NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 16 - Tommy Talau has arrived... A year too late.

Lchy wrote:Every year I start fantasy so shit and am playing catchup for the rest of the season. Somehow I've avoided most of the fires this year and even lucked into starting with Hosking. Sitting at 11k rank right now but hoping I can make a charge while other teams are consolidating. Fully expecting to balls it up. Anyway JMK and Wong out, Lussick and May in

Did you hear the news? Hoskings on bench edge duty.

I love Fantasy but I just hate how similar all the teams are already after 2 rounds, including my own. This week most people are getting the same 1-2 players in. Even in my mates leagues, most are the team are basically the same apart from 2-3 players.

Has it got worse in the last few years? or is it just that I am better leagues now? it is easily my biggest issue with NRL Fantasy. I suppose I should give the draft leagues another crack.

King Assassin wrote:

Did you hear the news? Hoskings on bench edge duty.

True, but he started with Hosking. So got his scores and his price rises, he's doing good in that regard imo.

King Assassin wrote:

Did you hear the news? Hoskings on bench edge duty.

Yep but I can trade him for 100k+ profit so not the end of the world

Lchy wrote:Every year I start fantasy so shit and am playing catchup for the rest of the season. Somehow I've avoided most of the fires this year and even lucked into starting with Hosking. Sitting at 11k rank right now but hoping I can make a charge while other teams are consolidating. Fully expecting to balls it up. Anyway JMK and Wong out, Lussick and May in

nice bro great start & i like the trades what's not to like with lussick & may both in fine fantasy form with mins boost

i'm also selling the same 2 players luki & wong & getting j. lussick & arthars (need wfb cover & keeping kris)

grant
haas, smithies, terrell
tupouniua, piakura
cleary (c), fogarty
burbo, strange
ponga, pappy, arthars

J. Lussick, salmon, galvin, hutchison
chan, levi, hughes, kris

Weiland wrote:I love Fantasy but I just hate how similar all the teams are already after 2 rounds, including my own. This week most people are getting the same 1-2 players in. Even in my mates leagues, most are the team are basically the same apart from 2-3 players.

Has it got worse in the last few years? or is it just that I am better leagues now? it is easily my biggest issue with NRL Fantasy. I suppose I should give the draft leagues another crack.

This at least explains why everyone is doing so badly then.

Teeth Eater wrote:Surely it's lunacy to trade out Hosking this week and discard the amount of coin he will inevitably make? Next week, maybe, but surely worth one more week?

At first I thought this, but the problem is we have no idea what his role is going to look like from the bench.

If he only plays 20-25mins and scores 20 points he makes like $15-$20k, if that is the case I think I'd rather just ditch him to improve my scoring 17 this week, $700k is a lot to have sitting in EMG just to milk $20k from.

Edit - just looked at the Raiders bench, he should get more than 25mins lol. Still, not sure how much $$ is enough to make him worth holding - 30-35pts for $30k - $35k?

a good week to play the storm the knights must be happy with no munster or j. hughes

BCT05 wrote:

At first I thought this, but the problem is we have no idea what his role is going to look like from the bench.

If he only plays 20-25mins and scores 20 points he makes like $15-$20k, if that is the case I think I'd rather just ditch him to improve my scoring 17 this week, $700k is a lot to have sitting in EMG just to milk $20k from.

It's seems stupid that it's a risk holding a fully fit player who has killed it but it's tempting to bail on him for a scorer this week considering the shit start to the season

White Lightning wrote:a good week to play the storm the knights must be happy with no munster or j. hughes

Ponga last chance for me almost

Weiland wrote:I love Fantasy but I just hate how similar all the teams are already after 2 rounds, including my own. This week most people are getting the same 1-2 players in. Even in my mates leagues, most are the team are basically the same apart from 2-3 players.

Has it got worse in the last few years? or is it just that I am better leagues now? it is easily my biggest issue with NRL Fantasy. I suppose I should give the draft leagues another crack.

If anything it rewards those who took risks early

Some here started with Lussick, or stashed Galvin in R1, or got Body Slam last week

So this week they can get someone else

my tv broke wrote:Can tommy turbo please play dragons this week

Round 1 or Round 2 dragons?

I think ive missed something... Body Slam and Whirlwind. Who tf are they

Chewie wrote:That TLT changes my trading plans a bit...
Luki to Curran (extra cover in the forwards for when I trade Hosking to Turbo next week)
Wong to Galvin (I would have rather traded Sitili)

Will see how KKFF performs this week, and will do the same for Samuela

These are most likely my trades this week too. Unfortunate because I was happy enough with Wong compared to some of the other dross in my team

I feel much more comfortable trading in Cotter over May this week. But the FOMO keeps telling me I’m wrong

King Assassin wrote:I think ive missed something... Body Slam and Whirlwind. Who tf are they  

Pokémon references. TMs give Pokémon their skills/moves such as Bodyslam and Whirlwind.

TM = Taylan and Terrell May so those are their names