LORD of the BYES 4

Brilliant. Great read and awesome fantasy playing.

One last thing;

If you like Lord of the Byes, and you're not yet in Eliminator, then get involved - it's an awesome competition and lots of fun!

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t2492-eliminator-2024-signups

LORD of the BYES - Round 18 Results
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The last 16 team round of the Lord of the Byes saw some huge scores from many fantasy-relevant players with Tedesco, Barnett, Ming, Mitchell, Wishart, Cotter, Curran, Walsh, Koloa, Garrick Nikora, May & Wighton all going 67 points or more.
It also delivered some very tough scores for owners of CNK, Sharpe, Piakura, Moses, NAS & Mulitalo

If you were on the right side of selections then it was another good round to make some gains.

One player to take full advantage was code delta with a massive 1,134 points with an astute Teddy Captaincy selection.

The Top 20 this week:

"The Eliminator", robelgordo, continues to lead the table, but wolfking is still well in the picture and now ably joined by FOG leader Chewie.

The Leaderboard:

LORD of the BYES - Round 18 Results
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If you broke the 1000 then you probably made some great gains.
It's probably no suprise to see code delta made huge gains with his 1134 points.

The Top 20 rank improvers this week:

It was another good round for Papadontbleach as she extends her lead on the chasing field.

The Rank Improvers Leaderboard:

The relative rank improver leaderboard shows the percentage of teams ahead of each team prior to Round 13, that they have managed to overtake.

robelgordo continues to dominate, with eight teams now having passed 80% of the teams that were ahead of them when this competition began.

Relative Rank Improvers Leaderboard:

All the best for your teams as we head into the final major bye of 2024!

It looks like a big round to make some gains if you have the trades or squad to play 12 or 13.

LORD of the BYES - Round 19 Results
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The final big bye round of the Lord of the Byes proved another tough round to navigate, with plenty of teams running on trade fumes.
If you managed to a full 13, there's a good chance you made some good gains.

EasyTiger was lucky enough to run the gauntlet scoring 765 points, with Welsh Mafia and Cantbeatwinners also putting up handy mid 740+ point scores.

The Top 20 this week:

It's close at the top and it looks like it may be a two-horse race between two elite NRL Draft players who are equally adept at overall and bye management;
Good luck robelgordo and wolfking!

The Leaderboard:

The round 19 player averages illustrated the tougher round with less than half of LOTB teams being able to field a full squad, and overall player averages being under 50.

LORD of the BYES - Round 19 Results
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The major byes are always the best time to make huge ranking gains, and this round proved no differnt.
Holy Moly is no stranger to making big rank gains in the major byes, and this week jumped a huge 5935 places with a very solid 686 points.

The Top 20 rank improvers this week:

It's going to be tough for anyone to catch Papadontbleach for the Rank Improver title and Shady2K looks like they may have second place sewn up too. Third place could be anyones!

The Rank Improvers Leaderboard:

The relative rank improver leaderboard shows the percentage of teams ahead of each team prior to Round 13, that they have managed to overtake.

robelgordo continues to hold the top spot, but just like the Lord of the Byes title, it's incredibly close between him and wolfking.

Relative Rank Improvers Leaderboard:

One last tough week with the Dragons, Eels and Sharks on the bye and no doubt a few popular Origin players will be late outs.

Best of luck to everyone as we await the 2024 Lord of the Byes champion

It's a great comp and you write this up so well.

Love your work brother. Some huge climbers

Drum roll.....

LORD of the BYES 4 - A New King is Crowned
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After 8 long weeks, one stood higher than the rest.

He started Round 13 in 9,148th place, but with astute bye management and careful squad selection, he only played one short on one occasion over 8 rounds; combined with a magnificent player average of 51.0, he would jump 8,814 places into 334th overall by the end of the byes.

This more importantly gave him a 99-point margin over an elite bye manager (who never played a man short over the whole 8 rounds).

I am honoured to present the 2024 Lord of the Byes:



robelgordo

A new king is crowned - Congratulations Rob.

You have proven yet again to be an elite fantasy player of the finest order, and surely likely to be the next inductee into the mysterious Rabbits9.


A true champion is made great by the quality of their competition, so a huge congratulations to wolfking in second place, and to chewie who took the remaining podium spot (and 53rd overall).

Final rounds scores and the full leaderboard should be up later today, and the final Rank Improvement results tomorrow!

Well done Rob, such an awesome bye round!

Kudos to Wolfy, Chewie, and all others who gained bulk ranks over the period, time to rise up and claim NRLFF glory in the back-end of the season.

And thanks ET for running it again this year, always enjoyable to track the forum over this time.

Well done Rob, well deserved. Top fantasy player and great contributor!

Many thanks to ET for organising again, cheers!

Congrats @robelgordo & thanks again @easytiger really enjoyed it this year (except for last round which scuppered my charge)

Congrats Robelgordo. NIce work Wolfking and Chewie.

Thanks ET. Great comp.

Congrats Rob, top planning and some great gut purchases (Barnett your MVP surely) to distinguish you from the rest of us chumps.

Thanks ET for running too, awesome comp.

Congrats Rob, top performance, and also wolfie and chewie on a top 3 finish. Also a big thanks to easytiger for organising a great competition

That is an impressive turn around from where you were in Round 13 Rob. Interesting to see you had quite a few things go wrong in that period as well yet still smashed us.