NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 89 - Time to start pre season planning

Just short of grabbing Milf and DCE
Might be manageable if Moses misses this week

Strange season, that in the final round I’ll have 21 healthy players, with only chance of plays out are restings.

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, been a workhorse since day 1, they need him firing for finals.

If you want players firing for the finals you don't rest them unless their injured. When you miss even 1 game the next game you play it's takes 10-20 mins getting back on track & a game can be lost in this period of time.

The Eels will lose their first play off game if they are going to rest over half their team in round 25.

White Lightning wrote:The Eels will lose their first play off game if they are going to rest over half their team in round 25.

Hasn’t Bellamy been pretty outspoken on this in the past, that mass resting players fucked him one year as he won’t do it again .

filthridden wrote:

I was thinking about the same over the weekend. Vaguely recall it wasn't possible last year but remember a few years ago you could've not traded and still won by hundreds of points.

Having a quick play around and if you ran with this team and left it from day dot, you'd still be inside the top 20,000:

Brailey
Watson, Papali'i, Utoikamanu
Fifita, Schuster
Cleary, DCE (c)
Manu, Averillo
Garrick, Turbo, Rapana

Croker, Hughes, Hynes, Doueihi + 4x228k and you'd still have a bunch of cash left over.

That's not touching the team at all. First iteration I came up with. No doubt there's a better team than that that could be pushing much higher in the rankings.
Add in picking the right captain or at least selecting a different captain when DCE isn't playing then you'd be screaming up the ladder.

Fortitude wrote:
Hasn’t Bellamy been pretty outspoken on this in the past, that mass resting players fucked him one year as he won’t do it again .

Fairly certain they ran out something close to a reserve team in the last round last year and still managed to win the premiership so wouldn't be too worried.

EDIT:

Storm team round 20, 2020:

1. Papenhuyzen
2. Sandor Earl (Vunivalu)
3. Leutele (Olam
4. Momirovski (B. Lee)
5. Lumelume (Addo-Carr
6. Jacks (Munster)
7. Johns (Hughes)
8. Kamikamica (Bromwich)
9. B.Smith (C.Smith)
10. Welch
11. Eisenhuth (Kaufusi)
12. Lewis (Bromwich)
13. Booth (NAS)

14. King
15. Hynes
16. Schonig
17. Pene

Bolded players played the following week, first week of finals.

Last year was very different in regards to resting. 18 straight games with no byes meant that players didn't have a chance to rest up during the year. I'd expect pretty minimal resting this week for teams in contention

filthridden wrote:

Fairly certain they ran out something close to a reserve team in the last round last year and still managed to win the premiership so wouldn't be too worried.

EDIT:

Storm team round 20, 2020:

1. Papenhuyzen
2. Sandor Earl (Vunivalu)
3. Leutele (Olam
4. Momirovski (B. Lee)
5. Lumelume (Addo-Carr
6. Jacks (Munster)
7. Johns (Hughes)
8. Kamikamica (Bromwich)
9. B.Smith (C.Smith)
10. Welch
11. Eisenhuth (Kaufusi)
12. Lewis (Bromwich)
13. Booth (NAS)

14. King
15. Hynes
16. Schonig
17. Pene

Bolded players played the following week, first week of finals.

BuT hOw WeLL DiD tHeY gO iN tHe FiNaLs???

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Last year was very different in regards to resting. 18 straight games with no byes meant that players didn't have a chance to rest up during the year. I'd expect pretty minimal resting this week for teams in contention

I think you may be surprised then.

I'm expecting to see significant players rested from:
Storm (already indicated)
Eels (already indicated)
Rabbitohs (already indicated)
and possibly Panthers (Ivan indicated they have a plan - and it would be surprising if the plan is just to do what they do every week)

I'm not expecting much if any players rested from the Roosters (just too injured), the Knights (need to get momentum) or the Sea Eagles (not really Desies style)
Possibly a few from the Warriors too

FalconSloth wrote:@MTB will there be Finals Fantasy this year?

Unfortunately, wont be doing it.

Got the week off work next week, which leads into a bucks party over the first weekend of finals

Altho, if one of those nsw bastards brings the virus over the border, i may have a lot of free time...

filthridden wrote:

Having a quick play around and if you ran with this team and left it from day dot, you'd still be inside the top 20,000:

Brailey
Watson, Papali'i, Utoikamanu
Fifita, Schuster
Cleary, DCE (c)
Manu, Averillo
Garrick, Turbo, Rapana

Croker, Hughes, Hynes, Doueihi + 4x228k and you'd still have a bunch of cash left over.

That's not touching the team at all. First iteration I came up with. No doubt there's a better team than that that could be pushing much higher in the rankings.
Add in picking the right captain or at least selecting a different captain when DCE isn't playing then you'd be screaming up the ladder.

I had a crack, just eyeballing and some very basic calcs to check cap compliance at R1,, and was about 2000pts short of the overall lead, which would be good for about ~12500k. That factored the VC auto sub (get iPap two weeks, no C 1 week) but did not factor EMG auto sub of the 4*228k players in various weeks where you’d play short (eg Walker, Blore, etc). Was about 130k inside the cap at R1. Also Cleary-less

Brailey
Watson iPap (vc) Koala
Fifita Barnett
DCE (c) Young
Manu Rapana
Garrick Turbo Gutho

Croker Brooks Hynes iLiu

EDIT: I think the quick and dirty way to do would be extract R1 prices and total season points and pick a team based on pts per $. Wouldn’t be totally optimal for a number of scenarios but pretty accurate

y'all have way too much time on your hands

Snatchpato wrote:y'all have way too much time on your hands

I have a particular set of skills, took about 20 mins of ignoring my kids.

mrbrownstone wrote:Crazy, there's only 102k between Cleary and Turbo now.

And yet I didn't think he was a good buy at 477k

So, 2022 people will be tossing up between Chin & Turbo for mega-gun Capt.
No way anyone will be able to fit both in.

Was reading that Doueihi might be out for more than expected of 2022 as elective surgery isn't allowed currently in Sydney and Tigers told him to go to a specific surgeon in Sydney

The Bludger wrote:

So, 2022 people will be tossing up between Chin & Turbo for mega-gun Capt.
No way anyone will be able to fit both in.

Only need one. The biggest downside to not owning Cleary to start with wasn't missing out on 100 points, it was missing the DOUBLING of 100 points. Two guys averaging 50 will be worth a single Turbo if you already have Cleary. 

With that said I'll be getting both because I'm terrible and need an excuse right off the bat.

The Bludger wrote:

So, 2022 people will be tossing up between Chin & Turbo for mega-gun Capt.
No way anyone will be able to fit both in.

I'll go Cleary. Turbo is having a season for the ages but he's unlikely to repeat that.

Under V'landys ball I guess anything's possible but monstrous kick metres and goals are more sustainable than 20+ tries.

Mr Snrub wrote:

I'll go Cleary. Turbo is having a season for the ages but he's unlikely to repeat that.

Under V'landys ball I guess anything's possible but monstrous kick metres and goals are more sustainable than 20+ tries.

Yeah I think teddy showed this year that paying premium price for a wfb to start the season isn't a good idea.

Honey Badger wrote:

Yeah I think teddy showed this year that paying premium price for a wfb to start the season isn't a good idea.

Yeah I don't think Teddy will be a must-pick for me next year. First time I think that's the case