2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 45

bluetige wrote:Now the Bye period has finished I can look back and see my bye planning was successful.

After a torrid start to the year were I spent the first 5 weeks hovering between 16,000 and 11,000, I started the bye period in 2918th spot and after this week I am now in 109th. I had to trade my way out of problems and have no trades left so its only backwards from here.

@Boozy, you've probably done a bit better then this haven't you

I'm at 227th, but also no trades left. Have a little bit of back up, but hoping that ALL the wheels don't fall off.

bluetige wrote:

I didn't have too many good times with my Roosters, I started the year with 7 of the bludgers and was glad to see the back of them. Although Mitchell, Hastings and Aubs did give me some smiles.

They just didn't live up to any expectations fantasy wise IMO. I started with that many and really nothing special in the pack this year.

Just looking at who's left from Round 1 in my team:
Surgess
Jtrbo
Whitehead
Carty
Leuluai
Claw
Teddy

Hopefully Jtrbo and Teddy will fire up again for the last few rounds

Chewie wrote:Just looking at who's left from Round 1 in my team:
Surgess
Jtrbo
Whitehead
Carty
Leuluai
Claw
Teddy

Hopefully Jtrbo and Teddy will fire up again for the last few rounds

interesting

I have
Whitehead
Surgess
Gordon has somehow stuck around

aaannnnnddd

FEENY - FUCK YOU FEENY

bluetige wrote:This weeks Carter award (where the namesake got the sack) had another tie, this week between Manly players Darcy Lussick and Api Koroisau, with the former winning on a count back having played 58 minutes compared tom Api's 84.

Its nice that Carter is leading too - highest score and featuring twice

no doubt he would feature more if he wasnt suspended as much and or sacked

bluetige wrote:Now the Bye period has finished I can look back and see my bye planning was successful.

After a torrid start to the year were I spent the first 5 weeks hovering between 16,000 and 11,000, I started the bye period in 2918th spot and after this week I am now in 109th. I had to trade my way out of problems and have no trades left so its only backwards from here.

@Boozy, you've probably done a bit better then this haven't you

Nice work there Blue, must be a lucky colour

While I tried to plan a bit for the byes, I had a lot of setbacks with bye friendly players pulling out just before it started but this can happen.
Due to trading hard so early I also opted to have a consistent team across the period even if it meant not having a full team and chose bye friendly keepers to save on trades.

By the time the byes started my team was already pretty settled and to be honest wasted a few of my precious trades trying to build 'depth' being burnt on Lolohea,Hurrell etc

Anyways probably easier to show you on this graph

Boozecluez wrote:

Nice work there Blue, must be a lucky colour

While I tried to plan a bit for the byes, I had a lot of setbacks with bye friendly players pulling out just before it started but this can happen.
Due to trading hard so early I also opted to have a consistent team across the period even if it meant not having a full team and chose bye friendly keepers to save on trades.

By the time the byes started my team was already pretty settled and to be honest wasted a few of my precious trades trying to build 'depth' being burnt on Lolohea,Hurrell etc

Anyways probably easier to show you on this graph

Graph looks way too controlled

Now this is a graph

Smith, Friend
Graham, JBrom, JTrbo
Gallen, Surgess, James, Cartwright (Aloiai, Leuluai)
SJ, Hunt, Cleary (Feeney)
BJ, Aitken (Gutherson, Fine)
Teddy, Munster, Barba (Hughes, French)

6 trades left. 1 is going to be JTrbo - Fifita.

Thinking also Cleary or Hunt - Thompson or Mannering?

StuDogg101 wrote:Smith, Friend
Graham, JBrom, JTrbo
Gallen, Surgess, James, Cartwright (Aloiai, Leuluai)
SJ, Hunt, Cleary (Feeney)
BJ, Aitken (Gutherson, Fine)
Teddy, Munster, Barba (Hughes, French)

6 trades left. 1 is going to be JTrbo - Fifita.

Thinking also Cleary or Hunt - Thompson or Mannering?

i like the first trade, and you cant go wrong with the other ones, mannering probably slightly better. have you thought about harris?

i would love to have harris in my team at 413k hes a bargain.

Boozecluez wrote:

Nice work there Blue, must be a lucky colour

While I tried to plan a bit for the byes, I had a lot of setbacks with bye friendly players pulling out just before it started but this can happen.
Due to trading hard so early I also opted to have a consistent team across the period even if it meant not having a full team and chose bye friendly keepers to save on trades.

By the time the byes started my team was already pretty settled and to be honest wasted a few of my precious trades trying to build 'depth' being burnt on Lolohea,Hurrell etc

Anyways probably easier to show you on this graph

My graph looks similar but I'm expecting it to start climbing now, and yes "sets", thats a graph.
I only wish I didn't need to patch so many holes early in the season so I still have trades left for the usual late season injuries, rests and suspensions. I hope next year I can pick the right team from the start, but I guess if I could do that I could guess the right Lotto numbers and could be laying on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a gorgeous women instead of playing this overly stressful game.

pm888 wrote:

i like the first trade, and you cant go wrong with the other ones, mannering probably slightly better. have you thought about harris?

i would love to have harris in my team at 413k hes a bargain.

No I hadn't considered Harris actually, he didn't seem consistent enough for my liking but I'm open to being convinced otherwise lol

Going Norman - Tedesco via Hughes and SST - Thompson will give me:


Smith, (Macca)
Surgess, Fifita, (Graham), Leuluai
Gallen, Merrin, Mannering, (Whitehead), (Thompson), Sua
Cartwright, Pearce, Cleary, Hughes
Claw, Aitken, Gutherson, Griffin
Tedesco, Barba, Munster, Murphy, Manu

and 3 Trades ($44k) left for the run home..

Cleary, Gutherson - 18th/19th men as cover for injuries initially then upgrades if required when H2H finals start.

Ranked 900 odd overall but probably more concerned about H2H. $50 buy in cash league with friends, at this stage the Top 8 are all ranked in the 1000.

Hopefully this works lol jumping on the image posting bandwagon. Second year in a row I've had a horror round 1, except this year I am actually in the top 1000 for the run home. Hopefully it stays that way.

Squad with 6 trades left. Currently considering saving them all for injuries

Smith, Friend
Surgess, Graham, James, Nutira
Merrin, Parker, Harris, ET, Whitehead, Leuluai
Hunt, Cleary, Taylor, Cullen
Aitken, Gutherson, Su'a, Talakai
Munster, Barba, Mitchell, French, Manu

Reasonable but nothing to write home about. Got a bit excited in the early rounds this year and became trigger happy on the trades.

Glad that round is over huh !

Gents if you were to fire jturbo this week would you vote Harris or Manners ?

Leaning towards Manners because if Storm suffer injuries Harris might be moved into the centres or halves but that could also be a positive if becomes a DPP

With Manners my team would look like this (4 trades left after trading in Manners/Harris with 76k bank)

Smith,Macca
Fifita, JBrom, Graham, NPR
Manners/Harris,Gallen,Surgess, Whitehead, ET
SJ,BCart, Cleary, NPR
CLaw, Aitken, MCK18, Copley
Teddy,Munster,Barba/Gordon,NPR

Bit of a pickle with ET and Cleary for 4th reserve slot but my thoughts are if injuries come into play both of them will be more than handy.

The only other trade I am looking to do at this stage upgrade Gordon to Walker but thinking could be overkill and better to save trades/bank ?

Some early mail of what's expected this arvo with team lists.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl-round-20-early-mail-latest-team-news-ahead-of-tuesday-team-announcements/news-story/19dd398d8d55f3333d8bb022685c4a86

Everyone looking to ditch Claw?

Next year my goal will be to get a solid team together from round 1, and bank trades right through to round 10 or 12.

And of course this time next year I will still be saying why do I have no trades left, because no self control that's why.

I'm looking at all these teams with insane forward depth and then I look at my team with a really lame HLF and some very average CTR's and wonder how I'm still ranked 1272. Oh well some things defy logic like how Anthony Griffin is employed as a coach

Smith, Rein
Graham, Fifita, Surgess
Gallen, Cartwright, Merrin, Bodene
Hunt, Milf, Cleary
Leilua, CLaw
Teddy, Munster, Barba

4 trades left and 94k sitting in the bank. Leilua is on borrowed time though, I swear one more sub-par score and I'm getting J Roberts back in.