade this week

Quick recap of Storm quotes from the day:

This morning: "The club (Storm) said they won't be resting any fit players."

Midday: "the NRL heavyweight plans to make up to 10 changes"

This afternoon: Storm team list sees 12 players out from the previous match.

Milchcow wrote:
One of the rule changes for Broncos v Cowboys is 6-again calls for 10m infringements.

Captain Haas ahead.

Less chance for penalties conceded, and more ball in play for tackles and run-metres

Also testing a few others.

Only nominated forwards are able to pack for scrums? Whatever that means.

top 10 red dots:

1: 5
2: 5
3: 4
4: 4
5: 2
6: 2 (likely 3)
7: 3
8: 4 (likely 5)
9: 4
10: 3 (likely 4)

and MTB
11: 2 (likely 4)

StormTrooper96 wrote:

There is no way I can field 17 with Bateman, Fifita and TIno out.

Looks like the GF will be

Api, Twal, Matterson, Herbie, Hamiso, Randall and Cotric + Cleary Captain (+65)
VS
McInnis, Haas x 2, Yeo, Sironen, Averillo, SST, Fogarty, Niko

Unless you get some HIA’s, late outs, injuries, early showers…. I have you beating me by about 110 points.

That's nuts, I rather have a close game as a GF

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Also testing a few others.

Only nominated forwards are able to pack for scrums? Whatever that means.

Hypothetically, if Ben Hunt starts at halfback, then starting hooker McInnes goes off for a rest and is replaced by Tristan Sailor off the bench, are the Dragons prohibited from legally forming a scrum?

Or does Sailor have to pack the scrum even if Hunt is now playing hooker?

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Also testing a few others.

Only nominated forwards are able to pack for scrums? Whatever that means.

Assume that means 1-7 can't pack into a scrum.

Chewie wrote:top 10 red dots:

1: 5
2: 5
3: 4
4: 4
5: 2
6: 2 (likely 3)
7: 3
8: 4 (likely 5)
9: 4
10: 3 (likely 4)

and MTB
11: 2 (likely 4)

I would imagine there would be some teams that have 17 green dots or more but may be a false representation but can only field 16 due to Crichton being out.