NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 5 - Assemble the base price players

Danny Levi will become Raider #388 and Pasami Saulo Raider #389, with both players named to start in the season opener. Saulo has been named in place of Josh Papalii who won’t be available with a calf injury.

No news on how long Big Papa will be out with a calf injury but I'll be watching for it.

Saulo $260K Mid

Not too many surprises.

Interested in Keppie

So strange that Curran is not preferred over Ford

Too many cheap & mid price options. Cant be fucked making a team yet.

How many teams are going to late shuffle their starting pack ?

Panthers bench is light..?

Aardvark wrote:Shut the Doorey (Time for Blorey?)

Twal on the bench. Didn't he start on bench and come on early before. Not edge but maybe reshuffles and Blore not 80 mins?

Papadontbleach wrote:Danny Levi will become Raider #388 and Pasami Saulo Raider #389, with both players named to start in the season opener. Saulo has been named in place of Josh Papalii who won’t be available with a calf injury.

No news on how long Big Papa will be out with a calf injury but I'll be watching for it.

Saulo $260K Mid

Great news for Tapine. Bring on the minutes and scores.

Now to wait on some DPP updates, see you thursday lunchtime

BCT05 wrote:Not too many surprises.

Interested in Keppie

So strange that Curran is not preferred over Ford

He still has his court case hanging over his head so maybe it's a tactic to minimize disruption?

Loomer wrote:

Twal on the bench. Didn't he start on bench and come on early before. Not edge but maybe reshuffles and Blore not 80 mins?

Probably but slightly more exciting pick than Doorey

Haven't really had to change too much from the team I had roughly planned in my head:


B Smith
Tapine Haas Keppie
Garner N Butcher
Cleary Doueihi
Alamoti HSS
Turbo Miller Warbrick

Boyd Hopgood Katoa Loiero

Ford Talau Doorey Katoa

Will inevitably play around and go back and forth on a few of those cheapies, but I don't see the crux of that changing too much.

Hodgson 80 minutes with no utility on the bench?

All this time I've been assuming that Doorey is an auto-pick as a base price starting edge in a good team without really looking into his numbers. He probably still is but an average of 29 on the edge when playing 30+ mins aint exactly inspiring.

Uto still looks trappy to me.

Minutes for Tigers:
Ofa - 60 (down on last season)
Klemmer - 60 (same as last season)
Twal - 50 (less than last years interchange minutes and much less than earlier years)
Pole - 40 minutes (less than his average minutes off the bench last season)

Would leave Uto with 30 minutes. Obviously he should get 40-45 as a starter, but hard to see him getting more than that.

Hodgson set for 80mins looks mildly interesting.

Shady2K wrote:Hodgson 80 minutes with no utility on the bench?

Good for score of 32

Surely someone could be driven to the joy of DPP (MID/HLF)Kurt Mann starting at LOCK...

A bargain at twice the price

I hate the fact that I am seriously considering Danny Levi.

mrbrownstone wrote:All this time I've been assuming that Doorey is an auto-pick as a base price starting edge in a good team without really looking into his numbers. He probably still is but an average of 29 on the edge when playing 30+ mins aint exactly inspiring.

Preston is on the bench, and Suia Wong didn't make the 17, so I think base price edges are Doorey or Blore

Doorey is boring, but has a few weeks in him, Blore is more exciting, but who knows what Bateman will do

Utoikamanu keeping the start is good news. Him and Keppie both look like decent cheap MIDs

Bazoots wrote:Hodgson set for 80mins looks mildly interesting.

Hodgson has never left my side - MattNZ confided with me that he is gonna average 70

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:

Hodgson has never left my side - MattNZ confided with me that he is gonna average 70

That was minutes, not fantasy scoring

Shady2K wrote:Hodgson 80 minutes with no utility on the bench?

Saw this too. The main concern with him was he'd be eased back too.