NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 35

wolfking wrote:Who sits out for undisclosed reasons;

Rein, Macca, Garner, Lawrie, Murray, Arrow, Haas?  

Thinking Haas.  Although I'm trading Bird to Haas.  Is that worth it if I'm not even going to play him?

VERTiiGO wrote:

if you trade out bird i can guarantee he scores a couple tries and goes 60+

sajjos wrote:

He could. Though Bird 45 average over next 3 rounds gives 51k while Haas 30 avg for next 3 games gives 120k. Imagine if Haas does what people are expecting him to do.

SoylentGreen wrote:

Fair enough I reckon.

And on a completely non-fantasy related note, how good are old-fashioned road-trips?! Just spent the last couple of weeks driving the family around 5000km in a loop through NSW. Stayed in the underground motel in White Cliffs, visited Broken Hill and Mildura, went to Mungo National Park, wineries in the Riverina, did the tourist stuff in Canberra and the Blue Mountains. Overseas holidays are awesome, but there's something great about just getting in the car and driving to somewhere you've never been.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Sam Verrills set to make debut for Roosters today

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Sam Verrills set to make debut for Roosters today

Revraiser wrote:

Sounds awesome @Soylenygreen   did u have it heavily planned or wing it ?

SoylentGreen wrote:

Had to be in a couple of places at set times (my wife ran her first marathon last weekend in Canberra), but other than that just went where we wanted.

Cap'n Ranta wrote:Just while the loop talk isn't fully dead I know it makes people upset because there is such an immediate reward with little to no risk if a dart throw type player bombs. It definitely feels unfair compared to the past where the lowest AE rule gave rewards (and despair) to those who dare but it does come at a cost. And I don't even mean the occasional time where the good looking loop backfires. The long term damage will only become apparent in the coming weeks but I'll use my team as an example.

Burns to Xerri (Rd 4)
- This gave me 190k immediately and 114k in price rises after this week. Haven't ever played Xerri

Keighran to Carty (Rd 4)
- This gave me 11k immediately and 65k in rises so far

Brown to CHT (Rd 5)
- This gave me 70k immediately and 62k in rises so far
- I did use brown in week 4 to loop Carty and Bird and avoided Birds score. I want to say I likely would have done this anyway if I had no loop but I had 3 injuries in a week so there was no need to risk not having a shot at Bird and picking up his huge score.

So all up that's 502k plus whatever Carty and CHT get me this weekend. I just can't see how any amount of looping is going to make up for that sort of difference in the next few weeks....... Now I realise people wont have all 3 but even killing one spot for looping instead of getting Carty is 100k in 3 weeks. That's almost 7 points of value that'll I'll have per week for the rest of the season over someone who kept a red dot on their roster. Looping might net you 20 points this week but I can't advise people building their teams holding these non cash making guys just to maybe get the best of Xerri/Burr or Lawrie on any given week (call it a +15). Later when we have all made our money then I'm all over it but just pointing out you are hurting far more than helping at this point by keeping red dots in your team.

TLDR: If you are looping now you're taking a huge risk and personally I think chasing a short term high. For every Burns, Brown or Keighran you hold it limits your long term potential for 20 points a week at best. Enjoy the Xerri points this week though

Milchy wrote:
Since Xerri has made his debut, the 6 players I've brought in  are

Tedesco, Ponga, Rein, Cartwright, CHT, Haas

Who should I have gone without in order to get Xerri in. (I'm guessing Carty will be an answer, but prior to this week at least, he's made more money and scored more points)

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I was in a similar position and gave Teddy the miss to chase the cash over points. My trades have been identical with Xerri instead of Teddy

Joey Superior wrote:now about to open a Incognito window