2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 3

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Am looking to go light in the forwards this year.

FRF have Lodge, Latu with NAS as cover.
2RF have TKO, Murray, Arrow with NAS, RFM, Carty as cover.

What other cheap options am I missing?

Are you going for a gun backline?

Honey Badger wrote:

Are you going for a gun backline?

Yeah that was the plan. Looking to be a tough ask though.

May have to drop Mitchell or Aitken down to a cheapie.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Yeah that was the plan. Looking to be a tough ask though.

May have to drop Mitchell or Aitken down to a cheapie.

Yeah i think if you could fit a gun forward in there that would give it a better balance. Gun forwards are your most consistent scorers where as ctrs and wfb can be a bit hit and miss.

Mitchell is tempting though. One thing that is putting me off is if cronk is on the right and Mitchell on the left. Will the right hand edge be their go to?

Honey Badger wrote:

Yeah i think if you could fit a gun forward in there that would give it a better balance. Gun forwards are your most consistent scorers where as ctrs and wfb can be a bit hit and miss.

Mitchell is tempting though. One thing that is putting me off is if cronk is on the right and Mitchell on the left. Will the right hand edge be their go to?

Last year Keary had 15 try assists and Pearce had 14. Could certainly be different with Cronk, but which side they go down might depend more on the opposition maybe.

Just feels like to get a decent team you have to go with two basement centres. A bit frustrating

No Worries wrote:

Is the pope catholic ?
Does a bear shit in the woods ?
Is managing the nuffie league the only reason No Worries is a mod ?

Aces

Todays team

NOt to displeased with this one. Obviously a month out, im not only wasting my own time putting this together and posting, but now I get to waste everyone else's.

Smith
JWH, Lodge
Tohu, Murray, Mcqueen
Cronk, Croker
Croker, Milne
Tedesco Ponga Inglis

Cook
Ese'ese
Raiders hooker
Cartwright

Nuffx4

114k ITB.

My concerns are no proper gun in the forwards (not including smith) Tohu is close. Mcqueen I think Is value assuming he remains in the forwards. but I don't expect him to be good enough to stay in my squad for too long.

Milne. Im still yet to work out why people are talking him up. Would sell instantly if I could come up with a better option at same price. Is this a case of the least shit option?

Croker/Carty in the 2nd halves spot is dependent on Team lists.

Cronk gets the nod from me. Hoping to maintain scoring with Tedesco being a less grubby version of Billy slater. The hope being that his scores get a boost from forced drop outs.

My Back three are locked pending injury.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Just feels like to get a decent team you have to go with two basement centres. A bit frustrating

Yeah ive started cheap in the ctrs the last couple of years. Moga and crotic did alright last year and H Hunt the year before that.

Hopefully a couple of options pop up this season

Fortitude wrote:Todays team

NOt to displeased with this one. Obviously a month out, im not only wasting my own time putting this together and posting, but now I get to waste everyone else's.

Smith
JWH, Lodge
Tohu, Murray, Mcqueen
Cronk, Croker
Croker, Milne
Tedesco Ponga Inglis

Cook
Ese'ese
Raiders hooker
Cartwright

Nuffx4

114k ITB.

My concerns are no proper gun in the forwards (not including smith) Tohu is close. Mcqueen I think Is value assuming he remains in the forwards. but I don't expect him to be good enough to stay in my squad for too long.

Milne. Im still yet to work out why people are talking him up. Would sell instantly if I could come up with a better option at same price. Is this a case of the least shit option?

Croker/Carty in the 2nd halves spot is dependent on Team lists.

Cronk gets the nod from me. Hoping to maintain scoring with Tedesco being a less grubby version of Billy slater. The hope being that his scores get a boost from forced drop outs.

My Back three are locked pending injury.

From NRL supercoach Talk:

POI – Taane Milne
January 3, 2018 sidrwayne 14 Comments


Milne appears one of the more definite cheapies for a round one start at this stage and should be in most teams if selected. Now a Fijian international being capped in 5 tests last year, he’ll look to build on his promising start of career at the Tigers after promising stints for the Dragons and playing his 20’s career with the Roosters.

While a measly average of 18.3 is uninviting it comes from an average of 29 minutes per game. Last year Milne only got an 80 minute gig in 2 games where he produced scores of 40 and 84- though promising, hardly anything to reliably judge off.

However looking back at 2016 form it shows five 80 minute games for an average of 65. In that was a high score of 97 and low score of 53 [only 76 minutes] showing a good string of consistency.

His form for Fiji at the 2017 world cup shows he’s a class above. His stats are some pretty impressive reading. In 4 games he came up with-

4- tries
8- goals [backup kicker for Koroisau]
7- try assists
5- line breaks
21.5 average tackles
141 average metres
13.5 average runs
10.4 metres per run
Overall Milne has undoubted potential and makings of an SC gun with his career average of seven 80 minute games 64.14. Coming off career best form in the RLWC for Fiji striking a strong combination with Suli Vunivalu, Milne will be hoping to do simlar with David Nofoaluma. Another potential upside could be his potential to bag goalkicking duties from an indifferent Tui Lolohea. Coupled with DPP status Milne will forge as a must pick should he stave of competition and get a CTW start.

With Lolohea near certain for fullback, Nofo locked on right wing and Naiqama having another CTW spot it leaves 2 spots up for grabs. Milne is a front runner along with Mahe Fonua while Moses Suli and Corey Thompson will provide completion. While Esan Marsters and Chee Kam are favoured to move into the 2nd row.

Apart from competition for spots another negative for all Tigers players is the tough start of Roosters, Storm, Broncos, Eels and Storm.

All up at 192k and dual CTW/2RF I find it hard to go wrong with a guy with so much upside coming of career best form in the World Cup and looking to cement a first grade jumper. Interested to know thoughts

Cheers, Sidrwayne

Fortitude wrote:

Milne. Im still yet to work out why people are talking him up. Would sell instantly if I could come up with a better option at same price. Is this a case of the least shit option?

Milne is far from the least shit option. He is probably the most undervalued player in fantasy at the moment and should be in everyone's team.

Milne has been starting centre 7 times in his career. These are his scores.

62, 29, 3 (injured), 31, 53, 35, 60

Only 1 of those scores (the 62) includes a try

He is priced at an average of 16.

The only question mark against him is job security. With Suli gone it looks like he has a solid spot in the team

There is a 0.1% chance that someone better will come along at that price.

If someone better does come along at that price, then they do not replace Milne. They become Milne's centre partner.

mulvy wrote:

From NRL supercoach Talk:

POI – Taane Milne
January 3, 2018 sidrwayne  14 Comments


Milne appears one of the more definite cheapies for a round one start at this stage and should be in most teams if selected. Now a Fijian international being capped in 5 tests last year, he’ll look to build on his promising start of career at the Tigers after promising stints for the Dragons and playing his 20’s career with the Roosters.

While a measly average of 18.3 is uninviting it comes from an average of 29 minutes per game. Last year Milne only got an 80 minute gig in 2 games where he produced scores of 40 and 84- though promising, hardly anything to reliably judge off.

However looking back at 2016 form it shows five 80 minute games for an average of 65. In that was a high score of 97 and low score of 53 [only 76 minutes] showing a good string of consistency.

His form for Fiji at the 2017 world cup shows he’s a class above. His stats are some pretty impressive reading. In 4 games he came up with-

4- tries
8- goals [backup kicker for Koroisau]
7- try assists
5- line breaks
21.5 average tackles
141 average metres
13.5 average runs
10.4 metres per run
Overall Milne has undoubted potential and makings of an SC gun with his career average of seven 80 minute games 64.14. Coming off career best form in the RLWC for Fiji striking a strong combination with Suli Vunivalu, Milne will be hoping to do simlar with David Nofoaluma. Another potential upside could be his potential to bag goalkicking duties from an indifferent Tui Lolohea. Coupled with DPP status Milne will forge as a must pick should he stave of competition and get a CTW start.

With Lolohea near certain for fullback, Nofo locked on right wing and Naiqama having another CTW spot it leaves 2 spots up for grabs. Milne is a front runner along with Mahe Fonua while Moses Suli and Corey Thompson will provide completion. While Esan Marsters and Chee Kam are favoured to move into the 2nd row.

Apart from competition for spots another negative for all Tigers players is the tough start of Roosters, Storm, Broncos, Eels and Storm.

All up at 192k and dual CTW/2RF I find it hard to go wrong with a guy with so much upside coming of career best form in the World Cup and looking to cement a first grade jumper. Interested to know thoughts

Cheers, Sidrwayne

Wow, it appears I totally have my head up my arse with my level of ignorance on the Milne topic.

I wonder if there will be less cheapies this year without annual Auckland carnage?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Just feels like to get a decent team you have to go with two basement centres. A bit frustrating

It is more the case that

It is easier for a rookie centre to score well than a rookie forward
It is easier for a gun forward to outscore a gun centre

Sometimes there are exceptions, but the combination of the 2 generally leads to fantasy money being better spent on good forwards and rookie centres than the other way around.

Milchcow wrote:

It is more the case that

It is easier for a rookie centre to score well than a rookie forward
It is easier for a gun forward to outscore a gun centre

Sometimes there are exceptions, but the combination of the 2 generally leads to fantasy money being better spent on good forwards and rookie centres than the other way around.

Or just go without Smith

Has anyone finished in the top 500 for the last 2 years

Hey all. It's good to have Fantasy back again. It's really fun to be messing around building a team, even if it's way too far out from the season to finish it yet.

Thoughts on this side? It's including a fair few players that get mentioned a lot here but which I don't really have strong opinions on personally (either good or bad).

Smith,
NAS, Alvaro
Murray, Arrow, RFM
Thurston, Croker
Aitken, Milne
Rapana, Ponga, GI

Lichaa, Cook, Lodge, Garvey

Cartwright, Kennar, Kikau, Fonua

Can you see your teams overall ranking history anymore?

Wasnt going to make a team early but couldnt help myself.

Friend
Lodge Graham
Brown(c) Murray Arrow
Munster Croker
Mitchell Milne
Tedesco Ponga Hiku

Liccha Garvey Cartwright Faitala-Mariner
Preist Butcher McKendry Kennar

No Smith. RFM supposedly in front of Elliot at Dogs for 2nd row starting spot, Not sure on Preist(maybe Faualolo instead) but think there will be minuets available in the Dogs front row rotation if they are going to play how Pay is talking.

Shanbon wrote:Wasnt going to make a team early but couldnt help myself.

Friend
Lodge Graham
Brown(c) Murray Arrow
Munster Croker
Mitchell Milne
Tedesco Ponga Hiku

Liccha Garvey Cartwright Faitala-Mariner
Preist Butcher McKendry Kennar

No Smith. RFM supposedly in front of Elliot at Dogs for 2nd row starting spot, Not sure on Preist(maybe Faualolo instead) but think there will be minuets available in the Dogs front row rotation if they are going to play how Pay is talking.

Risky with no Smith mate but excellent team none the less. I think they rate Elliot in front of RFM at the Dogs but the fact that Elliot looks like being starting lock opens up the spot for RFM. For fantasy I think RFM is going to gun it.