NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 2 - We've all been waiting for Weekes

Alfie wrote:

He’d likely be leaving 2 men on the bench though, we went over this with Dolphin Conspiracies I think. Assuming your backrowers play 80, which BA usually sticks with and Matto playing 45-50, that leaves like 20-30 minutes for the remaining 3 bench occupants.

easytiger wrote:

Warriors '23 Harris averaged 68 minutes (that is just 2 minutes more than Hopgood last year)
Panthers '22 Koroisau averaged 70 minutes
Souths '22 Murray averaged 69 minutes

The reason I point this out is that you're surely expecting Hopgood to get more than say an 3 extra minutes to make him a value pick - which is what being "near 80" seems to mean in these instances?

I think most people probably wouldn't consider a Hopgood + Lussick combo to be fairly equivalent to Murray + Cook, Yeo + Koroisau or probably even Harris + Egan for that matter

Maybe Lussick gets big minutes, maybe Hopgood goes into Yeo territory, both happening seems less likely than neither happening imho

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Hopgood playing 80 sounds a lot like what fantasy coaches want to happen rather than what will happen

easytiger wrote:

But then you also say that BA is considering that Hopgood is very much in the Origin frame.

At the end of the day it's far more likely that there are reasons why Mid X doesn't end up playing their upper limit of minutes each week then there are cases where Mid X plays max minutes every week for months on end without any reason to ever have reduced minutes...

It's all hypothetical anyway,  if you want to believe Hopgood will play 80 every week for the whole season (as he would certainly be a season keeper in that instance) then have at it! - I sincerely hope it proves an inspired call

mattnz wrote:

Brailey is captain and an 80 minute hooker.

easytiger wrote:

The memories of 2021 Brailey gives me warm fuzzies... how good would that be to repeat!

Alfie wrote:Egan and Harris only played 80 in the same game once in round 26, rocco berry and metcalf were injured around the halfway mark. I think with Capewell coming over who isn’t worth an interchange like Niukore was, Tohu likely won’t play 80. Plenty of leadership experience left over when Harris goes off with RTS, Johnson and Capewell

Camo123 wrote:

Brailey has had an Achilles and another ACL injury since then though

rhinoceroo wrote:Kids, maybe Brad Arthur uses "80 minutes" as a way of saying "big minutes". He's not a fantasy coach.