NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 17 - He haas a sore knee

thomglomerate wrote:Okay here’s a conundrum for the brains trust. I only have two playing wfb, pap and rapina. Talou back next week and gagai likely a trade out. Trading Hass to May leaves me with enough money to turn gagai into any one under $684k. However I’m not seeing anyone who is a keeper at that price OR anyone who will make money. So would it be insane to chase cash by ignoring the wfb position for a week and picking up Lussick instead?

Probably a 30 point hit in exchange for 40k cash?

Feels insane to not play a full 17 this early but cash gen has been so hard to come by and there’s only a couple of weeks to collect Galvin, Lussick etc before the opportunity is gone?

Edit: also yikes is that what the default avatar looks like? Grim.

White Lightning wrote:if you could pick 1 to buy out of these 4 who would it be - Turbo, Walsh, Tedesco or Taylan May

cheers.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Been looking through some teams -

Fletcher Baker I was initially under the impression that Baker as a starting PROP would play at least 40. Now I can see that this assumption is dodge, and he is just as likely to play 20-25 minutes and then sit out the rest of the game. People will now say I am misleading them into not picking him.

Shady2K wrote:

Who's your third WFB before trade?

Snatchpato wrote:If I could only get one, it’d be Turbo over Ted

mrbrownstone wrote:Locked in Luki to May as trade #1 which feels like a no-brainer. Leaves me 5k short of doing Wong to Lussick though which is unfortunate. So if I trade Wong this week, Mann and Finefeuiaki are the only two I'm interested in under 509k, with reservations about both.

Considering keeping Wong to loop this week and turn into Campbell next week to cover Pap, and instead doing McInness to Cotter—don't want to miss the boat there. Danger there is next week I'll have Pap, Grant, Chan, Wong as red dots, and if anyone else gets injured/suspended I'm struggling to field 17.

Could also skip May and do Luki + Wong = Curran + Lussick but I'm really not sure about skipping May....

Basically:

a) Wong -> Finefeuiaki
b) McInnes -> Cotter (trade Wong next week)
c) Luki + Wong -> Curran + Lussick (skip May)

Head says A is the straight bat play, gut says B, and the risk-taker in me says C.

Team for context:

Spoiler:

StormTrooper96 wrote:Forum Members - been out of it for ages! Is Wong a hold? Thinking it’s a no brainer Wong and Haas to Hopgood/May and finefuiaki?

Also floated keeping Wong (every chance he still plays or is back in next week) and going Shoes and Haas to Hopgood/May and Fine?

my tv broke wrote:2367 teams have the Cook/Haas/Wong trifecta.
395 teams have Cook/Haas/Luki.
154 teams unlucky enough to have all four.
8 teams have all four... plus Seyfarth.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Forum Members - been out of it for ages! Is Wong a hold? Thinking it’s a no brainer Wong and Haas to Hopgood/May and finefuiaki?

Also floated keeping Wong (every chance he still plays or is back in next week) and going Shoes and Haas to Hopgood/May and Fine?

BBowler wrote:

Is Haas/Wong/Luki more popular?

White Lightning wrote:

kris with no backup

Fraser wrote:My plan was to run with Kris in WFB until JC became an option, unfortunately that plan has backfired spectacularly.

I'm currently 1 WFB short this week. Am I crazy going without May and doing the following trades instead?

McInnes > Tedesco
Luki > Finefeuiaki

Gives me
Api
Murray Smithies Jsaifiti
Piakura Finefeuiaki
Cleary Galvin
Burbo Strange
Turbo Teddy Papy

Cheese Tupounuia Hutchinson Chan
Salmon Hughes Liddle Kris

230k bank after those trades.

Would appreciate any thoughts on this one because I think McInnes gets closer to 60mins this week but at least I'd be bringing in a gun in Teddy for him.

Liddle being out is another kick in the guts.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Been looking through some teams -

Fletcher Baker I was initially under the impression that Baker as a starting PROP would play at least 40. Now I can see that this assumption is dodge, and he is just as likely to play 20-25 minutes and then sit out the rest of the game. People will now say I am misleading them into not picking him.

Sam McIntyere Minutes appear tied to T'lolololos and cover for if he needs to leave early with his degenerative cartilage


Kulikefu Finefeuiaki Appears to have won the starting spot over Gosiewski, who lost it to Leiluia last year, circe R14... There is the possibility that he is subbed by Gosiwski early in the game, I guess, but I would think this is pretty unlikely. At 55 - 60 minutes. You would guess he would average around 35... There's nothing to write home about - but it's likely a more reliable and slightly higher-scoring version of Salmon/Levi/Flanagan/Hutchison for a similar price. I am not yet convinced.

TLDR May Curran or Mann are the options to seek out this week... not sure how to get them in without wasting too many trades ... need a rethink

Bethany_B wrote:
You could go May + a pod at WFB like RTS, Cobbo, Lomax or Dom Young?

BBowler wrote:

I would defs go May and due to bye round next week would also grab Fine. Would you still have enough to get Campbell at that point with Flanno?