2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 1

Mighty Fishes wrote:There has been a lot of talk about Jai Arrow and I just don't see him starting. I think the 11-13 the starters will be Greenwood, Proctor James not sure what order though.

I think Arrow will be off the bench until injury or a shake up which is a shame cause he would be fantasy gold!

Not nailed mate on but Greenwood was far too lightweight last year, Arrow 13 with James and Proctor wide is a far more sturdy back row!

Yep, agree with Welshy, Greenwood isn't a walk starter in my eyes either MF.

Welshy wrote:

Not nailed mate on but Greenwood was far too lightweight last year, Arrow 13 with James and Proctor wide is a far more sturdy back row!

Greenwood wasn't too bad. Leading try scorer for the forwards and made the 4th most tackles for the team. Did better than what people give him credit for.

I'm not trying to disagree because Arrow I want starting lock myself!

I just think that if Greenwood was starting round one I wont be shocked is all

Mighty Fishes wrote:I just think that if Greenwood was starting round one I wont be shocked is all

I know that fella, that is what these profiles are for, one mans thoughts and a debate on the merits.

Welshy wrote:
I know that fella, that is what these profiles are for, one mans thoughts and a debate on the merits.

I find it weird that I'm wrong on my own debate haha

Welshy wrote:

Excellent!

Anyone you want to add to the current list

Jai Arrow
Cameron Murray
Connor Watson
JDB

Hayne
BMoz
Maloney
Matt Scott
Gurgess
Stimson
Aaron Gray
Latu
Cartwright
Hymel Hunt
Whare
Hiku

Loving the player write-ups mate, fantastic job. Would love to see a 'priced at (an average of)' in each of the write ups, to go along with all the other awesome info!

Milchcow wrote:

SI wrote:
NRL Dream Team Assistant Coach subscribers, your 2018 season BEGINS NOW! login and pick/plan your side with the 2018 Team Picker - every player/position/price.
https://sportsdeck.com/au/nrl/dreamteam/team_picker …


So that is on the SportsDeck Twitter page but when I log on it is just showing last year and CLOSED.  There is no link that I can see to sign for AC, so I'm assuming if you were an AC last year is what they mean?

For people with assistant coach last year there is meant to be a link to the team picker in the lobby.

Anyone got access to have a look?

Based on the twitter message its a $9.4mil salary cap, magic number of 11522

Most expensive players will be.
(not sure how discounting works in this comp, but I assume Croft and Ramien will not be that price)

Name	Price
Simon Mannering	$749,500
Paul Gallen	$741,200
Jason Taumalolo	$741,100
Jake Trbojevic	$715,900
Jack De Belin	$710,900
Cameron Smith	$705,800
Angus Crichton	$688,700
Paul Vaughan	$684,300
Andrew McCullough	$653,000
Brodie Croft	$645,200
Jesse Ramien	$645,200
Cameron McInnes	$644,300
Nathan Brown	$641,800
Andrew Fifita	$629,600

Yeah I had AC. I had a quick look in the lobby but didn't look that hard. I'll have another look this morning.

So they’ve added new rules rewarding depth hey. Trying to remove me and my guns and cows for good!

Just slowly working through these pages. Thanks all for making it easier as always to keep up. Bit of a worry when the only quick value I’ve spotted so far is Aaron Gray and Kane Evans though!

Seriously though what is the fkn point of additional salary cap if every price just goes up? Bang average players these days costing 500k *sighs* laffranchi be turning in his grave if he wasn’t alive

I like the changes with the 8 man bench & the risk factor of playing it safe or just loading up with forwards.

Milchcow wrote:
Loophole is finally killed off for good.
Don't need to worry about AE nightmares.

And if 2 players are late withdrawals, you can get 2 subs (assuming you have emergencies on that position)

DPP will be very important

Actually liking the new rules a lot.

We discussed like for like position subs plenty last season and always wanted ordered not lowest AE

As for thinking Wallace looks value at $650k well that is just going to take some getting used to!

GreenMachine wrote:

Actually liking the new rules a lot.

We discussed like for like position subs plenty last season and always wanted ordered not lowest AE

As for thinking Wallace looks value at $650k well that is just going to take some getting used to!

I forget why but I read Wallace is out in round 1.

I like the new rules in general. New challenge and different and imperfect end-teams, with effectively 4 fewer cash cows. It's not clear from write-up whether rolling lockout will stay in addition to ranked subs, or am I missing something?

TheWeapon wrote:Loving the player write-ups mate, fantastic job. Would love to see a 'priced at (an average of)' in each of the write ups, to go along with all the other awesome info!

can add all that in tomorrow mate! Great shout

Only up to page 19 but enjoying the build up.

Lot of you lads have Garvey. Isn’t Lichaa still there?

Welshy wrote:

Not nailed mate on but Greenwood was far too lightweight last year, Arrow 13 with James and Proctor wide is a far more sturdy back row!

Stupid question but why are we thinking James will be in the backrow instead of prop?