NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 6 - I can't (C) Cleary now his shoulder's gone

King Assassin wrote:Hey Ya'll I added a little team tracker to my profile. Any help and feedback is greatly appreciated and ill be getting to all your team trackers as soon as possible and try and help out as much as I can xoxo

I’ll look now. Then I’m off to bed.

Are they upgrading dual positions before thursday

How reliable is Michael Carayannis who says Walker is kicking for Easts?

I mean, I've just squeezed him anyway. Possibly not a sensible choice next to Keary but can't be running without *any* of the Roosters spine. So many points on offer and the one or two conversions he makes from eight attempts will just be a cherry on top. Running without hooker cover because effectively he's coming in for Erin Clark, but YOLO, he'll be better to watch.

mickspicks wrote:
Bench looks favourable to Uto. I'm trying to get both.

Tamou back next week

Welshy wrote:What's the upside of Cheese?

It's delicious and has so many different flavours, goes well with Marmite on toast

mattnz wrote:I have a feeling that many are going to miss some of the base priced cows at $220-240k and regret it during the season.

Been thinking about this, and basically: no.

I have nine 300k-350k players because that's where the value and cash generation looks to be (Randall, Bullemor, Penisini, Crichton, Tuilagi, Amone, Ilias, Coates, Tago - the only one I can't fit in is Nanai but can't have them all). I have two 240k players (Schneider and King, and I'm not entirely sold on King).

I know perfectly well that some of those 300-350 guys will be busts - it's also probably true that a few of of eg. Leo Thompson, Koula, Russell, Vailea, AFifita will be Johnny Trapcow, while one or two of them could be Jimmy Greatcow. The point is *that's what trades are for* - certainly your first few trades: fixing your team and getting on the moneymakers you missed when you know better than on Rnd1 TLT that their BE is low/negative and their security is good.

And here's the main point with that: *it's easier to trade down than up*. If you're stuck with TrapcowX2 it could take weeks and extra trades to fix it up to get on the moneymaking 350ks you missed, by which time they'll be the moneymaking 420ks and you might be selling players you shouldn't to fund it. If you missed the 220k Mr Greatcow, so what? Buy him and bank cash if one of your picks is faltering, and if none of them are faltering then you're in gravy anyway. There's no season-long regrets to that either way, the regrets come when you have a couple of players scoring 15 or zero each week with no bank to trade optimally to the real moneymakers, while also hindering your ability to do what you want with the rest of your team.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Been thinking about this, and basically: no.

I have nine 300k-350k players because that's where the value and cash generation looks to be (Randall, Bullemor, Penisini, Crichton, Tuilagi, Amone, Ilias, Coates, Tago - the only one I can't fit in is Nanai but can't have them all). I have two 240k players (Schneider and King, and I'm not entirely sold on King).

I know perfectly well that some of those 300-350 guys will be busts - it's also probably true that a few of of eg. Leo Thompson, Koula, Russell, Vailea, AFifita will be Johnny Trapcow, while one or two of them could be Jimmy Greatcow. The point is *that's what trades are for* - certainly your first few trades: fixing your team and getting on the moneymakers you missed when you know better than on Rnd1 TLT that their BE is low/negative and their security is good.

And here's the main point with that: *it's easier to trade down than up*. If you're stuck with TrapcowX2 it could take weeks and extra trades to fix it up to get on the moneymaking 350ks you missed, by which time they'll be the moneymaking 420ks and you might be selling players you shouldn't to fund it. If you missed the 220k Mr Greatcow, so what? Buy him and bank cash if one of your picks is faltering, and if none of them are faltering then you're in gravy anyway. There's no season-long regrets to that either way, the regrets come when you have a couple of players scoring 15 or zero each week with no bank to trade optimally to the real moneymakers, while also hindering your ability to do what you want with the rest of your team.

Swap Nanai for Coates and thank me later

King Assassin wrote:

Swap Nanai for Coates and thank me later

Need the WFB cover...

rhinoceroo wrote:

Need the WFB cover...

I saw crichton in that list youll be fine just do it xo

King Assassin wrote:

Swap Nanai for Coates and thank me later

Note this is coming from a guy that has played with Nanai, first hand experience.

mattnz wrote:

Note this is coming from a guy that has played with Nanai, first hand experience.

Has he played Coates though?

Have managed to put together a team I don't hate:

Smith
Lolo, Bullemor, JKing
Fifita, Fermor
Hunt, Amone
Burton, Penisini
Pap, Hynes, Crichton

Randall, Tuilagi, Nanai, Schneider
Ilias, Coates, Tago, Vailea

191k ITB

Similar to Rhinoceroo, team is packed with 300-350k players, which I'm mostly happy with. Bit concerned about what happens with King when Grant is back, and if Tago is going to be any good without Cleary.

Quite a bit of cash on hand - Can upgrade Hunt to DCE, Lolo to Haas, or try get some better coverage for MID on the bench - likely upgrading Tuilagi to ???

Keen to get some thoughts.

WT2K wrote:No surprises here.

Early team news

Simpkin, Hastings and Gildart to all start. Peachey on the bench, Joe O at lock. Jimmy the Jet also named to start

Everytime I see one of your posts it seems to mirror your avatar in regards to the Wests Tigers.

Right. I've stopped fiddling with my team now other than putting the VC on Nicho because the colour suits his shirt.

FaringdonSwirl wrote:Have managed to put together a team I don't hate:

Smith
Lolo, Bullemor, JKing
Fifita, Fermor
Hunt, Amone
Burton, Penisini
Pap, Hynes, Crichton

Randall, Tuilagi, Nanai, Schneider
Ilias, Coates, Tago, Vailea

191k ITB

Similar to Rhinoceroo, team is packed with 300-350k players, which I'm mostly happy with. Bit concerned about what happens with King when Grant is back, and if Tago is going to be any good without Cleary.

Quite a bit of cash on hand - Can upgrade Hunt to DCE, Lolo to Haas, or try get some better coverage for MID on the bench - likely upgrading Tuilagi to ???

Keen to get some thoughts.

You could just swap BSmith and Randall to get viable MID coverage

Going to be interesting to see where all the cash comes from to get guys like Grant, Cleary, McInnes early on when they return

Camo123 wrote:Going to be interesting to see where all the cash comes from to get guys like Grant, Cleary, McInnes early on when they return

And Latrell and Tohu. And everyone will want Turbo at some point.

rhinoceroo wrote:Right. I've stopped fiddling with my team now other than putting the VC on Nicho because the colour suits his shirt.

After the addition of a young back rower i hope...

My team post TLT (89k left)

Randall
Haas (c) Stefano Bullemor
Nanai Tuilagi
Ilias Amone
Burton Bird
Papenhuyzen Hynes Crichton

IPap Grant* Mann Schneider
Tago* Russell Walters MKing

Currently looping Grant and Tago (who may be Billy Smith) - may upgrade Grant to Mahoney/Fifita

What I don’t like: EMG - Russell might become more viable WFB cover with cash. Halves seem quite weak without Cleary

Camo123 wrote:

You could just swap BSmith and Randall to get viable MID coverage

Yeah cheers mate, I had actually already done that but forgot to list it that way. Still think I'm short a mid as he will also be covering hooker.