2019 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 4

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Out of Whitehead and Bateman (The good one) who is more likely to be relegated to centre should an injury mid game arise?

Someone I haven’t seen much if anything about is Tom Trbojevic AKA Turbo, T Turbo, Turbo Tom.
Priced at 48.9 and 60K cheaper compared to Teddy at 53.1. I think Turbo still has an bunch of improving to do in all areas. I think he can average 50+ this year and you hate not having him in your team when he, Jurbo and DCE are unstoppable. Can score 50pts in one half. At 10% ownership he is still poddy compared to Teddy’s 24%. I think he is a great option if you want a gun that isn’t Teddy or Ponga. Was interrupted by injury a couple times last year but always bounced back super quick. Now that raises the question. Soft and whingey? Or hard and resilient? With a healthy pre season and a bit of structure from Des and what looks to be a better squad this year Turbo could see himself running as a 3rd half or off of Marty and AFB’s offloads all year. Also with talks of Jurbo becoming more of that passing lock he could see a big number of short balls at the line from his brother. They read each other like a book and Turbo knows exactly when to inject himself. I think if it comes down to it, I may start him over Teddy. With 3 out of the first 5 games at home Manly could get off to a flyer if Lottoland can be the fortress for Manky. Thoughts?

Bagpipe wrote:Out of Whitehead and Bateman (The good one) who is more likely to be relegated to centre should an injury mid game arise?

Bateman absolutely no doubt. He's played half his career at centre, Whitehead's a lifelong back row who's been forced to fill in a few times.

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StormTrooper96 wrote:Someone I haven’t seen much if anything about is Tom Trbojevic AKA Turbo, T Turbo, Turbo Tom.
Priced at 48.9 and 60K cheaper compared to Teddy at 53.1. I think Turbo still has an bunch of improving to do in all areas. I think he can average 50+ this year and you hate not having him in your team when he, Jurbo and DCE are unstoppable. Can score 50pts in one half. At 10% ownership he is still poddy compared to Teddy’s 24%. I think he is a great option if you want a gun that isn’t Teddy or Ponga. Was interrupted by injury a couple times last year but always bounced back super quick. Now that raises the question. Soft and whingey? Or hard and resilient? With a healthy pre season and a bit of structure from Des and what looks to be a better squad this year Turbo could see himself running as a 3rd half or off of Marty and AFB’s offloads all year. Also with talks of Jurbo becoming more of that passing lock he could see a big number of short balls at the line from his brother. They read each other like a book and Turbo knows exactly when to inject himself. I think if it comes down to it, I may start him over Teddy. With 3 out of the first 5 games at home Manly could get off to a flyer if Lottoland can be the fortress for Manky. Thoughts?

If I had to pick between the 2, I'd go Turbo and take the 60k and run. He has the ability to average the same or even outscore Ted, so that 60k would be too tempting for me I reckon. Roosters probably can't go much better this year, and Manly probably can't go much worse (although we all hope they do!)

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Another POD choice who I think people are scared of due to being burned last year is Croft. 1.8% ownership. Finished the season with scores of 70 (1try), 60 (1try), 52 and 45 in rounds 17,18,23 and 24 respectively. Averaged 56.75ppg, 265km and 97.5mg for these 4 games. These scores are what we expected to see from the start of the year but these are also the types of scores we know he is capable of. Maybe without as much pressure to take over cronks spot and another season under his belt Croft, who is priced at 39.4, could be 10-15 points underpriced. Cheaper than the likes of Munster, Pearce, walker, arey and Milf (those players with ?? Around them). He could be a great choice to partner a Morgan or even Cleary/DCE combo.

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If I had to pick between the 2, I'd go Turbo and take the 60k and run.  He has the ability to average the same or even outscore Ted, so that 60k would be too tempting for me I reckon.  Roosters probably can't go much better this year, and Manly probably can't go much worse (although we all hope they do!)

Roosters can't go much better, but Ted can. He was underperforming for at least the first half of last season before hitting his straps. First picked for me and locked in, expect him to average even higher a year on and with pressure to an extent off.

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Roosters can't go much better, but Ted can. He was underperforming for at least the first half of last season before hitting his straps. First picked for me and locked in, expect him to average even higher a year on and with pressure to an extent off.

Couldn’t agree more, absolute lock and load keeper, 24000 different teams made and has never left my team once.

@rhinoceroo - Teddy’s first half of the year he averaged 46.7, this is was scores of 29, 26 and 23. In the second half of the year he averaged 52.9. Now this is not including the 106 he got in round 25 but he did average 6 points more in the second half of the year. With turbo, he averaged 47 before origin and 40 after origin, including 18 in 30 minutes but not including his 115 pt game. One thing I noticed teddy tends to have a higher base and more consistent scores but I feel he won’t get much better than the 53 points a game he averaged at the back end of last year and turbos wave of scores also comes with Manly’s On and off games. I feel if manly can get some consistency we would also see consistent scores from Turbo who I believe still has room to improve and is 60k cheaper where you could possibly use that in the FRF where we are lacking or for some better balance in your bench.

TL;DR Turbo could be on par with Teddy at around 53ppg this year and is 60K cheaper. Just need Manly to be more consistent as I think this has something to do with Turbos fluctuating scores.

TTurbo has 2 seasons at FB averaging 48
Tedesco has averaged 53, 52, 48, 54

Tedesco for me all day

StormTrooper96 wrote:@rhinoceroo - Teddy’s first half of the year he averaged 46.7, this is was scores of 29, 26 and 23. In the second half of the year he averaged 52.9. Now this is not including the 106 he got in round 25 but he did average 6 points more in the second half of the year. With turbo, he averaged 47 before origin and 40 after origin, including 18 in 30 minutes but not including his 115 pt game. One thing I noticed teddy tends to have a higher base and more consistent scores but I feel he won’t get much better than the 53 points a game he averaged at the back end of last year and turbos wave of scores also comes with Manly’s On and off games. I feel if manly can get some consistency we would also see consistent scores from Turbo who I believe still has room to improve and is 60k cheaper where you could possibly use that in the FRF where we are lacking or for some better balance in your bench.

TL;DR Turbo could be on par with Teddy at around 53ppg this year and is 60K cheaper. Just need Manly to be more consistent as I think this has something to do with Turbos fluctuating scores.

Fair enough if you think Turbo can match him, but you can't take out Teddy's ton score. Ted got better in real life & fantasy for the Roosters as season went on and, with a player like him, the chances of centuries increase, they can't be discounted.

What would that extra $60 be spent on? It isn't a huge amount
difference in Blake Lawrie and base Rookie near enough

Welshy wrote:What would that extra $60 be spent on? It isn't a huge amount
difference in Blake Lawrie and base Rookie near enough

I am looking at having another 400k stash. Ted is a turncoat. #teamturbo

StormTrooper96 wrote:Another POD choice who I think people are scared of due to being burned last year is Croft. 1.8% ownership. Finished the season with scores of 70 (1try), 60 (1try), 52 and 45 in rounds 17,18,23 and 24 respectively. Averaged 56.75ppg, 265km and 97.5mg for these 4 games. These scores are what we expected to see from the start of the year but these are also the types of scores we know he is capable of. Maybe without as much pressure to take over cronks spot and another season under his belt Croft, who is priced at 39.4, could be 10-15 points underpriced. Cheaper than the likes of Munster, Pearce, walker, arey and Milf (those players with ?? Around them). He could be a great choice to partner a Morgan or even Cleary/DCE combo.

i've got him in my pre-trial team, far from locked in though

Just giving my thoughts to the group champions. May not be good ones but could help some people with the decisions.

Next POI. Matt Lodge

Lodge has been tasked, along with TPJ, as the senior enforcers this year for the Broncos. I am not sure what got into Lodge but in his last 9 games he averaged 49.1ppg at 48.33mpg. I did notice in these games there were two games where he scored 21 and 27 over 36 and 37 minutes. Not sure if this was when his but pimple happened, cannot remember. If you discount these games he averaged 56.29ppg in 51.71mpg. Maybe this came with being comfortable in the NRL, match fitness, etc. I know Bennet doesnt usually pick up those bad media players unless he sees something in them (i.e. Roberts - NSW player, Milford - QLD Player). So maybe this is what Bennett seen in Lodge. I know everyone has been talking about the Broncos depth and it probably would be best to wait till TLT before picking any Broncos in your pack but if Lodge can average around 50mpg at the 1.045 pts/min he was getting towards the back end he could be smokey to average 52ppg up front when he is priced at 40.7. Im not very good with seeing how bench minutes go but if he, TPJ and Ofa were to average 50mpg what would the rest of the bench see? Maybe Lodge could be the answer to a cheap Smokey. Thought?

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If I had to pick between the 2, I'd go Turbo and take the 60k and run.  He has the ability to average the same or even outscore Ted, so that 60k would be too tempting for me I reckon.  Roosters probably can't go much better this year, and Manly probably can't go much worse (although we all hope they do!)

Roosters can't go much better, but Ted can. He was underperforming for at least the first half of last season before hitting his straps. First picked for me and locked in, expect him to average even higher a year on and with pressure to an extent off.

Fair call mate, but I reckon Turbo has more room for improvemet. He's been playing busted half his career.

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