2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 52 - Fantasy talk in here

Rabbit wrote:The only problem I have with the loophole, is that it rewards poor bye planning. You must have 17 or less. Players who have planned well get punished.

Rabbit wrote:The only problem I have with the loophole, is that it rewards poor bye planning. You must have 17 or less. Players who have planned well get punished.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

I know what you are saying but I disagree. If you look at it another way it rewards perfect bye planning. If you can nail it so your players are equally dispersed across 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, and 19. In theory you could loophole for most if not all of those rounds. Bit harder in NRL.com, but that's roughly where I am at in VTSD. Bye round numbers are/were something along the lines of 16, 17, 15, 16, 15, 17 for those rounds. At this stage im in a position where I can loophole for all 6 of those rounds.

my tv broke wrote:Speaking of Angus VC, Souths play the roosters in the friday night game in round 18, guessing there will be a tonne of VC's on him that game as well haha

Nrl4Life wrote:



Any suggestions of good who I should trade?
I'm thinking Slater to Edwards leaves me 8 trades left.
Walker to Pearce Round 20.

my tv broke wrote:Looks like we are OPEN for business.

Crichton 597k wowee

GreenMachine wrote:

Best and fastest cashcow to gun keeper off all time for sure

All origin guys with red dots??

SI wrote:I was choosing up till now to not go on a spiel about the loophole.  Mulvy did a fine job in the previous thread of explaining why it is a legitimate part of the game.  His thoughts are identical to mine.

The rule that every non-looper refers to "There is no longer the ability to take advantage of the 'Captain's Loophole'", is a remnant of when they changed the ACTUAL loophole 3 years ago.  Fanhub have left this bit of text in for the last 3 seasons.  IT IS NOT NEW THIS YEAR.  They haven't changed anything this year, nor last year.  They actually wrote that at the start of 2015 when they closed the actual loophole-that is, back when you could take the C off your Captain during a round and place it on an NPR to get your VC score under pretty much any circumstances.  THAT WAS THE CAPTAINS LOOPHOLE, not what is being done now.

What we are doing now is NOT the Captain's Loopole, it is just called that as it developed out of the CAPTAIN'S LOOPOLE from 2014.  

The very next line in the rules is that 'a Captain can be substituted out during a game, but no other player can be made Captain. In that case the Vice Captain will be awarded double points.'  That is what we are doing NOW, it is IN THE RULES, and everyone is both aware of it and able to do it.

The game is designed so that you can sub your captain out-it is written there in black and white.  Just like the game is desiged so you can do DPP trades, just like the game is desiged to have price rises and drops, so too is the game designed so that you can sub your Captain out to get double points for your Vice Captain if you choose to.

tl;dr?

The Captain's Loophole WAS closed in 2015.  What we are doing now is NOT actually the Captain's Loophole-it is a legitimate mechanism of the game that is explained in the rules.  

FanHub have created all this animosity by leaving that "we have closed the loophole" text in there from 2015.  Once people realise that the Captain's Loophole was actually something else that has actually been closed by locking the C and VC than maybe we will see peace in our time?

Milchcow wrote:
I should be able to scrape together 17 this week.

Depends on guys like MWZ, Curtis Scott, Nu Brown.

awanamafia wrote:Brailey is worrying me but it's not ideal timing to bring back in Smith. I'd need to cash in someone to get there also.