NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 81 - Can the last green dot please turn off the lights

Snatchpato wrote:Happy Birthday btw @Welsh Mafia

Cheers bro. Was hoping to sneak a win in my mini league but Graham in my team for 9, and then Hakeem in my opponent team for his all time high score killed me.

standard-issue wrote:

Happy Birthday to Kaptain Karnage!

Haha that nickname brought a chuckle and has inspired a new avatar

Gutted the season end left Booze short though, farkk if anyone deserved it after leading the entire way basically.

Tino with another set of late season big min/big score games

Who will sign up for the early season 40s in 2024?

my tv broke wrote:Tino with another set of late season big min/big score games

Who will sign up for the early season 40s in 2024?

TBH I think you could make a pretty strong argument he's the premier MID fantasy player.

Since round 10 he's averaged 64.6. Take out the low minutes in Rd20 after origin and he's 67. Looks very attacking and always after an offload. Has a nose the the line which Haas doesn't, AND is the leader of the team.

my tv broke wrote:Tino with another set of late season big min/big score games

Who will sign up for the early season 40s in 2024?

Nah, but Foran is firmly on the radar for 2024

you played well Booze, impressive throughout the year
It sucks that Beavers pulled a Bradbury in the final round of the season

The number of attacking sets the Titans have where Fifita doesn't/barely touches the ball still boggles the mind.

Having Foran has definitely helped a bit, but maybe Des will finally figure out how to use him next year.

Public service announcement. I've taken a screenshot of my trades for the year. NRL fantasy love to purge that information really quickly after the last round for some reason. I'll do the same with my final rank. Others may wish to do the same.

Mulvy wrote:Public service announcement. I've taken a screenshot of my trades for the year. NRL fantasy love to purge that information really quickly after the last round for some reason. I'll do the same with my final rank. Others may wish to do the same.

With Yafss and footystatistics having the info now, not as big an issue

mrbrownstone wrote:The number of attacking sets the Titans have where Fifita doesn't/barely touches the ball still boggles the mind.

Having Foran has definitely helped a bit, but maybe Des will finally figure out how to use him next year.

Counterintuitively I think lacking a good edge on the other side of the field is really hurting him.

By bending the line for a couple of tackles on the right side of the field, the defensive line involuntarily compresses towards that side of the field. This creates space on the other side of the field and then a series of tackles/speading of the ball towards the left can generate space and time for him to thrive.

Without this attack on the right, the defensive line isn't exactly needing to compress, and they can focus more on covering his side of the field. Matty Johns did a great explanation of this, I don't know where I saw the video though.

Cmon Fifita you spud fck me fck scored 2 points in last 31mins.

Camo123 wrote:

With Yafss and footystatistics having the info now, not as big an issue

Can you look up previous seasons on those sites??

Nice moment for Foran. Deserves that.

Snatchpato wrote:
Counterintuitively I think lacking a good edge on the other side of the field is really hurting him.

By bending the line for a couple of tackles on the right side of the field, the defensive line involuntarily compresses towards that side of the field. This creates space on the other side of the field and then a series of tackles/speading of the ball towards the left can generate space and time for him to thrive.

Without this attack on the right, the defensive line isn't exactly needing to compress, and they can focus more on covering his side of the field. Matty Johns did a great explanation of this, I don't know where I saw the video though.

Agreed, big loss loosing Beau Fermor at the eve of the 2023 season.

Rabbits21 wrote:Cmon Fifita you spud fck me fck scored 2 points in last 31mins.

Did you captain him?

Seem on track to hold on to a top 4k spot. Second half of the season I got decimated by trades resulting in injury. Throw in a few poor choices and it's been a limp to the finish.

Good work Booze and co for strong final finishes. We didn't get #1 but it's been fun.

Ready to enjoy what should be an entertaining finals series!

Grouse wrote:
Agreed, big loss loosing Beau Fermor at the eve of the 2023 season.

I forgot all about Fermor. Good point. Titans pack with MoFo, Tino, Fermor, Fifita should be formidable if Des can get them humming.

Last year, finishing 895 was good enough to get me into league 2.

This year, I'm on track to finish about 1300 which will has me 74th in the FOG, on track for L5.

Certainly been a strong year for the fanatics.

R8: 43rd overall
R27: 2115th overall



Shit decisions and even shitter luck at times. Also losing 1200 ranks in 2 weeks because I haven't captained Cleary is a kick in the dick

Mulvy wrote:

Can you look up previous seasons on those sites??

I have full season team data for the top 112k teams for last year, and roughly same again this season.

I think you might have squeezed in.

Always planned to make it more searchable as an archive/team history thing, but hadn't got around to it. Will make an effort to do so.