NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 61 - Picking origin reps for bye planning

standard-issue wrote:

The Camo reference is the cherry on top of what is a sweet as post.

Watch out Hopgood, Preston and Horse

You’re getting a call for a dead rubber in Game 3

Khany wrote:Cook should back up rd 17, is there another reason for the hesitancy with Simpkin with no 's' ?

If you have a hooker this week, then Simpkin won't play for you until R18. So its a question of get him now for $220k, then stash him away for 2 weeks, or re-evaluate in R18 and perhaps pay more for the privilege

I'm flying to Brisbane tonight and might have better things to do tomorow so I'm locking in:


Cleary > Hynes (Duh)
Tapine > Matterson (somewhat sideways but Matterson has dual and plays this week)
Talau > NAS (Need to trade Talau before I lose my $16K profit, also I need fewer bye players next week)

13 for me this week

Turpin
Hopgood, Matterson, NAS
Bateman, Luki
Hynes (C), Ponga
Simonnson, Manu
Meaney, Drinkwater, Bula

filthridden wrote:Starting to be sucked into the NAS hype.

Stone ---> NAS for like $60k seems like a good trade. If you offered me that at the start of the season I
would've snapped your hand off.

Down to 5 trades. Playing 13 this week.

Brewery crawl on Saturday so every chance there are drunken trades happening that completely derail my already pre-derailed season.

Have you pulled Big Ray aside yet and floated this?

my tv broke wrote:What are Cook owners doing?

Nice score last week but it just occurred he'll miss 3 of the next 5 (if picked for game 3) so he's actually a good candidate to go this week as per original plan.

Maybe flick him and hold Carty a bit longer is the move

Edit lol actually as my only hooker that presents a problem

This has been my question this week. I had originally swapped Niko for a MID and left Cook sitting there with a vague plan to swap him to a back up HKR later on (I'm already holding Grant and some bloke from Newcastle will 'cover' me this week) but I'm pretty tempted to just cash him in and have a bumper bank account to allow me to upgrade Niko to whoever when the time comes.

The only thing holding me back is the possibility that Cook significantly outscores Niko next week when whoever is left in the Aardvarks has to suit up.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:I think if the status quo of Oloapu playing 50 minutes at 5/8 and then 30 minutes as a ball-playing lock continues then he could turn into a keeper from this point on.

Surely that can't be the plan long-term, can it? When has a team ever been successful with a plan than involves deliberately rotating their spine mid-game?

my tv broke wrote:What are Cook owners doing?

Nice score last week but it just occurred he'll miss 3 of the next 5 (if picked for game 3) so hes actually a good candidate to go this week as per original plan.

Maybe flick him and hold Carty a bit longer is the move

Edit lol actually as my only hooker that presents a problem

Think I'll keep him to conserve trades. At least play him in 17+18 on the off chance he doesn't play origin 3.

I only have 6 trades left though. If I had more, ditching him would come into it
This week I'm tossing up between ditching Loiero (not a keeper, plays 17, but losing cash) or Burton (don't lose a player if I trade him to Hynes, almost a keeper who scores than Loiero)

mrbrownstone wrote:

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:I think if the status quo of Oloapu playing 50 minutes at 5/8 and then 30 minutes as a ball-playing lock continues then he could turn into a keeper from this point on.

Surely that can't be the plan long-term, can it? When has a team ever been successful with a plan than involves deliberately rotating their spine mid-game?

Tigers and Dragons do it/have done it recently

I rest my case

mrbrownstone wrote:

Surely that can't be the plan long-term, can it? When has a team ever been successful with a plan than involves deliberately rotating their spine mid-game?

Probably never. But the coach said something like Dogs were crap and the three best players included Oloapu and Rajab and looked better when Rajab came on. One to watch this weekend.

Great post earlier Milchcow on strategy for rest of year. That plus a few other topics today made me realise how few of the big guns I have and how many I need to get (or get back). If any suckers still have me in fantasy fantasy, might be wise to ditch me.

Papadontbleach wrote:I'm flying to Brisbane tonight and might have better things to do tomorow so I'm locking in:


Cleary > Hynes (Duh)
Tapine > Matterson (somewhat sideways but Matterson has dual and plays this week)
Talau > NAS (Need to trade Talau before I lose my $16K profit, also I need fewer bye players next week)

13 for me this week

Turpin
Hopgood, Matterson, NAS
Bateman, Luki
Hynes (C), Ponga
Simonnson, Manu
Meaney, Drinkwater, Bula

About as strong as a rd13 team can look

Might've talked myself into getting on the Turps as well.

Can see this 30 pointer in 60mins coming a mile away...

standard-issue wrote:

Have you pulled Big Ray aside yet and floated this?

I'd be too scared to do that.

It's not you, Ray. It's me.

Only reason I'm bringing in simpkin is hoping he makes enough cash to be a downgrade to a nuffie to upgrades my guns to Uber guns

Jumping Marlin wrote:Great post earlier Milchcow on strategy for rest of year. That plus a few other topics today made me realise how few of the big guns I have and how many I need to get (or get back). If any suckers still have me in fantasy fantasy, might be wise to ditch me.

I’m keeping the faith.

filthridden wrote:Starting to be sucked into the NAS hype.

My job is done

Willing to bet that NAS trade ins are much higher here than generally.

Jumping Marlin wrote:

Probably never.  But the coach said something like Dogs were crap and the three best players included Oloapu and Rajab and looked better when Rajab came on.  One to watch this weekend.

Yeah, I was really impressed with Rajab.

Jumping Marlin wrote:Great post earlier Milchcow on strategy for rest of year. That plus a few other topics today made me realise how few of the big guns I have and how many I need to get (or get back).  If any suckers still have me in fantasy fantasy, might be wise to ditch me.  

For my fantasy fantasy owners... here's my team for the week

Turpin
Hopgood, Hedwards, (DNP)
Cartwright, Hosking
Hynes (c), Ponga
Manu, Ramien
Drinkwater, Bula, Kiraz

(bench: Grant, Liddle, Horse, Tohu, JDB, Dfifta, Moses, SJ, and Lemuelu)

Hoping for a high scoring Sharks vs Bulldogs game

Chewie wrote:

For my fantasy fantasy owners... here's my team for the week

Turpin
Hopgood, Hedwards, (DNP)
Cartwright, Hosking
Hynes (c), Ponga
Manu, Ramien
Drinkwater, Bula, Kiraz

Hoping for a high scoring Sharks vs Bulldogs game

Circle of handing out d1ckings

Cows smash storm
Storm smash sharks
Sharks to run up a score on bulldogs

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:

Circle of handing out d1ckings

Cows smash storm
Storm smash sharks
Sharks to run up a score on bulldogs

Ramien getting a brace would be nice