NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 45 - All Hands on deck

BCT05 wrote:

Neither, there must be someone else in your team to trade. And if not just roll with 12.

That was my take too - neither are sells. If you have then hold

Tossing up on (C)arty Party for the lols, or genuinely much more seriously KPP for captaincy this week. The dude is due a meat pie, has a very high base, and is averaging 51 in games over 60 minutes (which all his second row starts are). Add in a cheeky 16 point try and he could go boom.

Tookey wrote:Who should I trade out to bring in someone to make 13 playing this week?

TU: Koula
TD: Wishart

Surely you didn't just bring in the Shart for just round 12? If you've had him for a while then it's a fill up with Munster injured. I'd be holding till Munster is back.

Koula not a trade while Turbo is out and he's the #1 fullback choice for Siebold. Should be back next week, at worst round 15. Run with 12 this week.

Snatchpato wrote:Tossing up on (C)arty Party for the lols, or genuinely much more seriously KPP for captaincy this week. The dude is due a meat pie, has a very high base, and is averaging 51 in games over 60 minutes (which all his second row starts are). Add in a cheeky 16 point try and he could go boom.

If one of Frizell or Lucas was out I'd be keen but just don't know how rotations will go. Probably unlikely but could be always be a late switch with Frizell.

Tookey wrote:Who should I trade out to bring in someone to make 13 playing this week?

TU: Koula
TD: Wishart

To go against everyone elses advice about neither being a trade, I traded Koula last week to Wighton to play 17 (without injury was looking ok). The main reason being that Koula was still showing as TBC, and this season too many TBCs have ended up being longer than expected. The fact it has been nearly two weeks since his injury and still no update doesn't fill me with confidence.

Add on top that the fact Turbo is due back round 18, and you have max 3 fullback games from Koula if he's back next week. 3 FB games could earn a good bit of cash, but if he's back later than next week you're suddenly not making much money off him anymore, and playing a man down for this week plus any more.

TL;DR, my risk appetite for injured players is pretty low with how injuries are dragging on this season

L-Jimmy wrote:I claimed it earlier and will double down here: SWalker will be the #3 halfback in the game come R20, with daylight behind him and a tiny margin to #2.

Next year he will out point Cleary for total fantasy score 2024

If I'm wrong then I'll eat.... well look. There's nothing really around me that's particularly edible right now. But if I go downstairs there's some chips. So I'll eat some chips.

Just for clarity, are you talking total points or averages, or just a consideration of actual NRL ability? And who do you think number 2 will be?
If its fantasy averages Walker won't be top 3, so we'll work on total points, which is a better metric for overall fantasy players anyway.
If you are talking in non-fantasy terms, then you're just wrong. Sam Walker won't be a top 3 halfback this year.


Total Fantasy points, DCE is short odds to be number 1, barring injury or if they keep resting him from origin.

I assume you're ruling out Hynes based on either injury or origin selection keeping him out of first grade, but he has a 257 point lead over Walker at the moment, so its not a given.

Dylan Brown, Matt Burton, Ben Hunt all have more than 100 points on Sam Walker at the moment. Even Chad Townsend currently has a better average. Some of those are 5/8th no halfbacks, don't kknow how specific you are being, and origin will get in the way.
But whilst I can easily see Sam Walker doing better than Townsend over the next 8 weeks, for the other players in front of him it is not such a sure thing.


I just want to make sure that if you do eat chips, you are eating them legitimately.

Chewie wrote:So where do I find this Revs & Friends podcast?
Or was it just a wishful fantasy?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

You got baited on that one Chewie

I did hear word from the shire* that a fantasy fanatics podcast will be launching very soon


*I made it up

My next pod might be from Night City... I mean Tokyo ! Off to Japan this Saturday.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:
The Teddy narrative is so strong this week I expect the fantasy gods will remind everyone why we don't captain backs no matter the match up

Teddy scoring fantasy points because he didn't get pciked for origin is like bench middies getting extra minutes because of whatever reason we made up this time.


Although I do remember in his pre-origin Tigers time, back when the VC loop was a thing, Teddy put up a banner on the Friday night game before origin, making a lot of people very happy.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

You got baited on that one Chewie

I did hear word from the shire* that a fantasy fanatics podcast will be launching very soon


*I made it up

My brain kept telling me it was a ruse, but my heart wanted it to be real.

Milchcow wrote:

Teddy scoring fantasy points because he didn't get pciked for origin is like bench middies getting extra minutes because of whatever reason we made up this time.


Although I do remember in his pre-origin Tigers time, back when the VC loop was a thing, Teddy put up a banner on the Friday night game before origin, making a lot of people very happy.

I remember it made everyone happy except for Rabbit who blew a gasket

mickspicks wrote:Thoughts on Sam Walker? Depleted cows this week, then the bye, but then a weak ass draw. Him, Teddy, Dom Young, May... they should all go boom

I picked him up as a Paps replacement, didn't need another WFB, in Rd.10. I figured he had no chance of Origin with DCE captain and all - much like people held off on Ted as he was NSW C. Last 5 he's averaged nearly 55, last 3 50ish.

Of the available halves he's pretty much the best for this round - Rd.14 it will be Hughes.

He'll need to be covered next week - but we all have Galvin and I also picked up Wighton as a high risk bet, so have half cover for 14 & 19.
Rd.19 will be the issue - Roosters, Storm & Raiders on the bye means Weekes, Strange, Ted, Walker & Hughes will all be unavailable.

This is all dependent on players not copping HIA mandatory stand-down, or the common hammie / calf soft-tissue injuries that are rampant this year.

@ynot that bye planner is fantastico

Can ditch the half arsed spreadsheet I'm maintaining in a half arsed fashion

What if the real narrative is that the only reason Teddy has been scoring well was pushing to keep his spot but now that he's been replaced anyway he just doesn't give a fuck anymore and goes back to scoring 30s?

Camo123 wrote:
I know you probably want the R13 number but the man chasing down Ken Irvine’s record (Alex Twal) looks set to have a guaranteed role with Bateman and IPap injured, no byes after 13 until 26 and mid 50s average with big mins across his career

Ive been tossing up between JDB and King but maybe I just wait and get Twal next week. I like his price and with Bateman, IPap and Klem out there are plenty of minutes available. Can just play Mikaela this week

the_great_wobbler wrote:What if the real narrative is that the only reason Teddy has been scoring well was pushing to keep his spot but now that he's been replaced anyway he just doesn't give a fuck anymore and goes back to scoring 30s?

isn't there a reasonable chance that madge spoke to him weeks ago and told him he's looking to go in a different direction? (or has teddy proclaimed his surprise at not being selected?)

edit did some googling and supposedly maguire called teddy sunday to tell him the news..

Revraiser wrote:



My next pod might be from Night City... I mean Tokyo ! Off to Japan this Saturday.

There are a lot of must dos in Tokyo but make sure you squeeze in twilight time at the Park Hyatt

Tookey wrote:Who should I trade out to bring in someone to make 13 playing this week?

TU: Koula
TD: Wishart

Neither. Pointless waste of trade you don't need to play 13. 11-12 is fine

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

There are a lot of must dos in Tokyo but make sure you squeeze in twilight time at the Park Hyatt

It seems that hotel is down for renovations at the moment !

Snatchpato wrote:
Dare to dream and captain him with me?

Not sure my balls are that huge but looking at my other options none are much more inspiring. KPP, Brailey, Weekes, Plath, King or even Fuller if I'm to break my rule of captaining an outside back.

Just had a quick look at the top 1000 teams in our FOG...
Proud of you lads! You guys get fantasy, all teams look nicely set-up for the byes