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

Teeth Eater wrote:I was just looking at my Sloan/Hammer to Tohu/Oloapu trade, frowning, knowing I'd have to play both Oloapu and Soni Luke this week. I'd come to accept it was just what had to be done this week.

BUT, then I was hit with a cheapie I'd not been thinking about at all for this week... especially since his 9.

But I realised I could do Sloan/Hammer/S.Luke to Su'a/Ponga/Oloapu.

Is this a better option?

I'm not wild about Tohu's bye next week, but I was at peace with it to get a keeper, fitness pending.

But Su'a seems to be travelling along pretty nicely, doesn't have a bye next week and allows me to play Ponga instead of Soni Luke, which, surely, has to be a good thing?

Other option is to just go with plan A and trade out Luke for Whare next week, if he's named? And get Ponga another day, once his price has dropped even further...

When I pen that, I feel more inclined to go with Plan A because if I go with Plan B and Whare is a must-buy next week, I may actually not have anyone I'd be willing to move on, pending injuries this week. So do I just keep Luke this week for that trade next week, as Ponga isn't going anywhere, price-wise? But I sure would be happier playing Ponga this week over Luke...  

Camo123 wrote:Speaking of repping your avatar in your team, what happened to the Rein train?

Can’t even get a run with Hodgson playing like a geriatric tortoise

BCT05 wrote:It's been said before but quality of bye players is just as important as quantity. One person's 9 players can be just as good or better than another's 12 with a number of duds. So I wouldn't get too hung up on a "minimum" number.

If I trade out Ford and Sloan this week and Tohu in then I'd have 9 rd13 but they are all quality (JMK, Matto, JDB, Tohu, SJ, Brown, Bird, Null, Miller).

Ideally would like to add one edge and that will probably do me but will likely wait til rd13 to do that.

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

Welsh Mafia wrote:

Eeek trading in Ponga and Oloapu is dangerous, although in the situation it makes sense. Ponga is going to be a buy for most soon when he's under 400k, but he's so unpredictable this year. Olo is ultra slow burn and can't get the starting spot it seems.

I had Sua' in all week but have gone the Drinkwater path instead. Better bye coverage and commentary around Sua suggest he's over performing fantasy wise atm and there's also the fact the clubs one spanking off a full on implosion.

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

whall15 wrote:Grant
Haas Murray Horse
Hosking Preston
Cleary Boyd
Bird Manu
Miller Teddy AKP

Cheese EKatoa Luki Granville
Nully Ford IKatoa ITT

So far my numbers are:

R13: Granville, Horse, Ford, Luki, IKatoa, Bird, Nully, Miller and maybe ITT (8 or 9)
R16: Granville, Smith, Hosking, Preston, Miller and Manu (6) [also have EKatoa and Luki]

21 trades left, 62k itb

Thinking of going EKatoa and Murray to JDB and Hopgood but to finance that I'd need to go either:

ITT down to Val but that's risky with the bye, and I'd still have to play Granville this week or
Ford down to anyone under 495k

• ITT to Oloapu (play Granville) - Only a matter of time before he displaces Reynolds.
  Ford to Garrick - Cheap and bye friendly
  Ford to Billy Smith - Job looks secure and he will make money but comes with injury risk

Aardvark wrote:Curious how people who have been max trading are going to field 13 in 13 and then back up for the next six rounds plus solidify a decent team for the run home?

Had a look today and I reckon if you can get 10-11 (including 7-8 decent scorers) you’ll be doing pretty well otherwise your going to run out of steam (i.e. trades) before the byes are out. Also those 8 trades you get @ 20 need to cover injuries/hia’s/byes for the run home with maybe a couple of luxury trades.

I think it’s going to be a pretty challenging season from here.

Antipodean1 wrote:

agree on the gun point, as a H2H player I try and stack my team with guns. I currently have 15 keeper/guns.

But now I am in a bind because I am in the top 100 overall as well.

So I am finding I am leaning heavily to R13 & R16 players to trade in.

Very torn, I am way outta my depth in the nose-bleeds and have been frantically studying up on Bye planning.

This will end up with me failing at both

morethanjustakeyboard wrote:Will be trading out Ford. I know a lot of people here are going with HopGood but I'm leaning towards Friz. I'm not liking the minute uncertainty of Hop. Friz has good bye coverage and stats are pretty decent ~50ish
Am I missing something?

Antipodean1 wrote:

agree on the gun point, as a H2H player I try and stack my team with guns. I currently have 15 keeper/guns.

But now I am in a bind because I am in the top 100 overall as well.

So I am finding I am leaning heavily to R13 & R16 players to trade in.

Very torn, I am way outta my depth in the nose-bleeds and have been frantically studying up on Bye planning.

This will end up with me failing at both

mattnz wrote:

Read what I wrote again. He wasn't playing at CTR.

Camo123 wrote:

Kiraz should be a solid pickup after R13. Cheaper than he started the season

Am I the only one with Teddy potentially on the chopping block. Currently I’ve just been looping Bula but could move him to starter and redistribute funds around. Teddy been pretty underwhelming since picking up, the hope during Origin period is Teddy backs up for all games considering Roosters are currently 8th but who knows with Robbo

TheWeapon wrote:I have a feeling Hopgood will make the QLD side....might be worth waiting for anyone thinking of bringing him in...

TheWeapon wrote:I have a feeling Hopgood will make the QLD side....might be worth waiting for anyone thinking of bringing him in...

Antipodean1 wrote:
Guys that might really need to step up in the next couple of weeks pre-origin;

Cook-Ponga-Tommy-Teddy (i think Teddy will make it easily though)

Could be some Origin changes this year.

Syzy wrote:4 trades for Rd 13. Maybe just hold tight and fix problems then.