by Archer Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:20 pm
I'll try and give a non biased assessment of Papa fantasy wise. His scores are very up and down because he tends to be used in a variety of ways depending on our game plan.
Some games he was pushed in to defend a lot closer to the middle, with a half defending at CTR and Croker defending where Papa would. Other games he defended out wider in the traditional 2nd Row spot. You add the fact that teams tend to target one particular side of the field in attack depending on the team and you would see big swings in his tackle count from one game to the next.
Then you throw in attacking stats into the mix and Papa is a player who can bust several tackles, offload to set up a try or just break the line all together and score himself, however we don't often use him for a lot of hit ups and some games he may even play as a decoy or we just give BJ+Rapa all the ball on the other side. It means you get some games where he makes a ton of tackles in the middle, scores a try, TB's out the wazoo and a TA and others where he makes 15 tackles, 8 Hitups for 80m.
If you jag him at a time where he gets a few of those big games in a row, you can net yourself some bargain points for his cost but over the long run he's not going to average out any higher than he has in the past I'd say. Amazing player though, the kind that makes chumps like Frizz write a letter to Santa asking to be half as good as him one day
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