Trials and Tribulations of an NRL Fantasy coach 2018 - End result 164th

Whats your plans this week? Hold Murray now and maybe cash in Martin and upgrade Koro to SJ? Or go the other way cash in Murray and hope Martin comes back in (considering Toomaga was a waste of space today, should be a good chance)

Shanbon wrote:Whats your plans this week? Hold Murray now and maybe cash in Martin and upgrade Koro to SJ? Or go the other way cash in Murray and hope Martin comes back in (considering Toomaga was a waste of space today, should be a good chance)

Hey Shanbon, you may have read my mind there haha.
Yeah the Koroisau injury hurts and while I have been steadily climbing the ranks my trades remaining have disappeared. Was always the gamble but it was fun at least.
Had a quick play around now to see what my options are

i need a replacement for Koro, another player in my 17 and a cash out to help fund it.

So Murray,Koro and probably Martin will be it (Gosi doesn’t give me enough cash)
Will have to gamble on Cody Walker returning to form but at least he can cover half in an emergency.

So 3 trades gets me Johnson, McInnes and a sub 300k player (L Brown)

Alternatively I could go Johnson plus a cheap mid ranger in 2 trades (E Taylor)
Or get a Hunt/Milford player and McCullough in 2 trades as well
NBrown might be an alternative to Mcinnnes as well but will need to do some figures on how it stacks

Think the guns option with 3 trades as their points on the bye are more than valuable
What do you reckon?

Good rank there mate. I keep hovering around 2500 without making ground. A very pedestrian year for me

Clack Bocks wrote:Good  rank there mate.  I keep hovering around 2500 without making ground. A very pedestrian year for me

Cheers mate, just having some fun this year and not taking it too seriously
Had a bit of bad luck so have just traded hard... Hopefully I don't get burnt at the end of the season haha.
Hang in there mate

Round 15 Trades 331k remaining

Shaun Johnson priced at 850k, predicted 55-60 points
A gun and top 5 player who is exciting to watch. Should play the big round 17 bye and while had a bit of a bad run with injuries he came back firing last week so one to definitely have a gamble on.



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Kurt Mann priced at 254k, predicted 0-40 points
Purely a cash out with dpp and should hopefully play round 17 for some points in the halves

Your total score bugs me just that teeny bit.......

Neillo wrote:Your total score bugs me just that teeny bit.......

Do you mean where it cuts off part of the team on your mobile (I have a 40” monitor which I think causes this when i screen shot it)

Or just the overall score haha

More how I was excited to start reading 1 2 3 .....but then let down by the last two numbers which were so promising at a glance ;-)

Neillo wrote:More how I was excited to start reading 1 2 3 .....but then let down by the last two numbers which were so promising at a glance ;-)

Haha see what you mean, though I am glad that I got those 9 extra points ....

Are you going to just red dot Fonua and play Tuala for the season? Man i got so many injuries this weekend

Shanbon wrote:Are you going to just red dot Fonua and play Tuala for the season? Man i got so many injuries this weekend

Unsure at this stage. Have brainstormed a couple ideas.

Fonua plus bank is 766k
Martin plus bank is 855k
Gosi plus bank is 677k

If Martin doesn’t play I still need an 18th man
Walker to stay at WFB and just look at McInnes + cheapie

Probably have to make 2 trades regardless

Round 16 Trades 97k remaining

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck priced at 574k, predicted 45-50 points
Bought at the start of the round to give me another X factor WFB
Looks to be over his injury and when he plays with Johnson he scores well so hoping for a big finish for him. Also plays the rd 17 bye so an extra man




disclaimer: photo has new price for this week

oh man these last few weeks have been killer on the injury front. Harris is a must trade at 6 weeks but at least you have cover for the Pong and can hold him

Shanbon wrote:oh man these last few weeks have been killer on the injury front. Harris is a must trade at 6 weeks but at least you have cover for the Pong and can hold him

Yeah mate it has been brutal haha
Thinking of using my last 3 trades and just calling it a day to be fair

With Ponga out for at least a few weeks I am undecided on holding him purely for the fact you may only get 4 or so games to finish the year out of him
Yes he may outscore someone like CWalker back there for those games but I am then already 2 down and if it means I could get caught out next week as well.
Selling him gets me someone that plays this week and their points are invaluable given it is the only round left really to make any ground.

Could do something like A) Mcinnes,Farah,Aitken and move Mitchell/Martin back to reserves for cover. C Walker is basically my Half cover with all other positions well covered
Other options for the same price is B) Mcinnes/James/Lachlan Lewis with Lewis my halves cover as Walker would almost definitely have to stay at WFB
For round 17 option b) probably gets me an extra 50-60 points but I am worried Farah kills it to finish the season


The conservative approach is simply to save 2 trades and bring in Mcinnes for Harris but then I am struggling to cover players being rested or short term injuries.

So may as well just use them all because if I get more season ending injuries it won't matter if I have a couple trades left as my own season will have ended haha.

Moght be best to trade Harris to McInnes this week, make a 2nd trade if you want but hold Ponga for 1 week see if an early return is possible and if not get Turbo. I would think Turbo over the rest of the season makes up the points anyone you bring in this week scores.

Round 17 Trades, 98k remaining Final trades with 0 remaining

Ryan James



Cameron Mcinnes



Lachlan Lewis