2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 43

Bren wrote:
Thanks for the reply Rabbit. I was asking the above question in regards to your weekly score each week once the eliminator has started (For scoring tracking purposes and matching up the H2Hs each week). Instead are you able to post a screenshot of your score each week once the eliminator has started? Thankyou.

Now I get it. Is it too late to join the general league now?

capewell has been added for those adventurous types. with a 2rf ctr dual role as well

After only doing 1 trade I went Holland to Merrin and have $0 left. I have 12 trades but have 14 playing with no one not playing that I want to cash out. (Although Milford is tempting.) I want to burn a trade and get rid of Talakai, just for the extra player. Manu is the obvious choice, but then I lose the DPP between Talakai and Claw for now. Should I;

A. Skip Manu, get someone like Capewell just for the few extra bucks and DPP.
B. Get Manu and worry about moving Claw back down in future weeks
C. Don't waste the trade and run with the 14 players.
D. Cashout Milford via Feeny but lose the DPP with Barba (Who is in the halves at the moment)

Thanks lads.

Bren wrote:To all those who have sent me a PM regarding the Eliminator I will get back to you ASAP. Will definitely be sometime today depending upon how work goes (have a meeting in 30 mins so will be unavailable for a while after that - cheers).

The eliminator will not start until round 20 (will run from rounds 20-26) so still plenty of time for anyone to join up.

Round 20 sounds good.... round 19 would have had me eliminated straight away

I'm sure Honeysett would want us to start this weekend, right HS?

wolfking wrote:After only doing 1 trade I went Holland to Merrin and have $0 left.  I have 12 trades but have 14 playing with no one not playing that I want to cash out. (Although Milford is tempting.)  I want to burn a trade and get rid of Talakai, just for the extra player.  Manu is the obvious choice, but then I lose the DPP between Talakai and Claw for now.  Should I;

A. Skip Manu, get someone like Capewell just for the few extra bucks and DPP.
B. Get Manu and worry about moving Claw back down in future weeks
C. Don't waste the trade and run with the 14 players.
D. Cashout Milford via Feeny but lose the DPP with Barba (Who is in the halves at the moment)

Thanks lads.

You have so many trades left. 12 trades for the remaining 9 rounds. or 8 rounds if you don't use any for 26.

If you dont have anyone you want to cash out then you must have a great team already. theres always someone if you look long enough. haha

I would use all of 3 trades this round and go for a points grab cos every player is worth a little extra on your competitors, same goes for next round
or at least bank some cash so you can bring a real gun in next week.
I would lean towards D. But you seem real reluctant using your trades, kudos to you for fighting temptation so far

filthridden wrote:I'm sure Honeysett would want us to start this weekend, right HS?

I'd be the Santino Marella of this Royal Rumble elimination.

pm888 wrote:

wolfking wrote:After only doing 1 trade I went Holland to Merrin and have $0 left.  I have 12 trades but have 14 playing with no one not playing that I want to cash out. (Although Milford is tempting.)  I want to burn a trade and get rid of Talakai, just for the extra player.  Manu is the obvious choice, but then I lose the DPP between Talakai and Claw for now.  Should I;

A. Skip Manu, get someone like Capewell just for the few extra bucks and DPP.
B. Get Manu and worry about moving Claw back down in future weeks
C. Don't waste the trade and run with the 14 players.
D. Cashout Milford via Feeny but lose the DPP with Barba (Who is in the halves at the moment)

Thanks lads.

You have so many trades left. 12 trades for the remaining 9 rounds. or 8 rounds if you don't use any for 26.

If you dont have anyone you want to cash out then you must have a great team already. theres always someone if you look long enough. haha

I would use all of 3 trades this round and go for a points grab cos every player is worth a little extra on your competitors, same goes for next round
or at least bank some cash so you can bring a real gun in next week.
I would lean towards D. But you seem real reluctant using your trades, kudos to you for fighting temptation so far

Agree with all of this personally (but I'm a bye planner junkie). Maybe post your team wolfking if you want.

Okay, my team isn't great but I have so many playing this week, I don't think I want to ditch anyone this week that is playing;

Smith (Friend)
Fifita Surgess (Ese Leulani)
Merrin Carty Lowe (ET CLaw SST)
SJ Milf (Barba Cleary)
BJ Aitken (Talakai Copely)
Semi Mitchell Guth (Munster Feeny)

Lots of depth but as you can see, 14 playing this week after my Holland to Merrin trade.  I did that via Talaki obviously.  ET will be upgraded next week and will downgrade Guth maybe or Lowe since he has a bye.  So wondering if I cash Milf lose the DPP and bank the money so both ET and probably Lowe or even SST can become two big guns.

EDIT: I'm actually leaning towards D now, screw Milford.  SJ and Cleary is a fine pair to run.  Leaves my backs slightly light though but have the trades to fix that.  Oh and I can move Claw down and move Aitken down too. Hmmm. Might leave me a bit short on numbers next week though, especially if I watn to keep Lowe and offload Barba or Mitchell.

This year has had mixed emotions....2nd year playing and doing decently (high of 30th but currently dropped to 47th after a piss poor last week)

I'd probably be happier not being so close to the leaders as then I could save trades rather than searching for points and taking gambles....1st world problems eh ;-)

Anyway...would appreciate thoughts for this week

6 trades left and 39k in hand...was going to do Holland -> Manu, JTrbo -> Merrin and Parcell -> Friend. 1st one is a gimmie cash out (altho could do Capewell for the extra 10k) but the other two are slight sideways trades looking for bye-round points

After those trades my team would be:
Smith Friend
Fifi JGraham Surgess JBrom
Merrin Mannering Whitehead Carty Ma'u Talakai
Bunt SJ Feeney Hughes
BJ Aitken Manu Copley
Teddy Munster Semi Guth Eden

But only 3 trades left and 148k....feels like a little light on trades for the end run but they'd only be needed for injuries which never happen to main people right.......right........?

The other option is just cash out Holland now for Manu/Capewell and sit on the 5 trades and pile of cash for the home run and rely on Parcell/JTrbo to do the job

wolfking wrote:Okay, my team isn't great but I have so many playing this week, I don't think I want to ditch anyone this week that is playing;

Smith (Friend)
Fifita Surgess (Ese Leulani)
Merrin Carty Lowe (ET CLaw SST)
SJ Milf (Barba Cleary)
BJ Aitken (Talakai Copely)
Semi Mitchell Guth (Munster Feeny)

Lots of depth but as you can see, 14 playing this week after my Holland to Merrin trade.  I did that via Talaki obviously.  ET will be upgraded next week and will downgrade Guth maybe or Lowe since he has a bye.  So wondering if I cash Milf lose the DPP and bank the money so both ET and probably Lowe or even SST can become two big guns.

EDIT: I'm actually leaning towards D now, screw Milford.  SJ and Cleary is a fine pair to run.  Leaves my backs slightly light though but have the trades to fix that.  Oh and I can move Claw down and move Aitken down too. Hmmm.  Might leave me a bit short on numbers next week though, especially if I watn to keep Lowe and offload Barba or Mitchell.

^That sounds like the plan. You will probably regret getting rid of Milford a bit down the track as he is more than likely going to come good again, but you are making the decision now for good reason.

A bit of a conundrum between depth and getting a final 17/18 together. I'm in the same boat with a lot of average players that have given me points over byes but are going to be a waste of money sitting on the sidelines after Round 19.

I am resigned to the fact that my bye depth means I am not going to be able to condense my squad down to a 17/18. I am probably not going to give a stuff about getting rid of those average players because of it, and will just cop the AE if I can't plan around it or cop some bad luck.

SI wrote:

^That sounds like the plan.  You will probably regret getting rid of Milford a bit down the track as he is more than likely going to come good again, but you are making the decision now for good reason.

A bit of a conundrum between depth and getting a final 17/18 together.  I'm in the same boat with a lot of average players that have given me points over byes but are going to be a waste of money sitting on the sidelines after Round 19.  

I am resigned to the fact that my bye depth means I am not going to be able to condense my squad down to a 17/18.  I am probably not going to give a stuff about getting rid of those average players because of it, and will just cop the AE if I can't plan around it or cop some bad luck.

I know I will regret getting rid of him, but am getting a bit tired of relying on these attacking sort of players. If I can beef my forwards with the likes of DeBelin and Mannering instead, then it's all win. I just remembered that Carty should be DPP next week anyway, giving me more options again.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, I will use my remaining trades to condense as much as I can but also have resigned to the fact that there will be a few players that will just have to sit there. If anything they can cover for multiple injuries I guess. There's pros and cons of playing both ways I think. That's the reason why I'm looking at cashing Milf out, just cause of the number of extra players I'll have left over looking at my squad, might as well get a move on with it.

Neillo wrote:This year has had mixed emotions....2nd year playing and doing decently

Understatement of the year mate, you and Loose McGoose killing it as Novices.

wolfking wrote:

SI wrote:

^That sounds like the plan.  You will probably regret getting rid of Milford a bit down the track as he is more than likely going to come good again, but you are making the decision now for good reason.

A bit of a conundrum between depth and getting a final 17/18 together.  I'm in the same boat with a lot of average players that have given me points over byes but are going to be a waste of money sitting on the sidelines after Round 19.  

I am resigned to the fact that my bye depth means I am not going to be able to condense my squad down to a 17/18.  I am probably not going to give a stuff about getting rid of those average players because of it, and will just cop the AE if I can't plan around it or cop some bad luck.

I know I will regret getting rid of him, but am getting a bit tired of relying on these attacking sort of players.  If I can beef my forwards with the likes of DeBelin and Mannering instead, then it's all win.  I just remembered that Carty should be DPP next week anyway, giving me more options again.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, I will use my remaining trades to condense as much as I can but also have resigned to the fact that there will be a few players that will just have to sit there.  If anything they can cover for multiple injuries I guess.  There's pros and cons of playing both ways I think.  That's the reason why I'm looking at cashing Milf out, just cause of the number of extra players I'll have left over looking at my squad, might as well get a move on with it.

Exactly.

So who is going to be your 3rd WFB keeper? Are you going to drag Barba back down, or maybe fuck him off with/instead of Milf with Carty moving into your halves (if you can)?

Barba's bye coverage is what has kept him in my team. But the Radradra thing is a worry too, honestly surprised he is still in the NRL.

SI wrote:

Understatement of the year mate, you and Loose McGoose killing it as Novices.

Totally thanks to this forum tho - been such a help hearing a wide range of views on things and then taking a punt on who sounds less drunk at the time

Altho...I'm totally foreseeing that I'll end up losing my local H2H but smashing them all in overall....not sure which bragging rights are more important

Honeysett wrote:

I'd be the Santino Marella of this Royal Rumble elimination.

I don't know this reference. Something similar to the Bushwhacker who got thrown straight out of the ring?

Honeysett wrote:

I'd be the Santino Marella of this Royal Rumble elimination.

Say what you will about Santino Marella, he kayfabe banged that Maria girl in a plotline 5 years ago. And I can respect him for that.

Neillo wrote:

Altho...I'm totally foreseeing that I'll end up losing my local H2H but smashing them all in overall....not sure which bragging rights are more important

Definitely overall mate. H2H is a lottery to which team scores well against you each week and would have astonishingly different results if the "dice" of drawing who in what rounds were cast differently. Overall is the true measure of your team, and of you yourself as a man.

IT WAS ME! I WAS THE TURKEY ALL ALONG!

Neillo wrote:

SI wrote:

Understatement of the year mate, you and Loose McGoose killing it as Novices.

Totally thanks to this forum tho - been such a help hearing a wide range of views on things and then taking a punt on who sounds less drunk at the time

Altho...I'm totally foreseeing that I'll end up losing my local H2H but smashing them all in overall....not sure which bragging rights are more important