2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 3

Dogs rumours seem to be Klemmer to prop, Elliot to lock, RFM to back row.

Not sure what happens to Tolman (bench?)

Elliot and RFM both worth investigating if this does eventuate.

Today's team,be brutally honest

59k remaining

Smith
Alvaro Lodge
McGuire Harris Murray
Cartwright Croker
Milne Hiku
Tedesco Ponga Rapana

Lichaa
Cook
Garvey
Watson
Butcher
Kikau
Kennar
Doueihi

Milchcow wrote:
Dogs rumours seem to be Klemmer to prop, Elliot to lock, RFM to back row.

Not sure what happens to Tolman (bench?)

Elliot and RFM both worth investigating if this does eventuate.

Thanks for the info. I thought there was talk of Klemmer back to frontrow but hadnt seen anything lately. Ill have both Elliot and RFM in my team if thats the case. Think i can upgrade Fualolo to Elliot.

danseels1985 wrote:Today's team,be brutally honest

59k remaining

Smith
Alvaro Lodge
McGuire Harris Murray
Cartwright Croker
Milne Hiku
Tedesco Ponga Rapana

Lichaa
Cook
Garvey
Watson
Butcher
Kikau
Kennar
Doueihi

Looks good - apart from Cartwright in the halves.

danseels1985 wrote:Today's team,be brutally honest

59k remaining

Smith
Alvaro Lodge
McGuire Harris Murray
Cartwright Croker
Milne Hiku
Tedesco Ponga Rapana

Lichaa
Cook
Garvey
Watson
Butcher
Kikau
Kennar
Doueihi

Will you be playing Cartwright even if he starts on the bench? Would make your halves pretty weak.

Also no 2RF cover to speak of.
Butcher (or equivalent priced replacement) bit dodgy if you need to play him 1 round due to short term injury/suspension.


I think having both Tedesco and Rapana is killing the rest of your team too much. I would downgrade one upgrade halves/2rf

danseels1985 wrote:Today's team,be brutally honest

59k remaining

Smith
Alvaro Lodge
McGuire Harris Murray
Cartwright Croker
Milne Hiku
Tedesco Ponga Rapana

Lichaa
Cook
Garvey
Watson
Butcher
Kikau
Kennar
Doueihi

Unrelated to the quality of the players being picked, there is a note here for bench selection.

Cartwright and Watson need to be swapped around.

Watson will never be used to sub in as hooker with 3 other hookers ranked ahead of him.
But Cartwright would be a much handier 2RF replacement than Butcher should one of your starters not play.

Potentially you could also start Cartwright and have McGuire on the bench. Depending on whether any of your halves or FRF are in doubt, and how much you'd trust the respective strength of Kikau and Doueihi

top of the afternoon lads.. new to this.. just stumbled along this fantasy site, seems pretty good early impressions.. looking forward to the new season.. this new looking system on NRL Fantasy will really mix things up nicely by the looks.. Lady Luck will be even more important..

bluetige wrote:Has anyone finished in the top 500 for the last 2 years

>>>> This Guy <<<<<

SoylentGreen wrote: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

I like it pending lists.

OrganisedChaos wrote:top of the afternoon lads.. new to this.. just stumbled along this fantasy site, seems pretty good early impressions.. looking forward to the new season.. this new looking system on NRL Fantasy will really mix things up nicely by the looks.. Lady Luck will be even more important..

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

You would do that every year normally. You could get set and forget guys like Lyon in the past. But CTRs was always the place to save as a top of the line CTR will net you 40 points consistently, but you could go for someone cheap who could gain cash and average 10 points less. Then splurge the extra cash elsewhere.

Personally that hasn't changed.

bluetige wrote:Has anyone finished in the top 500 for the last 2 years

Came 24th two years ago but blew out to 3000th odd last year.

thank you Mulvy.. I appreciate it mate..

I am tempted by Reagan Campbell-Gillard this year.

He is my early tip to be this years James/Vaughan and have a break out year, going from midranger to gun status.

Milchcow wrote:
I am tempted by Reagan Campbell-Gillard this year.

He is my early tip to be this years James/Vaughan and have a break out year, going from midranger to gun status.

He has a missed tackle rate that rivals Mitchell Moses.

White Lightning wrote:

He has a missed tackle rate that rivals Mitchell Moses.

So did Ryan James

Nobody interested in Macca this year, coming back from ACL a concern? Will he get 80mins?
Sometimes been known to outscore Smith early on in the season

mulvy wrote:


>>>> This Guy <<<<<

check your inbox sir

Can someone please give me some stats on Cameron Murray? Say he gets 60 minutes average what will he score? 45?

Warriors wrote:Can someone please give me some stats on Cameron Murray? Say he gets 60 minutes average what will he score? 45?

Probably. Not a lot to go on but last five games where he averaged 69.6 minutes he averaged 53.2 although there was one try in there. I've been working on a prediction of 50, but working those figures through for sixty minutes gives 53.2/69.6 x 60 = 45.9.

Or he gets benched and 9% of teams, me included are cursing.