NRL Fantasy 2019 thread part 7

Is Aidan Sezer a no-go next to Wighton? I know he misses a lot of tackles, could that change.

Anyone thinking of putting Brandon Smith in their squad hoping he gets 40 minutes on the regular?

churg wrote:

Are you starting Mahoney instead of Macca?

Starting Macca with Mahoney bench. I'm still wanting Cook & trying every possible combo to see if I'm happy. I still think Cook will be the best captain early on because he's super fit & will play 80 mins. The big boys in the forwards will get fatigued with the heat/lack of match fitness.

churg wrote:

Are you starting Mahoney instead of Macca?

Fearless prediction --- Mahoney to outscore Macca this year!!!

Mulvy wrote:

First post and avatar to boot! Good job fella! Terrible idea though IMHO. If you've still got a hard on for him in round 5 trade one of your duds for him!

Edit: and btw !!

Thanks champ. Need to watch my man love for the big fella....He's gonna go big when he gets game time so maybe trade him in later as you say.

White Lightning wrote:

Starting Macca with Mahoney bench. I'm still wanting Cook & trying every possible combo to see if I'm happy. I still think Cook will be the best captain early on because he's super fit & will play 80 mins. The big boys in the forwards will get fatigued with the heat/lack of match fitness.

Right - I'm taking the @WL challenge!

Requirements:

Cook starting, Mahoney and TPJ bench. Kikass, Murray and Arrow 2nd row. Cleary in the halves. Maybe Fotuaika? Lots of good-looking rookies.

Oh, and Elgey is definitely there somewhere.

How did I do? $2k remaining

Cook
Paulo Fotuaika
Murray Kikau Arrow
Elgey Cleary
Capewell Kahu
BMorries Drinkwater Edwards

Mahoney TPJ DBrown Nikora
Allan Keighran AHopoate Burr



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Actually, that's a good looking team (TLT dependent)

I'm seeing a lot of TPJ and not a lot of Ofa. Thoughts?

filthridden wrote:I'm seeing a lot of TPJ and not a lot of Ofa. Thoughts?

Ofa will be named at 10 and scare everyone off.
TPJ will be named at 13 to get everyone very excited.

my tv broke wrote:

Ofa will be named at 10 and scare everyone off.
TPJ will be named at 13 to get everyone very excited.

And both of them will score 3 points above their average this season

I would love to put Ofa in but remember Seibold really dudded the middle forwards when it came to minutes last year.  I guess that remains to be seen on how he runs 11, 12 and 13 but based on Souths you think it would be similar.

I am losing interest in TPJ

He started lock 3 times last year for an average of 46. He's priced at 42. Certainly he is capable of going big, but he's got plenty of average scores as well (some of them were due to injury, but it seems he is just likely to fall short of his priced average as to beat it)
Most of TPJs better scores last year came when he played on the edge, not in the middle
Certainly there is some potential there, and i can see the vlue, but I am beginning to think thete might be better value elsewhere

Ofahengaue I think is priced fairly appropriately. Don't think you get much more value than what you are paying for. Could easily be wrong, but not that sure where the extra points are going to come from

L-Jimmy wrote:

Right - I'm taking the @WL challenge!

Requirements:

Cook starting, Mahoney and TPJ bench. Kikass, Murray and Arrow 2nd row. Cleary in the halves. Maybe Fotuaika? Lots of good-looking rookies.

Oh, and Elgey is definitely there somewhere.

How did I do? $2k remaining

Cook
Paulo Fotuaika
Murray Kikau Arrow
Elgey Cleary
Capewell Kahu
BMorries Drinkwater Edwards

Mahoney TPJ DBrown Nikora
Allan Keighran AHopoate Burr



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Actually, that's a good looking team (TLT dependent)

Pretty good you have 13 of my starting 17 right:
Cook
J. Paulo, Fotuaika
Arrow, Kikau, Murray
Cleary, D. Brown
Holland, Nikora
Drinkwater, Edwards, CNK

Mahoney, Egan, TPJ, Burr
Keighran, A. Hopoate, Lomax. Allan

tbh the minutes that Paulo & Fotuaika play is a worry but if both start & score 40-45 each I'll be happy. I still have the option of downgrading Cleary to Morgan to upgrade both props. If both Egan & Nikora don't start then I will need a new approach.

Iron Mike wrote:Is Aidan Sezer a no-go next to Wighton? I know he misses a lot of tackles, could that change.

Anyone thinking of putting Brandon Smith in their squad hoping he gets 40 minutes on the regular?

Ive considered both players but i think there are better options

Milchy wrote:
I am losing interest in TPJ

He started lock 3 times last year for an average of 26. He's priced at 42. Certainly he is capable of going big, but he's got plenty of average scores as well (some of them were due to injury, but it seems he is just likely to fall short of his priced average as to beat it)
Most of TPJs better scores last year came when he played on the edge, not in the middle
Certainly there is some potential there, and i can see the vlue, but I am beginning to think thete might be better value elsewhere

Ofahengaue I think is priced fairly appropriately. Don't think you get much more value than what you are paying for. Could easily be wrong, but not that sure where the extra points are going to come from

I looked at the team planner & he played 3 games at lock & scored 44, 57, 37 at an average of 46 points & 56 minutes. I'm not sure where you got those numbers from my brother. Bennett last year told TPJ to stop offloading because he's a conservative old goat & also injuries affected him. This year Siebold will encourage TPJ to play his natural game. With so few quality dpp frf/2fr this year TPJ is the ideal 14-17 bench player.

If you're picking someone like TPJ its probably for reasons that can't really be justified by stats. It's the feeling of hope/expectation that he will go beast mode this year.

White Lightning wrote:

I looked at the team planner & he played 3 games at lock & scored 44, 57, 37 at an average of 46 points & 56 minutes. I'm not sure where you got those numbers from my brother. Bennett last year told TPJ to stop offloading because he's a conservative old goat & also injuries affected him. This year Siebold will encourage TPJ to play his natural game. With so few quality dpp frf/2fr this year TPJ is the ideal 14-17 bench player.

typo, and fixed

But paying 42 for an average of 46 is not great value. Needs to be a big increase on last year

Pre-season stories about players being encouraged to offload more are like 'training the house down' and don't tempt me.
The effect of injury last year is a point in TPJ's favour, if he is over it now

South Sydney Rabbitohs captain Greg Inglis is set for an early comeback and could be set to feature as early as next week just a fortnight after reports stated he is 15 kilograms overweight and set to miss up to the first 2 rounds.

Inglis and coach Wayne Bennett later rubbished reports he was 15 kilograms overweight. Inglis has told Bennett he will be ready to play in next weekends Charity Shield against the St George Illawarra Dragons.

Inglis also confirmed he will play fullback in 2019 stating, I’ll play number one this year. It depends when... If I am right, it probably won’t be at fullback from round one. We’ll wait and see how the next two or three weeks pan out.”

There goes Allan

SBW could potentially be a Wolf next season? Just wondering because I wasn’t playing fantasy when he was around... was his stats equal to his hype in league?

KalkadoonWarrior wrote:SBW could potentially be a Wolf next season? Just wondering because I wasn’t playing fantasy when he was around... was his stats equal to his hype in league?

In 2013 he was 6th equal best scorer in Supercoach, imagine he would have been similar in fantasy as well

Milchy wrote:

typo, and fixed

But paying 42 for an average of 46  is not great value. Needs to be a big increase on last year

Pre-season stories about players being encouraged to offload more are like 'training the house down' and don't tempt me.
The effect of injury last year is a point in TPJ's favour, if he is over it now

I've gone cold on TPJ and Ofa, I know there's a case to be made for both, but I'd rather put my money on a mid range cow who has a clear potential +10pts upside from stats and not from speculation.

Take Joe Stimson for example, he averages 40pts when playing 80min 2RF, priced at 28.5pts.

White Lightning wrote:

Pretty good you have 13 of my starting 17 right:
Cook
J. Paulo, Fotuaika
Arrow, Kikau, Murray
Cleary, D. Brown
Holland, Nikora
Drinkwater, Edwards, CNK

Mahoney, Egan, TPJ, Burr
Keighran, A. Hopoate, Lomax. Allan

tbh the minutes that Paulo & Fotuaika play is a worry but if both start & score 40-45 each I'll be happy. I still have the option of downgrading Cleary to Morgan to upgrade both props. If both Egan & Nikora don't start then I will need a new approach.

Wait, no Elgey?!! Man, you nearly talked me into him.