2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 41

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, I read that too, but did Cody and his manager just take them on their word?  Bit silly if they did.  I would assume that could have put some sort of clause in the contract in regards to this.

Loomer wrote:

I posted it works on PC in a previous thread. I did it last year by dragging and dropping. Why does no one believe me?

AL wrote:

I thought only front rowers would be silly enough to knock back $600k/year and sign a 3 year contract for $160k with a verbal 'she'll be right, we will fix you up later mate'. Why not just sign for 12 months, or take the $600k? The reports seem too outrageous to believe, surely there is more to it or the figures being thrown around are a bit off.

Anyway, hope it doesn't affect his form - or he gets the Ross dog treatment, Souths play last and he is a starting half for me so would get an AE in the event he doesn't play. Almost tempted to play Guth instead to take the AE out of the occasion.  I doubt Madge takes to kindly to being threatened.

Loomer wrote:

I posted it works on PC in a previous thread. I did it last year by dragging and dropping. Why does no one believe me?

Warriors wrote:

I would probably lock in Graham, keeper with good byes. Done.

Next, you would watch Brown and ask yourself will he score the same or better than Gallen for 60K less across rounds 12, 13, 14 and 15 than Gallen would in one less game.
If I had to choose two for the byes it would be Graham and Brown. You can always upgrade a Whitehead to Gallen after round 13 if you need him for round 15 and the run home.

SI wrote:

This.  I'm just gonna come out and say it, I love you guys and girls  .

But not in the way Stew loves both guys and girls during the bi rounds...

Vanish wrote:

Ok, so I've done some rough maths estimates as to the what each of those five players can be expected to score you over the bye rounds. To do this I made the following assumptions:

Each player will score their current 5 round average each week. Those averages, rounded up, are:
Fifita: 64          McGuire: 52                Gallen: 61                Brown: 55                Graham: 60
(For Graham I've recalculated his 5 round average to disregard his concussion affected 9)

For each major bye round, you will have less than 17 playing players. This means that there is no opportunity cost for fielding a player during those rounds.

For each minor bye round (for the sake of simplicity, including 19), you will have more than 17 players. Therefore, playing one of these players comes at the opportunity cost of holding another player on the bench as an NPR. For simplicity's sake, I'll assume that player would have scored 25 points, and therefore the net points a player will score you that week is equal to (5weekaverage - 25). I've used the same number for the non-bye rounds.

I've then added all the points each of the five players can be expected to score you over Round 12-19 by adding their net-points together.

Fifita = 0+0+39+0+39+39+0+39
       = 156 points

McGuire = 0+27+27+0+27+27+0+27
           = 162 points

Gallen = 61+0+36+61+36+36+0+36
         = 266 points

Brown = 55+30+30+55+25+30+55+0
         = 280 points

Graham = 60+35+35+0+35+35+60+0
           = 260 points

Conclusions: Players with favourable byes significantly outscore those playing Origin. Brown should be the highest total point scorer out of those, however only marginally ahead of Gallen and Graham. Sell McGuire before Fifita, as Fifita should match McGuire over the bye period and keeping him saves a trade getting him back in later.

Obviously I've made some simplistic assumptions here, and your team set up may be different and thus you'll get different results. I've also overlooked the effect of backing up from Origin, with players possibly playing less minutes or getting rested. I cannot account for random variables such as player injuries or suspensions.

Looking at this, I actually think it's better to get Gallen over Brown, unless you value Brown as a season keeper. Although I'd probably offload both Fifita and McGuire and pick up all three.

EDIT: Actually did this wrong. Was giving players 25 points in their non-major bye rounds but this was wrong. Have now given them a zero for those rounds. Conclusions basically the same though.

Loomer wrote:

I posted it works on PC in a previous thread. I did it last year by dragging and dropping. Why does no one believe me?

Loomer wrote:

Frol wrote:ATTENTION - CAPTAIN LOOPHOLE STILL SEEMS TO BE POSSIBLE!!

So, with the VC on Lolo last night I was interested to see if the old captain switcheroo is still possible with current captain CS9.

I know there's no 'S' to substitute, but here's the trick;

On PC when you scroll over a player's card on the field display, the arrow changes to a 4 way arrow, if you click and drag on your current captain and place the card on top the player you want to switch with - it works! After the switch it changed the league match up. Now, whether that sticks till the end I'm not sure.

To be clear, this was for interest only, and my captain will remain CS9 this week but I'd be interested to know if it sticks after final scores are recorded, as it may be very handy come bye rounds if it works.

Anyone willing to give it a go to see if it works?

I posted it works on PC in a previous thread. I did it last year by dragging and dropping. Why does no one believe me?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Hey mate, I think people just wanted confirmation it worked this year. I did it last year too, but this year they have changed things. As far as I know, no-one had done it this year yet, not confirmed anyway.

White Lightning wrote:@ Vanish. Thanks mate. That's a great post.

Loomer wrote:

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Hey mate, I think people just wanted confirmation it worked this year. I did it last year too, but this year they have changed things. As far as I know, no-one had done it this year yet, not confirmed anyway.

I was asked if I'd seen recent screenshot evidence and the answer was yes on Surgess VC

Spectre wrote:

You get my vote for this years MVP

SI wrote:

Yes, but just the week before we had people with their VC and C scores doubled through the entire round.  So there was a chance it was a troll post bsed on that FanHub stuff up.  From memory the post you saw DIDN'T show the rest of his team and you were going to try and see if you could get a full team shot from him?  So there was doubt in you mind as well, and understandably so.

Loomer wrote:

SI wrote:

Yes, but just the week before we had people with their VC and C scores doubled through the entire round.  So there was a chance it was a troll post bsed on that FanHub stuff up.  From memory the post you saw DIDN'T show the rest of his team and you were going to try and see if you could get a full team shot from him?  So there was doubt in you mind as well, and understandably so.

This is true. You should be a barista

Fortitude wrote:Its not event the weekend and im already looking to TLT so I can pull the trigger on my Bye trades.  Want to start upgrading NOW!

wolfking wrote:I was going to go Idris - Fui, but I'm thinking to maximise money and see what happens with Kaufusi, setting it up so I only use 1 trade (Turbo-Croker) and then if Kaufusi is on the bench still come Sunday, pull the trigger on Kaufusi - Fui.  Then if Kaufusi starts I miss out on Fui so it's definitely a gamble.