Fantasy Super Rugby

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

Ugh the halfback thing was a trap, Brumbies guy was the most picked option so I went with him and got 4 points

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

Ugh the halfback thing was a trap, Brumbies guy was the most picked option so I went with him and got 4 points

Me too, how do you get four points as a 9?

@Machpants said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

Ugh the halfback thing was a trap, Brumbies guy was the most picked option so I went with him and got 4 points

Me too, how do you get four points as a 9?

Lonergan doesn’t snipe. Literally all he did was pass from the base the whole game. Never had a dart once.

Shan't be doing that at the next canes bye!

This week's tough position is 10 with no McKenzie. I've been considering O'Connor or the two Moana Pasifika players listed as 10s, probably leaning towards ranking them Havili, Pelleigrini, O'Connor in that order.

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

This week's tough position is 10 with no McKenzie. I've been considering O'Connor or the two Moana Pasifika players listed as 10s, probably leaning towards ranking them Havili, Pelleigrini, O'Connor in that order.

I went a bit rogue, picking Tom Lynagh and making him my captain as well

12 changes to the team this week and then I hit remove all players by mistake.
Not loving this.

@HugeCarrot2 Went with Ben Donaldson. McKenzie has been my 10 nearly every week so far in fantasy.

@MacDazzler Weather for that game looks kind of tricky which put me off

When available, cam and DMac are must picks. No one one comes close - DMac half as much again points, cam two thirds as much more than second

Spot the dunce that picked Willie Havili at ten and made him captain when Pellegrini is starting.

@Bones you suck at this game (slightly worse than me)

As we head into week 8 this is how the top 20 stacks up in the Ferner's Fantasy League. Day light saving ends this week and with inclement weather likely to impact many games moving forward the second half of the season is going to impact player points a lot more than the first half of the season. Selections this week for me are fairly straight forward with all teams taking the field.

ohh, there's a top 20 club.

@antipodean stay in your lane pal! Be better

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@antipodean stay in your lane pal! Be better

Yup, scoring more points might work.

What I found tricky this week is I'd usually want plenty of Chiefs and Reds players but their game looks to have the worst weather?

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

What I found tricky this week is I'd usually want plenty of Chiefs and Reds players but their game looks to have the worst weather?

Yeah that's what I'm talking about above, there will be a few games where Fantasy players will need to make selection choices right on kick-off to see what the weather is like etc. I've got a couple of Chiefs players in my team atm but might need to swap them out prior to kick-off if it's bucketing down.

I've got Mckenzie as captain as it's hard not to pick him, Wilson for the Reds, but a few other 50-50 calls I just went for the guys in the fine weather games. Will check how it's looking before the game when I make sure my team isn't getting the "Pregame Injured Chiefs Player Shafting" for the 3rd time this season.

If they put more value on forward play then the wet weather wouldn't be such a factor, but as it stands you want players from really high scoring games in your team

I'm holding up the top 20 - ahead of @paj which is how I am judging my success!

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I've got Mckenzie as captain as it's hard not to pick him, Wilson for the Reds, but a few other 50-50 calls I just went for the guys in the fine weather games. Will check how it's looking before the game when I make sure my team isn't getting the "Pregame Injured Chiefs Player Shafting" for the 3rd time this season.

That could be a make or break selection having McKenzie at 10 this week if it's raining. A risk that may payoff is picking someone like Havili or Barrett instead as they are likely to play on a flat hard track tomorrow night so should get more running metres.

@KiwiPie said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I'm holding up the top 20 - ahead of @paj which is how I am judging my success!

Just trying not to be last

I think I'm about the only one that has dropped DMac this week, hope it pays off.

@Canes4life

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I think I'm about the only one that has dropped DMac this week, hope it pays off.

Interesting the "Cal7" guy who has been leading/top 5 for ages didn't use a single player from Chiefs or Reds, likely because of the weather

@HugeCarrot2 said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I think I'm about the only one that has dropped DMac this week, hope it pays off.

Interesting the "Cal7" guy who has been leading/top 5 for ages didn't use a single player from Chiefs or Reds, likely because of the weather

Yeah neither have I. I learnt that lesson when the Chiefs played Fiji and no one scored points.

I only had Dmac and McReight and moved up 1 spot in the TSF elite

And that right there is how I rocketed into the top 25....

Yeah I think this was the first week I'd rolled out both Kyren and Caleb as they'd been so consistent....

Super Rugby round 8 proved to be a challenging round for many with a number of key picks failing to fire. Many of us ran into the trouble of selecting the wrong outside backs, players that have previously scored big but only managed single digits. For example I selected Tangitau and Taumoefolau who got 6 and 1 respectively.

The full table after round 8 is below.

I made a last minute decision to move the captaincy from Dmac to Tangitau given the rain on Friday. Cost me 59 points and two positions on the table.

@No-Quarter said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I made a last minute decision to move the captaincy from Dmac to Tangitau given the rain on Friday. Cost me 59 points and two positions on the table.

I did exactly the same mate, thought it was a game changer, then Tangitau decides to have a quiet game for the first time this season. The ball really didn't go his way unfortunately.

This week may have the widest bunch of potential starters-no real standouts in a few positions and some regular options like Mckenzie and Barrett out at 10. And maybe the MP-Drua game looking like being the highest scoring?

An update in the standings heading into the last two rounds of the compeititon before the playoffs.

@Dolamite holds a narrow lead over @RacingCarrot, with @Landers92 putting the pressure on in 3rd place.

Check out where you sit in the standings below, will be interesting to see if a number of players still have their boosters to play which could see a shift in rankings as we close out the round robin phase of Super Rugby.

Does it say anywhere how many players there are in total? e.g. it has me at about 5000th overall, but out of how many? I can't seem to find that anywhere

@No-Quarter ooh look at you....

well I'm 12,090 if that helps....

My players seem to get injured early in the game - or before the game starts. And how is everyone using the "unlimited budget" booster? It seems hard to run out of money.

@No-Quarter said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Does it say anywhere how many players there are in total? e.g. it has me at about 5000th overall, but out of how many? I can't seem to find that anywhere

I think there were around 34K when the season kicked off, so you're not doing badly.

@KiwiPie said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

My players seem to get injured early in the game - or before the game starts. And how is everyone using the "unlimited budget" booster? It seems hard to run out of money.

I feel you, I've been in the same boat quite a number of times this season where players have gone down early in the game. Case and point with Bailyn Sullivan against the Landers.

Hopefully next year they will bring in replacement options.

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@No-Quarter said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Does it say anywhere how many players there are in total? e.g. it has me at about 5000th overall, but out of how many? I can't seem to find that anywhere

I think there were around 34K when the season kicked off, so you're not doing badly.

Thanks, it's weird, you'd think total number of players would be a critical piece of information to display on the main leaderboard.