NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 22 - Why would you captain a WFB?

Teeth Eater wrote:

Haven't played as long as that, but I definitely lean towards holding trades when I can, and I'm the same this year. Used every single available trade, and there is no chance at all it's slowing down any week soon. It's a real worry, but only consolation I can think of is that I assume most are in the same boat.



Fair point about Smithies that I'd not had time to process yet. Definitely needs to go, but this might be reason enough to hold for one more week while other fires are put out.



Did he mention where Tuaupiki is playing next week? If I was picking the team I'd have him alongside SJ in the halves and it'd have absolutely nothing at all to do with the fact that I held him this week in Fantasy.

Anyway, just getting up to date and about to check out the scores. Relatively speaking, some pretty big scores being posted. I'm sitting on 564/14(c) with Galvin, Lussick and Talagi to play. Score is going to be a dog turd, but I'm at peace with it considering I'm only playing 15 this week. Good day today, with Hynes (c) and Ponga. And let's be honest, Levi. What a gun.

Anyway, strap on your boredom helmets as I have a little browse at the entire scorecards;

Ponga - nice to see him deliver this week. First few weeks have been tough without being disastrous, but nice timing this week. Definitely seemed to be outside of the action for the majority of the second half, but nice late run of points.

Egan - dude would surely be a gun hooker if he could string a few games together.  

Tohu - would have been such a solid option to start the season with. With my current MIDs, will need to look harder at him.

KPP - been in my sights and hoping I can finally pull the trigger this week, but a little concerned other things will get in the way again. Hopefully not.

Best - was keeping an eye on him too, hoping for a bit more lost cash. This (49) could put a halt to that.

Cogger - surprisingly low scores for two starts now.

CHT - saw some chat about him being a possible trade target. I was silently hoping he had a WFB dual position just in case, lol, but 31, with a try, in 71mins definitely isn't high on the appeal-o-meter.

J.Brailey - I wonder if he will start at some point. Price could be insane with a few more of these (14).

Game Two;

Hynes - thank you, captain.

McInnes - nice for those that held on. So tempting if this could be somewhat maintained. Will keep an eye on that bench after the bye as my MIDs are horrid.

Fogarty - so painful. I wish all my other players in other positions could not be so shit so I could just concentrate on this. Instead I need to get some WFB I will hate looking at in my team this week. Plus my MID/EDG/CTR is sickening. Must get the Fog, though.

Jack Williams - lol, wtf is that ppm? Abbreviation overload. 59 in 46min.

Tapine - guess that stops his price drops (57).

Levi - immaculate timing from the GOAT. Nice that I can hold while attending to far bigger concerns. I saw some posts suggesting Smithies might have gone off (again) with a HIA at the end. Was this the reason Levi came back on? Not planned or anything?

Iro - auto-fill team loved this, but what a headache he's going to be in a fortnight. If he starts again but there's still a bunch of Sharks forwards out for another week or two, going to create some issues on whether to pick him up or not. Future headache.

Strange - nice, and thank you good sir. Another one removing himself from the spotlight for another week as it shines on Hughes, Tuaupiki, Salmon, Sitili and...

Smithies - this guy. I will factor in Matt's point above about Hosking and potentially Whitehead being out and this benefitting Smithies, but that'd only be a one week band-aid. Dude needs to go, asap.

Schiller - 34 with two tries. Yuck.

And that about wraps it up. Some big names at the end of that scorecard in Kris, Hosking, Talakai and Kennedy. Sad end for Hosking owners.

And that's about it. I gotta get to sleep. Sorry for the mind saliva.

Oh, and I missed Metcalf. Very bummed for him. Didn't have him in Fantasy but I did in both SC and VSDT. Had to trade him out in SC this week, against my will, to get in Galvin. Crazy how that turned out, but really sad to see. Hope he's not out for too long as he'd had a good start to the season.