2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 37

To touch a little more on bye planning the majority of fantasy players don't consider it. Even if you do a little by getting a few bye friendly guns(Surgess, Walker, Gallen etc) you will still make up ground on teams stacked with origin players. I personally will be making some "sideways" trades to players with better byes. EG after round 12 I will be trying to go Whitehead to JDB. Whitehead will have made most of his cash back and JDB will only have 1 bye left essentially giving up 1 trade for 1 extra game and the extra points JDB will score over Whitehead in the other games. The timing of when to purchase guns is a huge factor aswell

After updates I should be sitting on 829 up about 1200 spots on last week. Seems above a lot of scores I've seen floating around which is nice after banking two trades

Johnny B Goode wrote:Updates take me to 852 for the round. Currently ranked 128 so could move up a spot in my overall league. Would you believe the only two teams that are ahead of me are non-Cam Smith owners.

I say it every week but I'm honestly surprised I maintain my ranking with the team I have. The disadvantage of so many people profiting off Ponga hasn't handicapped me too much.

Good on you mate, so close to a double digit ranking.

Time to trade out Aubusson?

Mighty Fishes wrote:Dugan 37
Aitken 13
Lafai 31
McInnes 59
Vaughn 26
Friz 37
Thompson 41
JDB 40

Slater 41
Munster 62
Jbrom 33
Smith 55
Kaufusi 43
Kbrom 27
NAS 9
Stimpson 7

Not sure I want to know, but ... Cronk?

danseels1985 wrote:Time to trade out Aubusson?

He was on my trade in list before this round and although there were rumours of him being sick, starting from the bench is a concern.

Maybe wait to see where he starts next round before making a move.

jelejasof wrote:

Not sure I want to know, but ... Cronk?

10 mate.



Sorry

Anyone know roughly how much, Lamb, Munster and Cody Walker will cost next round?

Spectre wrote:

Okay you find me a player who says they intentionally keep the ball in the field of play from a penalty and I'll put my hand up and apologise.

There have been plenty of examples. Jack Gibson was famous for his innovative use of the penalty kick. He would line players up on the opposite side of the goal posts and have the kicker intentionally miss across the posts for those players to maraud their way to it. Both at Easts and Parra. Ditto Gus Gould at the Bulldogs. You would be too young to remember. And it is and was called a ' free kick'.

mango wrote:

He was on my trade in list before this round and although there were rumours of him being sick, starting from the bench is a concern.

Maybe wait to see where he starts next round before making a move.

He plays last next round, unfortunately. If he's on the bench, the price gap between him and low BE Munster or Nathan Brown could increase by 60-70k. Even if Aubs starts, with his high BE, the gap can go up by 50k.

I can go Aubbs to Munster in one trade at the moment adter this week's changes, leaving TTurbo and SMat in centres. Not happy about SMat either, but think the trade has to be made.

Weirdly, can understand him being on trade-in list for others as he'll be bargain Origin cover after a couple more price drops before playing 80 for Cordner Rnd 12 and 18.

Rabbit wrote:

There have been plenty of examples. Jack Gibson was famous for his innovative use of the penalty kick. He would line players up on the opposite side of the goal posts and have the kicker intentionally miss across the posts for those players to maraud their way to it. Both at Easts and Parra. Ditto Gus Gould at the Bulldogs. You would be too young to remember. And it is and was called a ' free kick'.

When did they change the rule as thats illegal these days

mango wrote:Thanks for the support guys, appreciate it heaps.

Thinking about my rd10 trades already although I need to slow down a bit there. Ponga to Munster if Coote is back

I did want Cody for his byes but he's going backwards at the moment and Munster gunning it.

What does everyone think?

Yep - Munster before Walker is the priority for me. We were fortunate to see a couple of games at 5/8 with a high BE to see how his scores would go. I was worried that he didn't look that slick in the trials.

But he's making up for any of that with a big increase in tackle base stats, so the high scores seem valid.

I'm Lamb to Munster and perhaps Cotric to Walker later on for the DPP options.

Thinking out Aubusson to one of Mannering,Gallen,Merrin,Bodene,JTurbo or Taupau,thoughts?

Mighty Fishes wrote:

10 mate.



Sorry

Thajks mate, i took a punt that Cronk would pick up this year playing with a running five-eighth (Munster/Jacks over Green). Hasnt really worked out - he's just not a top tier fantasy half. Oh well, was planning on trading him out come Origin time anyway...

Rabbit wrote:

There have been plenty of examples. Jack Gibson was famous for his innovative use of the penalty kick. He would line players up on the opposite side of the goal posts and have the kicker intentionally miss across the posts for those players to maraud their way to it. Both at Easts and Parra. Ditto Gus Gould at the Bulldogs. You would be too young to remember. And it is and was called a ' free kick'.

Well sorry to say Rabs but we don't refer to penalties as free kicks, and the examples you have given are from a long time ago. We are talking about the here and now, and those plays aren't even legal.

Shanbon wrote:

When did they change the rule as thats illegal these days

Show me the rule that says it's illegal.

Spectre wrote:

Well sorry to say Rabs but we don't refer to penalties as free kicks, and the examples you have given are from a long time ago. We are talking about the here and now, and those plays aren't even legal.

Wrong.

Rabbit wrote:

Show me the rule that says it's illegal.

The team taking the penalty goal have to be inside their own half when the kick is being taken. Broncos took the piss out of that rule last week and the refs allowed it because the game was over

It's a free kick and you can do whatever you want with it. Take a tap. Take a kick for goal. If you wanted to, you could take a midfield bomb and there isn't anything in the rules to say otherwise.

Spectre wrote:

The team taking the penalty goal have to be inside their own half when the kick is being taken. Broncos took the piss out of that rule last week and the refs allowed it because the game was over

Bullshit. You don't know what you're talking about. You only need to be behind the kicker. "Inside their own half" ...just lol.