NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 13

rhinoceroo wrote:Thinking about who's going to be highest scorers in each position over season.

Prediction - Cook, Fifita, JTrbo, DCE, Mitchell, Ted.

Interesting that there's one player there who most are starting with, two that people are trying to fit in, and three that aren't appearing in any teams at all.

Your right Rhino, I can only afford Fifita and Teddy and even thats a stretch.

Welshy wrote:Can Taupau really sustain a 57 average playing 50 minutes again this year?

Seems like a fucking mammoth task and likely outlier

Dunno. An argument for Taupau is that Des likes to flog his starting props, so he might have 60-70 minutes to rack up the offloads (that Des will tell him not to throw). Feel like avoiding all Manly players this year until I see how they play. Never like owning them at the best of times.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Dunno. An argument for Taupau is that Des likes to flog his starting props, so he might have 60-70 minutes to rack up the offloads (that Des will tell him not to throw). Feel like avoiding all Manly players this year until I see how they play. Never like owning them at the best of times.

If he was getting more minutes I'd grab him, but 57 in 50 minutes is fucking ludicrous
But that Manly pack is worse than last season currently, I'm trying to work him or Fifi back into FR alongside Vaughan or Surgess

Playing around with my team and I must say Smith and Surgess does look a lot better than Macca and Taupau.

Yeah, nobody will be able to afford more than two or three. But the intetesting thing is which two or three we're all gravitating to. To look at similar price differences, is Fifita that much more valuable than Surgess than Mitchell is over Holland?

Trajan wrote:

Your right Rhino, I can only afford Fifita and Teddy and even thats a stretch.

rhinoceroo wrote:Thinking about who's going to be highest scorers in each position over season.

Prediction - Cook, Fifita, JTrbo, DCE, Mitchell, Ted.

Interesting that there's one player there who most are starting with, two that people are trying to fit in, and three that aren't appearing in any teams at all.

What is more interesting is the 'other' players that are close to 1st place that are still keepers.
Some positions there is a gulf between say 1st,2nd and then........3rd . Look at WFB, or FRF.
I think for that reason why people are locking in some players in these positions and going value options in others

McCullough,Friend,Mcinnes,Farah,Smith are good examples next to Cook
Fifita,Taupau.............James (now edge player).....Alvaro.... Sub 50's players

No origin either, injured forward packs and both fit and healthy so can't blame people for just spending up here
Means less money to spend elsewhere so the flow on effect and decent value players in these positions means no JTbo. Mitchell, DCE

Welshy wrote:

If he was getting more minutes I'd grab him, but 57 in 50 minutes is fucking ludicrous
But that Manly pack is worse than last season currently, I'm trying to work him or Fifi back into FR alongside Vaughan or Surgess

Hodkinson and 3 forwards. Tanginoa coming back from a bad injury and just making the team, Gosiewski and Siro both season enders last year and only just returning and Sipley still finding his feet
Can't see why he won't take on alot to start the year

Round One Write Up

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Honeysett wrote:Round One Write Up

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You had me at "I guess that's how they make XXXX". Lovely stuff.

mattnz wrote:

Likely to be an article or 2 coming up you would imagine. He is the kind of player that I am willing to take a risk on. If he pays off, great, if not can exchange him for another player showing more promise. If he can hold down starting prop he has significant upside. Only 2 props on the bench and one is playing his first game in first grade. Matulino only averages 43 minutes. He has a chance to cement a role with up to 45-50 minutes.

Mikaele may be debuting but he's one of four forwards on the bench. I updated the Tigers forward rotation accordingly and I'm hard pressed to give him more than 40, feel free to give it a look and comment on it. I will say this though, BM said on NRL360 tonight that Mikaele has been picked on the basis of combating a stronger forward pack, hinting that Reynolds could easily come back next round. However, he isn't the coach and a lot of teams have a pack stronger than Manlys

Okay team time. Here's where my head is at, a lot of differences to what I'm seeing though

Macca
Hetherington, Tolman
Murray, Taumalolo, Arrow
Cleary, Keighran
Holland, Capewell
Katoa, CNK, Edwards

Int
Niukore, Mahoney, Cartwright, Burns

EMG
Garner, Nikora, Burr, Brown

Leaves 105k for Hetherington upgrade when Kikau comes back

Boozecluez wrote:

Hodkinson and 3 forwards. Tanginoa coming back from a bad injury and just making the team, Gosiewski and Siro both season enders last year and only just returning and Sipley still finding his feet
Can't see why he won't take on alot to start the year

I can see JTurbo standing under the sticks looking frustrated once again this year. Unfortunately Marty will be standing next to him. Still in my team though because of the dearth of choices in the front row.
I cannot handle another season of Sam Burgess spilling the pill, attempting to take someones head off or getting injured just before the byes. He is a no go for me.

Honeysett wrote:Round One Write Up

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Did i what! Cracker to kick it off with.

Brendos1er wrote:Okay team time. Here's where my head is at, a lot of differences to what I'm seeing though

Macca
Hetherington, Tolman
Murray, Taumalolo, Arrow
Cleary, Keighran
Holland, Capewell
Katoa, CNK, Edwards

Int
Niukore, Mahoney, Cartwright, Burns

EMG
Garner, Nikora, Burr, Brown

Leaves 105k for Hetherington upgrade when Kikau comes back

And who do you sub in front row for the kikau trade?

Katsy99 wrote:Gents, long time reader and fantasy player (2012 or 2013 was my OG), first time poster here. Keen to get your thoughts on my money spread across positions. Wary of a lack of decent 3rd FRF, but with the value in 2rf it's hard to justify most of them. Blake Lawrie's PPM is encouraging and feel he'll get solid minutes to make good coin:

Hooker: MCC
FRF: Fifita, Tolman
2RF: Arrow, Murray, Matterson
Half: Morgan, Keighran
Centre: Capewell, Bird
WFB: Edwards, CNK, Kahu

Int: Lane, Gillett, Mahoney, Lawrie

Reserves: Nikora, Brown, Sele, Ravalawa.

I feel it looks quite strong across the board, obviously a little soft in the halves but i'm okay with that to begin.
22k in bank. Keen to hear thoughts!

Welcome Katsy.

Halves are about right for a lot of teams so like you say, starting point for most of us.  Not sold on Bird personally but I get the love with the price v potential.

Love the second row focus.  Any interest in Garner though?  You could potentially grab 259k downgrading Lane to Garner and upgrading Macca to Cook ($0 left); or Dedwards to Ted ($35k left); or Tolman to Taupau ($1k left).  I have Lane and love him as a player, but Tolman to Taupau in particular would be pretty tempting.

Katsy99 wrote:Gents, long time reader and fantasy player (2012 or 2013 was my OG), first time poster here. Keen to get your thoughts on my money spread across positions. Wary of a lack of decent 3rd FRF, but with the value in 2rf it's hard to justify most of them. Blake Lawrie's PPM is encouraging and feel he'll get solid minutes to make good coin:

Hooker: MCC
FRF: Fifita, Tolman
2RF: Arrow, Murray, Matterson
Half: Morgan, Keighran
Centre: Capewell, Bird
WFB: Edwards, CNK, Kahu

Int: Lane, Gillett, Mahoney, Lawrie

Reserves: Nikora, Brown, Sele, Ravalawa.

I feel it looks quite strong across the board, obviously a little soft in the halves but i'm okay with that to begin.

22k in bank. Keen to hear thoughts!

Just realised no one had stopped to say g'day. mate. Not gonna lie, pretty stock standard team around here post TLT but in all fairness that isn't a bad thing given the pedigree of blokes around here. Definitely get rid of Lawrie though, little upside and he'll make way for Korbin Sims when he comes back from suspension. Sele also probably has little upside, Bench props tend to be like that. Good luck!

SI wrote:

Welcome Katsy.

Halves are about right for a lot of teams so like you say, starting point for most of us.  Not sold on Bird personally but I get the love with the price v potential.

Love the second row focus.  Any interest in Garner though?  You could potentially grab 259k downgrading Lane to Garner and upgrading Macca to Cook ($0 left); or Dedwards to Ted ($35k left); or Tolman to Taupau ($1k left).  I have Lane and love him as a player, but Tolman to Taupau in particular would be pretty tempting.

Beat me to it

rhinoceroo wrote:

Ditto "oh God why didn't I just pick him please stop scoring" would this year read:

1) Teddy
2) Cook
3) Fifita
4) SJ
5) Mitchell

Starting with the first three, other two are early targets (hopefully after quiet games). Wife's team has all of them but suffers elsewhere.

Managed to get Teddy in without losing much. pondering if I keep bmoz now, CNK my other wfb

Alfie wrote:

Beat me to it

My concern with Garner (i had him previously for quite a while) is MCK and Aloiai on the bench. My understanding from a mate who's a tigers fan is Garner's PPM last year involved a fair bit of time spent in the middle so i'm concerned about his real money making potential. Also, if tigers get off to a stinker, he could easily be the first one to go.

Cook i feel will come down in value hence MCC, Dedwards averaged 47 or 48 at FB so is severely undervalued. I do want Taupau, esp for the DPP but again feel he might be a bit overs.

Cheers for the welcomes lads!

"Just realised no one had stopped to say g'day. mate. Not gonna lie, pretty stock standard team around here post TLT but in all fairness that isn't a bad thing given the pedigree of blokes around here. Definitely get rid of Lawrie though, little upside and he'll make way for Korbin Sims when he comes back from suspension. Sele also probably has little upside, Bench props tend to be like that. Good luck![/quote]"




Given Host is an edge forward, i feel he or Luciano may drop out of the 17 alltogether when Sims comes back. Tariq has said he expects Korbin to go to 13, so friz goes back to an edge, so we need 2 middle forwards on the bench, being Latimore+Lawrie in all likelihood, with Luciano/Host as the 17.

Sele i do agree with, im just after a base price middle forward who should get 30 odd mins with a decent PPM, plus the DPP is handy. Keen to hear any alternatives though!