2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 13

Johnny B Goode wrote:My reaction when I captained Fifita instead of Smith.


Oh well Fifita's bound to go gangbusters next week and score big to make up for it anyway............right?

I had the same reaction when I brought Peats in instead of Smith.

Then saw him downdate 16 points after initially thinking I'd made a genius move.

what are the chances hodgson gets named at 5/8?

my tv broke wrote:what are the chances hodgson gets named at 5/8?

I think they would be reluctant to move Hodgson. Baptise might be a chance to be named in halves.

Birdy wrote:


I think they would be reluctant to move Hodgson. Baptise might be a chance to be named in halves.

what i thought was weird was moving hodgson to 5/8 and putting baptiste at 9. if hodgson is your first choice 9, why would you move him to cover 6? even though baptiste is solid its theoretically weakening two positions.

..then he got burnt by Jnikorima and ricky swapped them back hahah

Dunno, what to do about trades quite yet, I want Mann & LAM out, but I want to tinker with my FRF & its the only position where I've got no DPP, Which means I would be trading those two out for Norman & Surgess/Ma'u..... on the other hand i could leave Mann for 1 week & DPP's mean i could bring Norman in for LAM, then I can dump Evans for Graham or maybe JTurbo depending on tonight, but then I'm worried about Mann dropping coin if he has another shocker or gets moved away from fullback...

surmo13 wrote:but then I'm worried about Mann dropping coin if he has another shocker or gets moved away from fullback...

injury to dugan probably saves mann. otherwise surely dugan would move to the back...

my tv broke wrote:

injury to dugan probably saves mann. otherwise surely dugan would move to the back...

Took the words out of my mouth.

Also Dragons are playing the Rabbits next week. So I'm sure his workload will increase, at least for next week anyway.

depending how he goes tonight I will probably go leuluai -> B Lawrence and Bhana -> Mataora getting rid of two dud cows

So is it too early to be getting guns in? Is the idea to get in performing cows and midrangers, and get the guns in later?

Sik wrote:So is it too early to be getting guns in? Is the idea to get in performing cows and midrangers, and get the guns in later?

so long as you've got money making potential it's never too soon. We need a gun and cow emoticon @Random

Though I guess if you burn your money on guns now, short term gain, however won't be able to trade the cashed up cows for guns later on.

Sik wrote:Though I guess if you burn your money on guns now, short term gain, however won't be able to trade the cashed up cows for guns later on.

What specifically are you thinking about doing mate?

Honeysett wrote:depending how he goes tonight I will probably go leuluai -> B Lawrence

yeah, i have my eyes on lawrence tonight. starling is a plodder i'm hoping lawrence does well and works his way into the starting side pretty quickly.

My trades will probably be:
Macca out - Mbye in (via J-Nik) - uncertainty of minutes with Macca re K-Nik
Grant out - J. Graham in - Grant is a plodder & I want a gun frf

I will deal with my dud cows Leuluai & Feeney next week. Not too worried about Leuluai as I think he's injured but Feeney is a worry.

Nothing specific, but have $265 in the kitty.

I've already got Garvey in. I want Walker while he's make cash, however I have Hastings/Nikorima and Taylor who are making cash, be it at different rates. Have I missed the boat with Walker? Who gets traded? Or do I leave it as is and hope the Walker train derails?

So I have some under performing forwards. I know it's early, and it's hard to base decisions on 2 games. So do I sit tight and save the trades? Or go helter skelter and trade like a mad barstard?

So I've got Woods, Evans, Packer and Leuluai up front, and Rochow, Taumalolo, W.Graham, Moeroa, Carter and J.Saifiti in the 2nd row.

White Lightning wrote:My trades will probably be:
Macca out - Mbye in (via J-Nik) - uncertainty of minutes with Macca re K-Nik
Grant out - J. Graham in - Grant is a plodder & I want a gun frf

I will deal with my dud cows Leuluai & Feeney next week. Not too worried about Leuluai as I think he's injured but Feeney is a worry.

Is there an element of chasing in picking up Mbye? Personally I want Norman, he seems more stable with the same potential to go big given some attacking stats.

Sik wrote:Nothing specific, but have $265 in the kitty.

I've already got Garvey in. I want Walker while he's make cash, however I have Hastings/Nikorima and Taylor who are making cash, be it at different rates. Have I missed the boat with Walker? Who gets traded? Or do I leave it as is and hope the Walker train derails?

So I have some under performing forwards. I know it's early, and it's hard to base decisions on 2 games. So do I sit tight and save the trades? Or go helter skelter and trade like a mad barstard?

So I've got Woods, Evans, Packer and Leuluai up front, and Rochow, Taumalolo, W.Graham, Moeroa, Carter and J.Saifiti in the 2nd row.

I've got the same cows and won't be trading for Carter, it's not Pokemon so you'll never catch them all. With that much cash I'd definitely be upgrading one of the underperformers though. Who I'm not really sure but probably Moeroa or Leuluai.

EvenSteeden wrote:

Proctor lost 21 points. So that happened...  

He must have slept with the updater's missus - hell of a downdate

Krump wrote:
Is there an element of chasing in picking up Mbye? Personally I want Norman, he seems more stable with the same potential to go big given some attacking stats.

Good point mate & he is a great pick & I could very well go with Norman. However there was a discussion on weapons re this new fantasy model re fanhub & I think fantasy is changing more to the supercoach model where attacking plays are greatly rewarded. Also there seem to be players that fanhub favours & I think Mbye is one of them. My strategy now is trying to work out who these favoured players are & selecting them.