NRL Fantasy 2018 Thread Part 25

Chewie wrote:

Mbye is a classic example this season...

It seems to happen quite often... a monster score followed by a rubbish score

How is getting knocked out in freak accident 6 mins in classic example. I think he would've sleep walked to 40pts and owners delighted. After watching last night I'm glad I got at the price

Chucky wrote:
Its going to be a bigger night for me.
I’m getting married this afternoon.
She got a bit upset when I asked if we could the footy on the big screen at the reception tonight.

Congrats Chucky. Have an excellent day.

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, if Carty starts might save the trade and get him next week instead.

JMK will keep his spot because he hasn't done anything wrong and there isn't anyone else. As for attacking stats they're built off the back of forwards going forward. I wouldn't count on them.

Milchcow wrote:

Actually, Maloney plays after Titans, so I might reverse Maloney/Carty and see what happens.

Got confused because when wondering when Maloney plays I just looked for when the Sharks game was.

Anyone else doing that? Couple of times this year I was surprised that Tedesco was locked out well before the Tigers game.

I've done that at least half a dozen times with Maloney and the sharks

Tom turbo had been ruled out hasn’t he? Just double checking.

I just noticed when you go into the league h2h's they've changed the format which is much, much better.

Milchcow wrote:

Milchcow wrote:

With Titans playing late in the round, not sure I'm willing to take a punt on Cartwright on the off chance (especially if he just goes back to the bench next week)

Actually, Maloney plays after Titans, so I might reverse Maloney/Carty and see what happens.

Got confused because when wondering when Maloney plays I just looked for when the Sharks game was.

Anyone else doing that? Couple of times this year I was surprised that Tedesco was locked out well before the Tigers game.

Hahahaha, I thought it was just me. Not Ted but definitely Maloney; I don't know how many times I've gone into the Cronulla section on MTB's sheets to find him.

This is only my third year playing and I have never really followed some sort of a strategy, I was always like get 4-5 800K+ guys in my team and fill the rest with 228K’s for the year and put up shit scores. This year I am actually listening a lot to this forum and trying to trade right, save trades, keep money ITB, get the right cows! So just for my personal reference what would be a trade goal

1) Havili (avg 35) - $525,00 and RFM (avg 45) - $675,000. Would I trade Havili down to a upcoming cow at the time and RFM to a permorming gun?
2) Do I just trade RFM at an avg of 45 and priced at $675,00 to a underperforming gun in the hope he can hit his strides?
Feedback would be great lads. Cheers

StormTrooper96 wrote:

I'm in the same boat. I am giving him a 3 weeks.

This week - Back to game gicking (Tigers)
Next week - Back to goal kicking (Knights)
Week three - Should be 100% and back to both. (Broncos)


If he doesn't average 55 over these three weeks, I will have to let him go

Great back to 100% when we have to verse him Ofcourse! Why couldn’t we verse sin binned Cam

Loomer wrote:

How is getting knocked out in freak accident 6 mins in classic example. I think he would've sleep walked to 40pts and owners delighted. After watching last night I'm glad I got at the price

Mbye getting knocked out is an unfortunate event, but for whatever reason I have seen this happen quite often... a low score followed by a high score and vice versa

Moose wrote:Remember a few years ago when Sandow threw up a massive score so a fair percentage of players (myself included) jumped on as a quick cash grab. The following week he scored shithouse and only ended up making a small amount of cash.

I can see the same thing happening with Maloney.

I feel people are looking at this the wrong way.

The big score is great but importantly there has been a change in Maloney's role that most are banking on to continue and will elevate him above where he is priced at now. It's not like trading in Josh Hoffman after his big rd 1 score as a cash grab.

- He will kick more (5-10 pts)
- He will be more of an attacking focus with good damaging players running off him such as Kikau and Edwards (more ball = more runs and TBs potential ~ 2-7pts and more big score potential - LB, LBAs, TAs, Ts)
- He gained goal kicking duties (4-8pts)
- As a key playmaker maybe hes targeted a bit more in defence (5-10 more tackles + 4-5 more missed tackles ~ net 0)

All of these points (10-25) happened due to the changing team dynamic with Cleary out and no true half next to him. No-one is banking on another outlier big score (although we'd like them) and we know hes fundamentally a guy who will rack up a few Paul Carter awards.

It's definitely a risk that he explodes with 15-20 missed tackles, penalties and errors (boy that'd be devastating and more negatives than anyone ever I think) but with a low BE, low price and potential I've outlined above I can't think of a half that gives better value right now.

Plus people have Doueihi, Croker, JMK, Carty as their 2nd half (or starters if they've gone cheap/been burned by Croft) and I'm sure Maloney will be more consistent than all of them as the dominant half on his team. Note that if you already had two good halves (i.e. SJ, DCE, Koro, Milf etc.) then Maloney is not as valuable. Plenty of cash cows will make more money than him. Point is he's likely good for some upgrade money and good value for a starting half that lets me strengthen other areas of my team first.

I'd gladly take an Avatar bet on this for all the Maloney doubters. For the length of time Cleary is out name any half I can trade in now that people think will give more points/$spent and total $s to fuel further upgrades than Maloney.

I ditched Smith for Mbye,was worried just before halftime but thankfully he managed a respectable 45

Good shit Chucky! Hope you have a great day mate congratulations!

Would it be worth putting Kennar in at 16 so I can get Havili's points at 18??

my tv broke wrote:I wouldnt say mathews has a mortgage on the 2nd row spot so if carty did start and have a good game then perhaps he holds onto it for future.

Pretty tempting to save the trade really.

Wapau!!!

Cap'n Ranta wrote:

I feel people are looking at this the wrong way.

The big score is great but importantly there has been a change in Maloney's role that most are banking on to continue and will elevate him above where he is priced at now. It's not like trading in Josh Hoffman after his big rd 1 score as a cash grab.

- He will kick more (5-10 pts)
- He will be more of an attacking focus with good damaging players running off him such as Kikau and Edwards (more ball = more runs and TBs potential ~ 2-7pts and more big score potential - LB, LBAs, TAs, Ts)
- He gained goal kicking duties (4-8pts)
- As a key playmaker maybe hes targeted a bit more in defence (5-10 more tackles + 4-5 more missed tackles ~ net 0)

All of these points (10-25) happened due to the changing team dynamic with Cleary out and no true half next to him. No-one is banking on another outlier big score (although we'd like them) and we know hes fundamentally a guy who will rack up a few Paul Carter awards.

It's definitely a risk that he explodes with 15-20 missed tackles, penalties and errors (boy that'd be devastating and more negatives than anyone ever I think) but with a low BE, low price and potential I've outlined above I can't think of a half that gives better value right now.

Plus people have Doueihi, Croker, JMK, Carty as their 2nd half (or starters if they've gone cheap/been burned by Croft) and I'm sure Maloney will be more consistent than all of them as the dominant half on his team. Note that if you already had two good halves (i.e. SJ, DCE, Koro, Milf etc.) then Maloney is not as valuable. Plenty of cash cows will make more money than him. Point is he's likely good for some upgrade money and good value for a starting half that lets me strengthen other areas of my team first.

I'd gladly take an Avatar bet on this for all the Maloney doubters. For the length of time Cleary is out name any half I can trade in now that people think will give more points/$spent and total $s to fuel further upgrades than Maloney.

Id be open to an avatar bet, it might have to wait a week as I already have a one week avatar bet running with Rabbit for this week.

45+ average over the next 4 weeks sounds fair.

SI wrote:

Wapau!!!

Woozle Wuzzle

Cap'n Ranta wrote:

I feel people are looking at this the wrong way.

The big score is great but importantly there has been a change in Maloney's role that most are banking on to continue and will elevate him above where he is priced at now. It's not like trading in Josh Hoffman after his big rd 1 score as a cash grab.

- He will kick more (5-10 pts)
- He will be more of an attacking focus with good damaging players running off him such as Kikau and Edwards (more ball = more runs and TBs potential ~ 2-7pts and more big score potential - LB, LBAs, TAs, Ts)
- He gained goal kicking duties (4-8pts)
- As a key playmaker maybe hes targeted a bit more in defence (5-10 more tackles + 4-5 more missed tackles ~ net 0)

All of these points (10-25) happened due to the changing team dynamic with Cleary out and no true half next to him. No-one is banking on another outlier big score (although we'd like them) and we know hes fundamentally a guy who will rack up a few Paul Carter awards.

It's definitely a risk that he explodes with 15-20 missed tackles, penalties and errors (boy that'd be devastating and more negatives than anyone ever I think) but with a low BE, low price and potential I've outlined above I can't think of a half that gives better value right now.

Plus people have Doueihi, Croker, JMK, Carty as their 2nd half (or starters if they've gone cheap/been burned by Croft) and I'm sure Maloney will be more consistent than all of them as the dominant half on his team. Note that if you already had two good halves (i.e. SJ, DCE, Koro, Milf etc.) then Maloney is not as valuable. Plenty of cash cows will make more money than him. Point is he's likely good for some upgrade money and good value for a starting half that lets me strengthen other areas of my team first.

I'd gladly take an Avatar bet on this for all the Maloney doubters. For the length of time Cleary is out name any half I can trade in now that people think will give more points/$spent and total $s to fuel further upgrades than Maloney.

Wow... you almost got me converted!

StormTrooper96 wrote:Would it be worth putting Kennar in at 16 so I can get Havili's points at 18??

Why wouldn't you. Who misses out?

StormTrooper96 wrote:Would it be worth putting Kennar in at 16 so I can get Havili's points at 18??

Yes most people are doing this.