Fantasy Super Rugby

@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.

@KiwiPie thats the only booster I have not yet used, like many I expect.

I think maybe when setting up my 1st round teamI might have exceeded budget and had to revise, but have not needed to since.

@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.

Does this run into the playoffs? I expect picking the best team in the playoffs could become hard. But I haven’t been close to using my budget this season, seems a bit easy, something I’m sure they’ll rectify next year.

Well those of you that have Taumoefolou, I just selected him for my team, every time I have done that, he has scored f-all points...you have been warned

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Well those of you that have Taumoefolou, I just selected him for my team, every time I have done that, he has scored f-all points...you have been warned

Hahah same here, pretty much every time I've gone to select an outside back in form, they haven't performed the week I've put them in my Fantasy side. Talk about frustrating.

I'm tossing up between Narawa and Taumoefolau, I'll probably go with the former as I think the Chiefs will be more dominant.

So I think that's it? They are not doing the finals? In the T&Cs it says the promotion period is: From 11:00 NZDT 7 February 2025 until 21:00 NZST on 31 May 2025. I can see it hasn't ticked over to the next round for selections.

Thanks to @Canes4life for setting up the league, it was pretty fun though it could use some pretty key improvements next year, like making the budget meaningful and introducing player prices fluctuating. I was around 20th in our league for most of the year, but made a late surge including having my triple booster on DMac for the Moana game which went pretty well, so ended up 7th and 3359th overall.

Congrats to RacingCarrot for taking it out.

@No-Quarter in addition, you need to be able to have reserves, so if someone is.injured last minute they slot into your lineup rather than you playing with 1 less, cos.thats how it happens in real life.

@No-Quarter said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

So I think that's it? They are not doing the finals? In the T&Cs it says the promotion period is: From 11:00 NZDT 7 February 2025 until 21:00 NZST on 31 May 2025. I can see it hasn't ticked over to the next round for selections.

Thanks to @Canes4life for setting up the league, it was pretty fun though it could use some pretty key improvements next year, like making the budget meaningful and introducing player prices fluctuating. I was around 20th in our league for most of the year, but made a late surge including having my triple booster on DMac for the Moana game which went pretty well, so ended up 7th and 3359th overall.

Congrats to RacingCarrot for taking it out.

You’re right, it looks like that’s it. Cheers to everyone for taking part, definitely hope they make a few changes next year.

Congrats to Racing Carrot for being the inaugural Fantasy Ferner’s League champion.

Dude that won said alot of his calls were made minutes prior to kick off...

Guess that would be slightly more successful than me picking on Wednesday when teams are announced...

@taniwharugby hope they have a Fantasy Rugby for the Bunnings NPC but we all know it will take NZ Rugby another 20 years to sign that off and by then the NPC be well and truly a distant memory

Thanks @Canes4life I enjoyed it even if it was a bit frustrating. Fairly happy with 14th place given how little thought I put into it

@Steven-Harris cant see it sadly....there used to be one many years ago, was a pretty good one too.

@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.

They sent a season wrap today.

Over 70,000 played.

I was in the top 2k. 4th in the ferners league

They did a team of the comp too, but I can't find that. I remember being blindsided Hooper was blindside.

@DaGrubster said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

They sent a season wrap today.

Over 70,000 played.

I was in the top 2k. 4th in the ferners league

Not a bad shift, I managed to sneak into the top 3k, pretty happy with that.

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@DaGrubster said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

They sent a season wrap today.

Over 70,000 played.

I was in the top 2k. 4th in the ferners league

Not a bad shift, I managed to sneak into the top 3k, pretty happy with that.

Well done mate, I got caught out a few times playing it from London, meant i couldn't react to some late scratchings. Was hard ro really gauge form too relying on watching highlights most of the time.

Incidently, i got 4th in the planet rugby league as well.

They can improve it next year, i dont think i ever had to compromise my selection due to salary cap issues.

Pretty cool that the league was played from 187 countries!

Seems like it has been a big success on fan engagement for super rugby

@DaGrubster said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@DaGrubster said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

They sent a season wrap today.

Over 70,000 played.

I was in the top 2k. 4th in the ferners league

Not a bad shift, I managed to sneak into the top 3k, pretty happy with that.

Well done mate, I got caught out a few times playing it from London, meant i couldn't react to some late scratchings. Was hard ro really gauge form too relying on watching highlights most of the time.

Incidently, i got 4th in the planet rugby league as well.

They can improve it next year, i dont think i ever had to compromise my selection due to salary cap issues.

Pretty cool that the league was played from 187 countries!

Seems like it has been a big success on fan engagement for super rugby

Well played.

I hope they bring in injury replacements next year, so if a player goes down in the first 10 mins you can swap him out. I also hope they reduce the salary you can spend on your team to make it more challenging.

@Canes4life the old one they used to do (c 2000 - 2010, player values fluctuated, you had like 3 trades a round I think (which wasnt ideal, especially with so many byes in current format, so what they could do is allow unlimited trades on players in bye week or listed as injured, subject to your salary obviously)

For those of you that are interested, I have created a new league for this year's Super Rugby Fantasy competition. If you are interested you can join the Ferner's 2026 league here - https://playfantasyrugby.com/super/leagues/join/TG50ZK14

Let me know if anyone has any issues accessing?

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