NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 1 - Game on Mole

Did anyone notice Hipgrave was originally in the Storm team & now he is replace by 228k Pezet. There was an article on nrl.com saying Hipgrave at Eels which alerted my attention.

White Lightning wrote:Did anyone notice Hipgrave was originally in the Storm team & now he is replace by 228k Pezet. There was an article on nrl.com saying Hipgrave at Eels which alerted my attention.

We never signed Hipgrave? He was always going Eels?? Could be a type by NRL.com?

Eels prices:

Ryan Matterson EDG $807,000
Mitchell Moses HLF $766,000
Dylan Brown HLF $738,000
Nathan Brown MID $734,000
Reed Mahoney HOK $682,000
Junior Paulo MID $666,000
Reagan Campbell-Gillard MID $638,000
Clint Gutherson WFB $635,000
Shaun Lane EDG $619,000
Isaiah Papali'i MID $529,000
Marata Niukore MID $466,000
Bryce Cartwright EDG $434,000
Maika Sivo WFB $409,000
Keegan Hipgrave EDG $409,000
Blake Ferguson WFB $393,000
Waqa Blake CTR $359,000
Tom Opacic CTR $333,000
Will Smith WFB $313,000
Oregon Kaufusi MID $299,000
Ray Stone MID $261,000
Joey Lussick HOK $246,000
Michael Oldfield CTR, WFB $246,000
Jordan Rankin HLF $246,000
Haze Dunster WFB $246,000
David Hollis MID $228,000
Samuel Hughes MID $228,000

Carty Party?

Wonder who picks up that other CTR spot... Oldfield and Opacic looking okay prospects being inside Sivo. Not much value in that squad elsewhere

The Eels were very active in new signings this year with a lot of (IMO) "2nd-tier" players coming on board:

Isaiah Papali'i
Bryce Cartwright
Keegan Hipgrave
Tom Opacic
Joey Lussick
Michael Oldfield
Jordan Rankin
Nathaniel Roache? (not listed for some reason)

I can't say any of them particularly excite me from a Fantasy perspective (some outright horrify me)

easytiger wrote:The Eels were very active in new signings this year with a lot of (IMO) "2nd-tier" players coming on board:

Isaiah Papali'i
Bryce Cartwright
Keegan Hipgrave
Tom Opacic
Joey Lussick
Michael Oldfield
Jordan Rankin
Nathaniel Roache? (not listed for some reason)

I can't say any of them particularly excite me from a Fantasy perspective (some outright horrify me)

iPap burst onto the scene at NZ and looked like the next big thing at 2RF... I think he got injured, form slumped a little and put a little weight on, to which he was moved into the middle rotations for the Warriors. Pretty sure his mum plays NRLW?? I can’t see him knocking off Lane or Matterson but we all know Brown never plays a full season so he could find some decent time in the middle…

Could lose a bit of coin and be a decent pick up around Origin time also with the like of Brown and Matterson likely missing time over that period.

Maybe IPAP gets a few mins on an edge and Matto spits dummy and quits club?

In all seriousness Ipap may challenge Lane for a start. Lane was benched towards end of 2020 IIRC

my tv broke wrote:Maybe IPAP gets a few mins on an edge and Matto spits dummy and quits club?

In all seriousness Ipap may challenge Lane for a start. Lane was benched towards end of 2020 IIRC

Maybe Cartwright wins that race

Not much to see on Parra apart from Moses.

Moses average artificially inflated slightly by games without D Brown in last few games of season 

Will obviously still dominate KM but not going to have similar games with 600 and 800+ KM

RandomSil wrote:SI TOUCHED STUFF HE SHOULDN'T HAVE!

Should be all better now with no more issues... right?

If it's got anything to do with the sexual assault charge previously then we're in trouble.

Welshy wrote:
I'm going to take off 5 total tries in interest of fairness and calculate he misses 2 games due to injury......so only the projected 61 tries this season

(3 try a game average, 22 games played minus the 5 tries off total) - Apologies, homeschooling has gotten to me

No apologies needed. How do you think you're going? Reckon you'll pass English?

easytiger wrote:
Nathaniel Roache? (not listed for some reason)

I think he was signed as one of the dev players outside the 30, which seems slightly outside the spirit of the concept

MWZ retiring after suffering “acute kidney failure” in the offseason. Hate to see those kind of career endings.

Can't believe Jordan Rankin is still going around.

robelgordo wrote:MWZ retiring after suffering “acute kidney failure” in the offseason. Hate to see those kind of career endings.

Not saying it's the case but kidney issues in elite athletes always make me think of the Auckland Blues Rugby Union team of the mid/late 90s.
A number of them had kidney issues after they retired and it was a bit sus.

Camo123 wrote:Moses average artificially inflated slightly by games without D Brown in last few games of season 

Will obviously still dominate KM but not going to have similar games with 600 and 800+ KM

Good thing is he plays round 13.

Camo123 wrote:Moses average artificially inflated slightly by games without D Brown in last few games of season 

Will obviously still dominate KM but not going to have similar games with 600 and 800+ KM

And possibly artificially deflated by a 13 point 34 minute effort (and a recurrent calf? injury problem).

Anyway, he's only $6K dearer than the start of 2020, and curiously exactly the same price that he ended 2020.

easytiger wrote:

And possibly artificially deflated by a 13 point 34 minute effort (and a recurrent calf? injury problem).

Anyway, he's only $6K dearer than the start of 2020, and curiously exactly the same price that he ended 2020.

Definitely already excluded injury from calculation 

Priced 57.2, total injury excluded average 59.4, average with D Brown is 58.1

Funny that my season lesson was to pick halves who dominate KM and I’m leaning against that in early stages