NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 49 - Funtime Fifita

gouds wrote:Currently struggling with either trading out fifita to TPJ/matterson or trading stefano to one of CHN/Curran/Flegler. Other trade is eitehr Simpkin/Leniu/Egan to Gamble.

I have money riding in two leagues, a H2H and total points with which I'm running 2nd in both (Only 4 mates in the leagues). I know the leader won't trade out fifita, and I'm currently 150 points behind him, so my thinking is if I trade out Fifita, I could catch him in the overall points league, but possibly lose out in the H2H as it will be hard to get Fifita back.

mattnz wrote:
CHN was available at the same time as Curran showed up. Got Curran after his 66 for a cheaper price and more points. Was a much better pick up which has made twice the cash already

danseels1985 wrote:If you are in my situation and you have the option to sell both Ponga and Fifita which any two players do you pick? Was thinking of Fogarty who has a lower BE and TPJ but I don’t want to miss Turbo. It’s hard having almost 1.7m to spend because I already have Haas and Harris and not sure which other players I should prioritise. Any thoughts?

BCT05 wrote:

Who are your wfb's without Ponga?

mrbrownstone wrote:What do people think of JFH as a R13 option?

If Pap is a late out Stefano -> JFH is probably my back up plan to field 17.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Yup, this is very good advice. I take that to mean both projecting out trades and cash flow. It takes a bit of effort to do this. And the shitty thing is, you invariably have to re-do the analysis each week as curve balls get thrown at you. It's well worth it though.

I also suspect, from reading this thread, and helpfully recalling previous seasons well enough, that the end game that people are aiming for in terms of final squad, might have to be tempered a little, due to all the injuries and subsequent trades burnt, meaning cash generation this year may well be quite a bit lower than usual. All just a hunch though as Im not actually playing in the NRLF comp this year.

Would that be correct MS? I mean in past seasons you'd be hoping for close to a gun 17 + a solid 18th man, maybe another average player for cover at 19, and then two red dots from about round 19. Is that looking possible this year?

danseels1985 wrote:

Teddy,Pap and Laurie

Moanaman wrote:And this is the sound of a Hamstring tearing at the 30mtr line.....

100m Dash during Magic Round

Great News for us non Turbo owners....

Milchcow wrote:

I personally am still aiming for a pretty good final squad but my bye rounds are going to suffer. It won't be an ideal 17, but it very rarely is across all positions.
Spending so many trades on injuries means I can't afford to bring  someone in just for a couple of weeks over byes though

mrbrownstone wrote:What do people think of JFH as a R13 option?

If Pap is a late out Stefano -> JFH is probably my back up plan to field 17.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Yep need to project forward trades and also cash flow. Cash flow doesn't need to be exact but you need a general idea on if you can afford to spend 800k on the flavour of the week that just scored 100, or if you should take the 650k option that didn't just score 3 tries

Seems that a lot of people that have burnt trades going sideways, chasing flavour of the week as well as injuries + suspension so will not get an ideal 17

I'm not too sure on exactly how others are tracking, but for me I'm sacrificing the "perfect" 17 for the run home and instead aiming to make up ground in the bye rounds. Running with someone like Fogarty instead of DCE will cost a few points in the run home, but more than makes up for it during the byes

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I'd consider going a week early on Welch to Koro. Koro probably scores an extra 10-15 points on Welch (that Storm bench though) and the price difference probably only gets 10-15k closer.

With Roberts only long term red dot(I'm assuming Simpkin returns) I would probably hold him. If you planned to hold Schuster through round 13 moving him on to Lolo would give you a points boost and same number of players for bye, although I'd probably go Tohu for some security in minutes.

Tough week for 2nd trade it might be worth just banking

wolfking wrote:

Probably worth banking another one mate.  Your team is awesome.