2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 13

ryno_ wrote:

You maximise your chance of winning big shares of the prizepool by having the best unique team by picking PODs. Especially if you know which PODs have the best chance of outscoring the classic picks. If a POD has a (statistically) a 20% chance of outscoring the consensus pick, but is only owned by 15% of the field, it would be an advantage to pick him.

Chucky wrote:
He will more than likely stay around until he gets injured.
The guy has a terrible long term injury record.
Very high risk, high reward.

Pacey's Best wrote:

Hey Finchy.....................

Bren wrote:
Better lift your game Pacey

Finch wrote:Alright. Finally got caught up on the pages and the games over the weekend. Currently I am sitting in an overall rank of exactly 5.3K with a score of 660, Taupau and DCE to come. Looking at a score of around 750 I guess, which I think is about par? Maybe Slightly over.

That includes scores from Evans, Cooper, Gutherson etc. Im fairly happy with my team, except for a few players...

Matt Cooper. I hate to say I told you all so, but I told you all so. The Dragons pack is an absolute mess, there is too many cooks in the kitchen and the coach isnt giving consistent minutes, at least not to Cooper. He is gone for me once lockout ends, who for I dont know, but he is gone. I mentioned it during this week to trade him out but got told no, no and no. I accept your apology MS.

Kane Evans is another. He is scoring OK, but not great. I take it his price wont really budge, but I think he is going to be the Jordan McClean of 2016. Will look to shift him also, hopefully for Lawrence, but Cooper is defo the priority.

I mentioned Davis and Holland throughout the week, Holland especially. I wanted to trade him in but didn't get any information about him, no love for the trade idea, nothing. Now looks like a few people want to bring him in, which is good. Fair play though, you cant really bring anybody in unless you know about them.

I came very close to trading in Fensom this week, very lucky I didnt. My entire team has been pretty lucky with injuries. The only injury ive had so far is Ben Henry, which allows me to make the trades I want to make, not the trades I need to make.

I traded out Feeney this week for Walker and Leuluai for Carter. Pretty happy with those trades, especially since Leuluai got injured.

Anyway, im not one to blow my own trumpet, but I just kept reading the same information over again and I just had a gut feeling I was right. Not having a dig at anybody, just when I watched the games and saw the scores I just said to myself "Knew it".

Anyway, it was torture not being able to read the forums or check the scores until catching up on the games.

Who has the team "The Laughing Foxes"?

Pacey's Best wrote:

HaHa, sure do.

Pacey's Best wrote:Wow, 9 players charged by the match review this week..

http://www.nrl.com/nine-players-charged-by-match-review/tabid/10874/newsid/93790/default.aspx

Milchcow wrote:

But if they are doing that, why can't they get in at the start of the game and get the stats the way they want on the live update, rather than making large noticable changes afterwards.
if they just never published the initial stats and just went straight to final stats, would anybody think twice?

And these are the official NRL stats, used by all the clubs etc too. If players start getting noticably dodgy stats too often its going to come to people's attention.

The guys who actually enter stats aren't high up the food chain, so I'm sure its possible some of them might be receptive to a little outside influence to change stats where possible. I doubt there is enough money to make it worthwhile for any concerted effort though. The biggest prize on the weekend was $2000 first place in a moneyball tournament. Its not enough money to justify the slight edge that tweaking a couple of stats might give you.

Bren wrote:
I was joking lad. I appreciate you posting up the updated team lists as Im sure many on here do. Keep up the great work

Bren wrote:
I was joking lad. I appreciate you posting up the updated team lists as Im sure many on here do. Keep up the great work