2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 45

wolfking wrote:

Yeah I know mate, just annoying to watch when you keep the faith so long.  Lowe I traded out last round for Gallen anyway, so it's not like I'll lose points over the home run, should actually gain a lot.  Just seems sometimes that the game is out to somehow fuck with you on purpose haha.

I know that feeling. I had James Roberts from the start of the year and never intended to sell him but when Leilua hit some great scores and he had two crap teams coming up I felt like I couldn't ignore him. Worst trade I've made all year but in hindsight it did seem like a 10 point a week upgrade based on recent form. Honestly though the biggest insult to me I found was they finally gave Roberts a picture in his profile the week after I traded him out.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Big head to head seminal against a mate and we both have Fifita as captain

Me vs Him
Graham vs Finucane
Cleary vs SJ
Carty vs Claw
BJ vs Croker
Munster vs Mitchell
Guth vs Whitehead
Macca vs Friend
Tolman vs JTurbo
ET vs Mau

Who wins?? Didn't realise our teams were so different

That could be ridiculously close.  I know they can be shit but what's the projections saying?

SI wrote:

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Big head to head seminal against a mate and we both have Fifita as captain

Me vs Him
Graham vs Finucane
Cleary vs SJ
Carty vs Claw
BJ vs Croker
Munster vs Mitchell
Guth vs Whitehead
Macca vs Friend
Tolman vs JTurbo
ET vs Mau

Who wins?? Didn't realise our teams were so different

That could be ridiculously close.  I know they can be shit but what's the projections saying?

Wait, OnTheLast was more precise with his estimate and unit of measurement-a gnat's arsehole 

I was going to give Opacic a run in my 17 tonight... over French.
Now he's dropped out of the starting side
Hopefully French will keep scoring tries (Preferably with a LB, lot's of run meters and a few TBs please)

I still have Semi on the bench... and 2 trades up my sleeve.
I might keep Semi for the last couple rounds of the H2H comps.
I was going to bring in Bmoz this round...glad I didn't

Going to hang onto the 2 trades as long as possible

Chewie wrote:I was going to give Opacic a run in my 17 tonight... over French.
Now he's dropped out of the starting side
Hopefully French will keep scoring tries (Preferably with a LB, lot's of run meters and a few TBs please)

I still have Semi on the bench...  and 2 trades up my sleeve.
I might keep Semi for the last couple rounds of the H2H comps.
I was going to bring in Bmoz this round...glad I didn't

Going to hang onto the 2 trades as long as possible

Where's the late mail on the Broncs mate?

SI wrote:
Where's the late mail on the Broncs mate?

nrl.com
foxsport

Late mail: Alex Glenn will shift to the centres with Tom Opacic to drop out of the starting side, and possibly Wayne Bennett’s 17 altogether. Jarrod Wallace comes into the starting side with the bench to be confirmed on game day.

As Chewie said

Late mail: http://www.nrl.com/friday-late-mail-round-20/tabid/10874/newsid/99451/default.aspx

I was going to run with Opacic... with him scoring 10pnts in 23 mins... last time he played, I was expecting him to score 30pnts at least.
Maybe his knee is still not 100%

How many teams do you guys think are still taking fantasy seriously at this time of year?

You reckon cleary is a good indicator at 20.49%? he has been around for 6 weeks.. or closer to half that with the top 10,000 teams. more out of curiosity than anything

French has some confidence about him now though, he reminds me of Barba, will likely go good after his last confidence boosting game.

Johnny B Goode wrote:

I know that feeling. I had James Roberts from the start of the year and never intended to sell him but when Leilua hit some great scores and he had two crap teams coming up I felt like I couldn't ignore him. Worst trade I've made all year but in hindsight it did seem like a 10 point a week upgrade based on recent form. Honestly though the biggest insult to me I found was they finally gave Roberts a picture in his profile the week after I traded him out.  

This made me lol hard!!

At least it doesn't happen to just me haha, I think I need to remember that. Just need Gallen to go back to his usual scoring this week and everything will be fine.

pm888 wrote:How many teams do you guys think are still taking fantasy seriously at this time of year?

You reckon cleary is a good indicator at 20.49%? he has been around for 6 weeks.. or closer to half that with the top 10,000 teams. more out of curiosity than anything

Hard to tell.  I reckon there would be a few tiers of coaches out there that are still serious.

Those still in the running
Diehards like us who still play regardless of rank
Newbies ranked anywhere
H2H teams ranked anywhere

Kerrod Holland was traded out by nearly 2700 teams this week, on top of that number again over the last few weeks so yeah, you'd think 10 or maybe 20 thousand teams still active?

EDIT: taking into account that a lot of teams are out of trades and a lot may not have had Holland is where I think that 10-20000 comes from in my own mind.

Wacko's late mail if anyone dares;

http://www.nrlsupercoachtalk.com/wackos-whispers-round-20-2/

One thing I found interesting is that he says for the Roosters that Evans may come in for Liu or Matterson. I don't see why Liu would drop off the bench, he was solid last week, so I don't buy that.

No mention of Cherrington either. Didn't someone say Taylor said he was coming in?

Milchcow wrote:Fuckers still haven't given Taupau DPP. And they aren't likely to change someone's status mid round, so I assume it will have to wait until next week.

Should have started my campaign earlier, I should have realised they don't really follow such things and just look at whatever renegades whinge about at the time

It looks like you finally got through.
Taupau now has DPP.

wolfking wrote:Wacko's late mail if anyone dares;

http://www.nrlsupercoachtalk.com/wackos-whispers-round-20-2/

One thing I found interesting is that he says for the Roosters that Evans may come in for Liu or Matterson.  I don't see why Liu would drop off the bench, he was solid last week, so I don't buy that.

No mention of Cherrington either.  Didn't someone say Taylor said he was coming in?

Yeah, there was a post on here with a link saying Cherrington confirmed, I didn't look at the link.

Has anyone run out of trades already? ie; have we got a winner for this years slats award?

http://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2016/07/21/taylor_says_farah_is.html

"Taylor said Jacob Liddle would not play due to second-tier salary cap restrictions, but the club confirmed Manaia Cherrington would be available after returning from an ankle injury."

This doesn't quite confirm that he is playing.

filthridden wrote:Has anyone run out of trades already? ie; have we got a winner for this years slats award?

I have 0 trades. 

filthridden wrote:Has anyone run out of trades already? ie; have we got a winner for this years slats award?

At this stage. I'm guilty.

Am considering holding off my double trade. I just really wanna eliminate your name for his insult to my team

Sik wrote:

I have 0 trades. 

Congratulations!

Can someone rig up a slats trophy for the first tradeless man/woman?