2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 45

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Yeah Im not sure why there is so much love for Lolohea.

He's likeable and people want him to do well.
This certainly doesn't translate into him playing well or scoring well in fantasy, unfortunately.

I think he's under-priced but not by too much ($50k-$70k?) and certainly won't be a keeper.

Edwards for Hayne or RTS? Thinking RTS since he has two pending byes. Hayne is a pleb but DPP is due and only has one bye left.

wolfking wrote:I think Edwards is a gun and would go for him without hesitation if there was some sort of certainty that he will keep his spot.  Lolohea for his price I think might go okay.  It is the Tigers though, so opportunities might be an issue.

Yeah you have to ask yourself will that Tigers pack dominate enough for Lolohea to exhibit his attacking skills.

Who else is doing McInnes - Brailey?

I need some emotional support!

Spectre wrote:Who else is doing McInnes - Brailey?

I need some emotional support!

It was my initial trade. But i had to drop it to make for Hayne/RTS -> Edwards and Niko -> Munster. Brailey is a luxury trade at the moment

If this was pre-season, Lolohea would be in a crap load of teams as cash cow.

As it is trades are low enough for everyone that he's a risky trade in. Too expensive for a cash out, and probably won't score enough to be a keeper.

I'm still tempted because my team sucks and have to take a punt somewhere

hymenbustas wrote:

It was my initial trade. But i had to drop it to make for Hayne/RTS -> Edwards and Niko -> Munster. Brailey is a luxury trade at the moment

I can't decide which 2 to bring in this week from McInnes, Taumalolo and Teddy.
All 3 are decent upgrades for me but McInnes probably has the smallest improvement in terms of points, but also is better in terms of byes.

Tough one this week

filthridden wrote:

He's likeable and people want him to do well.
This certainly doesn't translate into him playing well or scoring well in fantasy, unfortunately.

I think he's under-priced but not by too much ($50k-$70k?) and certainly won't be a keeper.

I got burnt (was it last year?) when Lolohea played in the halves for the warriors and he blew chunks. Never again

filthridden wrote:

He's likeable and people want him to do well.
This certainly doesn't translate into him playing well or scoring well in fantasy, unfortunately.

I think he's under-priced but not by too much ($50k-$70k?) and certainly won't be a keeper.

Yeah no doubt mate. I hear he is a nice kid and for sure I wish him the best. I dd mean fantasy love though. He has several well known deficiencies as a player and I don't think that bodes well for fantasy (both short and long term) unfortunately. That being said perhaps Cleary can sort him out?

hymenbustas wrote:Edwards for Hayne or RTS? Thinking RTS since he has two pending byes. Hayne is a pleb but DPP is due and only has one bye left.  

Hayne has 2 byes + 2 origins (possibly), so he could miss 15, 16, 18 & 19 !!

edit: ignore this post, for some reason i was thinking he was at para

Spectre wrote:

I can't decide which 2 to bring in this week from McInnes, Taumalolo and Teddy.
All 3 are decent upgrades for me but McInnes probably has the smallest improvement in terms of  points, but also is better in terms of byes.

Tough one this week

Break Evens:
Lolo - 42
McInnes - 46
Teddy - 59

Just going off that, you'd think lolo would be better value and will be more expensive to purchase further down the track.

quicksand wrote:

Hayne has 2 byes + 2 origins (possibly), so he could miss 15, 16, 18 & 19 !!

Very true!!! Thanks mate

It's not worth using up all my cash to trade out Aubusson for Tolo is it? And if not which of these is the better option:

Brown and Suli out for Vaughan and Munster
Niko and Suli out for Cleary and Munster

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Yeah no doubt mate. I hear he is a nice kid and for sure I wish him the best. I dd mean fantasy love though. He has several well known deficiencies as a player and I don't think that bodes well for fantasy (both short and long term) unfortunately. That being said perhaps Cleary can sort him out?

I honestly think Cleary got him on the cheap for someone to fill in the half position this year and potentially play fullback next year if someone else doesn't pop up.

Lolohea wants to play in the halves but I doubt he's going to play well enough to keep Reynolds out of the 17.
His next preferred position is fullback and I think most would agree he's in the bottom half of NRL fullbacks, lacks the height and defensive ability for that role.

Not being a noted field-kicker really doesn't help him either.

quicksand wrote:

Hayne has 2 byes + 2 origins (possibly), so he could miss 15, 16, 18 & 19 !!

Hayne plays for the Titans now, not the Eels.

Will only miss one game from origin and one bye (round 18).
Titans had their first bye last weekend.

itsJay wrote:

I got burnt (was it last year?) when Lolohea played in the halves for the warriors and he blew chunks. Never again

He played 5 games at halfback and had his best fantasy average of 37.8 so there you go. I don't when these games were but say if they were over bye period that makes less appealing

Afternoon Lads/Lasses.

Am after some help here. I'm pretty happy with my team. Looking to try and hold TTurbo. Plenty of trades and 181k in the bank. Let me know your thoughts. Team set for this week hence not starting a few good players.

C.Smith: Kpritch
J.Graham, Brown: Jwal G.Fai
A.Elliot, Pimple, Yates: Surgess, Crichton, PG13
SJ, Frawly; Arey, Field
Smat, Cotric; TTurbo, Fuimaono
RTS, Hayne, Slater; Abbey, Calker

danseels1985 wrote:It's not worth using up all my cash to trade out Aubusson for Tolo is it? And if not which of these is the better option:

Brown and Suli out for Vaughan and Munster
Niko and Suli out for Cleary and Munster

Can you do Brown and Niko to Vaughan and Munster?

hymenbustas wrote:

Break Evens:
Lolo - 42
McInnes - 46
Teddy - 59

Just going off that, you'd think lolo would be better value and will be more expensive to purchase further down the track.

Yeah it's basically now or never re Lolo because he'll be too expensive if you wait. I don't think the price of McInnes will go up that much this week playing the Tigers as his tackle count won't be that high. Now Tedesco worries me a bit. The last game he was robbed of scoring 3 tries & he's proved it doesn't deter him playing against a top team as he'll still do his thing.

hymenbustas wrote:

Break Evens:
Lolo - 42
McInnes - 46
Teddy - 59

Just going off that, you'd think lolo would be better value and will be more expensive to purchase further down the track.

I'm not really fussed about prices and BEs at this point. I need maximum points gain so I'm looking more at that.

Brailey - McInnes
Whitehead - Lolo
Suli - Teddy

Teddy is the best improvement for points but has origin.
McInnes gives me a very valuable extra scorer which I need this week.
Whitehead isn't really an urgent sell, but it's a good upgrade.

It's honestly a very tough decision