NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 53 - Back to the footy!

Welsh Mafia wrote:Making 3 trades this week which leaves me with 11 players for round 13, and 13 trades left.

Considering making a final swap of brbo -> Koula which would give me 12 this week, as well as a third WFB for 16. Other centres I currently have are Billy Smith, Manu and Bird.

Could someone please help with some sound advise with if I should just roll with 11, or make the 4th trade for 12 or left field play, go Brbo -> VTW if he's named?

Sorry for the specific question, but I'm at ends and off on a flight at 3am and likely out of action for the next day or so

Thanks in advance <3

Mulvy wrote:

Another thing I noticed this morning is that with Drinkwater on the bye in round 15, Koula comes in handy that week too if that helps your thinking. I brought him in last week, I figured he gives me a centre in rd12, a wfb in 13, a centre in rd16 and yeah, figured out today, might help in rd15 too. Burbo's pretty well dead right? Not a bad idea, although it will suck up a fair bit of coin you could use elsewhere.

Mulvy wrote:

Another thing I noticed this morning is that with Drinkwater on the bye in round 15, Koula comes in handy that week too if that helps your thinking. I brought him in last week, I figured he gives me a centre in rd12, a wfb in 13, a centre in rd16 and yeah, figured out today, might help in rd15 too. Burbo's pretty well dead right? Not a bad idea, although it will suck up a fair bit of coin you could use elsewhere.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

On this note it's good to have a think about who the cheapest players are that could possibly end up keepers

Aside from the WFBs (Teddy, Turbo, Ponga), I think you are looking at the likes of Elliott, Koroisau, JFH, Taumalolo

If you are right on Elliott he could go close to the big guns for 300k cheaper

mattnz wrote:

VTW had a great defensive play at the weekend that might get Bennett thinking differently about him

https://twitter.com/i/status/1661205492021215233

Wooden Spoonerz wrote:Rank these WFBs for this week:
CNK v Broncos
Isaako v Dragons
Gutho v Cowboys
Drinky v Parra
Ponga v Manly
Marzhew v Manly

Welshy wrote:

I've been looking at CNK over Ponga

my tv broke wrote:The karma-farming continues!

Added a 'casualty ward' button on player profile page, click it to show other injured players from their squad (sourced live from NRL.COM)

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Sometimes I think Gutho is the answer but then end up going with no WFBs.

Would be royally stuffed if Manu and Teddy aren’t back and rested for Round 14 haha

my tv broke wrote:Hey all, been working on a community-driven 'match notes' section for the website today.

If you load up any match, beside the interchange timeline there is a 'match notes' section.

The general idea is that anyone can add a note/comment, eg X player went down injured and this is why Y player got bigger minutes, or there was a position swap at kick off eg whitehead named at lock but actually played edge, etc.

There is the option to tag the relevant players and add a 'type' ie what it relates to.

Its reasonably primitive at the moment. Any new notes get added as 'pending', you can still see any pending notes by clicking on the button. Once I approve them they just get shown as normal.

The aim is to build this out a bit so that when you are looking at a players profile, it will add this info next to the relevant game (this is where the tagging comes in) so you can see at a glance WHY a player only got 20 mins that week/whatever.

Will see how it goes I guess... Might be fun/useful to chuck in notes as relevant events happen while watching live games/etc.

Ando wrote:It seems that everyone on the forum has good RD13 numbers, it could be a full fanatic top 10 after this weekend

Welshy wrote:

CNK would be the play for me to cover R14 if Ted doesn't back up, if I go Ponga I'm looking at back 3 of Ted, Bula, Drinkwater for R14.

CNK would cover Ted not backing up so it's a genuine consideration for me.

Have you got Drinkwater mate or considered him?

Welshy wrote:

Incredible effort for such a well oiled secret community mate

Camo123 wrote:Currently my latest plan hinge on Nikorima loop this week (aiming for 40+ as good), thinking with 11 this week after 2 trades (short 2 WFB)

Nikorima bad score - Frizell to Moses as 3rd trade 

Nikorima good score Frizell to Drinkwater for 2nd WFB this week. Frees up further cash on top of 256k ITB which I’m contemplating Fifita in next week (in addition to IKatoa to Oloapu and just short of Loiero to Bateman)

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
I’m somewhat put off by WFBs that aren’t named Teddy, Turbo, Ponga and Edwards and of those Turbo and Ponga give me the shits with their chequered health issues. Drinkwater has been a consideration and a bit easier to cover the Round 15 bye. 

My WFBs at the moment after trades are Teddy, Manu, Bula and Perham. So if Teddy is rested i at least don’t have to trade someone in. It’s all a bit of a mess really. 

CNK I’d never really thought of as I don’t think I’d play him very often except in a loop