NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 52 - Tevita Pangai, Bye Round Captain

Fortitude wrote:

A lot of people trading out the penis. Are people worried his epic KO might impact him going forward?

Obviously aitken is a better keeper option. But, Penisy is doing a decent job, and yes he might not be playing this bye round. But he will be playing next bye round.

I got super lucky with Penisini, Tago and Crichton doing as well as they have. I just hate how easily centres can have a run of low scores and lose cash. I'd wait on Aitken to go down but he's a little too consistent to lose much without an early HIA or the like. And it wouldn't hurt to have Aitken this round either. My RD 17 BYE team is looking pathetic, but I imagine many of the top teams will be in a similar boat. If I can save 8 trades for RD 17 then I could at least get 4 keepers out and back in for that BYE and after it.

Holy Moly wrote:And it wouldn't hurt to have Aitken this round either.

I think if you plan to pick up Aitken then its a no brainer to do it this round

Milchcow wrote:

There's a way to avoid this sort of mistake. It involves mangling the first letter of people's first names into their Christian names into their surnames. results in some unwieldy rubbish that is shocking to look at. But if it helps people avoid confusing the 2, maybe we should use it here. Anyone have any ideas for how we can distinguish between Max King and Josh King so that robelgordo can tell them apart?

Maxing & Joshing???

my tv broke wrote:

I think if you plan to pick up Aitken then its a no brainer to do it this round

I was holding off because I was thinking that I could run Tago/Penisini/Burton in centre after the bye and just forget about Aitken, but it's comfortable having him there no worrying so much about fluctuations.

my tv broke wrote:

Penis just surplus to requirements with Burton and Tago already, and I'm bringing in Aitken this week.

With Burton tago and aitken it makes sense.

I have Burton, Tago, Aitken and Penis.......and Koula and Manu.....

In an ideal world, I'd keep Penisini, but trading to Burton is a 10 point upgrade & doing SCrit to Burton which is my other option leaves me playing two of Koula/Savage/Kiraz at WFB which is yuck.

Have faith in Hasting & Starling coming good so they're not going anywhere. Could do Hunt to Burton instead, but I feel like I'd rather have Hunt & Burton in my team than Penis and Burton.

So it's so long and thanks for the 205k to Penisini.

mrbrownstone wrote:In an ideal world, I'd keep Penisini, but trading to Burton is a 10 point upgrade & doing SCrit to Burton which is my other option leaves me playing two of Koula/Savage/Kiraz at WFB which is yuck.

Have faith in Hasting & Starling coming good so they're not going anywhere. Could do Hunt to Burton instead, but I feel like I'd rather have Hunt & Burton in my team than Penis and Burton.

So it's so long and thanks for the 205k to Penisini.

I'm not convinced Burton's worth it at 727k, just hold Penisini a week and get CGraham/Lomax/Ramien or someone else who's better value for similar price. Could even just keep the man himself and save yourself a trade

Bethany_B wrote:

I'm not convinced Burton's worth it at 727k, just hold Penisini a week and get CGraham/Lomax/Ramien or someone else who's better value for similar price. Could even just keep the man himself and save yourself a trade

That seems sideways.

wolfking wrote:

That seems sideways.

Probably is, might be best to just keep Penisini. I sold him a while ago to get Cotter, but if I still had him I would 100% be holding

Aitken will see out the year at the Warriors.... right?

wolfking wrote:

Technically the trade doesn't need to be done until Sunday mate.  Unless you need the funds saved for another trade.

Will be putting the C on Angus. So, need to make the trade tonight

Weekly Lone Scout hate-read. Tbh it was mostly sensible stuff this week, credit where it's due.

However, it did produce the following headscratchers:

- Sell TPJ to Crichton, Tapine, or SST (umm..1/3 ain't bad I guess)
- Buy Garrick (can't get behind it myself, but not the worst advice)
- SST a left-field captaincy option (ok, come on now)

mrbrownstone wrote:- SST a left-field captaincy option (ok, come on now)

Well its pretty left field.. lol

Captain Sexton is the go

mrbrownstone wrote:Weekly Lone Scout hate-read. Tbh it was mostly sensible stuff this week, credit where it's due.

However, it did produce the following headscratchers:

- Sell TPJ to Crichton, Tapine, or SST (umm..1/3 ain't bad I guess)
- Buy Garrick (can't get behind it myself, but not the worst advice)
- SST a left-field captaincy option (ok, come on now)

SST the greatest bye round troll of all time, I love that.

on Discord they fucking love Garrick and I don't get it.

Fortitude wrote:

I’m trading out starling. Hate watching players on the bench hoping they come on early.

Also, as a raiders supporter, I don’t mind seeing him tear up if he isn’t in my fantasy team.

Hastings seems like the sort of player that will score well when tanks are full. Will keep an eye on him after a two week break. If he runs balls less, I’ll move him up the chopping board list after the final bye

Good points for both. Happy to punt starling for the reasons you've mentioned.

Bethany_B wrote:

SST the greatest bye round troll of all time, I love that.

on Discord they fucking love Garrick and I don't get it.

I guess scoring 60 points vs the storm in a beaten side without scoring a try will get peoples attention

Garrick is filling Turbo's role, so he does what Turbo does and scores the same, no?

To be fair, I don't think it's the worst pick.

Garrick isn't much worse than any of the other WFB options to me.

Probably has fullback locked up for the season, has a good base there and can go large.

I did consider him, ended up going against it, but I can see the attraction.

Milchcow wrote:
Garrick isn't much worse than any of the other WFB options to me.

Probably has fullback locked up for the season, has a good base there and can go large.

I did consider him, ended up going against it, but I can see the attraction.

I think he's already priced higher than he will average. That's the main problem.

Walsh is a similar punt, but he's 130k cheaper. (not convinced on him either, but might grab him)

If Garrick scored 35 last week would anyone be buying ?