2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 6

Finch wrote:

My player averages 50+

Friend or Pearce?

wolfking wrote:I'm now leaning towards Whitehead over Harris.

I reckon that's a dead easy call. Whitehead is a dependable minute player in a settled team, with room to improve from a better position.

Harris is a former gun who's taken the money to go to the League's worst team in a pack of disarray, where his ability to TB off quality halves disappears.

One has upside risk, the other only down. I'm taking Whitehead all day.

Whitehead is in my team and Harris is not so that should tell you everything you need to know

Finch wrote:

My player averages 50+

Boyd Cordner?

2016 was an outlier for him, been around 47avg in 3 of the past 4 years

wolfking wrote:

Both those sentences did not help my decision to be honest. haha

It's obvious you can pick the guy that will get 80 mins but you should expect reduced PPM because he's playing injured or you can pick the guy who may score higher PPM but wont play 80 minutes.

At the moment I have C Walker and Cartwright in Halves. Should I try and upgrade Walker by downgrading one of my backrowers e.g Mannering, Whitehead or Murray or back my halves in ?

White Lightning wrote:

I don't think Kennar is a trap. He'll be playing outside Gagai who is one of the few centres who actually try & set up their winger. Kennar is also a big body & should get some tb's through kick returns & doing the hard yards running it out from dummy half. There's also the big plus that Souths have the Warriors in round 1 & I expect him to score a couple of tries.

In 9 games for Melbourne, Kennar averaged 21.8 points.

He scored over 30 just once in 9 games, and averaged slightly over 1 TB a game.

Do you think he'll do much better at Souths? He's cheap and DPP so might be OK on an NPR bench, no way I would trust him starting though

All wrong so far. He isn't actually that much of a POD, higher than 5% ownership, just havent really seen him listed in any teams here.

If Inglis is named at ctr for first game does he get dpp straight away?

Finch wrote:All wrong so far. He isn't actually that much of a POD, higher than 5% ownership, just havent really seen him listed in any teams here.

There is only Sam Burgess left

Honey Badger wrote:If Inglis is named at ctr for first game does he get dpp straight away?

So is Souths backline full strength:

Reynolds
Walker
Kennar
Gagai
GI
Hunt
Johnson

So if GI makes round 1 Hymel Hunt won't be worth it on the wing?

Finch wrote:All wrong so far. He isn't actually that much of a POD, higher than 5% ownership, just havent really seen him listed in any teams here.

James Graham?

Honey Badger wrote:If Inglis is named at ctr for first game does he get dpp straight away?

from the rules

A: All player positions have been chosen based on the positions players have played in most of the time in previous years. These positions are determined at the beginning of the year. These positional allocations will be reviewed throughout the year, meaning some players may be upgraded to dual-position players midway through the season. These updates are due to occur after R6, R12 and R18.

Pick 2:

Merrin
Harris
Whitehead
Murray

if all starting at 13 except Harris at second row.

Finch's POD = Gallen?

Milchcow wrote:

from the rules

A: All player positions have been chosen based on the positions players have played in most of the time in previous years. These positions are determined at the beginning of the year. These positional allocations will be reviewed throughout the year, meaning some players may be upgraded to dual-position players midway through the season. These updates are due to occur after R6, R12 and R18.

Ta, i wasnt sure if they were going to do the random dpp allocations for first round like they did last yer

Milchcow wrote:

In 9 games for Melbourne, Kennar averaged 21.8 points.

He scored over 30 just once in 9 games, and averaged slightly over 1 TB a game.

Do you think he'll do much better at Souths? He's cheap and DPP so might be OK on an NPR bench, no way I would trust him starting though

Rabbitohs play Warriors, Panthers, Sea Eagles, Bulldogs to start. Don't seem the best defensive sides in the competition so could jag the odd try here and there if Gagai sets him up. If he averages 30 points over this period how much money would he make?

Players averaging 50+ in 2017:
Smith, Macca, McInnes, Friend, Vaughan, Fifita, Brown, Taupau, Taumalolo, Crichton, Mannering, JDB, Gallen, J-Trbo, Surgess, Papalii, SJ, Pearce, Cleary, Croft, Tedesco, Rapana.

I guess JDB.

Warriors wrote:Pick 2:

Merrin
Harris
Whitehead
Murray

if all starting at 13 except Harris at second row.

All good options. Only thing putting me off harris is word of his nagging foot injury.

Merrin - full preseason, former gun
Whitehead - move to lock more defence, minutes unknown
Murray - pontential gun based off a couple of solid performances

Warriors wrote:

Rabbitohs play Warriors, Panthers, Sea Eagles, Bulldogs to start. Don't seem the best defensive sides in the competition so could jag the odd try here and there if Gagai sets him up. If he averages 30 points over this period how much money would he make?

Kennar's b/e is 16 for round 1. They play the Warriors in round 1 so I think he's going to score 35+. I don't know how that equates to a dollar increase but I do know his b/e will be much lower in round 2.