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.

@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?

Joinded

Have they lowered the budget from last year?
They also seem to have much more nuanced "Value" as of now.
Am hoping for further improvements... like those rankings changing week-by-week.

BTW - the fact that 8% of people have selected Roigard on the 'Canes' bye week... should put everybody's ranking into perspective.

Interested to hear who some people think could be some solid pick ups.

I think Pasitoa will be a good acquisition as a midfield back if he is picked at 10 for the Landers and goal kicks.

The other guy I think could be worth a go if he starts is Israel Leota out of MP. Had big wraps at the Broncos and could be their go to winger.

@SouthernMann fuck, thats alot of thought right there...I tried to.pick.my team butnran out of money

There is also a bit of a fame to try and find the goal kickers who aren't playing first five. Adding some extra points.

@SouthernMann well keep us abreast of your analysis

@Canes4life Im in

@SouthernMann said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

There is also a bit of a fame to try and find the goal kickers who aren't playing first five. Adding some extra points.

you've gone a bit quiet, hope you arent holding out on us?

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@SouthernMann said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

There is also a bit of a fame to try and find the goal kickers who aren't playing first five. Adding some extra points.

you've gone a bit quiet, hope you arent holding out on us?

Well my two hopes seem to be well off the radar.

Narawa, Bell, Akhi, Fakatava and Jacobsen look decent value.

Can't seem to find any goal kickers who aren't listed as 10s?

Hi everyone, for those of you that haven't signed up this year, this is a reminder to.

You can join the Ferner's League here - https://playfantasyrugby.com/super/leagues/join/TG50ZK14

@SouthernMann I assume Love will be GC for the canes? Doesn't help this week though.

I’ve just joined and realised there is a lot of Michael’s in our group.

That's because we are awesome. A competition within the competition for the best Mike/Michael

Last one has to change to Mick.

LAST REMINDER TO SIGN-UP!

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Round 1 in the books and @jamesb is the early leader with 518 points. Big scorers for his team were Miracle Failagi (69 points) who scored a hattrick against the Drua, and Jorgenson (71 points) who was sublime against the Reds on Friday night.

Ferner's Fantasy League standings after round 1:

Great when your captain pick up a whopping 8 points...double points are so helpful on that

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Great when your captain pick up a whopping 8 points...double points are so helpful on that

Oof

That round was a bomb!

The only way is up...

Round 2 is now in the books and for the first time in Fantasy, I've been able to sneak 1st position, largely due to triple captaining Jorgensen and also backing Fehi (despite him gifting a try to Moorby). My Booboo for the week was swapping out Moorby for Carter last minute.

Anita Blackman also sits in 1st equal, not sure who this player is on the Fern but well played. They also captained Jorgensen, they selected Josh Moorby and they persisted with Samisoni who brought home 83 points.

Apologies for the delay this round team. My position at the top only lastest one week, with Anita Blackman (AKA Chris) shooting up to 1st with a solid round of 519 points. His big selections for the week were triple captaining Fehi Fineanganofo who brought home 123 points, McReight scored the second most points for his team with 61.

@mikedogz scored the most points for round 3 with 546. A strategy of double captaining Papali'i and Cale was a solid ploy, and as a result went from 16th to 14th.

Ferner's League ladder after round 3:

I'm up to 3rd, how the hell did that happen? (the free wheeling Chiefs v Crusaders game of course)

@KiwiPie i moved up 1.place, but knowing @booboo he forgot to change his team from the previous week.

Lucky enough to use my triple captain on Tangitau...im killing it.

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

forgot to change his team from the previous week.

Honestly can't remember... but wasn’t unhappy with what I had.

Have changed it for this week early though

First time I'm having real problems with Budget.

With Round 4 now in the bin, it's getting tight at the top of the Ferner's league. Anita Blackman (AKA Chris) kept everyone at bay with another solid round of 681 points. He had a lot of big scorers for the week, especially in the outsides with Daugunu, Jorgensen and Fineanganofo.

@bobily had the highest score for the round with 761, bloody well played. Captaining Cale paid off big with 148 points.

Ferner's league ladder after round 4:

I'm getting vertigo hanging around in the top 4. Pretty sure it won't last

@KiwiPie I've started my climb, 1 week at a time, look out in 20 rounds!!

Silly game

Started off great and been shit ever since.
Am pissed about players injured before game. I think there should an option to transfer out that player if theres another game on in round, or get average points for that position.

I had Sititi and flicked on just at kick off and didn't have option to transfer out.

Also, Perofeta supposedly a late injury, yet in post match interview B Barrett mentioned the coach had asked him if he could play 80mins the day before. Presume the knew then Perofeta wasn't playing.

@Paj said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Started off great and been shit ever since.
Am pissed about players injured before game. I think there should an option to transfer out that player if theres another game on in round, or get average points for that position.

I had Sititi and flicked on just at kick off and didn't have option to transfer out.

Also, Perofeta supposedly a late injury, yet in post match interview B Barrett mentioned the coach had asked him if he could play 80mins the day before. Presume the knew then Perofeta wasn't playing.

Yeah it is frustrating, to do well in Fantasy you really need to be up with the play for all games, something that is unrealistic for most people.

I agree, they should have one injury replacement a week where you can swap out an injured player for a starting player in a later game.

I have noticed player value going up and down this season, so a step in the right direction there, but I can't see a history of that players value over time and exactly what day their new value is calculated each week. These are important if you want to maximise the value of your team, you need to transfer out players not playing the next week early before their value drops, and transfer in players that performed well early so you get the $ from their value increasing.

still think they need to fix it by allowing you to pick some reserves who only come in, in the event of a last minute injury, such as last week, I had Toole in my side, but he didnt end up playing.

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

still think they need to fix it by allowing you to pick some reserves who only come in, in the event of a last minute injury, such as last week, I had Toole in my side, but he didnt end up playing.

To be fair, the announcement on Toole not playing was made about 24 hours prior to kick-off, and then the match was also delayed by nearly 2 hours, so you had plenty of time in that regard.

@Canes4life not if I dont follow headlines about non-NZ teams and then on the NZ teams it would only be if the weather is shite I might be in checking.