2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 46

rhinoceroo wrote:

Literally everybody in the top 50 has Smith, Fifita, Graham, Mannering, Merrin, SJ and Aitken in their squad, and on top of that would estimate Friend, James, Whitehead, Cleary, BJ, Croker, Ted are over 50% ownership, with Cartwright, Gallen, Munster and Barba not far off. Hard to find a POD who's going to score significantly more than them on average. (I guess Mansour did this week)

Fantasy may just have to touch up the way points are earned.
Not sure how, but as you say, hardly any consistently scoring pods anywhere.

Im sure they used to have points for every hit up, not just meters made. Also points for total minutes played (I think), not sure what else could be changed or added to make more players desirable

maybe make it 3rd man in/flop doesnt count as a tackle. Fifi fends doesnt count as tackle breaks, etc

SI wrote:
Not sure if it's the highest for the year.

Apparently there was an 1137 in rd 7.
Although I know Barba is still owed a try save for his tackle on Hurrell right near the end.

Chucky wrote:
Apparently there was an 1137 in rd 7.
Although I know Barba is still owed a try save for his tackle on Hurrell right near the end.

Barba was over the top and I think it was Beale underneath.  Will Barba still get credit for it do you think? Seems like Beale was the one that rolled him over. Could be wrong though.

sets wrote:

Forced line drop outs and strips should be rewarded.

Forced line drop outs should definitely be worth points.

Milchcow wrote:

A few injuries now would be interesting. There were so many injuries/suspensions in the early rounds, that there are likely a significant number of teams near the top who are out of trades.

If a couple of key guys go down, its my only real chance of making up any ground.

I imagine a lot of the high-up teams are running out of trades (I know I only have one left) but the corollary to the early season injuries is that they let teams make a shot ton of money out of Parcell/Garvey etc to go with all the Hastings/Taylor/Barba dollars. Consequently a lot of teams have strong 18th, 19th, even 20th men - also helped by Gutherson being genuinely solid back cover if he's at 5/8th - so an injury striking might only mean 10 points less a week rather than 60.

Chucky wrote:

Forced line drop outs and strips should be rewarded.

absolutely

wolfking wrote:

Barba was over the top and I think it was Beale underneath.  Will Barba still get credit for it do you think?  Seems like Beale was the one that rolled him over.  Could be wrong though.

I've seen tackles where 4 blokes all get the try save.  
Underneath would be the main contributor to my way of thinking.

Chucky wrote:
I've seen tackles where 4 blokes all get the try save.  
Underneath would be the main contributor to my way of thinking.

Cool. Barba did have a lot to do with it, almost just as much as Beale.

I could be wrong but Barba could be owed a couple of tackle breaks too. Not sure though.

I think I won my eliminator (if the mobile app is correct)
897 vs 951.

Chucky wrote:
I've seen tackles where 4 blokes all get the try save.  
Underneath would be the main contributor to my way of thinking.

I've seen try saves awarded to 3 defenders for literally holding up a walking man over the try line with no chance at scoring. The attacker wasn't even trying to break free. 5 points is too much for something like that. It should be one point if anything.

Barba 63
J Bird 41
Fifita 83
Gallen 71

Hurrell 63
Taylor 34
James 63

Woo hoo! That's 16 points in upgrades for me. I've cracked the 1000!

Updates

Barba 63
Fifita 83
J Bird 41
Gallen 71
Graham 59

James 63
Hurrell 63
Bird 70

Haha too slow lol

Onthebeatpete wrote:Haha too slow lol

Sorry bro. I usually let someone else do it but I was a bit excited

20 points in upgrades for me!! Ooooo yeeeaaah :-)

zorasdomain wrote:

Sorry bro. I usually let someone else do it but I was a bit excited

Haha all good, no worries at all :-)

Well done on the thousand Zora.

Cruise Elroy wrote:

Green machine's showing as 952 for me (on the laptop).

Muchas Love friend!

Onthebeatpete wrote:Well done on the thousand Zora.

Thanks! I'm quite proud as I never thought it would be possible this year with the way I started (having no idea what the heck I was doing).
But I've got my shit together as best I can, with a whole 1 trade left since round 16