2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 18

Finch wrote:Happy Birthday SI

You are my favourite mod

Shhh

Fuck you Finch

TheWeapon wrote:Any thoughts on Matterson? I've always rated him as a player, and am considering him as a Croft swap but I'm not sure about his role....I'm guessing the 80 mins last week were likely because of Aubo's head breaking in half rather than a regular role?

on my watchlist mate

Milchcow wrote:

With 8 subs and an AE of lowest scorer, looping was harder, but was easy enough during bye rounds.
You could also set up team to try and loop with - would have killed the long term prospects of your team but was very viable if you were going for a weekly prize. Back when they still had them weeklies were often won by sniper teams set up just to win that round.



Most fantasy players are casual players. How much do you want to punish them if they don't update their team one week and play people who were injured the week before.  There are better ways of reducing loophole possibilities.
They would have known that ranked subs + rolling lockout = loophole. They want clicks on their website for people checking their team every hour on the weekend.

BUT, If as you guys say, the majority of players are casual, then you are actually penalising these people more (relative to the serious players) over the course of a season by having a system which allows everyone to loophole weekly than if you docked them an AE for one round because they forgot to swap out Katoa.

My point really is, surely they could have come up with a better system that doesn't permit loopholing to this extent and, if you  want, can still have a rolling lockout. It seems ridiculous that loopholing is now a weekly thing.

I have a team this year but I've already lost interest cause I really can't be bothered figuring out how I can loop hole each week and then having to be around every game to make the changes I might need to.

Next people will be complaining that looking at historical data is unfair on the casual players

Welshy wrote:
Fuck you Finch

Disgusting that you lowered yourself to mod level Welshy. I thought better of you

As milchcow said its all about clicks and rolling lockout means more of them

Look at it this way -

If you are a casual player, surely you wont be to p*** off to find that you haven't checked you're team in a couple weeks and now you have two injuries and someone who didn't even make the final 17 in Round 1. So it is more of a fun thing for them and not really about winning the money at the end, to do every now and then, maybe keep them interested in a game of footy.

For the serious player who wants to win the money, or win their local work comp, they will probably read all the pre-season news, watch the stats, read the rumours of injuries and players coming in, find every opportunity to sneak some extra points in. The serious players will wait for the teams to be announced an hour before kick off, watch every game to see how they're players are going.

So overall, if you are a casual player, why worry about the little things if you aren't going to take it seriously?

Loomer wrote:Next people will be complaining that looking at historical data is unfair on the casual players

Do you enjoy having your social and home life dictated to by fantasy footy for 7 months of the year?

In regards to looping, maybe you shouldn’t get an emergency player if your red dot wasn’t named in the initial 21?

Krump wrote:
Do you enjoy having your social and home life dictated to by fantasy footy for 7 months of the year?

12 months EPL/NRL cycle

StormTrooper96 wrote:Look at it this way -

If you are a casual player, surely you wont be to p*** off to find that you haven't checked you're team in a couple weeks and now you have two injuries and someone who didn't even make the final 17 in Round 1. So it is more of a fun thing for them and not really about winning the money at the end, to do every now and then, maybe keep them interested in a game of footy.

For the serious player who wants to win the money, or win their local work comp, they will probably read all the pre-season news, watch the stats, read the rumours of injuries and players coming in, find every opportunity to sneak some extra points in. The serious players will wait for the teams to be announced an hour before kick off, watch every game to see how they're players are going.

So overall, if you are a casual player, why worry about the little things if you aren't going to take it seriously?

I kinda agree with the broader point you're making (heterogeneity of effort is important), but would note that you're making a circular argument: casual players are those that don't care, so therefore casual players don't care.

I reckon there may be a bit more nuance that allows casual players being relieved their casualness has been supported by an AE, and being annoyed that two identical teams may score differently following exploitation of a hole in the rules.

I would argue that serious players already receive the benefit of the extra time they put in - they don't need to be allowed to exploit badly-implemented rules too.

Krump wrote:
Do you enjoy having your social and home life dictated to by fantasy footy for 7 months of the year?

I'm more upset about the 5 months not dictated by fantasy football. NFL is okay but it just doesn't distract me from real life enough like NRL.

Krump wrote:
Disgusting that you lowered yourself to mod level Welshy. I thought better of you

They made me, tried forcing off the forum if I didn’t abide by their ruling!

Finch wrote:Happy Birthday SI

You are my favourite mod

Shhh

Ahh winged me right in the feelings that did

wolfking wrote:

I'm more upset about the 5 months not dictated by fantasy football NFL is okay but it just doesn't distract me from real life enough like NRL.

How many more games will Douehi get before ARen is back? Trying to decide between the cash grab of him vs. Matterson's consistency

Welshy wrote:
They made me, tried forcing off the forum if I didn’t abide by their ruling!

Pricks, getting screwed by the man.

Hiku would have been the first on the chopping block this week except he busted out 50points. He bought himself another week. As soon as his B/e is double figures ill look to punt him.

Krump wrote:
Do you enjoy having your social and home life dictated to by fantasy footy for 7 months of the year?

Fantasy footy IS life.

TheWeapon wrote:How many more games will Douehi get before ARen is back? Trying to decide between the cash grab of him vs. Matterson's consistency

Looking at round 5.

But just goggling some articles and this one says this. Don't know if there is any merit behind it though;

With regular Rabittohs half Adam Reynolds out with a knee injury for at least another three weeks, Seibold declared Doueihi would keep the No.7 jersey until the former NSW halfback's return.


https://wwos.nine.com.au/2018/03/21/09/57/global-doueihi-aiming-for-souths-impact