2018 NRL Fantasy Draft Top 10 players

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Oh ok interesting.

Well thanks for that. Guess I should make a list of players I'd ideally like.

Don't just list the players you would ideally like, make a list of every player, and rank them in the order you would like them.
Don't want to miss out on the best player available because he wasn't on your "ideal" list.

How to draft

1. Only real thing that matters is points. Forget completely any notion of salary cap from the overall comp. Taane Milne might be a great steal in fantasy at base price - but you don't want to touch him in draft if Roberts/Aitken/Aubbs are available.

2. After straight out points, positional scarcity is the next thing to look at. Say you have a choice between Tedesco and Simon Mannering. Mannering should score more points. But if you pick Mannering, when you get to pick a WFB you may have to settle for Tuimoala Lolohea. If you pick Tedesco you may still be able to grab Boyd Cordner as your next 2nd rower. Tedesco and Cordner is better than Mannering and Lolohea.
So just be aware of what scorers are left in each position, and the gap between the best scorer available and the players just below him. This involves some guesswork on who people around you will pick, and becomes more important the more players there are in the comp. (easier to get a good hooker in an 8 team comp than a 12 team comp for example)
Some positions have a shallower depth than others and can make sense to hit up those positions earlier.

3. Consider getting a "handcuff" for key positions. If you get Cameron Smith, look at getting Brandon Smith later in the draft so that if Cam Smith gets injured, you can pout Brandon straight in and you don't suffer too badly in points.

And draft comps are so much more fun than overall ones.

So many people whinge about forums like this, or facebook groups leadfing to everyone considering the same group of players for their team. But if you play in a comp where everyone can have the same team, you have to expect that most people will try and put good players in their team.

if you want to get rewarded for knowing that Angus Crichton is about to have a breakout year, play in a draft comp and pick him early so you get him all to yourself.

So basically first pick of the draft can get anyone at all, or will there be groups of players listed for each round of the draft? Something like that?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:So basically first pick of the draft can get anyone at all, or will there be groups of players listed for each round of the draft? Something like that?

You can pick anyone at all, next pick can grab anyone expect for the No. 1 pick and so on

NewyCoop wrote:

You can pick anyone at all, next pick can grab anyone expect for the No. 1 pick and so on

Cheers bud,

I'm looking forward to it. Hopin for an Aubbs/Aitken centre pairing haha.

ryno_ wrote:

Haha, yeah someone basically did that in our L1 last year and left me with Koroisau as my starting hooker.

Quicksand right? Loaded up on hookers then wouldn't trade any of them for fair market value.

Time frame of a typical draft? 14 teams I beleive

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Time frame of a typical draft? 14 teams I beleive

The drafts we do on this site, with people in lots of different timezones take a couple of weeks to complete.

If you get all 14 people to dedicate some time to it you can put a 2 minute time limit on picks and get it done in an afternoon or evening

I have a 10 team draft comp and our draft takes a few hours.

Moose wrote:

Quicksand right? Loaded up on hookers then wouldn't trade any of them for fair market value.

Fair market value ?????
Market value is not just price and scoring potential but also how much you need the player you are trying to get !
You had no decent hooker in your team so that increased the value of my players.
You wanted to trade Farah (at the time the NSW hooker) or Luke (at the time the Kiwi hooker) for some lump. I think it was JWH from memory.

A great deal for you but I thought I could do better !!

I have 3rd pick so should I grab a decent hooker first and then pick two decent centres with my next two picks and go from there?
Is that considered a strategy?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:I have 3rd pick so should I grab a decent hooker first and then pick two decent centres with my next two picks and go from there?
Is that considered a strategy?

forat part is good, second part! Hell no

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:I have 3rd pick so should I grab a decent hooker first and then pick two decent centres with my next two picks and go from there?
Is that considered a strategy?

I wouldn't take a centre first pick, you want a big scoring forward.

With 3rd pick in a 14 player draft, I would take a hooker. Your next pick will be the 26th overall, so odds are good that all the good hookers will be gone by the time it gets back to you. There will still be reasonable quality players available in most other positions.

Either that or just grab the highest scoring player available, and for get position. It will be your only chance to get someone who can reliably score 60.

I'm hoping to get Friend or Macca as my hooker as I'm sure Smith will be gone

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:I'm hoping to get Friend or Macca as my hooker as I'm sure Smith will be gone

3rd pick are nailed on for a top hooker...Macca, McInnes, Friend has in that order I would rate them

Cheers bud, will grab one and see what's left when my turn rolls around again.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Cheers bud, will grab one and see what's left when my turn rolls around again.

Hopefully you get Macca, def the highest ceiling bud then come back here when you get close to second and can suggest the next course of action

Welshy wrote:
Hopefully you get Macca, def the highest ceiling bud then come back here when you get close to second and can suggest the next course of action

Only have 60 seconds per pick so should be pretty hectic. I'll just take some of milchs points and see how I go. Cheers for the offer though

Rd1 almost done and Macca and friend still there

Have McInnes, Brown and Edwards atm

That is a solid starting group their Liverpool. If you can get another established forward.