2019 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 1

Or I could have written something along the lines of Milchy's reply. I'm not mature enough though

Interested to see if the rumour of Elijah Taylor being told to look elsewhere happens. Thinking twal might be playing lock if ET does go.

Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but has there been a consistent approach to pricing of players coming from super league??

I reckon there will be plenty of points in the raiders pack this year, if tapine can control his inner Adrian Morley and not give away a penalty a minute he will be a good pod. With The two fat props gone, replaced with mobility, I reckon the issue of too many decent scoring backrowers taking minutes off each other in the raiders pack will go. Papa to prop.

Fortitude wrote:Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but has there been a consistent approach to pricing of players coming from super league??

There might be, but if so, we don't know what it is.

When Zeb Taia and Elliott Whitehead came over in the same year, Whitehead was the cheaper of the 2, despite having better ESL stats. Perhaps because Taia had prior NRL experience, or maybe some other reason.

Bit of pot luck really

WT2K wrote:Interested to see if the rumour of Elijah Taylor being told to look elsewhere happens. Thinking twal might be playing lock if ET does go.

Twal will be fantasy gold if he starts at lock but in the real world of nrl he is probably behind Matterson & M. Eisenhuth.

Probably a bit early to figure out cash cows, but I reckon never too early to start looking at guns and captain options. As far as the latter goes Cook and CS9 are still the stand outs.

Cook had an amazing year, it's hard to see how he could do any better, which of course a gun doesn't need to, especially if he's the captain, he just needs to do what you paid for. But he's bloody expensive and sucks a large chunk of cap space and there is the risk he doesn't reach those levels again this year, or Bennett does something with the structures that affect his scoring. I just don't see how I could start with him. Then again, most people fit CS9 in last year and he was almost as expensive.

CS9, what do we expect this year? You'd have to think the same as usual. There's that risk though that Brandon as well as spelling Finucane also takes a few minutes off Cameron here and there.

It seems like it will be tough to put a good team together and I hope it stays that way after the official launch. I'm just thinking it might be worth a punt to captain a Crichton or McCullough or others to start the year. Thoughts?

With the retirement of JT, might be time for a new avatar.

Mulvy wrote:

It seems like it will be tough to put a good team together and I hope it stays that way after the official launch. I'm just thinking it might be worth a punt to captain a Crichton or McCullough or others to start the year. Thoughts?

Yeah, given that Seibold apparently wanted an 80-minute hooker at Souffs (and now the brilliant super-sub McQuire has headed north) Macca might be an underpriced gun.

L-Jimmy wrote:

Yeah, given that Seibold apparently wanted an 80-minute hooker at Souffs (and now the brilliant super-sub McQuire has headed north) Macca might be an underpriced gun.

Yeah I remember Seibold wanted an 80 minute hooker but funnily enough I hadn't considered the McGuire aspect. It can only benefit Macca. Broncos will miss those superb passes from dummy half....

Have Failhub changed their formula for generating player prices for the upcoming season, or are they just fucking us over by arbitrarily raising the prices of players who they think will be popular picks?

I thought the formula was just the players previous season average multiplied by the magic number, but this isn't gelling with some of the player prices @Milchy posted back on page 37.

As an example of what I'm talking about, look at the prices for Ferguson and Sutton; they both played 24 matches last year and scored 1047 (at an average of 43.6) and 1044 (at an average of 43.5) fantasy points respectively. Their 2019 prices should essentially be identical but Sutton's price for this season looks like being $616 k while Ferguson will come in at $647 k.

Trade News/Rumours

Smith signs on for 2 more years. I hope BS9 stays on long term once he goes.

Kenner has backflipped on his Mormon mission and has joined Seibold at the Broncos. They say he is 5th in line for a wing spot there but surely Seibold has told him he has a starting spot wrapped up otherwise why would he leave the rabbits.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Trade News/Rumours

Smith signs on for 2 more years. I hope BS9 stays on long term once he goes.

Kenner has backflipped on his Mormon mission and has joined Seibold at the Broncos. They say he is 5th in line for a wing spot there but surely Seibold has told him he has a starting spot wrapped up otherwise why would he leave the rabbits.

Not a fan of Kenner and you have to think with Cam Smith signing for two years that someone will throw decent money for Brandon Smith and he will move on. Tigers and Panthers have got to be viable options.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Trade News/Rumours

Smith signs on for 2 more years. I hope BS9 stays on long term once he goes.

Kenner has backflipped on his Mormon mission and has joined Seibold at the Broncos. They say he is 5th in line for a wing spot there but surely Seibold has told him he has a starting spot wrapped up otherwise why would he leave the rabbits.

Seibolds version of Darius? Severely doubt there’s a starting spot for him, no way in hell he’d be ahead of any one of Boyd, Oates, Roberts, Bird or Isaako, and even if Seibs has other plans for Bird, Staggs would have to be next in line for that spot... could just be that this late in the game, Souths had already filled his spot and his old coach threw him a bone

Jake Friend could have some value. 2nd half of last season averaged 53.8 vs 41 avg for the first half. From memory he was nursing a sternum injury for ages at the start of the season. No Baptiste this year either. There's only really Radley (or Maubs ?) that would sub him. WCC might shed some light on how they intend to use Radley this year.

Yeah 

StormTrooper96 wrote:Yeah 

So opening mid feb!

Verbal Kint wrote:

My balls have been on your chin plenty of times. You should know I dont need to grow any

I've never laughed so loud, you say you don't need to grow any balls, how about grow in maturity then. Your starting to sound like your username

You guys need to calm down.

Blue I understand lot of people don't like the whole posting your team so early out as there are so many changes that can occur, trials to play and other factors to consider. But it is a way to get discussion on teams roughly and why pe9ple would select certain players. Also gives an idea of how funds are going to be spread throughout teams.

I am happy with having a team discussion thread similar to rate my team for discussion specifically about teams and keeping this open for fantasy talk in general.

Whats the general consensus on forking out the cash for Cook? Its a big spend after such a huge year and having a new coach.

I'm okay with posting teams. Seem completely fantasy relevant. You can skip over if you don't care. At this stage just getting feel for structure seems useful. Although last year when every man and his dog was putting up teams I think we made a separate thread which worked well from memory. I would suggest we create the separate thread closer to the site launch, or when this thread starts getting clogged, which ever happens sooner.