NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 104 - What do numbers even mean anymore

my tv broke wrote:Amone arrested and denied bail for chasing a nearby (to his house) tradie with a hammer (and smashing up his ute).

Hahaha man rugby league

Did he tell Amone how shit he is?

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What a time to be alive. Got some summer loving and now fantasy is open

Looks like it is possible to do a decent COWS GUNS this year

Grant
Bmith Tapine Niukore
Barnett Schuster
Doueihi Hastings
Bird Manu
Dunster Ponga Weekes

Hodgson Metcalf/Te Maire Martin Stone Doorey

Blore Luke Alamoti

my tv broke wrote:Amone arrested and denied bail for chasing a nearby (to his house) tradie with a hammer (and smashing up his ute).

Hahaha man rugby league

I just can’t even. Read the article about it and it’s just bizarre all round.

Pretty sure Sullivan is our 5/8 now. Amone is getting stood down for sure

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:

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What a time to be alive. Got some summer loving and now fantasy is open

Looks like it is possible to do a decent COWS GUNS this year

Hodgson
Sutton Stone Niukore
Hopgood Garner
Hynes Hastings
Tabuai-Fidow Rennings
Manu Mitchell Tedesco

Bmith Schuster Metclaf Blore

Terrell-May Talau Dunster Weekes  

You lucky dolphin!

mintotheimmortal wrote:

Personally too many doubts at this stage about how they'll replace api. With Luke being a more like-for-like to Api do they keep Kenny in a similar role and use Luke for that impact.

I reckon Luke comes off the bench but I have no idea how the rotation will work and if there's enough minutes for Kenny to be viable

Yeah, I guess it's too early to know what mins he's expected to get

robelgordo wrote:

I just can’t even. Read the article about it and it’s just bizarre all round.

Pretty sure Sullivan is our 5/8 now. Amone is getting stood down for sure

Can’t get through an off season without drama.

Sam Burgess in strife again tested positive to drugs in a roadside drugs test and driving unlicensed. He has put a statement out though saying he then had an independent negative urine test and that he has his license back.

Lets see what happens but his record isn’t good. If he’s guilty I think Souths will sack him.

Lots of people already keen on Cheese no surprise with DPP and at 585k priced at 41. His career avg at hooker is 49-50 in 60mins.

Rabbits21 wrote:Lots of people already keen on Cheese no surprise with DPP and at 585k priced at 41. His career avg at hooker is 49-50 in 60mins.

Not going to bother making a team until February, but the players I know who'll 100% be in it (barring injury) are Cheese and Ponga. And probably Milf, what the hell.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Not going to bother making a team until February, but the players I know who'll 100% be in it (barring injury) are Cheese and Ponga. And probably Milf, what the hell.

Cleary my first picked.

Not sure I can do Milf would probs be bad for my blood pressure!

So Turbo is off to the US I see that’s what I’d have already tried. I think it is well worth a shot.

Word from the Eels is that 250k option Matthew Doorey is most likely to get Papaliis starting spot

Rabbits21 wrote:
Cleary my first picked.

Not sure I can do Milf would probs be bad for my blood pressure!

Oh yeah, (C)leary as well for sure. So obvious that I forgot to say it.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Word from the Eels is that 250k option Matthew Doorey is most likely to get Papaliis starting spot

Interesting.

Will be curious to see where Matto fits in after suspension then.

L-Jimmy wrote:

Yeah, you'd feel pretty sick if you just graduated from law school too.

Me? I'm making sure my kids learn a trade. Anything white collar is too damn risky.

Get them into teaching.

I'm confident my job will be one of the last to be lost to the AI. In the absolute worst case, I will be a glorified babysitter (I already am for some deadbeat parents).

I'm bored at work so here's an early Christmas present don't all go copying this team at once

Hodgson
Tapine Cheese Hetherington (rumor playing edge)
Fifita Garner
Hastings CCleary
Te Whare I Thompson
Miller Turbo Latrell

Hopgood Blore SJ Stone

Jennings Chan Katoa Skelton

Don't forget to stock up on some hydration tools!

With the Kenny/Luke uncertainty, surely Yeo is a good option? I can't see him playing <70 minutes very often, especially with how dominant he was last year. Having lost Api through the middle I can see them relying on him even more.

Having seen some of your teams, and having had a look at this year's setup, I think it's going to be quite an exciting year for fantasy. Sure, having more squad depth would have been nice, but at least there will be way more to discuss week-to-week.

Anyone done a fantasy-specific bye analysis yet? I can imagine a string of weeks where gun after gun is having a bye and it comes as a shock. I'd do it myself but I don't want to.

Snatchpato wrote:
Anyone done a fantasy-specific bye analysis yet?

God no. The following is all quick react...

With the big bye weeks (13,16,19) just having 13 starters instead of 17, perhaps matters a bit less than usual. Although there's probably still some planning required to get 13 (or close) out for all 3, with 7 teams plus Origin players unavailable.

The potential opportunity/trap is the medium bye weeks (14, 17, 20) straight after Origins with 3 teams off for each. Teams might be playing around 13 for those too if not careful.

Plus I agree week to week is going to be interesting e.g. Cleary/Panthers have a R3 bye... waiting until R4 and beyond might be viable? Trading him in and out is probably not viable but I''m sure some madmen (and women) might be tempted.

EDIT: another way of looking at byes

R13 and 14, they are 7 teams that play both weeks (less Origin players). Gets down to 5 teams if you go a 4 week windows around each Origin e.g. R11-14. Save yo trades people. And get used to playing with 15/16 occasionally IMO

robelgordo wrote:

God no. The following is all quick react...

With the big bye weeks (13,16,19) just having 13 starters instead of 17, perhaps matters a bit less than usual. Although there's probably still some planning required to get 13 (or close) out for all 3, with 7 teams plus Origin players unavailable.

The potential opportunity/trap is the medium bye weeks (14, 17, 20) straight after Origins with 3 teams off for each. Teams might be playing around 13 for those too if not careful.

Plus I agree week to week is going to be interesting e.g. Cleary/Panthers have a R3 bye... waiting until R4 and beyond might be viable? Trading him in and out is probably not viable but I''m sure some madmen (and women) might be tempted.

EDIT: another way of looking at byes

R13 and 14, they are 7 teams that play both weeks (less Origin players). Gets down to 5 teams if you go a 4 week windows around each Origin e.g. R11-14. Save yo trades people. And get used to playing with 15/16 occasionally IMO

I had a look.... The draft team I have picked could get through to Round 19 without making any changes to put a full team in. I reckon bye planning is going to be much less relevant this year (if you choose players that are not injury or suspension prone that is

Snatchpato wrote:
Get them into teaching.

I'm confident my job will be one of the last to be lost to the AI. In the absolute worst case, I will be a glorified babysitter (I already am for some deadbeat parents).

Did you not teach through co-vid ? Glorified babysitter is how the government defined your role. Suprised they haven't changed the job title.