NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 42 - Tofu Haggis

danseels1985 wrote:Is trading in Meaney a bad idea if Hynes and Coates are my other WFBs? Aim higher with Turbo or Teddy?

Teeth Eater wrote:Sorry doods, I don't believe one can search for three letter words so I can't search back too far, but out of curiosity, no one interested in Hoy? 1. playing for a troubled team and 2. could lose his spot next week to Clifford and 3. no Clune last week, who undoubtedly eats into his scoring more than Crossland would?  

Not saying I'm interested myself, just noticed his name as I was seeing who I could afford as a swap for Schneider. Scored 24, 49 and 46 in his three starts this year. 46 last week at five eighth not a bad effort, but way too many causes for concern, though.

Boozecluez wrote:Squad value update this week is 13.32m plus 32k banked if people were curious

Still potential for some slow burn earning but most are drying up now so less worried about making cash.
Can afford to hold some players losing a little but I am finally in a luxury of not having to risk short term potential dodgy cash outs.

If people have been curious what I have been doing
The first few weeks I fixed the team to get it stable and with the right cows/players with potential
These early fixes helped build my cash reserve and took a while to start seeing the earlier sacrifices/benefit (Ie not chasing the top tier guns for the instant fix)
The past few weeks I have been focusing more on getting the cash into the playing 17 to maximise the potential points rather than having too much tied up in NPR's
So it meant having to offload a couple players I could have possibly held but their cash allowed big upgrades and more stable points elsewhere

Also made sure I avoided too many risks on the 13-17 bench (Ie having to play risky backs or players with questionable minutes/role) so made this my POD and you could say this has been paying off
Last week my bench scored 266 points so similar to the hooker year, it does a lot of the heavy lifting at the expense of spreading the cash a little thinner and missing a gun or 2

Next stage is timing the final cow trades from rd13 bye into rd14 for the run home and last bye

Though I have just mostly gone with gut trades, players I like to watch and a rough game plan and stuck to it
Trying to keep things fresh and perhaps give things or old strategies a shake

Loomer wrote:

Have both. Could get JJ instead of Cook this week and have money for 400k odd player to Tohu next week. What you think. Cook keeper and seems like great C pick this week

Boozecluez wrote:

Like the above, depends on what you do with the other cash and the team balance
Meaney might be good if it allows you to upgrade another 300-400k player into a more playable option
Ie Papy frees up and get you say Meaney+Elliott with potential to make some quick cash and points until rd 14, and pushes a weaker player out of the scoring week to week

Then swap them to stable rd17 players or perhaps your guns like TTrbo/Teddy etc and hold on for the ride home

The game is all calculated gambles, just depends on how much you want to risk

Mulvy wrote:

It's a pretty good example of how to play the game every year. Fix the team, get the cash cows. Patience. Once you've got the cash going, try to save trades and then get some of that cash into the 17. One thing you mentioned was "cows/players with potential". May is a good case study here. I didn't get him, always sceptical of unproven non-base price wingers with iffy JS. But at the very start of the season, low BE, best team in the comp, getting it wrong really only costs you a trade, getting lucky puts you in the driver's seat, it was a good punt.

I'm going okay obviously, but I'm going to need some extra cash generation and a bit of luck. Trades will be made with that in mind.

Boozecluez wrote:

The difference with May was he reminded me of To'o and alot of the good teams use these players for RM early in the tackle set
So realised they probably were going to copy paste the game plan

It's hard but being conservative with trades early often meant it was hard to make gains and I wasn't going to take huge gambles
That and starting with captain Mahoney,DFifita,AFB,Taumalolo you got to try something

If anything I did the opposite of risk and went safe middle players with upside to see how that worked this year and hopefully dodge most
of those 20scores that you can get 2-3 off or a bench full of failed guns
Sure the gun scores a 70 but those little ones add up quick overall
Easy enough to trade down and grab one if it came to it, but paying a little more this year for the next tier has been gold

Anyways its only round 10 but sharing now for shits and giggles end of the year
It will be interesting regardless of what happens

Bethany_B wrote:

What are your thoughts on To'o given this?

I was initially on Meaney but think To'o is a better bet - only ~95k more and is much more likely to be a keeper given that Meaney only has a limited timeframe at FB.

To'o does play Origin but that doesn't matter here since Meaney doesn't play round 13 either and Papy will likely be back by round 17 anyway. To'o is also pretty likely to back up given that the Panthers have both their R14 and R18 games on the Sunday.

Looking at To'o's stats from last year, he is still a keeper even under new scoring (59 average last year becomes 53 with new scoring), and isn't affected as much as other WFBs by the rule changes as he always had a high base.

Bethany_B wrote:

What are your thoughts on To'o given this?

I was initially on Meaney but think To'o is a better bet - only ~95k more and is much more likely to be a keeper given that Meaney only has a limited timeframe at FB.

To'o does play Origin but that doesn't matter here since Meaney doesn't play round 13 either and Papy will likely be back by round 17 anyway. To'o is also pretty likely to back up given that the Panthers have both their R14 and R18 games on the Sunday.

Looking at To'o's stats from last year, he is still a keeper even under new scoring (59 average last year becomes 53 with new scoring), and isn't affected as much as other WFBs by the rule changes as he always had a high base.

My other option is to go Burton and run the gauntlet with both May and Koula at WFB alongside Hynes with no cover (and then try to trade Schneider to a WFB in the ~450k range next week)

White Lightning wrote:Who would you play (a) Starling or (b) Ilias

Here is my team:
Randall
Haas, Taumalolo, Tapine
TPJ, Fermor
Cleary (c), Burton
Tago, Penisini
Hynes, May, S, Crichton

Starling, Cotter, M. King, A. Elliott
Ilias, Leo Thompson, Billy Smith, Rushton

Thanks.

toast wrote:Need to catch up on the past few days of the forum to get some trade ideas because mine have been pretty ordinary.
Disappointed with my team but even more disappointed over the lack of 69 scores the past three rounds

Seriously, none since round 6. I can't believe it.

Mulvy wrote:

You're in a good position. I think you'll do well. Definitely seems a year where middies with upside make the money. Our starts couldn't be different. I nailed the guns and original cashies and waited patiently for the cows that never came. Then picked Taaffe It shows what I've always thought, that how you trade during a season is infinitely more important than your starting squad.

toast wrote:Need to catch up on the past few days of the forum to get some trade ideas because mine have been pretty ordinary.
Disappointed with my team but even more disappointed over the lack of 69 scores the past three rounds

Seriously, none since round 6. I can't believe it.