2020 NRL Fantasy MISTAKE thread

Post your 2020 fantasy mistakes/errors

Include reasoning if you want, could help others not make same mistakes in new season.

UP vote for error donwvote for act of god

No Lomax all season. Refused to bring him in after fluking tries early season and using that as an excuse. Would of saved 5+ trades getting him in CTR

Trading in Milford mid season expecting a return to form after dropping a boat load of value

Trading Tolman out for Klemmer after his first game on the bench and seeing him on the bench again. He scored like 50 odd off the bench then averaged above well above 50 and easily outscored Klemmer

Mighty Fishes wrote:Trading Tolman out for Klemmer after his first game on the bench and seeing him on the bench again. He scored like 50 odd off the bench then averaged above well above 50 and easily outscored Klemmer

50/50 for me not much lost just a trade really mate

No Lomax all season

"Upgrading" Leilua to Angus Crichton the week Leilua got 100 and Crichton got injured - should have held 2 trades to not make move

Starting with no WFB cover which led to me getting Watkins who left during COVID break

Welshy wrote:
50/50 for me not much lost just a trade really mate

Klemmer ended the season with 39, 42 and 39.. I lost over 100 points haha

Camo123 wrote:No Lomax all season

"Upgrading" Leilua to Angus Crichton the week Leilua got 100 and Crichton got injured - should have held 2 trades to not make move

Starting with no WFB cover which led to me getting Watkins who left during COVID break

Ouch.

Mighty Fishes wrote:

Klemmer ended the season with 39, 42 and 39.. I lost over 100 points haha

Plus the price Klemmer probably was over Tolman. Will give you the mistake on that one

Taking JTB and Katoa out of my starting squad because I thought borders would close and Warriors would be out of the competition for a year.

Picking Moses over Cleary because of Parra's piss easy early schedule, which after round two became a difficult schedule.

Not sure what I can learn from those mistakes (or starting with Kallum Watkins) unless there's another pandemic, but made plenty more mistakes trying to correct them and burnt through trades in a damaging way.

Picking DWZ as third WFB for some reason I can't remember.

Danny Levi. Trading Lucy too soon.

Oh yes. I kept Levi for way too long

rhinoceroo wrote:Taking JTB and Katoa out of my starting squad because I thought borders would close and Warriors would be out of the competition for a year.

Picking Moses over Cleary because of Parra's piss easy early schedule, which after round two became a difficult schedule.

Not sure what I can learn from those mistakes unless there's another pandemic, but made plenty more mistakes trying to correct them and burnt through trades in a damaging way.

Picking DWZ as third WFB for some reason I can't remember.

Danny Levi.

Love the Levi bluntness.

Had Lomax for one round. He was named on the wing next round so I sold him.

filthridden wrote:Had Lomax for one round. He was named on the wing next round so I sold him.

Stinger. Absolute stinger

Forgot I started with Knight also. Dud middie pick

Averillo probably a dud especially as I got him over Lomas

Started with NBrown. Traded after the 2 low scores and he got injured. Traded him back in for round six which he then got suspended or injured again, so I traded him out again and he beasted it the rest of the year

tbh I was handicapped from the start as for my first season I had NO idea what I was doing, and didn't understand I had trade limits for the season (thought it was just for each round so I max traded sideways for the first 5 rounds lol).

With all that said:

- Trying to get every single cash cow
- Not getting on certain players just because "everyone else was doing it" i.e. Ben Hunt
- Overvaluing players I like in real life

Welshy wrote:

Ouch.

I think a fair few of my errors last year were maybe 65% bad luck and 35% bad decision making

2 times I bought someone and they got injured that week (Crichton & Arrow)

I think my actual biggest mistakes were chasing fixtures when I knew it was wrong move (Flanagan, JFH, Bateman)

Camo123 wrote:No Lomax all season

"Upgrading" Leilua to Angus Crichton the week Leilua got 100 and Crichton got injured - should have held 2 trades to not make move

Starting with no WFB cover which led to me getting Watkins who left during COVID break

Welshy wrote:

Ouch.

I can beat that. I also traded Leilua to Crichton the week Leilua tonned up and Crichton got injured. The other half of the trade was Mann to Wakeham who was dropped. You could argue that the first half was unlucky. Leilua had seemingly peaked and Angus, a genuine gun, was genuinely gunning it. Mann looked to be peaked. And Wakeham was a punt which didn't pay off. No one could really foresee a Leilua tonne and many were trading him out. And you can't help injuries with Crichton. No one expected Mann to do well as he was doing and it seemed temporary and seemed set to start losing money. Obviously I knew Wakeham had poor job security.

So yeah I was unlucky, Crichton being injured led to me being short when Matterson was a late out etc etc.

But it's ultimately not bad luck. My trades were poor. ALL trades need to be considered on their merits. With ALL trades, you need to consider both sides of the trade: do I need to trade this guy? Is the guy I'm trading in really necessary? Do I need to trade at all?

Camo123 wrote:

I think a fair few of my errors last year were maybe 65% bad luck and 35% bad decision making

2 times I bought someone and they got injured that week (Crichton & Arrow)

I think my actual biggest mistakes were chasing fixtures when I knew it was wrong move (Flanagan, JFH, Bateman)

Yea that is just gross luck mate. I never chase fixtures, never worth it

Was on Manu to start season years ago with a wild Roosters opening draw, absolute dud and sure he struggled to get over 30. was shit until mid season then morphed into the beast he is now