NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 30 - I'm not furious, I'm just disappointed

Had to go into the office this week for the first time in years so haven't had much shitposting or team fiddling time.

I'm going to direct trade Cotter to Hynes based on the theory I have the cash, both will play SOO and have similar byes, I haven't got any other burning needs and I think the difference between the two from rounds 7-12 will be worth it. Also had a look at trading Cheese or Kiraz but would need to pick up a shitter I'm not keen on to find the extra $50k I need.

Had a good round last week captaining Carrigan and not having Hynes but feels like I'm chancing it without one of the big two.

Idiot or not? (Edit : specifically relating to this trade, I think we all know the 'in general' answer)

Captain Turbo against the titans

My current squad actually only has 3 players on the bye in R13
Even assuming Hopgood and Teddy play origin, currently looking fine to field 13

Only having 12 available in R14 is going to be the bigger problem

Happy belated Birthday to Chucky!

Is anyone interested in Ata Mariota?

Who are people captaining this week? I have to decide between SJ and Ponga (I’ll probably go SJ). In Dreamteam (top 50) I have to choose between them plus Nicho and Turbo! (prob VC Turbo and Cap Ponga). I’ll no doubt screw that one up.

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:Who are people captaining this week? I have to decide between SJ and Ponga (I’ll probably go SJ). In Dreamteam (top 50) I have to choose between them plus Nicho and Turbo! (prob VC Turbo and Cap Ponga). I’ll no doubt screw that one up.

Carrigan or Turbo.

standard-issue wrote:Happy belated Birthday to Chucky!  

This has always irrated me, irrationally, his birthday is not belated but your wishes to him are. Therefore it's belated happy birthday! Sort your shit out.

PS, belated happy birthday, Chucky!

How’s this for an unfortunate sporting name. Amy Cokayne is a hooker (an English rugby union player) and has just been banned. The English newspapers must had a field day with that one.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Looking at Forans stats at half and the average of 40 is very 2016/2018 heavy. 

That’s a long long time ago. Surely he has to be making those big kick metres if he’s going to average 40+ for a few weeks

The Foran play isn't really backed by long term stats.

It's a small sample size play that relies on the Titans not changing things up for a few weeks

Paired with Randall, Brimson and Campbell, Foran had nearly hit his career high in kick metres by half time. By full time he had 50% more than his career high, nearly 6 times his career average and nearly 4 times his halfback average. To me this indicated it was the game plan for Foran to be the main kicker and this is where he will pick up anywhere between 10 and 15 points a week.

The entire plan goes to pieces if Weaver/Boyd make their way into the halves

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

The Foran play isn't really backed by long term stats.

It's a small sample size play that relies on the Titans not changing things up for a few weeks

Paired with Randall, Brimson and Campbell, Foran had nearly hit his career high in kick metres by half time. By full time he had 50% more than his career high, nearly 6 times his career average and nearly 4 times his halfback average. To me this indicated it was the game plan for Foran to be the main kicker and this is where he will pick up anywhere between 10 and 15 points a week.

The entire plan goes to pieces if Weaver/Boyd make their way into the halves

Or if Foran leg falls off

on foran we don't trade egan in due to his hia/injury issues but here we are talking about buying foran who's 10 times worse than egan re injury issues.

White Lightning wrote:on foran we don't trade egan in due to his hia/injury issues but here we are talking about buying foran who's 10 times worse than egan re injury issues.

Foran's played 44 games in the last two years to Egan's 39. Without checking, would imagine that Egan has had more in-game injuries/HIAs curtailing minutes too.

Rabbits21 wrote:Is anyone interested in Ata Mariota?

22pts in 72 mins previous week

Adam Elliot owners selling with the reduced minutes or is he tonning up for his 150th this week??

White Lightning wrote:on foran we don't trade egan in due to his hia/injury issues but here we are talking about buying foran who's 10 times worse than egan re injury issues.

You have to go into it knowing there's a little bit of risk but meanwhile I'm looking at getting Brailey who has played 5 and 8 games the last two seasons. I'm warming up to Foran

Hard one this week.. really just want to max cash gen.

TU: Iro & Willison
TD: Chester & Waddell

With old man Trai too expensive to milk in a short period of time. Am leaning back to Blore.

Reasons not to get Blore?

lk22 wrote:Hard one this week.. really just want to max cash gen.

TU: Iro & Willison
TD: Chester & Waddell

Why not Iro and Waddell?

lk22 wrote:Hard one this week.. really just want to max cash gen.

TU: Iro & Willison
TD: Chester & Waddell

Check out community team poll to view forum members voting on this week's trade ins. It might give you a clue.

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t2436-r7-trade-poll