2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 8

Knights official page is carrying this story (as well as NRL.com)

http://www.newcastleknights.com.au/content/knights/club/news/2016/02/29/history_making_debut.html

Twins Daniel and Jacob Saifiti will make further history when they become the first twins to make their NRL debut together in 108-years of rugby league.

The 19-year old twins will be joined by Jaelen Feeney, Pat Mata'utia and new recruit David Bhana.

Honey Badger wrote:
Does that mean having jniko at hooker? I had the idea of picking moses and having niko at hooker and when moses peaks or when farah is back trade him out for a second gun hooker

No JNiko at all. Just don't think he'll make enough cash to be worth it.

But Moses averages 46 without Farah. And in the 7 games he played without Farah last year, every single one he scored above his average of 32.5

The cheapest hooker I am considering at the moment is Hodgson. Just do not trust any of the other cheapies to score well enough or make cash fast enough to justify.

The only thing that would change that is if I get super desperate to get Tedesco into my team. With teddy its very hard to try and make an objective judgement about having him in my fantasy team

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Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Team atm is

Seggy, Lichaa
Surgess, Grant, Evans, BLaw
Merrin, SST, Cartwright, LAM, Leuluai, Bhana
DCE, Hastings, Taylor, JNikorima
Aubbs, CLaw, Auvaa, Henry
Mansour, Gordon, Feeney, Mitchell, Gutherson

Extremely similar to my team bar 5

rhinoceroo wrote:Mole has Nathan Green - listed as a $170k centre - as starting 2rf for Manly. Also says Tom Trbo will start fullback, but not sure how long Stewart out.

Mole has the worst strike rate for the ITKs as long as I've been doing fantasy

Jacob Saifiti has been added to the system!

and on a more personal note, also added to my team!

Saifiti bros. are available - Jacob 2RF only, Daniel FRF only

Bren wrote:
Finger Puppet your inbox.

Done

Finger Puppet Mafia wrote:

Done

I was making a joke towards the user YourName.... nevermind.

Milchcow wrote:

No JNiko at all. Just don't think he'll make enough cash to be worth it.

But Moses averages 46 without Farah. And in the 7 games he played without Farah last year, every single one he scored above his average of 32.5

The cheapest hooker I am considering at the moment is Hodgson. Just do not trust any of the other cheapies to score well enough or make cash fast enough to justify.

The only thing that would change that is if I get super desperate to get Tedesco into my team. With teddy its very hard to try and make an objective judgement about having him in my fantasy team

Yeah the only way i can get teddy is to have parcell as my 2nd hooker

Fellas whats the difference between:

NRL FANTASY FANATICS OVERALL GROUP league

and

(EX-SPORTAL) NRL FANTASY FANATICS league

Finger Puppet Mafia wrote:Fellas whats the difference between:

NRL FANTASY FANATICS OVERALL GROUP league

and

(EX-SPORTAL) NRL FANTASY FANATICS league

NRL FANTASY FANATICS OVERALL GROUP is the one we will be using to rank all league participants by their overall scores (also the one we will be using for the eliminator) all League members MUST join this league.

EX-SPORTAL is to raise awareness of the new website and is open to everyone where as the NFLFF league is for forum members only.

Bren wrote:
NRL FANTASY FANATICS OVERALL GROUP is the one we will be using to rank all league participants by their overall scores (also the one we will be using for the eliminator) all League members MUST join this league.

EX-SPORTAL is to raise awareness of the new website and is open to everyone where as the NFLFF league is for forum members only.

Sounds good. thanks for the update.

Milchcow wrote:

No JNiko at all. Just don't think he'll make enough cash to be worth it.

But Moses averages 46 without Farah. And in the 7 games he played without Farah last year, every single one he scored above his average of 32.5

The cheapest hooker I am considering at the moment is Hodgson. Just do not trust any of the other cheapies to score well enough or make cash fast enough to justify.

The only thing that would change that is if I get super desperate to get Tedesco into my team. With teddy its very hard to try and make an objective judgement about having him in my fantasy team

Not sure if im feeling you on that one. Has decent base stats could be good for 40 points a game. Scored two tries in his 54 and the other high scores came from massive KM.

Not sure if he would see 335 - 600+ km every game? Was a HLF injured those games?

Bren wrote:


I was making a joke towards the user YourName.... nevermind.

I got it, which made FPM's response a good laugh

Will Nikorima be reserve hooker when Pearce comes back?

Does anyone want to guess the Knights forward pack minutes. I'll start, but I'm only guessing

Snowden 55
Randall 55
Mataora 35
Rochow 80
J Saifiti 50
Smith 60

Pauli 40
Bhana 30
D Saifiti 25
K Sims 50

lukeaye wrote:

Not sure if im feeling you on that one. Has decent base stats could be good for 40 points a game. Scored two tries in his 54 and the other high scores came from massive KM.

Not sure if he would see 335 - 600+ km every game? Was a HLF injured those games?

Those are the games Robbie Farah missed.

Even take out his 2 try performance and its still a 45 point average from 6 games.

Tigers have 4 home games in the first 5 rounds and the away game is against Gold Coast. The draw is as good as its going to get for him.

Of course I could always dump him for Nike and get Tedesco instead of Gordon/Slater.

Milchcow wrote:

Those are the games Robbie Farah missed.

Even take out his 2 try performance and its still a 45 point average from 6 games.

Tigers have 4 home games in the first 5 rounds and the away game is against Gold Coast. The draw is as good as its going to get for him.

Of course I could always dump him for Nike and get Tedesco instead of Gordon/Slater.

I was more interested in the KM. I understand robbie was out, but to get those sort of KM was their an injured half?

I know robbie did a fair bit of kicking from dummy half as well though.

Brooks and Moses played all but 1 game in the halves together.
Moses picked up more of Farah's kicking the Brooks did.

There was Moses mammoth 616 kick metres in round 11. That was the 8-0 game against the cowboys over origin. Given there were basically no tries scored in the match there was a lot more general play kicking from everyone.
Lachlan Coote kicked tor 482m in that game too.

But even ignoring those kick metres and the 2 tries in round 15, Moses still averaged 44. He just does a lot more with no Farah. Average touches per game went from 36 to 52 in those games. It was less than a third of his games, but generated half of his attacking stats for the year.

Halatau was starting hooker in these games and that I'm not sure having Cherrington there will have the same effect.