2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 13

Rapture_NRL wrote:

Personally, I'd save the Lichaa trade. He won't be leaking cash and seems stable. Seems a safe bet until aother decent option pops up. Save the trade

I'm not worried about Lichaa losing cash mate, more so the best way for me to get in a decent CTR/WFB option because I've got Isaako who could bomb and need to get rid of Katoa with no cover on my bench

SST basically same base stats as RFM with zero attacking stats. SST doesn't have to do much to massively improve surely and RFM scored a try. Only the BE and fixing Katoa makes tempting

Welshy wrote:team feels much more balanced with the trades

Lichaa - Aubbs
Katoa - Kennar for DPP over Thompson

Smith
Lodge, Fifita
Whitehead, RFM, Griffin
Croft, Cartwright
Aubbs, Issako
Inglis, Tedesco, Ponga

Cook
Arrow
Rochow
Kikau

Havilii
Kennar
Nicholls
Croker

Aubbs! Haha not tempted by Jayne with equally good byes, some DPP and spending time on the park at fullback while Gutherson is out? Gives you cash itb for your round 2 move/s

Kennar play is safe as houses in redfern mate. Relatively safe and up and coming these days, but patchy history, so you just never know

Seen some big comments about Thompson on 360, news articles and in the press conference. When you have Cleary saying that he epitomises what the club is about then you have to think he rates him.
A lot of fan fare prior to the season too, but looked juicier as a fullback replacement.
Didn’t Edwards play a couple games on the wing last year then got the Fullback gig? Would cry if same thing happened here and he was 400+

Rockspider wrote:hi guys..new to the forum, pretty new to fantasy

Just quickly here is my team

COOK
JBROM GRAHAM
BROWN JTURBO NAS
CROFT CARTY
COTRIC KENNAR
RAPANA DUFTY ISAAKO
RFM KIKAU HAVILI SST
ROCHOW KATOA LLEILUA NICHOLLS

124K in bank

Torn between upgrading SST+Katoa to Griffin+IPapalii or getting Ponga in asap before he is to expensive..If I wait another week and he has another big game and scores 60+ is his pricetag going to offset the increase in buying 2 cashcows and be a waste of a trades? still learning how this works but it hurt like razors cuts to the scrotum in sea of lemon juice watching him against Manly after swapping him at the last minute

Hey mate, is the name based on the sex move?
Can see the difficulty in the decision, got a nasty feeling Ponga tears us a new one after the way we defended against the tits. Though cash cows vs guns is always tricky early. If you did go Ponga, what would the trades be, who would you be dumping to do it?

GreenMachine wrote:

Aubbs! Haha not tempted by Jayne with equally good byes, some DPP and spending time on the park at fullback while Gutherson is out? Gives you cash itb for your round 2 move/s

Kennar play is safe as houses in redfern mate. Relatively safe and up and coming these days, but patchy history, so you just never know

Not interested in Hayne pal, would rather Aubbs and pray he sticks in the 2RF or could take a punt on Croker but he still has cash to lose

kennar purely in for the cover I stupidly bypassed at seasons start and a fill in for Isaako if needed

mickspicks wrote:@GreenMachine yep, I was thinking that. Liu > RFM

Next question. KNik. What the eff do I do with that plodder. Can see the cows cleaning up the broncos but then it’s Tigers (probs still tough) and Titans (with a Wallace). Not sure what I should do.

Unfortunately mate most of the alternatives offer same risks.

If I had him I think I would move to Cronk

Fantasy players may look at me with raised eyebrows but;

- he scored solid when roosters didn’t fire at all
- byes
- Pearce with his role was a big fantasy scorer
- they have weak 5/8 so he is a very dominant half
- he just generally passed the eye test and won’t take long to rack up TAs and LBAs
- Tedesco doesn’t have to play his old club/crowd every week

Rockspider wrote:hi guys..new to the forum, pretty new to fantasy

Just quickly here is my team

COOK
JBROM GRAHAM
BROWN JTURBO NAS
CROFT CARTY
COTRIC KENNAR
RAPANA DUFTY ISAAKO
RFM KIKAU HAVILI SST
ROCHOW KATOA LLEILUA NICHOLLS

124K in bank

Torn between upgrading SST+Katoa to Griffin+IPapalii or getting Ponga in asap before he is to expensive..If I wait another week and he has another big game and scores 60+ is his pricetag going to offset the increase in buying 2 cashcows and be a waste of a trades? still learning how this works but it hurt like razors cuts to the scrotum in sea of lemon juice watching him against Manly after swapping him at the last minute

Careful mate, couple of guys on here need newbies to post their P's and Q's lol all good to me though

Katoa isn't an urgent trade as he won't drop cash (I did trade him though because I need a back up WFB)
SST didn't really understand the hype in the first place but should stay the same
Griffin, great potential and was busy in everything. Bit of a risk with Connor and Levi around but looks set to make some coin. Not sure if he's a must if you don't have him
IPapalii was playing in a confident Warriors side with Rabbitohs making plenty of errors... not sure he maintains his scores versus a sharper team when the Warriors are under constant pressure
Ponga.... absolute beast... busy on attack and defence. But that was only one game. I'm putting money on him being a consistent high scorer especially with the 3 pts per TB

In summary, I'd aim for Griffin and Ponga if I could... If not, bringing in Griffin and Thompson seems like a reasonable money making opportunity

Another bug found... on my WAGs team traded TTrbo & Katoa for Ponga & Rochow... and my Round 1 score and Total score went up from 802 to 860.

Playing around further, if you move eg. LCroker into your team for SJ, your score goes down by 41.

This isn't affecting the rankings page, which still has the actual 802 score, but THE SCORE ON THE TEAM PAGE IS THE SCORE OF YOUR CURRENT 17, NOT YOUR ACTUAL SCORE.

This is another pretty shoddy bug.

@GreenMachine I’ve already got Cronk! Also Carty and Croker. Maybe I shift Carty to the halves (yikes) and jump on a cashie for a future upgrade.

Considering two trades different trades:

SST and Katoa

2

Papali'i and Kennar/Thompson + around 200k

Or

SST and Katoa

2

Ferguson/Taufua and Tanginoa +little cash

Thoughts on which is better?

Boozecluez wrote:Seen some big comments about Thompson on 360, news articles and in the press conference. When you have Cleary saying that he epitomises what the club is about then you have to think he rates him.
A lot of fan fare prior to the season too, but looked juicier as a fullback replacement.
Didn’t Edwards play a couple games on the wing last year then got the Fullback gig? Would cry if same thing happened here and he was 400+

Wasn't Lolohea on the outer before the start of the season?
rumours of Thompson starting at fullback...
Lolohea got lucky that Nofo got cut?

MilfordTheMagician wrote:Considering two trades different trades:

SST and Katoa

2

Papali'i and Kennar/Thompson + around 200k

Or

SST and Katoa

2

Ferguson/Taufua and Tanginoa +little cash

Thoughts on which is better?

Neither but probably first if you had to

I still have fantasy coach for round 2 yet I haven’t paid anything??

Rapture_NRL wrote:

Welshy wrote:team feels much more balanced with the trades

Lichaa - Aubbs
Katoa - Kennar for DPP over Thompson

Smith
Lodge, Fifita
Whitehead, RFM, Griffin
Croft, Cartwright
Aubbs, Issako
Inglis, Tedesco, Ponga

Cook
Arrow
Rochow
Kikau

Havilii
Kennar
Nicholls
Croker

Personally, I'd save the Lichaa trade. He won't be leaking cash and seems stable. Seems a safe bet until aother decent option pops up. Save the trade

Agree. 6 tries and a penalty goal killed Lichaa's tackle stats in the first half. I'm definitely holding.

mickspicks wrote:@GreenMachine I’ve already got Cronk! Also Carty and Croker. Maybe I shift Carty to the halves (yikes) and jump on a cashie for a future upgrade.

Willing to take a punt on Moses? haha He actually looked really good. Points affected by HIA (15min) and yellow card... I'm considering it. It was against a leaky Panthers defence though

Rapture_NRL wrote:

Neither but probably first if you had to

Neither because you're expecting SST to come good? I wasn't encouraged by his performance on Friday and feel like I want to cut my losses ASAP.

rhinoceroo wrote:Another bug found... on my WAGs team traded TTrbo & Katoa for Ponga & Rochow... and my Round 1 score and Total score went up from 802 to 860.

Playing around further, if you move eg. LCroker into your team for SJ, your score goes down by 41.

This isn't affecting the rankings page, which still has the actual 802 score, but THE SCORE ON THE TEAM PAGE IS THE SCORE OF YOUR CURRENT 17, NOT YOUR ACTUAL SCORE.

This is another pretty shoddy bug.

Fucking hell!

Welshy wrote:

I'm not worried about Lichaa losing cash mate, more so the best way for me to get in a decent CTR/WFB option because I've got Isaako who could bomb and need to get rid of Katoa with no cover on my bench

Right, I get ya now. I just remember reading somewhere on here that a trade is only worth it if you're gaining (or saving) $150k

Can someone who has actually paid for the Fantasy Coach let me know the cost for season please?. As someone already pointed out, they don't say how much it is before you put your card details in! I've scoured the terms and conditions and it's not even in there, pretty bloody shonky the whole setup this year tbh.