NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 5 - No one will miss him

Teeth Eater wrote:Does anyone else find themselves hating their team more than previous starts to a season? Been sort of playing around here and there but made a rule a few seasons ago not to really invest any proper time or effort into it until team lists.

So one could argue it'd be foolish to assume I'd pull together the perfect team in a few hours following (partial) teams lists... but I just can't settle on anything that doesn't have a heap of things that give me aches in the stomach and scrotum. Maybe it's because 3/4 of the first round is still unknown so there's a bunch of "maybe"s hanging around my team, but man, just can't shake the feeling that my team is absolute shit.

Regarding Cotter, and I apologise as I'm sure it's been discussed, but what's the main reason he may be any better this year than last? Is it the Hess injury and the captaincy that have people hopeful? I feel like I should have him, and have had variations with him in my team, but he's always first to depart when I want to squeeze someone else in. Just can't really see him doing a big reverse on last year, or am I missing something obvious?

Was also looking at Turbo because he seemed a fair idea when it started to become obvious the whole CTR/WFB situation could be pretty ugly to start out. But then I noticed Teddy only a few K more and after owning Teddy all year last year and watching him drop to somewhere around $200K less than what I started out with him, I decided I'd go light on WFB where I could, to start out. But anyway, if I was going to pick between the two at their price point I'd just go with the generally more reliable Teddy... but I don't want to start with Teddy, so I drew a line through both of them. And now I don't know who to put there. Ponga and Drinkwater too expensive, Latrell is Latrell and I'm severely scarred by his Latrelledness from last year so don't want a bar of him yet, until the PTSD runs it's course... so then I land on Sean Russell because of his DPP and price but I don't ignore folk saying that side for the Eels sees less action than the other side so I'm not sure. And Bostock is in the mix too, but not sure about that either. Basically, my team is a bunch of placeholders until next Tuesday.

To round out the night I ended up just overcrowding my squad with mid range EDG and MIDs, hoping for more clarity next Tuesday. Several will play on Sunday, but I'm hoping the others give me enough leeway to hold, or move up to guns and / or down to cows should either become obvious on Tuesday. 

And that's about where I stand. Apologies for the rambles.

Milchcow wrote:
Stormtrooper - no cover at WFB or CTR

That seems brave. And if Burbo is dropped for Schuster round 2, not a lot of money to fix it up either

StormTrooper96 wrote:
Cheers Milchy! Yeah same thoughts here. This will change. Just need to find the money.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Well ladies and gents it’s been a long time but here we are… always coming back to it! It’s like women and pregnancy. Forget how much it hurts and keep going back for more.

Anyways only opened the app today, had a few reads here and come up with this stinker of a team.

Grant
Sitili Flegler Haas
Piakura Hopgood
Cleary Hutch
Strange Burbo
Pappy Turbo Cotric

Smithies Luki Salmon Lussick
S.Hughes Levi Mikaele 250k player

40K itb

My thoughts: Too gun heavy. Possibly missing out on a few players. Fogarty was a hard one to leave out but very awkwardly priced.

Any must haves missing? Keen to spend some more time around here again.

Stormtrooper over and out

mattnz wrote:

Without Fog, you have no halves cover. Also no WFB or CTR cover and no guarantees that Burbo or Cotric hold their spots as players return.
Too forwards and HOK heavy to have a balanced team.

Milchcow wrote:

Raiders fans seem to want it, which means nothing because they aren't the coach

Don't think there is any quote (either way) on how Horse will be used this year

Teeth Eater wrote:Does anyone else find themselves hating their team more than previous starts to a season? Been sort of playing around here and there but made a rule a few seasons ago not to really invest any proper time or effort into it until team lists.

So one could argue it'd be foolish to assume I'd pull together the perfect team in a few hours following (partial) teams lists... but I just can't settle on anything that doesn't have a heap of things that give me aches in the stomach and scrotum. Maybe it's because 3/4 of the first round is still unknown so there's a bunch of "maybe"s hanging around my team, but man, just can't shake the feeling that my team is absolute shit.

Regarding Cotter, and I apologise as I'm sure it's been discussed, but what's the main reason he may be any better this year than last? Is it the Hess injury and the captaincy that have people hopeful? I feel like I should have him, and have had variations with him in my team, but he's always first to depart when I want to squeeze someone else in. Just can't really see him doing a big reverse on last year, or am I missing something obvious?

Was also looking at Turbo because he seemed a fair idea when it started to become obvious the whole CTR/WFB situation could be pretty ugly to start out. But then I noticed Teddy only a few K more and after owning Teddy all year last year and watching him drop to somewhere around $200K less than what I started out with him, I decided I'd go light on WFB where I could, to start out. But anyway, if I was going to pick between the two at their price point I'd just go with the generally more reliable Teddy... but I don't want to start with Teddy, so I drew a line through both of them. And now I don't know who to put there. Ponga and Drinkwater too expensive, Latrell is Latrell and I'm severely scarred by his Latrelledness from last year so don't want a bar of him yet, until the PTSD runs it's course... so then I land on Sean Russell because of his DPP and price but I don't ignore folk saying that side for the Eels sees less action than the other side so I'm not sure. And Bostock is in the mix too, but not sure about that either. Basically, my team is a bunch of placeholders until next Tuesday.

To round out the night I ended up just overcrowding my squad with mid range EDG and MIDs, hoping for more clarity next Tuesday. Several will play on Sunday, but I'm hoping the others give me enough leeway to hold, or move up to guns and / or down to cows should either become obvious on Tuesday. 

And that's about where I stand. Apologies for the rambles.

mattnz wrote:This doesn't sound overly optimistic about Piakura's chances of playing.

"Broncos back-rower Brendan Piakura "remains a chance to play" in Vegas according to Broncos head of performance Dave Ballard, after he sustained a low-grade medial cruciate ligament strain in Brisbane's Pre-Season Challenge win over the Cowboys in Mackay."

manlybeaver wrote:Really liking my team atm

Grant
Haas Murray tatola
Luki piakura
Clearly hutchson
Burbo strange
Paps rapanna kini

Boyd salmon wong sitili

Kris Hughes Bradley willison

Milchcow wrote:
Whilst we are talking team trackers, I have started publishing notes on players I am looking at in my team tracker for the year

Link in my profile if anyone is interested

Chewie wrote:Community Team Voting

Rabbits21 wrote:
I think Ricky might take Weekes over Strange even though Strange played better.

I currently have

Cheese
Haas Cotter Sitili
Wong Piakura
Cleary Fog
Suli Burbo
Pap Ponga Kini

Lussick Luki Hutcho Salmon
Kris Hughes Weekes Bradley

That’s with 60k spare