NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 23 - End the season now, Tigers are in the 8

mattnz wrote:

Has scored fine when not moved to CTR for JAC getting injured in 2 games (34 average, which is fine for his price). At lock he scores well and getting decent minutes. Who do you upgrade him to in his position in that price range that is going to make more cash? Already have Chan, Fine needs a try to get out of the 20s, Piakura injured.

Snatchpato wrote:Speaking of captains, who are we all running this week? Surely no one doubles down on Turbo against the Panthers.

For the base fellas:

Fogarty
Hopgood
Grant
Bodyslam
Tohu
Murray
Yeo
CARRIGUN

For the "matchups"

Ponga v Dragons
Teddy v Bulldogs
Papy v Broncos
Drinky v Titans (not that many have Drinky)
Robson v Titans

Personally, I'm leaning Fogarty or Hopgood, however they both play on Sunday night so I might have to VC Papy

kamikamicameleons wrote:

Tbh, I'm basing his shitto rating more on the eye test. He just does nothing good on the field, and for someone making incredibly slow cash, I find it hard to want him in my team. Would rather take a risk on another cow.

And this is why I'll be out of trades by round 14

Also, I suck at this game, so am trying to embrace the "have fun" aspect

rhinoceroo wrote:

Carrigan.

Of the gut feel "gamble" choices, I'd probably go Drinky if I had him, particularly seeing as nobody else does either, but I don't.

Reklaw wrote:

I wasnt on much during the week, when did we all buy Carrigan

Snatchpato wrote:
My mistake in my analysis is that it was too broad.

I did calculations based on historical PPM and minutes. Hands wasn't in the picture when making these calculations as well, so I thought the minutes would be a safe bet. He was a buy based on my minutes v historical PPM calculations, but I didn't take into account the changes in the game since the majority of his games were played in the NRL. To be fair, it's only been 4 rounds, but it really doesn't seem like the game for the hookers anymore. Furthermore, Lussick is playing for a team which has Brown, Gutho, Hopgood, and a 5/8 who are all demanding the ball. It's not like he's Grant or Api who are one of the chief playmakers.
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Holzman wrote:

Cleary to Carrigan was a popular trade

Reklaw wrote:

I wasnt on much during the week, when did we all buy Carrigan

Snatchpato wrote:Speaking of captains, who are we all running this week? Surely no one doubles down on Turbo against the Panthers.

For the base fellas:

Fogarty
Hopgood
Grant
Bodyslam
Tohu
Murray
Yeo
CARRIGUN

For the "matchups"

Ponga v Dragons
Teddy v Bulldogs
Papy v Broncos
Drinky v Titans (not that many have Drinky)
Robson v Titans

Personally, I'm leaning Fogarty or Hopgood, however they both play on Sunday night so I might have to VC Papy

rhinoceroo wrote:

Hold up, Grant is Grant but Papy/Munster/Hughes are collectively better playmakers than their current Eels equivalents.

Maybe it's not teammate related and Lussick just fucking sucks (owner).

Revraiser wrote:

Facetious!

Milchcow wrote:
Also on Lussick, Hands only came into the team when Cartwright was ruled out. If Carty was fit would Lussick have played 80? Or was bringing Hands in always a plan.


And Tigers not only left Jayden Sullivan on the bench for the whole game, but Asu Kepoa also got 0 minutes. Not sure if that will continue every week, but it was a lot of minutes to go round in the forward pack for those who did play.

ForanAgainst wrote:

I’m still thinking I’ll be going with the player who is averaging 81.75 against this week’s opponent.

rhinoceroo wrote:

I like to think I have fantasy smarts - not as much as some on the forum, but still multiple top 100 finishes. However sometimes you can still get trapped in a situation where you *can't* get the "fun" (ie good) players because you can't afford them and, because you can't do things in the optimal way, every bad decision begets another bad decision and so on and on. Happened to me during the Covid season, which was easily my worst, and looks like it might be happening again. All that remains is to be patient and grab a respectable rank during the byes if I can,

I guess what I'm saying is you're going to get smacked by variance (good or.bad) a some time or another, nobody is ever going to be at or near the top.every year, however much fantasy "best practice" you.apply. And the down years do take the "fun" out of it a bit. But shit happens, and I also *have* made some terrible choices this year which have had maximum damage in a way that in other years they maybe haven't.

Mulvy wrote:

Yeah I used to be good at fantasy too.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Why stop there? 87.33 average in games over 50 minutes.