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

my tv broke wrote:Lower cap is probably going to force teams to become more similar is it not?

Depends if you want to continue to spend to get a Cleary and run lower elsewhere or spread the cap over cheaper yet still reliable players. I think it will force people to spread more, but then if they do I see what you're saying.

wolfking wrote:

Depends if you want to continue to spend to get a Cleary and run lower elsewhere or spread the cap over cheaper yet still reliable players.  I think it will force people to spread more, but then if they do I see what you're saying.

Sort of forces you towards a few specific cheaper players rather than having a wider range of picks.

All good, its set now!

only my CTR's and WFB's were deleted ?

7.5 made it alittle more tricky which is always good!
Team at the moment,
Koro (c)
D Saifiti, Papalii
Su'A, Yeo, Murray
Moses, Keary
Croker, Crichton
Allan, Addo-Carr, Gutho

quicksand wrote:only my CTR's and WFB's were deleted ?

Yeah, I just wiped enough players from everyones team to drop under the new cap and force everyone to re-select accordingly..

my tv broke wrote:Lower cap is probably going to force teams to become more similar is it not?

I think less similar, means not everyone has captain cleary. My original team was over $700k under cap and was really different to those posted by others

My original team was 666k under. I've sacrificed Teddy for a bit on a punt at WFB to get cap compliant. Will see if it sticks. I'm still 139k under so probably need to think about it a bit more

Yeah, that makes things a bit trickier

First go at it:

Koro
Papa Hamlin-Uele
Bateman Yeo Cordner
Moses Munster
Croker Blake
Ponga To'o Suli

I'm determined to not pick Croker and it's making the squad difficult

First draft went full cheapie mode with the backs. 

Cook
Welch JFH
Matto Bate-o Siro
(C)leary ARey
Blake Jennings
Paulo Sivo JMoz

Thanks for setting this up MTB, you're a deadset legend!

My team looks VERY different to most posted so far, let's see how it players out

None of the top 6 most expensive in my group

EDIT: Also as an FYI that was easy to work around I couldn't put a full stop in my user name, but not a big deal

my tv broke wrote:The tribe has spoken.

!!! Finals Fantasy Week 1 Cap has just been reduced to 7.5 million !!!

I've wiped enough players from everyones team to make them cap compliant without completely erasing.

7.5 mil cap is now FINALISED and will not be changing again, your selections are now SAFE          

I'm so IT unsavvy, this is amazing to me

Thinking about cap sizes for this week got me thinking about 8 players for Weeks 2-4. So this is early, but wanted to write it before I forget.

When Milch was doing it via Excel he had

HOK
FRF
2RF * 2
HLF
CTR
WFB * 2

Dunno if it's easy/hard to code but could you potentially replace the 2nd 2RF with an interchange forward (can pick HOK/FRF/2RF) and the 2nd WFB with an int back (HLF/CTR/WFB).

I think this potentially makes things more interesting, adds more variety. Be interested in everyones thoughts.

try again

Starling
Papalii, Tatola
Brown, Bateman, Kikau
Cleary(c), Townsend
Crichton, Croker
Kennedy, Gutherson, Graham

7k left

Lussick
Klemmer, BHU
Murray, Bateman, Havili
Wighton, Reynolds
Graham, Ramien
Tedesco, Papenhuyzen, Paulo

Love your work MTB. Will sign up later tonight

quicksand wrote:try again

Starling
Papalii, Tatola
Brown, Bateman, Kikau
Cleary(c), Townsend
Crichton, Croker
Kennedy, Gutherson, Graham

7k left

we have 1 player in common. seems we are getting quite diverse teams

Much harder now with the reduced cap.

filthridden wrote:Lussick
Klemmer, BHU
Murray, Bateman, Havili
Wighton, Reynolds
Graham, Ramien
Tedesco, Papenhuyzen, Paulo

For a second there I thought you'd discovered a bug by getting Junior Paulo at WFB

mattnz wrote:
we have 1 player in common. seems we are getting quite diverse teams

in that case I hope all your selections are completely wrong !!

Been MIA for a while but thought I would check in and congrats to everyone on the year
Haven't seen a lot of footy with the little one taking up a lot of time but haven't disappeared off the face of the planet yet.
Hoping for more free time once she gets a little older next year, maybe even sign her up with her own team haha

As for my team, rolled the dice at the end but some gambles didn't pay off and limped into 749th for the year
If you aren't first you are last haha, gave it a crack

Tricky one to navigate this year with all the crazy injuries, stop start with covid and the extra trades fiasco but still better than nothing and kept things interesting.
In hindsight the lucky people were the non bye players or Lomax owners as those trades would have really helped in the final rounds

Anyways fingers crossed we get an improved full round next year with byes but that is a while off
Can't take anything for granted these days so will see how 2021 looks and pop my head in a bit when i get the chance

Congrats to all the teams at the pointy end of the table or who improved, for everyone else they can start fresh next year

All the best
Boozie