2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread part 43

wolfking wrote:Am I crazy for thinking of tossing Kikau before Maloney?

You'd think Cleary and Maloney would split everything a little more first week back.

On another note Im sold on Reynolds and Crichton but still, Lamb and Fifita are options Im weighing up too which seems solid.

No Worries wrote:

I was looking at the same Kikamoocow or BBQ. Remembered someone here stating Kika is one of the top 6 props, what's the rush. You've made the Maloney coin, it's time to get DCE. At least that's how I'm looking at it

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Rapture_NRL wrote:

Thanks for the reply! I think I'll take your advice reference Maloney and keeping Kikau et al. My reason behind not trading Soro and Cogger is using the bank to get in guns. Other option is to nerf them, but that means using trades so essentially I'm left with 8 as back up.

I have $772k pre-trades and if I trade ARey and Crichton in that leaves me $610k. That allows me to upgrade Rein and JMK to Teddy + Turbo (cost of $300k), and later Kikau and Fifita for a cheaper Matterson and Fifita (This will be the tight trade). That leaves me 10 trades, 0 cash and:

Cook
Arrow Fifi/Next best
Harris Tolo Crichton
ARey DCE
Mitchell Isaako
Ponga Teddy Turbo

Smith Matterson JFH Murray

Martin Cogger Phillips Soro (These players to upgrade Isaako and any of the starters)
Is my thinking sound?? If not, I'll follow your advice verbatim.

Rapture_NRL wrote:

I think the biggest point behind having cover on your bench is so your hand isn't forced when it comes to trades. If you have starters in your team that you only had as cows or you always intended to trade, having cover allows you to trade to any position. This is useful when you use a peaked cow at say WFB for example to buy a fallen 2RF gun. I'm hamstrung atm with no back cover, so any back I trade has to be for another back, rather than using that $150k they made to upgrade elsewhere.

In saying that, I would prioritize my trading decisions as such; 1. Gun/Cash gen, 2. Value, 3. Out of reach next week, 4. Byes, 5. Cover/DPP
(Working progress but you get the picture)

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Still 280k left in the bank after this weeks upgrades
Looking at doing something like Havili>Cleary or JMK>Tedesco/Mannering/Gallen/Tturbo/Harris
This is how the squad is shaping up so far

Cook
Fifita Arrow
Murray RFM JFH
DCE Arey
Croker Hiku
Ponga Mbye Dufty

Surgess Havili Martin Su'a

Smith JMK Brimson Cogger

Revraiser wrote:

This is half of @Fortitude point though, why hamstrung ? Trade in anyone you want without feeling limited to position.
I havent worried about the backup thing either, theres no room for it. In my view u gotta wing it and hooe u make the right choices, a huge part of the fun for me.

wolfking wrote:Am I crazy for thinking of tossing Kikau before Maloney?

You'd think Cleary and Maloney would split everything a little more first week back.

On another note Im sold on Reynolds and Crichton but still, Lamb and Fifita are options Im weighing up too which seems solid.

Random wrote:



I would make the JMK trade with Tedesco, T. Harris, T. Trbojevic being the order of priority.

Havilii is worth holding this week he has a BE of 20 which he should make and the last three weeks have been massive.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:If you could trust anyone below 500k except Lamb to make close to 150k who would it be if you grabbed them this week?

Fortitude wrote:This might seem like a dumb question so I hope I get my point across properly so it doesn't come across REALLY dumb.

But whats the point of cover, more specifically in the CTR and WFB positions?

Its hard enough picking a decent starter let alone cover, if a starter goes down and I don't have cover id sooner get 0 and know that I have the extra 2-300k in a player elsewhere to make up for it. In the long term, that better player in the halves or forward will outscore having cover 99/100.

The only reason I have cover for positions is when by some miracle a cash cow ive picked up can cover an injury.

Interested in peoples thoughts on this.

pm888 wrote:
no clear standouts, i was looking at ipapalii (401k) and what his minutes would be moving forward but cant find much info. hard to figure out with tevaga/mannering on the bench and luke being able to play 80mins.

you could take a punt on a roosters.cowboys,sea eagles forward who plays the bye in place of cordner/hess/jturbo + maybe napa/scott/cooper

maybe lane/barnett could make 150K? a bit closer to 100k though i reckon

Milchcow wrote:

The problem with no cover is that its a risky strategy.

If Marsters and Aitken are your only 2 CTRs, and one of them gets injured for 2 weeks, what do you do?

Play with 16 for a short while or waste 2 trades swapping someone in and out? Especially around this time of year when people are worrying about likes of Rein, Murray, RFM, Maloney - not easy to deal with the added stress of not being able to ride out a short term injury.
Worst case, imagine Nathan Brown was a CTR and you had him and no cover, - 1-2 week injury (most people held him), then another week, then a month. How long would you hold him for if every week you had him meant playing short.


Probably the best strategy if you want to win is run without cover and not have your players get injured, so I guess smart people would just choose that option