NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 46 - You say which fantasy group is at the top? I Can't Believe It's Not Butters

What would you do with this team?

Cook
Haas, Lawrie, Cheese
Fifita, Hosking
Cleary, SJ
Manu, Bird
Sloan, Bula, Miller

Horse, Tatola, Boyd, Preston

Lemuelu, Ford, IKatoa, Couchman

17 trades, 46k ITB

Thinking I'll hold trades unless Oloapu starts - then I'd probably downgrade Couchman.

Think as above I can hold Cook to 13 just I'm case he misses origin. Ford I think I'm happy to hold through to 13 as well. Sloan I'd like to trade, but don't really like any of the options in my price range (<414k).  Anything I'm missing?

Milchcow wrote:Billy Smith's 62 was indeed a good score. But it's already happened and it's too late to get it to count for my team.

This season Mattnz traded in Kiraz after he scored 90. He has not scored within 40 points of that since. He traded in Samoa after he scored 78. He has not scored within 30 points of that since.

Does this condemn Smith to weeks of scores in 20s and 30s? Only time will tell

Nah cause he's in career best form.

I’m not touching Billy Smith been burnt by him twice before.

On Te Whare if you listen to Wayne presser it doesn’t fill me with much confidence he will be in the team for long. Wayne often looks to manage young blokes too. Aitken and Brenko if both fit I think play over Te Whare just what my gut says.

Milchcow wrote:
That said, at least Billy Smith is cheap

He's cheap, but he could be cheaper!

Oloapu into the starting lineup really is needed this week.

No idea if I should be prepping this week for the coming bye and origin period or just bank 3 trades. Death wobble incoming.

Revraiser wrote:No idea if I should be prepping this week for the coming bye and origin period or just bank 3 trades. Death wobble incoming.

What are your current R13 numbers looking like mate?

standard-issue wrote:

From last thread re Chewie-So ahh, Chewie was trying to be the deadset top bloke he is and thank everyone on the Forum.  Unfortunately, as much as he tried, he missed at least 20 regulars.  Bloke kept adding to the Post as they were highlighted to him.

Single most edited post in the Forum's history.

Welshy wrote:

If I wasn't first on there, I'm going again

I'm 100% sure I gave a shout-out to all the mods. It was a real soft-cock post....
Welcome to the Chewie 101 club

Welshy wrote:

What are your current R13 numbers looking like mate?

Maybe 7, with some real questionable characters amongst them.

Syzy wrote:Zero Twal mentions.

Doesn’t play 13 but seems to have found some consistency in minutes and plays rounds 14 - 16.
His scoring is metronomic so he really just needs to keep the minutes. Makes around 125k if he maintains 55’s.

Does Fanhub give extra bonus points if you own Twal when he scores his first try?

I doubt Billy Smith is even going to be the highest-scoring centre called Smith in his price range.

Revraiser wrote:

Maybe 7, with some real questionable characters amongst them.

Put your team up mate, think you need at least 10

So can be done in a R13 trade week, but might need to move some funds around before hand as some prep

FaringdonSwirl wrote:What would you do with this team?

Cook
Haas, Lawrie, Cheese
Fifita, Hosking
Cleary, SJ
Manu, Bird
Sloan, Bula, Miller

Horse, Tatola, Boyd, Preston

Lemuelu, Ford, IKatoa, Couchman

17 trades, 46k ITB

Thinking I'll hold trades unless Oloapu starts - then I'd probably downgrade Couchman.

Think as above I can hold Cook to 13 just I'm case he misses origin. Ford I think I'm happy to hold through to 13 as well. Sloan I'd like to trade, but don't really like any of the options in my price range (<414k).  Anything I'm missing?

Does Couchamn down to Oloapu give you enough to upgrade Sloan to Garrick or Drinkwater?

I just realised Granville will be getting HOK/MID DPP after round 13, that's going to be nifty come round 14 with the Eels on the bye

Revraiser wrote:

Maybe 7, with some real questionable characters amongst them.

I’d move towards 13 if that’s the case

Chewie wrote:

Does Fanhub give extra bonus points if you own Twal when he scores his first try?

I feel like should he ever score a try it won't be a 3 tackle bust line break crash play but more likely to be a kick deflection off 3 different players which ends up falling into his lap. Just so that he can maintain his always consistent scoring and not go huge even with a try.

FaringdonSwirl wrote:What would you do with this team?

Cook
Haas, Lawrie, Cheese
Fifita, Hosking
Cleary, SJ
Manu, Bird
Sloan, Bula, Miller

Horse, Tatola, Boyd, Preston

Lemuelu, Ford, IKatoa, Couchman

17 trades, 46k ITB

Thinking I'll hold trades unless Oloapu starts - then I'd probably downgrade Couchman.

Think as above I can hold Cook to 13 just I'm case he misses origin. Ford I think I'm happy to hold through to 13 as well. Sloan I'd like to trade, but don't really like any of the options in my price range (<414k).  Anything I'm missing?

Honestly I think Cook's gotta go. His BE is high enough that it's basically now or never in terms of selling him, either do it now or hold for a long time.

The problem with Cook (and also Murray) is that he's not getting the base that he was getting last year because his team is destroying everything in front of them, and the attack that's destroying these teams isn't going through him (at least not in a Fantasy-relevant sense), thus meaning that Cook is getting both lower base and less attack because all the tries, line breaks and assists are going to the guys out wide (mostly Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker).

Souths' draw is also very soft to basically the end of the season, their next 5 are the Tigers, Eels, Raiders (Origin affected), Titans and Dragons. They've played Melbourne and Penrith twice already, and don't have the Dolphins again either.

TLDR: Cook's team is too good and he's not getting base, nor is he getting attack from that good team, so unless you think that will change, sell immediately

rhinoceroo wrote:I doubt Billy Smith is even going to be the highest-scoring centre called Smith in his price range.

Bold of you to assume that Reimis Smith can score more than 30 points a game

Bethany_B wrote:

Bold of you to assume that Reimis Smith can score more than 30 points a game

Well, he too has had individual games where he's scored 60+ and looked the goods.