NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 20 - The Gang All Get Injured

Milchcow wrote:
What are the odds Fogarty becomes a season keeper.

Lets assume you trade Cleary out and/or you want to bring Hynes in soon.

Would a Fogarty to Hynes/Cleary trade before Canberra's bye be worth it or would it be too sideways.

Most of us have too many Canberra players so someone is going to have to go by then/ Fogarty one of the ones we keep?
I think his final season average will be less than what it is now, so I am tempted to cash out  - realising  may be wrong and he may pump out 60s for the rest of the year.

mattnz wrote:

I don't think there are any teams that are avoiding playing at least 2-3 of Strange, Burbo, Salmon, Hughes, Levi this week, the problem is that almost everyone is playing all of them or maybe getting 1 in a loop.

Pre-trades:

ytsb wrote:Maybe if you don't have to play 2-3 of Strange, Burbo, Salmon, Hughes, Levi (name your shitto) then Blaize as a trade in carries significantly less risk. The issue is that you're trading points by trading in two "guns" for cash, that might not work out. 29 average is required to make 150k, but Blaize looked involved enough at centre on the weekend and chopping and changing the Eel's 5/8 seems unlikely.

My current conundrum is whether to put the foot down and field a relatively sturdy team that scores many points in a week that many can't (trade in two of KPP, Turbo, DBrown, Koro) or pick one of those and Blaize.

The Blaize conundrum becomes more apparent if trading out Cleary. If Cleary misses these two rounds before the bye, he misses 6 rounds including his bye at R19. If Hynes doesn't play origin, he misses 2 before his bye in R20. I reckon Hynes scores more points in that time. I think trading Cleary and picking up Hynes after his bye, then bringing in Cleary before R20 might be the play. Bringing in Blaize gives you a stack of cash to facilitate this. I think that Levi, Burbo, Chan, Shoes, Strange are going no where in a hurry and might need to be traded in the coming weeks to get cash flow going. You really can only trade them to emerging cash cows, Blaize seems like one of them.

EDIT: I also think holding Cleary is a viable strat if you're gonna have most of his cash on the pine. If you're not using his cash, why trade him?

Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Kris with his DPP has low-key got the viability to be a keeper 19th man.

Rapana you'll probably want to have traded at peak to one of the big fullbacks before the bye.

RandomSil wrote:Alright like everyone else planning on finalising trades.

Tedesco is in for Walsh.

Then who is a more pressing trade this week between T. May, Koroisau, Fogarty?

That gives a week to look at KPP, Blaize, and whoever else has value as then I can sideways trade shittos out hopefully

rhinoceroo wrote:

Kris with his DPP has low-key got the viability to be a keeper 19th man.

Rapana you'll probably want to have traded at peak to one of the big fullbacks before the bye.

ForanAgainst wrote:

Unfortunately, I am playing Strange, Burbo, Salmon, adding in Tups, and one of Hughes/Levi, so I’m content with the wait and see/miss approach with Blaize. Might be the wrong move, but it’s my choice really.

As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve done Cleary to Carrigan & should he drop out, I’ll be going Wong to KPP. $303k itb.

Mulvy wrote:

I have Wong in my starting edge praying for a late call up so I can field 17.

RandomSil wrote:Alright like everyone else planning on finalising trades.

Tedesco is in for Walsh.

Then who is a more pressing trade this week between T. May, Koroisau, Fogarty?

That gives a week to look at KPP, Blaize, and whoever else has value as then I can sideways trade shittos out hopefully

GreenMachine wrote:I reckon they shouldn’t put a weekly limit on trades.

If I had unlimited trades but still just 32 left with the season I reckon I’d probably make 9 moves this week.

It highly unlikely that would be smart or play out well so would still be a strategic challenge but just give complete freedom to move.

Would teams converge to a template quicker we think? Most likely yes, but I bet the top 100 coaches at season end would still be some other group who were a bit more measured and reserved (and well timed not just early) with their moves.

You’d have all sorts going on with unlimited like people justifying to themselves (incorrectly) dropping Harry Grant this week on his bye and just bringing him back in next week because they’d still have 27 trades left.

TheWeapon wrote:

I'm in the same boat - either this or Rapana has some general soreness and needs a rest so Cotric can get another run

FaringdonSwirl wrote:

I can get down to playing 1 of those with 2 trades.

Pre-trades:

mattnz wrote:

TheWeapon wrote:

I'm in the same boat - either this or Rapana has some general soreness and needs a rest so Cotric can get another run

Hate to disappoint, but first in line would be Stewart in that scenario.

mattnz wrote:
But will you trade them out over red dots?

BBowler wrote:Hearing all this talk of looping Shittostakes me back to last round where I thought I was so clever putting Strange in the loop with Shoes and starting Kini. In then end they all scored less than 20, what a waste of energy thinking about it lol.