NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 87 - Kotoni Staggs is now a half so he'll move a few feet in.

mrbrownstone wrote:

Looking forward to figuring out byes & bye planning next year, as I haven't really gotten my head around that yet.

White Lightning wrote:Great summary Wolfy. It's great to see both Chewie & yourself carving up this year & developing into very good fantasy players.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

AHEM!

StormTrooper96 wrote:

I spent this year with a lot of similar actions. I went with my gut a lot on a few calls. (i.e trading Niu to Cotric in R14 (averaged 40 since then). It helped out in many ways as he was able to fill in at WFB at times others had to pick guys like HTF/Herbie). Being aggressive also helped, but then it also didnt. Being aggressive on played like Williams, Musgrove, Stimson, Brailey all worked out in my favour but then trading guys like Mann and Luai too early hurt as they kicked on in the back half of the year.

2 big regrets for the year were missing out on Fogarty and trading Randall instead of Starling as my gut told me he would overtake Havili easily, but the starting Hooker who scored 70+ in his first game obviously came out on top.

White Lightning wrote:Great summary Wolfy. It's great to see both Chewie & yourself carving up this year & developing into very good fantasy players.

FaringdonSwirl wrote:

Me too mate! This being my first year that is one thing that I've missed out on.


Anyone know of any resources/write ups explaining how it works?

White Lightning wrote:

Sorry bro you did great as well & had a very good year. All 3 of you kicked my ass.

FaringdonSwirl wrote:

Me too mate! This being my first year that is one thing that I've missed out on.


Anyone know of any resources/write ups explaining how it works?

wolfking wrote:My 163 was my best ranking too after playing for a few years now.  The biggest things I did differently and learned this season were;

1) Be agressive.  For years, I've played with caution.  Saving trades early, being hesitant, giving players multiple chances etc.  I was never an agressive fantasy player.  This year I changed that and went pretty hard.  I tapered off at the last six weeks though.  Hesitation crept back into my game.  I may have finished higher if I played as hard as I did early on.

2) Chop players when they don't pass the eye test.  I've always given players too many chances.  I use to think they would come good.  Nine times out of ten, they don't.  This year, Knight, Williams, those sorts of players I chopped early.  People have great arguments, but I took more note this year in watching the players closely and then after week one, would ask myself if I could see them becoming fantasy relevant.  If my gut says no, it's trade time.

3) Go with your gut.  I was always very persuasive and use to go with the masses on things, but this year I made more of an effort of backing myself more.  As I said earlier, late in the year I swayed slightly.  For example, Randall vs Starling.  Randall was the hot pick, but my gut was saying Starling would be the better option, I went with Randall and was kicking myself since.  A couple of late season calls of not going with my gut hurt.  Also going with my gut in starting with Nofo worked well.  Again, I should have went with my gut in trading him late in the season, but he finished with a 49 average, so that's a big win.

4) Get the players that score points.  POD's is a tactic I don't think works that well.  You need all the players that score points.  Got McInnes nice and early, same with Ted.  Missed Ponga until the last two weeks which was a flop but you can't get them all either.  Nathan Brown however was a great POD the last six weeks though.  He again was more a gut call.  Luckily he finished the year in gun form.  People getting put off him potentially getting suspended was a big attraction which leads to my next point.

5) Don't worry about what MIGHT happen.  Restings, suspensions, injuries, don't worry what might happen.  I've done that in the past and it fails.  Nathan Brown is a fine example of this.  Some have merit, like Turbo, but all in all I think too much weight gets put into things like this.

RandomSil wrote:

This is a big one for me, don't think "Oh I need PoD's to catch up" no you just need a combination of the highest point scorers. If McInnes, Cleary, Haas, Tedesco is going to score more points than Cook, DCE, Taupau, Edwards then you should get the higher point scorers, and go with the hope that most other teams will only have 3/4 guys listed. That is only with 4 spots not across your whole 17. At the end of the day, if you had the 17 best scorers in Fantasy it doesn't matter if every other team had 15 of those guys on average. You still outscore them.

Camo123 wrote:
Vlandys mentioned they will view how Origin rates post season and may keep it the same if it rates well so bye planning could be dead

In some cases it can be pretty overrated as players get injured close to bye rounds and mess up plans but Origin mid season adds in cash outs and resting similar to this season

RandomSil wrote:

This is a big one for me, don't think "Oh I need PoD's to catch up" no you just need a combination of the highest point scorers. If McInnes, Cleary, Haas, Tedesco is going to score more points than Cook, DCE, Taupau, Edwards then you should get the higher point scorers, and go with the hope that most other teams will only have 3/4 guys listed. That is only with 4 spots not across your whole 17. At the end of the day, if you had the 17 best scorers in Fantasy it doesn't matter if every other team had 15 of those guys on average. You still outscore them.