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

Bloody LS didn't even answer my question of how I should arrange my bench of CS9, Bateman, Hunt, Fitzgibbon, S Crichton, McIntyre, Niu

Do I order my red dots by price order, by team order or just which one I hate more for being rested this week

Darius Boyd and Gavin Coopers last games tonight. Two QLD Greats, Premiership winners, both have donned the Australian jersey (Cooper for the PM's 13). Not enough being said about these two players finishing up their careers! Although both have fallen into a slump in recent times they have been integral parts of their teams and great players.

Got a bet with colleagues worth $320, need to pick all the games correct this weekend to collect. Really struggling to pick the Warriors v Manly and Drags v Storm games. What's the feeling on these matches fellas?

ShadowSabre wrote:Got a bet with colleagues worth $320, need to pick all the games correct this weekend to collect. Really struggling to pick the Warriors v Manly and Drags v Storm games. What's the feeling on these matches fellas?

As a Warriors supporter, 100% pick Manly.

ShadowSabre wrote:Got a bet with colleagues worth $320, need to pick all the games correct this weekend to collect. Really struggling to pick the Warriors v Manly and Drags v Storm games. What's the feeling on these matches fellas?

Manly and Storm. Not sure why ya struggling.

Camo123 wrote:Bloody LS didn't even answer my question of how I should arrange my bench of CS9, Bateman, Hunt, Fitzgibbon, S Crichton, McIntyre, Niu

Do I order my red dots by price order, by team order or just which one I hate more for being rested this week

Hate wins every time

StormTrooper96 wrote:Darius Boyd and Gavin Coopers last games tonight. Two QLD Greats, Premiership winners, both have donned the Australian jersey (Cooper for the PM's 13). Not enough being said about these two players finishing up their careers! Although both have fallen into a slump in recent times they have been integral parts of their teams and great players.

Coops is a real solid player.

Boyd was a great player. He has been so shit the last 2 years people have forgotten what a great player he was. Absolutely the MVP in the Dragons winning the comp in 2010, and was still one of the best FBs going as recently as the start of his second Broncos stint. It's just fallen off the cliff - back in the 1980s, he would've been in reserve grade, but established players don't get dropped in the professional era so here we are.

Picking Manly... has anyone actually seen them play lately? Warriors are still putting in 100% and I think will beat them.

I'd tip Storm but who knows with the teams picked. It'll probably end up 38-34

robelgordo wrote:Picking Manly... has anyone actually seen them play lately? Warriors are still putting in 100% and I think will beat them.

I'd tip Storm but who knows with the teams picked. It'll probably end up 38-34

Re Manly, my thoughts are that RTS is huge for the Warriors... He brings so much energy and morale to that team! I reckon they might struggle without him there.

Plus day game on a dry track will only suit DCE even more.

Dragons are also already clocked off. We saw that last week against the Knights. These young Storm fellas will wanna put their hands up and say hey Craig, I am here too, and put their names in the ring for next year. Aaron Pene is a beast for the Tigers in QCup. Averaged 138 run meters, 24 tackles, and 43.6 fantasy points in 2019. Used to play on the wing before he put on about about 10-15 kilos so he is pretty quick for a front rower. I am keen to see what he can do in the NRL.

Bit slow here, so random question looking ahead to next year: do we think AFB plays more minutes under a new coach?

With his PPM a bump from ~50 minutes to ~60 sees him go from borderline to top tier FRF gun.

Dttragic2016 wrote:

Assuming you've got nothing to play for, could be a great POD pick. With so much unpredictability this round, think the most important thing to do is to lock in your vice captain as someone you'd be happy with being your captain. Most teams should have two of haas, cleary, ponga, mcinness etc.

Eh I’ve got my h2h to play for which I’m undefeated in. I traded out haas stupidly last week. Rank is at 185 would love to keep it below 200 to finish the season. Only reason I’m not going cleary is because I think he might be rested early if it’s a blow out

Righto, just setup my team for another week of bench shenaningans, on averages will have about 240 pts incoming at 405pm Sunday. This is what having no trades and 16 players has left me with to kill some time.

I've set up a looping system so elaborate and unnecessary that I'm not even sure Ice would understand it.

sgdragons10 wrote:

Eh I’ve got my h2h to play for which I’m undefeated in. I traded out haas stupidly last week. Rank is at 185 would love to keep it below 200 to finish the season. Only reason I’m not going cleary is because I think he might be rested early if it’s a blow out

I kind of regret my Haas trade out too mate haha. But really, the person you traded him to should outscore Haas 2 weeks vs 1. Did you trade him for Crichton?

Any other options for cappo? the only thing uncertain is Crichtons minutes I guess. Although he'll want to smash it against his old club.

What time are we likely to know when Fui would drop off the Drags bench? Saturday ahead of Dogs v Panthers, or would it more likely be Sunday?

So I finally decided to look at how bad my 13 player week affected me last round. I dropped 600+ ranks from 311 to 915 and went from 5th place in my league to 13th.

I can concede that I did set myself up for this with a lot of poor, blown trades earlier in the season leaving me with nothing to fix problems late season. Still to play the season so well and to be in a position to drop out of the top 1000 from near top 300 in 2 bad rounds is just bullshit.

It has definitely cemented my decision to just chuck the C on Papenhuyzen for a laugh.

ShadowSabre wrote:What time are we likely to know when Fui would drop off the Drags bench? Saturday ahead of Dogs v Panthers, or would it more likely be Sunday?

Dragons game is 4pm Sunday so none of updates would happen before Panthers v Dogs lockout (24 hour update at 4pm Saturday)

Having trouble deciding on my bench. Currently my 14-21 are:

Lucy
Jazz
Starling
JFH
Bironen
Randall
HTF
Fui

Might have a chance to l**p with Fui, but might not know until quite late?

I have tipped the Broncos to beat the Cows and avoid the spoon.

I tipped the Sharks against Raiders. Also I tipped Manly and the Storm.

mrbrownstone wrote:Bit slow here, so random question looking ahead to next year: do we think AFB plays more minutes under a new coach?

With his PPM a bump from ~50 minutes to ~60 sees him go from borderline to top tier FRF gun.

I tend to ignore PPM because there is no proof that it scales with higher/lower minutes

I think he will be priced appropriately for what he will deliver.

Depending on magic number used (13000-15000) he will be priced somewhere between 639k and 738k, which is appropriate for his 49 average.

His big score (96 with 2 tries) offsets his injury scores (15 in 19 minutes and 40 in 40 minutes)

A pass for me