NRL Fantasy 2019 thread part 6

Sean o'loughlin and Williams were awesome! Deserved the win

BMoz did spark my interest a while back. I would need to reshuffle my team to fit him in as he's in that akward price bracket.
I'm not really prepared to do that at this stage

Mighty Fishes wrote:

Teddy 23
Tupou 19
Manu 15
Morris 71
Ikuvalu 27
Keary 43
Cronk 33
JWH 35
Friend 50
Tauk 31
Cordiner 32
Aubusson 43
Radley 36

Liu 23
Tetevano 26
Collins 7
Butcher 39

Interesting. My thoughts at the bottom of page 25 of this thread were pretty much backed up by fantasy scores expected. Keary did look good in real life terms.

Butcher was really impressive. Shame he’s not more nailed on.

Surprised how easily a pretty bad defense dealt with Teddy. He was quiet.

Auba 40 odd fantasy points came in the centres. Can’t see where he fits in with some of these good youngsters. Liu is so annoying to fantasy. He’s pretty ordinary but certainty to steal minutes from players we’d otherwise be interested in (notably Radley). SST looked bigger (and bit slower). At least his days of edges and backrow 80 are long done (for the Radley, Butcher enthusiasts)

GreenMachine wrote:


Interesting. My thoughts at the bottom of page 25 of this thread were pretty much backed up by fantasy scores expected. Keary did look good in real life terms.

Butcher was really impressive. Shame he’s not more nailed on.

Surprised how easily a pretty bad defense dealt with Teddy. He was quiet.

Auba 40 odd fantasy points came in the centres. Can’t see where he fits in with some of these good youngsters. Liu is so annoying to fantasy. He’s pretty ordinary but certainty to steal minutes from players we’d otherwise be interested in (notably Radley). SST looked bigger (and bit slower). At least his days of edges and backrow 80 are long done (for the Radley, Butcher enthusiasts)

Great summary. Apparently Roosters are looking to just have the same model as last year re minutes e.g Radley will get 50 minutes. Does it look like Liu and Tetevano are bench with two of Collins/Butcher/Aubo as the other benchies with Angus to come back in. Guess they would want Aubo as a utility for the mid game injury in the backline right?

BMoz's 3 tries alone were worth 69 points without metres (2 of them T, LB, 4TB and other T, LB, 3TB) so not sure if I trust those stats.

EDIT He updated from 71 to 93, which is believable.

GreenMachine wrote:

Agree with that choice, but disagree with the rationale

Teddy and Cleary epitomy of high floor in their position. The ceiling potential is with the other pair surely? Didn’t DCE and Turbo both make an appearance in the Ton Club last year??

They did, however Cleary has had a higher fantasy score than than DCE (2017), Teddy produced a higher score than Turbo last year in an Origin game.

my tv broke wrote:So did Jake Friend play 80 in the WCC.. ?

Yes, but he plays 80 most weeks.

Other than a 3 week period near the start of last year (rounds 5-7 where he struggled for game time) he has averaged over 70 minutes for years.

Stats from this morning updated

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t807-2019-trial-stats#254538

Player	Fantasy
James Tedesco	23
Daniel Tupou	27
Joseph Manu	15
Brett Morris	93
Matt Ikuvalu	27
Luke Keary	43
Cooper Cronk	33
JWH	33
Jake Friend	48
Siosiua Taukeiaho	30
Boyd Codner	32
Mitchell Aubusson	43
Victor Radley	36
Isaac Liu	23
Zane Tetevano	26
Liunday Collins	7
Nat Butcher	39

Milchy wrote:

Yes, but he plays 80 most weeks.

Other than a 3 week period near the start of last year (rounds 5-7 where he struggled for game time) he has averaged over 70 minutes for years.

He played every game last year and 70+ minutes in fewer than half of them. By the end of the season he was a regular 80min man again, but it's a legit question whether that continues.

If it does it makes Friend vs Macca an interesting conundrum

Milchy wrote:

Yes, but he plays 80 most weeks.

Other than a 3 week period near the start of last year (rounds 5-7 where he struggled for game time) he has averaged over 70 minutes for years.

Yep, they were the only weeks I had him in my team of course

65+ minutes is good enough for me when looking at stats. No forward plays 80 minutes every single week, there's always HIA, injury, just need a rest for game circumstances that come up.

I think Friend plays big minutes most, but not every week. There's some value there, but at effectively the same price, McCullough provides better value IMO

Not sure about Radley after that game. If he's only going to get 50ish minutes and does the decoy runs he might not be worth it.
Now to find a worthy replacement. I already have Arrow, Murray and Stimson. Maybe Gillet or Whitehead? Any other suggestions?

I think seeing Radley start probably got the hopes up for a lot of people.
Then seeing him do nothing useful would have deflated them. if he continues to start that is probably a good thing though

Chewie wrote:Not sure about Radley after that game. If he's only going to get 50ish minutes and does the decoy runs he might not be worth it.
Now to find a worthy replacement. I already have Arrow, Murray and Stimson. Maybe Gillet or Whitehead? Any other suggestions?

Leilua or DFifita if they get the start is who I'm eyeing up.

GreenMachine wrote:

Nice one mate. The building of one is in process on a side thread led by Cap’n’ranta

Would be nice to see our cookie cutter destroy all office and family hopes and dreams, and win every H2H against the renegade one!

Shouldn't be a problem the Renegade one sucked last year and we have no idea who was doing it! Haha

Iron Mike wrote:

Leilua or DFifita if they get the start is who I'm eyeing up.

What would the dragon line-up be if JDB gets suspended? Would play lock with Leilua starting in the 2RF?

Chewie wrote:

What would the dragon line-up be if JDB gets suspended? Would play lock with Leilua starting in the 2RF?

That's the way I see it going.

Can smith/ Mahoney or Macca/ friend ? What’s better?