2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 41

How are people expecting to score next week?

I'm thinking I'll be looking at around 650 with this team

McCulloch (c)
Brown, Graham (Ese'ese)
Surgess, Crichton, Whitehead (BT, Fuimaono)
Johnson, Walker
Moga, Leilua
RTS

Treating CNK as a bonus if he plays and not including RJennings or Norman.

Not sure who to pick for my last reserve. Brailey, Kaufusi or Elliot?

Re K-Nik. He's 1 cow that I regret not jumping on but I really thought he'd be a 30's scorer. You can't have them all & I have to say I've been pretty lucky with the ones I have jumped on.

Warriors wrote:

Can you not just go Kaufusi to James this week? I would hold ese ese for his round 12 points. Then CHN to Graham next week?

That's a good suggestion but I just thought why not do both? Then I can turn CHN to Fai for cash and turn Norman into ARey, Niko into CWalker and Suli into Munster next week. My team would look like this with 10k and 16 trades:

Smith McInnes
McGuire Graham James Brown
JDB Surgess Crichton Elliot CHN Fuimaono
SJ Niko Norman Hampton
BJ Aubusson Kelly Idris
RTS Slater Hayne Suli Phythian

Panthers Suck wrote:Not sure who to pick for my last reserve. Brailey, Kaufusi or Elliot?

Elliot for me as he now seems to be an 80 minute player.

Panthers Suck wrote:Not sure who to pick for my last reserve. Brailey, Kaufusi or Elliot?

Elliot, then Brailey.

White Lightning wrote:

Elliot for me as he now seems to be an 80 minute player.

Yer, Brailey is probably going to play 60 minutes, surprised Elliot keeps getting the full 80, guess the Dogs want him to get used to bigger minutes in preparation for the bye. Nikorima playing is great news, he is going to tear up the tigers for sure!

I'll have 21 trades left after making 2 this week. I think I've worked pretty accurately that I'll need about 15 trades to have my final team.

But we all know injuries and suspensions will change that

If I bring in Surgess for CHN this week I have to run CTR of Fui and Moga

Am I better of doing Idris to Croker and bring in Surgess next week?

Only thing I guess that is risky is Fui doesn't do as well as last week.

Im thinking Surgess 60 and Fui 30. Vs CHN 40, Croker 40.

Fortitude wrote:If I bring in Surgess for CHN this week I have to run CTR of Fui and Moga

Am I better of doing Idris to Croker and bring in Surgess next week?

Only thing I guess that is risky is Fui doesn't do as well as last week.

Im thinking Surgess 60 and Fui 30. Vs CHN 40, Croker 40.

I wouldn't like to run Fui as a starting centre.  Who knows how many minutes he will get as he got extra last week, and he won't get teh TB's like he did last week.  I've traded Idris to him but can only see him getting 20-25 this week. CHN starting could get 50 with a decent game.

Surgess has a BE of 34, he is likely to get a huge price rise so he won't get any cheaper. Croker price is not going to move much this week with a BE of 35.

I had planned on going Kaufusi to Brown this week, but now considering getting a dpp nuffie instead and picking up both Brown and Graham next week.
If I do this it means picking 2 reserves this week out of Brailey, CHN and Elliot, which isn't a bad situation to be in I suppose.

So question is, which route do I take?

Edit: I should also point out that going with the second plan means I can get Reynolds instead of Walker

Fortitude wrote:If I bring in Surgess for CHN this week I have to run CTR of Fui and Moga

Am I better of doing Idris to Croker and bring in Surgess next week?

Only thing I guess that is risky is Fui doesn't do as well as last week.

Im thinking Surgess 60 and Fui 30. Vs CHN 40, Croker 40.

You don't have someone to sell for Surgess other then CHN this week?

Spectre wrote:I had planned on going Kaufusi to Brown this week, but now considering getting a dpp nuffie instead and picking up both Brown and Graham next week.
If I do this it means picking 2 reserves this week out of Brailey, CHN and Elliot, which isn't a bad situation to be in I suppose.

So question is, which route do I take?

I'm playing all three of Brailey, CHN and Elliot haha. I thought about Kaufusi to Fui also.

wolfking wrote:

I'm playing all three of Brailey, CHN and Elliot haha.  I thought about Kaufusi to Fui also.

I picked up Fui last week in my centres which was handy but now the best bet for me is probably Fai

wolfking wrote:

I wouldn't like to run Fui as a starting centre.  Who knows how many minutes he will get as he got extra last week, and he won't get teh TB's like he did last week.  I've traded Idris to him but can only see him getting 20-25 this week.  CHN starting could get 50 with a decent game.

Yeah I get its a dangerous strategy. Will only be for this one round, will be making multiple changes next round.

My gripe with CTR is they all F'n suck with no consistency. So no rush to bring in a CTR. But I know its a fairly thin CTR pairing

Spectre wrote:

You don't have someone to sell for Surgess other then CHN this week?

Stone?

The other option is Norman, but I will have to run Hampton in my team if that happens.

Thoughts on bringing in Gutho for Norman to save some cash?? Or should I just go Johnson/Walker for Norman???

Fortitude wrote:

Stone?

The other option is Norman, but I will have to run Hampton in my team if that happens.

So who are you running in your halves if you don't sell Norman?

Post up your current team before trades

Spectre wrote:

So who are you running in your halves if you don't sell Norman?

My team before trades

Smith, Mcinnes
McGuire, Vaugham, Kaufsi, Wallace
Gallen, Whitehead, JDB, CHN, Stone, May
Norman, Cwalker, Field, Hampton
Cotric, Moga,Idris, Olam
Munster, Nofo, RTS, Abbey, Pyth.

Am looking at
Norman to Fui. Means playing Munster and Walker in Halves, Cotric to WFB CTR Fui and Moga
Then Stone or CHN to Surgess.