2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 21

Loomer wrote:As a Kennar and Croker owner with plenty of suitable cover I'm loving the chaos that this is causing. Sorry, not sorry

Is this the KFP curse at work?

It can't be me, I don't own either of these players

mattnz wrote:is there an email address I can send to, so I can get clarity on the order that Non players are resolved. With 3 of them this week, I really need to know.

They will probably direct you to the rules page which is readily available and I know that you know from your DPP non player trade in

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

I got him thinking he might add a few points to last years average - Im just not a big fan of using an argument thats based on the premise that because in round 2 this year he scored 52 in 36 min you can reasonably extrapolate this out to a 50 minute performance at that same scoring level on a consistent basis. Especially when, as you say, you have a good couple years worth of data to sow otherwise.

I hope he;s right though

Taupau isn't a genuine base stat guy, he is an explosive scorer with decent tackle and RM totals so when they add together he explodes. In sometimes limited minutes he can get those massive scores because he can bust 4 tackles and offload 3 times in 5 minutes.

When he has a quiet game attacking wise he goes low because he doesn't have massive tackle counts

Lurker just reads fan forums and writes down the stuff he reads on there. Lurker took a discussion on wt forum about a player can't remember who now and basically few days latter had it in his lurker article

Archer wrote:
You'd have to question why we'd drop Austin if Sezer was the one likely to be going.
Edit: Also, its from lurker isn't it? I think that says more to the likelihood of it then i ever could. I often wonder if he's an early Machine Learning experiment gone wrong.

NRL late mail has Sezer with a mysterious little back (trade) injury that has Austin set to return already

Wheres the Hastings rumour come from? Id rather trade him in for long term then Doueihi but would need to do it by 4pm Friday

At least Croker is being dropped for an ideal replacement from his own team, instead of figuring out if the rumour is true and deciding whether or not you have to trade before he locks out.

WT2K wrote:Lurker just reads fan forums and writes down the stuff he reads on there. Lurker took a discussion on wt forum about a player can't remember who now and basically few days latter had it in his lurker article

Yeah same thing happened on the GH, trying to remember who it was now but someone started a joke rumour about us trying to recruit someone, literally talking about how funny it would be if the mole/lurker picked it up, sure enough days later...

GreenMachine wrote:

NRL late mail has Sezer with a mysterious little back (trade) injury that has Austin set to return already

Eh maybe, was sure they were talking about his back problems at the start of the week before team lists were even announced, he copped a few knocks so i don't think its all that mysterious.
Edit: I mean whats more likely, he actually does have a niggle after a few hits but Ricky would prefer to play him if he's at all right to go.
Or we've been in negotiations for dropping him for a while now but last week he got the starting spot ahead of Austin and this week Austin was dropped only to be put back in the team once we punt Sezer mid week?

Not saying its impossible, just improbable.

Any word on how long Kennar should be out for?

Josh Massoud just tweeted Croker is all but dropped for Koroisau.

FUCK.

mickspicks wrote:If Croker gets dropped for any reason other than an injury then that is honestly a kick in the guts to the bloke. I thought he wasn’t doing too badly in the first three rounds. Hell he is probably doing better than Jr Cronk

It is prerty weird hey. Seems very knee jerk. How many bad games or manly losses until hastings gets dropped?

MilfordTheMagician wrote:Josh Massoud just tweeted Croker is all but dropped for Koroisau.

FUCK.

Koro to halves???? Fuck, i only traded him in last week.

Double fuck, i dont have cover for Kennar

Shanbon wrote:

Koro to halves???? Fuck, i only traded him in last week.

Double fuck, i dont have cover for Kennar

Hastings is a half so not sure why they're not moving him there and leaving Api at hooker.

Big problems now for Croker and Doueihi owners next week. Far out.

Welshy wrote:
Taupau isn't a genuine base stat guy, he is an explosive scorer with decent tackle and RM totals so when they add together he explodes. In sometimes limited minutes he can get those massive scores because he can bust 4 tackles and offload 3 times in 5 minutes.

When he has a quiet game attacking wise he goes low because he doesn't have massive tackle counts

100%! Last year he had, form memory, a couple games around the 80 mark, and another few at low 60s but at the same time he had at least 5 in the 30s or below.

But that's my whole point here. You can't just look at one game in isolation with a guy who has quite high variation in his scores, you gotta look at all the relevant scores he's had over the last couple years.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

Hastings is a half so not sure why they're not moving him there and leaving Api at hooker.

Big problems now for Croker and Doueihi owners next week. Far out.

Hastings has great stats in the halves and terrible stats at hooker.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

100%! Last year he had, form memory, a couple games around the 80 mark, and another few at low 60s but at the same time he had at least 5 in the 30s or below.

But that's my whole point here. You can't just look at one game in isolation with a guy who has quite high variation in his scores, you gotta look at all the relevant scores he's had over the last couple years.

100% agree mate!

mattnz wrote:

Hastings has great stats in the halves and terrible stats at hooker.

Now I'm wondering if I should trade Croker to Hastings or JMK... ? Hastings needs to hold his spot for a number of weeks to be worth it, so that's the biggest worry.

Archer wrote:
Eh maybe, was sure they were talking about his back problems at the start of the week before team lists were even announced, he copped a few knocks so i don't think its all that mysterious.
Edit: I mean whats more likely, he actually does have a niggle after a few hits but Ricky would prefer to play him if he's at all right to go.
Or we've been in negotiations for dropping him for a while now but last week he got the starting spot ahead of Austin and this week Austin was dropped only to be put back in the team once we punt Sezer mid week?

Not saying its impossible, just improbable.

Yeah I don’t actually buy-in because Ricky will always just do whatever the hell he wants and it will often be wrong. Just wanted to throw some fuel on

SO, in this new line up would Hastings be an 80 minute hooker?