Fantasy Super Rugby

Week 5 update:

@RacingCarrot makes the shift up to top spot after scoring 899 points this week. A great time to use two boosters tripling up with Reece and selecting Jordan as your second captain.

@BerhamporeNinja dropped down from 1st to 4th, with @bobily managing to rise from 11th to 5th this week scoring 812 points.

I don't think many had Macca Springer in their team but he would have been the best selection of the week scoring 5 tries for the Crusaders. Infact if you had all three Crusader outside backs this week, you would be doing very well.

The most up to date top 20 is below.

this is a stupid game

@Canes4life game seems far too geared towards backs.

Think the scoring needs to add a bit more weight to tackles, tackle assists, rucks etc.

Harry WIlson is the highest scoring Forward in 9th on 210, 91 behind leader Reece.

In the top 20 there are 4 forwards: Wilson (9th) Tizzano (12th on 206) Riccitelli (15th on 190 points) and then Deverey (20th on 170)

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life game seems far too geared towards backs.

Think the scoring needs to add a bit more weight to tackles, tackle assists, rucks etc.

Harry WIlson is the highest scoring Forward in 9th on 210, 91 behind leader Reece.

In the top 20 there are 4 forwards: Wilson (9th) Tizzano (12th on 206) Riccitelli (15th on 190 points) and then Deverey (20th on 170)

Agreed, Kirifi's performance on the weekend deserved a lot more than what he got from a points perspective. I also feel like Aussie players, especially loosies and props tend to pick up a lot more points so not sure how it's all tracked.

Nothing like the feeling of the Crusaders back three with 8 tries in 70 minutes and me picking Jordan with zero of them - luckily he crawled over for one at the end.

The fact the cost of players doesn't change and the cap is huge, means picking is not that strategic, just tactical. That said, I am still shit at it

Feels like a bit too much luck involved with picking players that score loads of tries, especially in the forwards (I.E. if you happen to pick a forward that scores a try or two, you are in the money, even if other forwards had much better games). Agree with the above, forward play is massively under valued and that is where people that actually understand rugby can do well as it takes a bit more nous to identify a forward doing all the sh*t work to get their team over the line.

I also really hope they introduce player value going up and down next season, as managing a budget and picking the cheap players that you think will score well is half the fun.

@No-Quarter I think an easy way to deal with it would be limit x number of trades per week, but if you have a player on a Bye, it is a 'free' trade, and also have a bench, so if a starting player drops out, one of your bench is automatically promoted to have a full contingent of 15 players earning points.

All other fantasy games I have played involve the fluctuating values.

Not as many obvious standouts this week. I'm avoiding getting too involved in the Crusaders/Blues or Waratahs/Brumbies games, mostly looking to Chiefs, a few from Force vs Drua and a few in the Highlanders/Reds. At least weather doesn't seem a factor anywhere. Just went with Mckenzie as captain, seems the safest option this week.

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Not as many obvious standouts this week. I'm avoiding getting too involved in the Crusaders/Blues or Waratahs/Brumbies games, mostly looking to Chiefs, a few from Force vs Drua and a few in the Highlanders/Reds. At least weather doesn't seem a factor anywhere. Just went with Mckenzie as captain, seems the safest option this week.

Yeah, the halfback pick for this week is a hard one with Roigard out. Not sure who to pick there. I'm tempted to pick Reece and Jordan in my back three but feel like the Blues will be able to negate them a lot more than the Force could. I think I've got my pack sorted for this week, even with Savea and McReight out.

I just went the Brumbies guy, didn't really see any obviously good option. I found it hard to find a third loose forward with Wilson and Tizzano.

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I just went the Brumbies guy, didn't really see any obviously good option. I found it hard to find a third loose forward with Wilson and Tizzano.

I find it frustrating the Chiefs keep starting Roe, if they started Ratima he would have been my pick. Not confident on Roe though so still undecided. Preston could be a good pick but Hotham is on the bench this week so Preston will likely get pulled early.

These late pregame injury rule outs like Vaa'i are getting really annoying....

I saw the last minute scratching and put Ah Kuoi in.

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I saw the last minute scratching and put Ah Kuoi in.

That felt like a very quiet game from him.

What would be good is if you could click on each team during play to see the points of the whole team...

@bones 28 more points than Vaai was getting me...

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

What would be good is if you could click on each team during play to see the points of the whole team...

@bones 28 more points than Vaai was getting me...

Same here!

If they're not going to have bench players, I don't know if they have the ability to implement it mid season but it would be nice at least if a player who doesn't actually play in the 23 doesn't lock when a game starts, so Vaa'i for example could be replaced by a lock in a later game (I was going to use Canham). It's not a perfect solution as the last game of the week would still be a problem, but the simple fact is it's nonsense to expect everyone to be able to recheck their team before every game when a guy can get injured in warm ups so easily.

Anyone got any Highlanders outsides in their side this week?. I can’t decide whether to drop Reece for one of them. I feel like one of them is going to score big. My gut is to pick Hurley.