2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 1

flasSId* wrote:

Pookus!  Generally last week of January allthough Nigel McFail on Renegades had me salivating yesterday.  He posted a hoax "It's Open" and I knew had to be bullshit but my Internet was absolutely fucked so there was about a minute of it opening where I was hoping against hope that it was legit.

flasSId* wrote:

That was me mate, off season name change and avatar but going back to SI soon.  There was a succession of name changes during the wildest hours of my Mad Monday rampage, and Bren came up with flasSId* cos at the time I was too drunk to fuck

Pookus McFly wrote:...but while I am popping my head in to start the season, I will may as well give my two cents on an important issue I saw whilst lurking. People talking about cheap hookers (heh) like Cherrington, Balin etc. I can never justify giving up one of just two hooker spots to try and milk a cash cow. You really should have about the same amount of cash cows in your team regardless of position (pretty much any NPR), so why is it so important to have one in hooker anyway? Unlike every other position, if that reserve hooker tanks (either through injury or poor scoring), and the gap to a good hooker is financially unassailable, then you could be stuck with them all season and have no backup for that position. Granted I am a conservative player, but is the reward from a POD cashcow really mitigating the potential of being stuck with a Scott Moore all season?

Okay, enough of the serious talk. Hope everyone has been well in the off season!
Cricket is great and all, but I'm usually thinking about footy while watching it.

mulvy wrote:

flasSId* wrote:

That was me mate, off season name change and avatar but going back to SI soon.  There was a succession of name changes during the wildest hours of my Mad Monday rampage, and Bren came up with flasSId* cos at the time I was too drunk to fuck

Ahh of course SI. Happy new year mate

flasSId* wrote:

Cheers mate, you too.  

In answer to your strategy question, it ended up being $470,000 left after I made my initial team.  It definitely helped me in the first 4 weeks once we saw minutes/interchanges/injuries etc.  I ended up ranked 360 which I was wrapped with.  I'll be looking to do the same thing nd also bye plan heavily as well.

The fact you were in the Top 50 for a fair bit of the year I'd keep doing what you are doing to be honest!  You even got into the Top 20/10 at one stage?

mulvy wrote:Thoughts on Jarrod Wallace? Average of 30.8 in 36.4 minutes = ppm 0.85. Last five games ppm went up with shorter stints but for this exercise lets say ppm of 0.85. Increasing by 100k in value would require minutes to go up to 49. Will he get them?

Honeysett wrote:

you would imagine that he's going to the Titans for more game time not less, however who's to know until he starts playing?

Are we looking at a post Aussie Day release? That would work out nicely as I'm on annual leave.

mulvy wrote:

I guess what I'm asking is how do people see the titans prop/bench rotation going? Crystal ball stuff

rhinoceroo wrote:Jordan Kahu. Will he be playing centre and kicking goals?

Milchcow wrote:
Anyone that finished the season strongly must therefore have started the season weakly (relatively speaking at least)

Do you pick a late bloomer hoping they can continue their end of 2016 form.

Or do you avoid late bloomers due to their slow starts to the year and pick them up cheaper several rounds in when they have dropped price.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Pretty happy with latest draft
Doesn't feel that far under the cap but got 345k left over
Smith Hodgson
McGuire JWH Gurgess Hoare
Surgess KBrom Arrow Asiata Elliot Stimpson
Norman Moses McCrone Elgey
Chambers Idris Scott Kelly
Tedesco RTS Hayne Jennings Phythian

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Pretty happy with latest draft
Doesn't feel that far under the cap but got 345k left over
Smith Hodgson
McGuire JWH Gurgess Hoare
Surgess KBrom Arrow Asiata Elliot Stimpson
Norman Moses McCrone Elgey
Chambers Idris Scott Kelly
Tedesco RTS Hayne Jennings Phythian

Welshy wrote:
Pretty much same ctrs and backline as me mate

I'm reluctant to not start the season without Tedesco, massive outlay which i dont like in the backs but the tigers always seem to fire early 

Chambers a big bounceback candidate for me also!

Warriors wrote:

Pretty good team. Similar to mine in setup

McInnes vs hodgson
Vaughan vs JWH
TPangaiJ vs KBrom
DCE.       Vs Moses
Nona.      Vs Mcrone
Trobjevic. Vs Chambers
V Holmes  vs tedesco

Cheapie a will show themselves. I'm not sure which matchup I like above although I feel my team should require less trades as I have gone more guns/cows approach