2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 26

Mighty Fishes wrote:

You'll get an AE of your lowest score. Hope everything I alright for you up there mate

White Lightning wrote:I think the a.e. lowest score rule is very unfair. Surely it wouldn't be hard for the game to design some system where you could rank your npr's from 1 to 8 so you get the score of your top ranked npr. They do it in the epl so why not in fantasy.

Vanish wrote:Pending updates, 868 for the round, pushing me up to rank 394 overall. Feels like this week I was rewarded for patience, with a couple of popular trade ins over the last couple of weeks either not playing or disappointing (Hess, Ponga, etc). Meanwhile, Siro, Idris, Graham, RTS and Fifi all got me good points despite a few weak opening rounds. A couple of those you would have been crazy to trade out, but a few of them many did.

White Lightning wrote:I think the a.e. lowest score rule is very unfair. Surely it wouldn't be hard for the game to design some system where you could rank your npr's from 1 to 8 so you get the score of your top ranked npr. They do it in the epl so why not in fantasy.

code delta wrote:@Spectre

Is that you in photo #9?
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/winners-of-the-2017-sony-world-photography-awards/521052/

Johnny B Goode wrote:
 

There was someone thinking of trading Graham out who I told them not to on account of never sell keepers. Luckily they listened. Don't have him yet but good option for byes.  

I did sell Siro last week. Honestly I just wanted to get Whitehead in a week early and ride off a still low ownership for a POD score. Instead Siro outscored him by 18-19 points and went up in value while Whitehead went down again.  
Should have kept the faith but oh well hindsight is a beautiful thing.

Random wrote:

While that is good, considering there is the Captain Loophole already. It would make it even easier/better to abuse it if you have a strong 18th man. It could definitely work if you didn't have rolling lockouts and just a shut out from Thursday night onwards.

White Lightning wrote:

Good stuff mate. Yep the waiting game & being patient separates the good fantasy players from the bad fantasy players. Since I'm impatient & trade rage too much I definitely fall into the latter haha.

White Lightning wrote:I think the a.e. lowest score rule is very unfair. Surely it wouldn't be hard for the game to design some system where you could rank your npr's from 1 to 8 so you get the score of your top ranked npr. They do it in the epl so why not in fantasy.

Random wrote:

While that is good, considering there is the Captain Loophole already. It would make it even easier/better to abuse it if you have a strong 18th man. It could definitely work if you didn't have rolling lockouts and just a shut out from Thursday night onwards.

Chippy wrote:So I never got to do anything with my team this week due to the cyclone and no power and internet. I never got to change my reserves and got stuck with Yates. Do I get the lowest score instead or am I stuck with a 0

White Lightning wrote:I think the a.e. lowest score rule is very unfair. Surely it wouldn't be hard for the game to design some system where you could rank your npr's from 1 to 8 so you get the score of your top ranked npr. They do it in the epl so why not in fantasy.

jelejasof wrote:To me the solution should be that you get the next best scoring player in the same position.  That effectively mirrors what a real coach would do ie pick the next best WFB if the starting WFB pulls out.  And would prevent deliberately targeting an AE as you wouldn't get a 2RF score if your CTR is a non-starter.