2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

Chewie wrote:

Whitehead BE of 41... potential of 50 odd...

whitehead is undervalued even if he goes back to his edge position, if he is lock he is even better value. if named edge I'll dump him for Murray or Merrin

Chewie wrote:

Out of those I would downgrade J Graham...
change of clubs... Vaughan and the rest of the Dragons pack might affect some of his base stats

It's Grahams minutes I'm worried about, if he gets 55/60 I'll jump straight onto him
Reckon he will kill it at the Dragons

Welshy wrote:

Random wrote:So my team is set, with the only flaw carrying two Rookies at WFB.

My back three looks like the following.

Ponga, Katoa, Hiku (Kennar)

Now my question is should I downgrade any of the following to bring in a gun WFB.

Options to downgrade J. Graham, J. Bromwich, C. McQueen, N. Brown, C. Murray. (I have enough cover, to make up for swapping them out.)

WFB is a tough place to get guns in if you start too low in value, There just isn't the same amount of scoring talent as other positions!
FR, 2RF is full of mid rangers who can elevate and much easier to get onto rising cow and off failing ones

At least that is the stance I'm taking this year with less room for error with less positions

I refuse to take Tedesco out of my starting team this year

I love Teddy and could turn Brown to Teddy. It just makes me nervous thinking about a guy in a volatile scoring bracket changing teams, and potentially relying on him less.

There are two camps in regards to Teddy. One thinking he improves or does just as well with more tries, and one thinking he declined due to being relied on less. I am in the latter part of that. But I think no matter what decision I choose I will be burnt.

Random wrote:

I love Teddy and could turn Brown to Teddy. It just makes me nervous thinking about a guy in a volatile scoring bracket changing teams, and potentially relying on him less.

There are two camps in regards to Teddy. One thinking he improves or does just as well with more tries, and one thinking he declined due to being relied on less. I am in the latter part of that. But I think no matter what decision I choose I will be burnt.

*Cough* Three camps *Cough*

Teddy scored 2 tries already... he's well on the way to at least tripling last season effort

Also Teddy often has a 20+ point fantasy run in the last 10 minutes of the game when the oppostion gets tired. He doesn't need many opportunities to score well

Archer wrote:

Random wrote:

I love Teddy and could turn Brown to Teddy. It just makes me nervous thinking about a guy in a volatile scoring bracket changing teams, and potentially relying on him less.

There are two camps in regards to Teddy. One thinking he improves or does just as well with more tries, and one thinking he declined due to being relied on less. I am in the latter part of that. But I think no matter what decision I choose I will be burnt.

*Cough* Three camps *Cough*

Enlighten me.

SI wrote:


I vagued in and out during the second half but thought at one stage they called him as having an injury issue.  Deadset though he was VERY impressive.

Oh yeah should have added i wasn't zoned in as it was a trial. My opinion on nrl trials has always been very negative, but it seems fantasy has a grip on everything nowadays haha.

Chewie wrote:Teddy scored 2 tries already... he's well on the way to at least tripling last season effort

Also Teddy often has a 20+ point fantasy run in the last 10 minutes of the game when the oppostion gets tired. He doesn't need many opportunities to score well

So has Kennar.....

Random wrote:

Enlighten me.

Camp 3. Even if he scores the same he's not worth it as you can get more value (read: more points added to your season total) by choosing a guy almost 40k cheaper, who scores more points over the course of a season.

I scraped up the funds to pick up Teddy by selling Hiku and Graham. You guys talked me into Teddy.

My squad now..

C. Smith
J. Bromwich, M. Lodge
C. McQueen, RFM, N. Brown
C. Watson, B. Croft
M. Aubusson, B. Takairangi
J. Tedesco, K. Ponga, S. Katoa

M. Lichaa, B. Cartwright, L. Latu, C. Murray

L. Croker, C. Garvey, C. Thompson, R. Kennar

Random wrote:I scraped up the funds to pick up Teddy by selling Hiku and Graham. You guys talked me into Teddy.

My squad now..

C. Smith
J. Bromwich, M. Lodge
C. McQueen, RFM, N. Brown
C. Watson, B. Croft
M. Aubusson, B. Takairangi
J. Tedesco, K. Ponga, S. Katoa

M. Lichaa, B. Cartwright, L. Latu, C. Murray

L. Croker, C. Garvey, C. Thompson, R. Kennar

I really like that side minus Mcqueen, I'd rather Drop Watson to Croker and upgrade MCqueen

Welshy wrote:

So has Kennar.....

Touche!

Random wrote:I scraped up the funds to pick up Teddy by selling Hiku and Graham. You guys talked me into Teddy.

Croft:
How many kick metres do people see Croft avg per game? Same as Cronk last year - 272 avg per game? Cronk is priced at only 30k more than Croft. Even if he gets that many kick metres where is the upside to Croft?
Do people think he is a more dynamic ball runner thank Cronk was at storm and will rack up more TBs or something?
I've had him in my team for weeks, but now questioning if there is much of an increase/value in him, or is he priced about right if you compare him to last year's Storm no.7 in Cronk?

Townsend:
Are we basing his securing the goal kicking on the fact he did most of it in trials? Or is there something more official like Coach saying so etc?

Speedball Deluxe wrote:Croft:
How many kick metres do people see Croft avg per game? Same as Cronk last year - 272 avg per game? Cronk is priced at only 30k more than Croft. Even if he gets that many kick metres where is the upside to Croft?
Do people think he is a more dynamic ball runner thank Cronk was at storm and will rack up more TBs or something?
I've had him in my team for weeks, but now questioning if there is much of an increase/value in him, or is he priced about right if you compare him to last year's Storm no.7 in Cronk?

Townsend:
Are we basing his securing the goal kicking on the fact he did most of it in trials? Or is there something more official like Coach saying so etc?

Think Milch has posted a few times in regards to Croft

in his limited games, he has never scored below his current BE

Welshy wrote:

Think Milch has posted a few times in regards to Croft

in his limited games, he has never scored below his current BE

Fair enough, but that's a pretty small sample size of only 4 games right? And 3 of those were without CS9 on the field to take Kick metres off him.

Speedball Deluxe wrote:

Fair enough, but that's a pretty small sample size of only 4 games right? And 3 of those were without CS9 on the field to take Kick metres off him.

That's true, early season I think CS9 helps in regards to field management so might take some extra general field kicking, but Croft will get his alongside Munster no doubt

More of a ball runner than Cronk so extra potential for TBs, LBs I reckon

Welshy wrote:

That's true, early season I think CS9 helps in regards to field management so might take some extra general field kicking, but Croft will get his alongside Munster no doubt

More of a ball runner than Cronk so extra potential for TBs, LBs I reckon

Food for thought, thanks for the input Welshy.

Speedball Deluxe wrote:

Fair enough, but that's a pretty small sample size of only 4 games right? And 3 of those were without CS9 on the field to take Kick metres off him.

5 game sample size for Croft.

If you count the WCC he has 6 scores above his BE.
No reliable stats for the Broncos trial last week, but I suspect he may have scored poorly in it given the conditions and the way the game went.

Milchcow wrote:

Speedball Deluxe wrote:

Fair enough, but that's a pretty small sample size of only 4 games right? And 3 of those were without CS9 on the field to take Kick metres off him.

5 game sample size for Croft.

If you count the WCC he has 6 scores above his BE.
No reliable stats for the Broncos trial last week, but I suspect he may have scored poorly in it given the conditions and the way the game went.

Yeah, he had an off game, a couple of errors as well.