Life on the Millennium Falcon in 2024

rd11 result
score: 961
OR: 723

Went with the safer captaincy pick, Payne Haas, but lost out on 25 points by not going with Hynes.
Also had Jolliffe scoring 6 points after he left the field with a pec injury
Lost a few spots, but it wasn't too bad.
Looking forward to the bye rounds, the team is set-up nicely, hopefully I won't need to burn too many trades. Would like to have 5 trades left by round 20 when the extra 8 trades come into play.

rd12 results

Score: 832
OR: 634

Haha this was the week to not captain Hynes with his score of 17 (HIA & calf niggle)
Managed to score above par, with Haas, Galvin & Kiraz hitting 75+ scores

The bye rounds are upon us... this is one of my favourite periods of the season, love the challenge and have been preparing for it with my trades well in advance. I have 9 trades left (plus , but will only need 4 or 5 trades to make it through the bye rounds with a full team in every round. While keeping Haas, Hynes, and Fifita in the team. Injuries can mess up the plans, but hoping for the best.

Rd13 results
Score: 711
OR: 388

Gaining ranks is always nice.
I traded in Teddy and captained him, like many others. He got called up for origin and became a dnp. DBrown was my VC and I did have Strange coming in off the bench.

R14 results
Score 837
OR 288
Gained 100 spots despite a few below average scores, Wishart scoring 86 points plus Captain Fifita with 63 points made the difference:

Team moving forward:

Koro
Haas, JDB, Uto
Fifita, Carty
Hynes, Brown
Wighton, Iro
Teddy, Garrick, Wishart

KPP, Weekes, Plath, Hands
Curran, Kiraz, Atko, Galvin

And 3 trades left...

rd15 results
Score 820
OR 229

Gained a few more spots, despite playing with 16 (Fifita late out)
PODs (<10% ownership in top 100) Haas (82), Uto (81), Carty (62) pulling their weight
Traded in Aitken for KPP (toe injury) for extra bye cover going forward.

2 trades left

Rd16 results
Score 822
OR 113

Halved my rank
Pretty good round for only 13 players.
New recruit JC (89) Koro (88) Glavin (75), captain Fifita (64), Teddy (64), and Kiraz (63)
Traded DBrown to JC as I needed a round 19 WFB and JC was getting more and more expensive. Also needed to reduce my rd20 bye players, and Moses is back so DBrown has done his job.
1 trade left.
Just need to survive till round 20, holding on for dear life, should be able to field 13 in round 19.

Mid round update:
Looks like trading out DBrown was the right move
Trading in Marzhew for his brace was the right call, he almost had a hattrick, but the bunker had other thoughts

Rd17 result:
score 840
OR 93

Gained some more spots, good scores from 16 players. As mentioned Marzhew getting 65 was nice!
a punt that paid off!

Rd 18 result
Score 1007
OR 64

Made up some more ground. Teddy, Garrick, Curran, and Wishart the heavy hitters. Marzhew with another good score of 55.

Gained ranks 7 rounds in a row now, solid momentum
299 points behind 1st, and 153 points from the top 10. Getting within shooting distance of the top

rd 19 result
Score 621
OR 65

Lowest score of the season, disappointing round. Hynes out injured, Aitken getting injured, Api sinbin and injury, Marzhew bad cork, Uto bad game. Had 13 players though and managed to only lose one spot in the overall ranking. I had hoped to gain a few more spots with 13 taking the field, but it wasn't to be. My streak of green arrows has come to a halt (for now). But saying all that, it could have been worse.
Happy to have another 8 trades, of which I'll need 3 to field 17 this week.

Current team before trades:

Koro
Haas, Plath, JDB
DFifita, Carty
Hynes, Galvin
Aitken, Iro
Teddy, Campbell, Garrick

Uto, Curran, Wishart, Kiraz
Weekes, Wighton, Hands, Marzhew

rd 20 results
score: 895
OR: 53

On the up again after hitting a plateau last round. Gained 12 spots.
Traded out Hynes, Aitken, and Koro and brought in Cleary, Koloa and Randall
Team balance and depth is pretty good, no injuries or suspensions for any of my players this round.
I have 5 trades left and 165k in the bank. Will probably use one trade to get another gun, Wishart might be on the way out with the return of Munster.

Team before trades:

Randall
Haas, JDB, Curran
Fifita, Koloa
Cleary, Galvin
Kiraz, Wighton
Teddy, JC, Garrick

Wishart, Carty, Uto, Iro
Plath, Weekes, Hands, Marzhew

With Munster's return I'll probably go Wishart to Angus
And will probably go Weekes to DBrown to strengthen the team

will leave me with 3 trades and 45k in the bank to cover injuries/suspensions
fingers crossed

It's been a while, here an update:

Rd21 result - 5 players scoring 70+, high scoring round
score: 1062
OR 46

RD22 result
score: 867
OR 86
First red arrow in 2 months, Haas injury and average scores

RD23 result
score: 841
OR 132
below par again, Koloa low score, only 3 scores above 60

RD24 result
score: 929
OR 152
Cleary injury, Eels players score bad in waterfest

Lost all momemtum with my bye round assets tanking
Using my last 2 trades this week to turn things around
Cleary to Carrigan
Stefano to Murray

Final Team:
Randall
Carrigan, Koloa, Plath
Fifita, Angus
DCE (c), Galvin
Iro, Wighton
Teddy, JC, Kiraz

Murray, Brown, Garrick, Carty
Curran, JDB, Marzhew, Hands