NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 5 - No one will miss him

GreenSchist wrote:I've been looking at Teddy as an alternative to Ponga but have some reservations.

Is anyone concerned that the narrower fields in Vegas will result in less space for the back 3 to work? Could see the likes of Teddy, Walsh, Turbo and Trell all underperform in Week 1 if the field is packed tight with forwards.

GreenSchist wrote:I've been looking at Teddy as an alternative to Ponga but have some reservations.

Is anyone concerned that the narrower fields in Vegas will result in less space for the back 3 to work? Could see the likes of Teddy, Walsh, Turbo and Trell all underperform in Week 1 if the field is packed tight with forwards.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Could also see more tbs from crabbing across field

Milchcow wrote:

If you are getting Teddy/Trell/Walsh/Turbo its for the whole season. Don't worry about 1 game

Or if you do care, get someone else for round 1 and then spend a trade getting the gun in for round 2. I am sure you're better off not pre-planning the trade

GreenSchist wrote:I've been looking at Teddy as an alternative to Ponga but have some reservations.

Is anyone concerned that the narrower fields in Vegas will result in less space for the back 3 to work? Could see the likes of Teddy, Walsh, Turbo and Trell all underperform in Week 1 if the field is packed tight with forwards.

Reklaw wrote:

Could do, but you're buying him for the whole season or at least until origin. I'm sure he will still have 20-odd runs with most coming one off the ruck, could find some tired forwards. Your only alternative gun is say a Dedwards.

For what its worth, I've had Ponga pencilled in the team the whole offseason, never thought about changing him once. But now I have Teddy instead, that 100k is pretty handy for what is mostly likely similar scores.

White Lightning wrote:I've got a team with grant, haas, cleary & ponga but i think hopgood could come in for haas & turbo or teddy could come in for ponga if i need the cash

Camo123 wrote:

The issue is you won’t know if you need cash until the Vegas players are locked out

Milchcow wrote:

This is both true and not true

In any given game, certain players may get longer or shorter minutes, depending on game flow and workload.

But, barring injury, the team is fairly consistent over the course of several weeks. I think starting with at least one of them makes sense.

Also Roosters are one of the better bye teams, so loading up on them not necessarily a problem

mickspicks wrote:

I liked how Russell looked in the trial for Parramatta on the weekend. Feel he can crank 35s+.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Almost like it's a tactic to have mobile middles. There will be stints this season where Cheese, Watson, Radley and Nat Butcher are the 4 middle players

my tv broke wrote:Added some more stuff to https://footystatistics.com/team_analyser.php when you view a 2023 team..

Under the squad is a history of players owned through-out the year with profit/loss details + owned average (average while they were in the team) and how that compares to the players full season average.

I think the latter is often overlooked aspect of this game.

my tv broke wrote:Added some more stuff to https://footystatistics.com/team_analyser.php when you view a 2023 team..

Under the squad is a history of players owned through-out the year with profit/loss details + owned average (average while they were in the team) and how that compares to the players full season average.

I think the latter is often overlooked aspect of this game.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Who was right wing for Parra last year? How was their try scoring ratio. I think Russell needs tries to be relevant. If it’s like 0.4 tries a game it won’t be enough you’d want close to a try a game