NRL Fantasy 2021 - In my opinion, this is part 8

Oh nice fair enough thanks for the responses. Follow up question I guess: why did guys like Havili (who played MID plenty last year) lose their DPP and guys like Crichton who barely (if ever) played MID last year keep their DPP? 

Is it just the derps at NRL.com being derps, or is there a rule/algorithm for it?

Snatchpato wrote:Oh nice fair enough thanks for the responses. Follow up question I guess: why did guys like Havili (who played MID plenty last year) lose their DPP and guys like Crichton who barely (if ever) played MID last year keep their DPP? 

Is it just the derps at NRL.com being derps, or is there a rule/algorithm for it?

It's just the vibe of the thing. It's a game, they make the rules, most of the time they make sense. We role with it accordingly. There's no formula.

Snatchpato wrote:Oh nice fair enough thanks for the responses. Follow up question I guess: why did guys like Havili (who played MID plenty last year) lose their DPP and guys like Crichton who barely (if ever) played MID last year keep their DPP? 

Is it just the derps at NRL.com being derps, or is there a rule/algorithm for it?

Unlike stats which NRL uses external providers, DPP is purely a fantasy feature which I think only Lone scout has control of

michaelz101 wrote:

Unlike stats which NRL uses external providers, DPP is purely a fantasy feature which I think only Lone scout has control of

Has Lone Scout's identity ever been revealed?

Holy Moly wrote:

Has Lone Scout's identity ever been revealed?

Don't think so. We all assume it's Chris Kennedy though.

Holy Moly wrote:

Has Lone Scout's identity ever been revealed?

Have you ever seen Dom Brock fantasy team?

AL wrote:

If you start without Cleary who will be your (C)?

Crichton

I was just thinking to myself if Cleary will be able to sustain his enormous kick meters every game? After what Melbourne did to him in that GF by rushing him on every 5th tackle to shut him down could be a new game plan to shut down his kicking game. You'd figure surely coaches will look to do that this year and heavily pressure him. Just a cheeky thought, keen to get your guys' opinion on it

Mulvy wrote:

Don't think so. We all assume it's Chris Kennedy though.

That's very nice secret keeping. Spose could do a text analysis to determine if the same language was used in Kennedy's and the Scout's posts, but that might be just a little bit nerdy.

rhinoceroo wrote:Why is Davey in so many teams when Gosiewski seems 95% sure to be the Manly starting 2RF (and is 75k cheaper)?

A man (or woman) can dream can’t he (or she).

Ramitinmyhaaas wrote:I was just thinking to myself if Cleary will be able to sustain his enormous kick meters every game? After what Melbourne did to him in that GF by rushing him on every 5th tackle to shut him down could be a new game plan to shut down his kicking game. You'd figure surely coaches will look to do that this year and heavily pressure him. Just a cheeky thought, keen to get your guys' opinion on it

It might work early in the game, but if this year the game's quicker, maybe the defender's have less energy for rushing him??

Ramitinmyhaaas wrote:I was just thinking to myself if Cleary will be able to sustain his enormous kick meters every game? After what Melbourne did to him in that GF by rushing him on every 5th tackle to shut him down could be a new game plan to shut down his kicking game. You'd figure surely coaches will look to do that this year and heavily pressure him. Just a cheeky thought, keen to get your guys' opinion on it

I wouldn’t get too carried away playing different in game scenarios in my head. He is the best half in the game both fantasy and reality. Young, now tasted a GF loss will only motivate him I think been so close yet missing out

am I dumb to be loading up on the Titans?

Watson
Tino, Crichton, TKO
Fifita, Riki
(C)leary, Fog
Averillo, Niu
Papy, Brimson, Laurie

Brailey, Lam, Hoy, Liddle

Leniu, Uto, Hola, Simonsson

$48k ITB

michaelz101 wrote:

Have you ever seen Dom Brock fantasy team?

I always wondered if it was Dom, I ran a Celebrities comp last year and Dom was the only one who didn't play, or did he?

rhinoceroo wrote:

There are no sources that are perfect, but pretty confident that both the subject himself and the most trusted reporter are better than NRL.com.

Look at the thread title. It was named in honour of what you should be saying more so that newbies on here don't get misguided

(And thanks for the downvote again, btw, keep them coming)

Don't worry mate, this noobie knows you barnacles have not much more clue than anyone else, noone should take opinions as gospel, or get bent out of shape over people having opinions

Antipodean1 wrote:


I always wondered if it was Dom, I ran a Celebrities comp last year and Dom was the only one who didn't play, or did he?

In their podcasts, I’ve always think he is the main guy and CK is his sidekick. I’ve tried to query this to him but he just ignored me

Welshy wrote:
But that’s his average. I wouldn’t touch Gosi with a 10ft pole his scores are gross

Damn Welshy, glad I read this, I 'had' Gosi on my bench, I wondered what the lingering smell was.

I did wonder why a guy priced at 288K and (quoting someone else) is 95% likely to get the edge has been avoided by 97.6% of players

Antipodean1 wrote:


I always wondered if it was Dom, I ran a Celebrities comp last year and Dom was the only one who didn't play, or did he?

Dom is lone scout.

Antipodean1 wrote:

Damn Welshy, glad I read this, I 'had' Gosi on my bench, I wondered what the lingering smell was.

I did wonder why a guy priced at 288K and (quoting someone else) is 95% likely to get the edge has been avoided by 97.6% of players

He's like Lewis Brown v2.0 now that I think of it

Bethany_B wrote:am I dumb to be loading up on the Titans?

Watson
Tino, Crichton, TKO
Fifita, Riki
(C)leary, Fog
Averillo, Niu
Papy, Brimson, Laurie

Brailey, Lam, Hoy, Liddle

Leniu, Uto, Hola, Simonsson

$48k ITB

I think it's fine to load up on a certain team, as long as each individual pick is justifiable. In my first year, 2016, pretty sure half my team was Roosters. Fifita's already a gun, just remains to be seen how gunny he is. Tino's quite popular and seems to be set for a decent role this year, but is still an unproven midranger who we are hoping to become a gun as far as fantasy goes. I've currently got him. Fogarty doesn't seem popular on here, I've got him currently. Again he's an unproven midranger as far as fantasy goes. I'm not expecting 65s, mid to high 50s I think is possible with goalkicking and taking ownership of the team and behind a better pack with Fifita outside him. There's a bit of gut feel about though, I admit. Brimson is a tier two gun at WFB who seems fully priced to me. Can't go wrong with him but not seeing any value there.

I'm wondering if the bigger concern rather than too many Titans, is too many midrangers. A lot of stuff has to go right for Tino, TKO, Fog etc to all come good.