NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 62 - Pie round chaos (please don't banh mi for that pun)

123456qwerty wrote:

Thanks for the advice. Think I'll hold them for next week and assess then. Hopefully Haas starts and then maybe Simpkin in r18 to make some cash could be good. Looking to get Haas, Yeo, Murray and Cleary in post origin if I can.

Sounds good
Ultimately its your team so just have fun with this
What may be a good trade for someone, may be less relevant for you, so take the advice but make that decision yourself and move on
Nothing worse choosing the wrong player, or the player you were told doesn't work out so don't live with regret
Less chance to be disappointed if you make that call and let the fantasy gods decide the outcome.

My only regret was having kfc wicked wings for lunch yesterday

All this talk about roads, might as well make it a fun one

my tv broke wrote:I think Booze is cheating tbh

Theres gotta be an investigation

He has the most fun out of everyone obviously

Rest of us are too grumpy

mattnz wrote:

Rounds 2 to 5 was injuries to - Cheese, Ponga, Talau, Harris (as Captain), NAS, Douehi, plus Trindall. Without the injuries I would have been top 1,000 and in the hunt. Instead couldn't field 17 each week, had low scores and dropped to 20k rank. Look what happens to my team when it isn't getting so many injuries that I couldn't trade them out fast enough.

Got confused by the R17 - 0 thing - as you were - if it is any consolation - I got out to 38,000th or something!

If i had have picked the highest scoring players that did not get injured, I would also be in the top 1,000... Life is so unfair

Have spent most of the last week resisting the urge to trade Tapine to NAS to “feel” competitive for the week. Currently have Hedwards to Matto locked in for this week. Is that weird? Hedwards would have gone to Haas next week but no guarantee he backs up and I’ll need an EDG

Matto might drop a 30 this week but I feel like holding Hedwards just as a number is silly, while Hedwards seems like a 30s plodder anyway. Queue Matto shitting it and Hedwards getting another 70

Will make it harder to bring in Haas, Fifita and Cleary later on but not impossible

Im thinking matto probably scores well. Doubt hes going to play as a 'traditional' six, and probably defends inside carty / slides into the middle at times

Guth i reckon does a fair bit if the 7 style role when eels have the ball

Hybrid hybrid hybrid

my tv broke wrote:

Its an interesting point. You pass a lot of h2h teams during byes once you're in the 500s/1000s/upwards i think

Had a look at my team, for rounds 8, 12, and 15. While i've been gaining ranks overall, the gap to 100th place (at time of those roudns) hasn't shortened by a huge amount, and 1st is widening the gap.

So while I've moved up 2300 ranks in that time, i'm not really making much of a dent on teams pushing into the top 100
The MTBs

Round 8 - Overall Rank: 3903
Points difference to:
1st: 497
100th: 293

Round 12 - Overall Rank: 1247
Points difference to:
1st: 500
100th: 247

Round 15 - Overall Rank: 623
Points difference to:
1st: 663
100th: 215


Little trick, if you add &round_id=8 (or whatever round number), you get a snapshot of your team (or any team) to that round.

EG the MTBS (and the top 100) at end of round 8 - https://footystatistics.com/team_analyser.php?team_id=68004&round_id=8

Nice experiment to look at - Suaali'i You Can't Be Serious

Round 8 Rank 3628
Points diff to 1st: 488
Points diff to 100th: 284

Round 12 Rank 3410
Points diff to 1st: 648
Points diff to 100th: 395

Round 15 Rank 2541
Points diff to 1st: 922
Points diff to 100th: 474


So not exactly great from my squad. Dropping in all regards aside from rank (but most likely this is due to overtaking all those H2H teams. 

My only real hope is that I've still got 6 trades after making 2 this week, so hopefully I can start making ground in the next 4 weeks as the top teams run low on trades.

Did anyone have '56' in *LoloMinutesBingo*

my tv broke wrote:Im thinking matto probably scores well. Doubt hes going to play as a 'traditional' six, and probably defends inside carty / slides into the middle at times

Guth i reckon does a fair bit if the 7 style role when eels have the ball

Hybrid hybrid hybrid

 
I’m getting Matto and Gutho this week and honestly think the range is 25-75 for both. Just hoping playing R19 as well pays off with both. No idea how Parra goes this week or how it translates to fantasy, but I think (hope) pretty much everything goes through Gutho and Matto is still pretty involved and offloading everywhere. 

Longer term I think Matto might be a keeper (or a last round trade), not sure on Gutho but could do worse as WFB3/4 I guess

my tv broke wrote:Did anyone have '56' in *LoloMinutesBingo*

Think I saw a 51.

robelgordo wrote:
 
I’m getting Matto and Gutho this week and honestly think the range is 25-75 for both. Just hoping playing R19 as well pays off with both. No idea how Parra goes this week or how it translates to fantasy, but I think (hope) pretty much everything goes through Gutho and Matto is still pretty involved and offloading everywhere. 

Longer term I think Matto might be a keeper (or a last round trade), not sure on Gutho but could do worse as WFB3/4 I guess

Another way at looking at this is worst case NAS v Matterson are both bye rentals
Both cost you a trade now to bring in and provide points this week
Both cost you a trade out of that 8trade pool if you decide to trade out after rd 20 again
Most would have a heap of spare cash right now too so even their price doesn't matter now (though could later)

Best case which one do you want as 17th man in your team
If NAS is scoring well enough you are probably keeping him at that stage too (Other than injury)

NButcher is the other player priced in between left to play though not coming off an injury
Similar byes to NAS but the roosters team list shuffle has him on paper playing FRF and who knows with trent
Similar to Matterson it probably doesn't matter here and scores well.
I would think he is an important player to their team and spends alot of time out on the park regardless of where he starts.

The correct answer will be revealed later tonight haha

Fun times

standard-issue wrote:

Think I saw a 51.

I was going to suggest 52, but then that would have opened me up too

robelgordo wrote:
 
I’m getting Matto and Gutho this week and honestly think the range is 25-75 for both. Just hoping playing R19 as well pays off with both. No idea how Parra goes this week or how it translates to fantasy, but I think (hope) pretty much everything goes through Gutho and Matto is still pretty involved and offloading everywhere. 

Longer term I think Matto might be a keeper (or a last round trade), not sure on Gutho but could do worse as WFB3/4 I guess

Im getting guth cos booze got guth and hes very good at this.

Also there was no other suitable options

my tv broke wrote:

Im getting guth cos booze got guth and hes very good at this.

Also there was no other suitable options

Truth be told I was meant to grab Isaako, then Garrick
Turns out using a shotgun and a wall taped with nrl cards to choose your bye WFB is a valid approach

my tv broke wrote:

Im getting guth cos booze got guth and hes very good at this.

Also there was no other suitable options

Did you end up getting Hands? Or was I the only one lol

WT Winfield wrote:I forgot about Oloapu there too, another on the bye next week and probably a trade. Would loop him with Ponga this week too as HIA insurance.

ie.

Hynes and Johnson at HLF and Ponga above Oloapu in the reserves. If Ponga's crap, move Oloapu above Ponga or into Johnson's starting spot.

This is what I'm doing too.

Shady2K wrote:

Did you end up getting Hands? Or was I the only one lol

Yeah, im rolling the dice on him! Dont expect it will end well.

my tv broke wrote:

Yeah, im rolling the dice on him! Dont expect it will end well.

NAS?

my tv broke wrote:

Yeah, im rolling the dice on him! Dont expect it will end well.

Should at least get 80min this week. Gamble afterwards, but he's base price. Could be worse

I don't expect him to make money, he's just a cash out

Shady2K wrote:

Should at least get 80min this week. Gamble afterwards, but he's base price. Could be worse

I don't expect him to make money, he's just a cash out

I might have been keen myself but the 5 eels could be pushing it haha