NRL Fantasy 2018 Thread Part 25

luckynumber8 wrote:Is Lodge to JFH a waste of a trade? I am looking at the cash generation as Lodge seems to be slowing down.

I too am holding Smith and am looking at Carty to Maloney and the Lodge to JFH trade.

Other option is Carty to a 212k player (No more cash generating) and Lodge to a Mattersen or similar priced half.

Team after those tentative trades will be:

Macca
Arrow, Kikau,
Murray, Jurbo, RFM
Maloney, Croker (LOL)
Hiku, Isaako (DOUBLE LOL)
Tedesco, Thompson, Ponga

Reserves
Smith, Cook, Griffin, Rochow

EMG
JFH,TPJ,Kennar, Douehi

I know I have two potential guns in my EMG but it's all about the cash at the moment..

Verbal Kint wrote:
Thinking:
- Keeping Smith
- Avoiding Maloney
- Nicholls in the 17 as he'll pick up some mins over the next couple of games (junk options left anyway)
- Doueihi gets one more week to see how he goes from the bench
- No centre cover is a worry. Will look at that next week

Cap'n Ranta wrote:

Swap Croker and Doueihi as I'm uncertain as to the minutes for the bench utility and if SJ is a surprise late withdrawl again you can get Croker as an AE instead of a <15min Doueihi.

As for your thoughts:

- Agree keep Smith. Unless you want to go hard for overall in which case going to Macca/Friend has its appeal.
- You have super strong halves so Maloney to you is purely a Cash Cow. Not as exciting a prospect as for those replacing Carty, Doueihi, Croker, JMK etc.
- Hoping he starts myself as I still have him but yeah. Not exciting but an extra 40k helps all the same. No real cows to go to
- Negative BE means you should keep but likely an urgent trade next week if he gets the limited minutes I expect
- Meh. CTR trading should be avoided where possible. You waste so many trades in that position if you get too caught up there. I'd wait till its an issue. But I'm looking to Dugan and Inglis as possible keepers.

wolfking wrote:I'm going to try a semi loophole for myself.  Obviously TPJ is touch and go, but I'm going to give myself a potential free look at Whitehead.  Whitehead 5 on the bench, TPJ 4.  If TPJ plays and Whitehead only gets a 35, then TPJ is in.  If Whitehead goes 50+, Kennar goes into number 4.  If TPJ doesn't play, I'm stuck with Whiteheads score anyway, so no loss.  I think it'll work.  Have RFM tonight too but he has more attacking opportunities in him for points.  Whitehead it's hard to see where his average will go from here.  Hopefully he can get to 40 in base stats but after last week, it's hard to see, especially playing on the edge.  Don't want to dump him yet though as he's playing well and I like watching him play.

Cap'n Ranta wrote:

Swap Croker and Doueihi as I'm uncertain as to the minutes for the bench utility and if SJ is a surprise late withdrawl again you can get Croker as an AE instead of a <15min Doueihi.

As for your thoughts:

- Agree keep Smith. Unless you want to go hard for overall in which case going to Macca/Friend has its appeal.
- You have super strong halves so Maloney to you is purely a Cash Cow. Not as exciting a prospect as for those replacing Carty, Doueihi, Croker, JMK etc.
- Hoping he starts myself as I still have him but yeah. Not exciting but an extra 40k helps all the same. No real cows to go to
- Negative BE means you should keep but likely an urgent trade next week if he gets the limited minutes I expect
- Meh. CTR trading should be avoided where possible. You waste so many trades in that position if you get too caught up there. I'd wait till its an issue. But I'm looking to Dugan and Inglis as possible keepers.

Buramada wrote:

wolfking wrote:I'm going to try a semi loophole for myself.  Obviously TPJ is touch and go, but I'm going to give myself a potential free look at Whitehead.  Whitehead 5 on the bench, TPJ 4.  If TPJ plays and Whitehead only gets a 35, then TPJ is in.  If Whitehead goes 50+, Kennar goes into number 4.  If TPJ doesn't play, I'm stuck with Whiteheads score anyway, so no loss.  I think it'll work.  Have RFM tonight too but he has more attacking opportunities in him for points.  Whitehead it's hard to see where his average will go from here.  Hopefully he can get to 40 in base stats but after last week, it's hard to see, especially playing on the edge.  Don't want to dump him yet though as he's playing well and I like watching him play.

There is a thread for this kind of drivel!

megaturtle wrote:I honestly don't know what to do with my team. I can Reverse the Smith to Macca trade if I have to but can anyone give me a hand? (Referring mostly to Turbo)

Buramada wrote:

There is a thread for this kind of drivel!

Buramada wrote:

You need to upgrade your halves rather than your hooker

White Lightning wrote:Toovey has applied for the vacant Kiwis coaching job. I actually like this.

SI wrote:

The Loophole thread is more for asking HOW to do it to keep it in one place as a point of reference. Mentioning it in general play isn't an issue.

Buramada wrote:

Totally figures there would be a loophole on the loophole thread...

It seems to be a kind of a form of veganism, without the environmental benefits. I mean, I can tolerate people doing it, but it is the incessant need to tell everyone about it.

I remember at the time of creating the thread, it was suggested it was a way of making the main thread less boring.