NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 53 - Back to the footy!

Robertneville wrote:



I used my super secret hidden stats which only the top users have access too here at NRLFF, and can confirm Nikorima played all three games at fullback.
Also 20 of his 97 points across the 3 games came from goal kicking.






My secret stats were found by watching the game replays on the NRL site

You aren't actually allowed to watch the games and use the eye test, that is considered cheating. Stats will be obtained exclusively from Butters

Bethany_B wrote:

Already have him, otherwise he'd be the guy.

Metcalf may be as close as you get but damn two halves under 300k is asking for trouble

Welsh Mafia wrote:

Metcalf may be as close as you get but damn two halves under 300k is asking for trouble

Doesn't have to be a half, can be any position.

I'm considering using Coates for that purpose if there's nobody else, as a cashout and emergency WFB depth as he is close to base price and should at least play (including R16) and is capable of going on a tryscoring run, as he did last year, during which he reached 500k before promptly dropping back down.

Kyle Feldt did something similar in the last few weeks, was very cheap and is now close to 500k after going on a run of tries.

Shady2K wrote:

Someone posted turnarounds of 3, 4 and 3 days after origins? Can’t see him doing a lot at club land

Hmm, might be time to wave goodbye to Haas and Carrigan with this info.

Welshy wrote:If anyone can trade me to 13 on the park this week. Massive high 5s

17 trades so not worried about using 4, $390,000 bank

Boyd
Tapine, JDB, Matto
Curran, Ford
SJ, Crossland
Bird, Lemu
Miller , Ted, Bula

BSMith
Carrigan
Preston
Loiero

KNiko
HEdwards
Cleary
Alamoti

Thank you.

If you count Miller, then you need a hooker, mid, and 2x WFB.

By my maths, you can do:

Boyd -> Cook
Cheese -> Hopgood
Loiero -> Ponga
Alamoti -> Garrick

With about 250k spare.

mrbrownstone wrote:

If you count Miller, then you need a hooker, mid, and 2x WFB.

By my maths, you can do:

Boyd -> Cook
Cheese -> Hopgood
Loiero -> Ponga
Alamoti -> Garrick

With about 250k spare.

Love it.

Atm I'm going down the route of only having 12 for this week mate. Keeping Matto/Boyd/Loiero and Carrigan to try and eek one more price rise from him

Currently going

BSmith - Cook
Miller - Ponga
Alamoti - Hopgood
Crossland - WFB

Welshy wrote:

Love it.

Atm I'm going down the route of only having 12 for this week mate. Keeping Matto/Boyd/Loiero and Carrigan to try and eek one more price rise from him

Currently going

BSmith - Cook
Miller - Ponga
Alamoti - Hopgood
Crossland - WFB

Can't argue that, would rather play 12 and hang onto Boyd and Loiero.

Interesting point I just saw re Haas backup 

Backup from Origin 2 and 3, Broncos game is in same place as Origin so won’t need to travel

easytiger wrote:

Trade Loiero to a bye-friendly edge - he will miss 13 and 19 and seems likely to have reached his peak now anyway?
I'm not sure what cash you have, but even Carty for example might make you some money (probably somewhere in the $50-100k) and seems good for 45+ points most weeks, with Lane not back to R20.
There may be someone better you can go to even...

Thanks mate I have contemplated this. I will have Moses, Hopgood and Burbo on bye next week if I get Carty that’s 4 guys on bye round 14 one too many I think. I could get Ford back but that might be dumb?

Camo123 wrote:Interesting point I just saw re Haas backup 

Backup from Origin 2 and 3, Broncos game is in same place as Origin so won’t need to travel

Yeah there's a decent chance he backs up from game 2 at the least (4 day turnaround and no travel) but I think game 1 is doubtful (3 days plus travel).

Even when he did back up last year, he played much lower minutes

mattnz wrote:Hadn't planned to make so many trades, but using 4 this week gets me to 12 on the park, (had planned to use 3 trades with Miller still playing to have 12 on the park).

Grabbing Cowboys and Rabbitohs players sets me up well for round 14, with only 3 Knights, Eels and Manly players in the squad.

Brandon > Shaq
Miller > Ponga
Cobbo > Koala
Crossland / iKat > Drinkwater

Looks a big play for this week, Nice
How many trades does that leave you?

Forgive me if I'm wrong here but don't players who are backing up from origin often score quite well?

I feel like Haas is the kind of guy who comes out and gets 80 backing up from Origin. Especially after a loss.

I think I might keep Loiero for a while as well, he may not be a top shelf scorer but he is a consistent 40+ scorer, I feel like he might be the last of my upgrades.

Weiland wrote:Forgive me if I'm wrong here but don't players who are backing up from origin often score quite well?

I feel like Haas is the kind of guy who comes out and gets 80 backing up from Origin. Especially after a loss.

I haven't looked at how Haas goes but I think last year he carried a shoulder issue, didn't he?

If haas is fully fit he basically doesn't need a rest. He's a machine. I'd say the Broncos will do their best to manage it but if they're starting to slip on the ladder and the games are tight, I doubt he's resting too much.

He wil play less mins in origin than a normal club game anyway, but yeah its just the turn-around time from origin to club that is an issue.

Contrastinghobby wrote:


Looks a big play for this week, Nice
How many trades does that leave you?

8 remaining if I use 4 this week. Will try to time trades leading into each of the big byes and do very little in the games in between, to minimise wasted trades.

Who should I play to partner bird this week in centers

TD - lemme
TU - penis

Bethany_B wrote:

Yeah there's a decent chance he backs up from game 2 at the least (4 day turnaround and no travel) but I think game 1 is doubtful (3 days plus travel).

Even when he did back up last year, he played much lower minutes

He was carrying the AC joint (??) injury most of last year

Koula cures my ills, offers CTR and WFB cover.

Looks like my guy

Am I the only idiot still hodling Trbo whilst his stocks plummeted?

Bastard finally comes good after all this time, has a BE of 2 and is going to be MIA for the best part of 2 months. My big brain play was he’d miss origin selection and THEN get the banner this week for Hal’s Haasholes.

Can someone please tell me he is a definite trade out - I seem to be irrationally wed to him.

Someone stop me

Matterson > Tohu
BSmith > Cook
Miller > Ponga
Crossland > Cartwright (poor mans Hopgood)

Crossland is surplus to needs in the halves

lk22 wrote:Someone stop me

Matterson > Tohu
BSmith  > Cook
Miller > Ponga
Crossland > Cartwright (poor mans Hopgood)

Crossland is surplus to needs in the halves

I like.