NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 52 - Tigers 66 defeated Cowboys 18

FaringdonSwirl wrote:Lawrie/Cheese/Burbo to Tohu/Hopgood/Drinky looks good to me. Gives me 13 for this week assuming team lists are kind, though not the strongest 13 out there.

Cook
Tatola, Horse, Tohu
Hopgood, Couchman
Johnson, IKatoa
Lemuelu, Bird
Miller, Garrick, Drinkwater

11 trades, 90k ITB to try make something out of Miller and Katoa out R14.

Holding the following: Manu, Boyd, Bula, Preston, Oloapu, Fifita, Haas, Cleary

And as an aside, only 5 players still in my team from R1: Haas, Fifita, Cleary, Miller, Boyd

Clear groupthink evidence.


Some will get it.

Top 3 (plus #7) saying NRLFF in the ranks is a thing of beauty

I think new blood here would be good

I’ve heard kids these days are all about the discords and tiktoks, so maybe something as archaic as a message board is off their radar

FaringdonSwirl wrote:

Seems like a good week to make an alt

I'm gunning it with this one big time.

Oh.... oopsy.

Bethany_B wrote:

I can't bring myself to buy Ponga in good conscience yet again, he's burned me so many times.

100%. Worst trade ever.

Bethany_B wrote:

I have a Miller to D Edwards trade pencilled in for next week so buying Ponga would actually interfere with that, and I will most likely need that WFB cover in R14 as Walsh might not back up and Manu might not be back

Have the same thing planned as well. Just need Miller to not lose too much cash this week in order to make that trade as affordable as possible.

With Teddy and Bula as well, do I need another WFB if I get Edwards?
Ponga could be played in halves at least

Wouldn't be too hard on Slater, these call were coming in the future

There's a 2 point discrepancy between my score on the app and desktop. Usually that's a sign lockout isn't too far away.

robelgordo wrote:Top 3 (plus #7) saying NRLFF in the ranks is a thing of beauty

I think new blood here would be good

I’ve heard kids these days are all about the discords and tiktoks, so maybe something as archaic as a message board is off their radar

I think being an old-school forum and not on Facebook/Discord has helped to keep the dregs away from here as its a little too much effort for those who want an easy troll

robelgordo wrote:Top 3 (plus #7) saying NRLFF in the ranks is a thing of beauty

I think new blood here would be good

I’ve heard kids these days are all about the discords and tiktoks, so maybe something as archaic as a message board is off their radar

Maybe some sort of entrance exam along the lines of 'cupboard or fridge?' could be initiated?

Given I have to send a Slack message to most of the younger members of my team to get them to check their emails I think you are probably right on the message board thing.

Shady2K wrote:Miller to Ponga seems… easy?

iKat to Ponga for not much difference

mrbrownstone wrote:There's a 2 point discrepancy between my score on the app and desktop. Usually that's a sign lockout isn't too far away.

Fifita got his LB but lost 2 points from somewhere so it's a net +2

SaveTheCheerleader wrote:

100%. Worst trade ever.

What about Lewis Brown in Rd 3 of 2016?

Milchcow wrote:

Have the same thing planned as well. Just need Miller to not lose too much cash this week in order to make that trade as affordable as possible.

With Teddy and Bula as well, do I need another WFB if I get Edwards?
Ponga could be played in halves at least

My initial thought was to grab Ponga just because he's so cheap, but its probably a waste.

Already have Teddy Walsh Miller Bula + Bird Lemu Manu

Manu could shift down to WFB.

Miller will go next week but if Manu was played at WFB that makes one of Walsh/Bula a bit surplus as well.

That NSW bench screams that Haas is going to be absolutely whipped by Freddy.

Milchcow wrote:
So other then mtb and myself, anyone else here already have Cook in their team?

my tv broke wrote:

My initial thought was to grab Ponga just because he's so cheap, but its probably a waste.

Already have Teddy Walsh Miller Bula + Bird Lemu Manu

Manu could shift down to WFB.

Miller will go next week but if Manu was played at WFB that makes one of Walsh/Bula a bit surplus as well.

Ponga's half dual makes him pretty handy if you think he'll avoid getting concussed again.

mickspicks wrote:That NSW bench screams that Haas is going to be absolutely whipped by Freddy.

I'm actually considering keeping Carrigan over Haas through the byes & Origin

Which player would you prefer, both play this bye too and lets assume you don't own either
You could have sold them recently even or owned them in previous seasons
But lets blank slate this
Is one in particular a buy or a sell?
Assume both play rd 13 in a tough spot this year

559k 38pt, 2023 avg:

554k 45pt, 2023 avg:

Emotion in fantasy sports is a funny beast

Milchcow wrote:
So other then mtb and myself, anyone else here already have Cook in their team?

Had him since R3. Surely time for that to pay off...

Revraiser wrote:

We could also attract some real plonker type pinheads on the back of that.

I think the forum style tends to naturally weed out a lot of casual plonkers, as only passionate fantasy players could be bothered scrolling the pages to even read the conversation. And our mods do a terrific job of keeping this place in order. Besides, a pinhead is just a friend you havn’t met. Why, I remember when these two pinheads named mattnz and Rabbits21 showed up here, but now they’re OUR pinheads and stalwarts of the community. I do get where you are coming from though, happy to hold off if people have reservations.