Fantasy Super Rugby

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.

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@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.

Yeah fair call, hopefully they bring in the replacement option next year. They should have done a survey to all Fantasy players last year to improve the experience.

@Canes4life or it could just be as simple as giving you the average of all starting players in that position (if your guy was a starter) or if a bench, average of all the bench players in that position.

But hey, it is what it is, I aint coming last, presently....

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life or it could just be as simple as giving you the average of all starting players in that position (if your guy was a starter) or if a bench, average of all the bench players in that position.

But hey, it is what it is, I aint coming last, presently....

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@booboo said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life or it could just be as simple as giving you the average of all starting players in that position (if your guy was a starter) or if a bench, average of all the bench players in that position.

But hey, it is what it is, I aint coming last, presently....

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Holy shit - how are you doing worse than me? I've forgotten to select my team twice - including the first week, so zero points....
(although it looks like it's giving me my average for subsequent weeks, in lieu of zero points? That's nice of them.)

@Kruse said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@booboo said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life or it could just be as simple as giving you the average of all starting players in that position (if your guy was a starter) or if a bench, average of all the bench players in that position.

But hey, it is what it is, I aint coming last, presently....

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Holy shit - how are you doing worse than me? I've forgotten to select my team twice

At least once ...

• including the first week, so zero points....
  (although it looks like it's giving me my average for subsequent weeks, in lieu of zero points? That's nice of them.)

And picking early in the week and not updating when the team is actually named ... fuck you Will Jordan and Corey Toole and Jared Proffitt

Plus not realising Dmac was back

And having a nightmare with player values fluctuating ...

And I'm not hovering over the phone awaiting line up changes before kick off ...

And general uselessness ...

Below is how the Ferner's Fantasy league sits after round 5. @bobily takes a slim lead after a solid round of 555 points. @jamesb was the big mover for the week with 635 points and that moves him up to second.

Some good match-ups this week so will be interesting to see who people select in their teams. I'm expecting quite a bit of a shuffle on the table by the time Sunday comes around.

Slim pickings at 10 this week...

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Slim pickings at 10 this week...

Sure is, Dmac is spendy, Love is a fullback so you can't select him as a 10. Beaudy could be it as Blues are playing Tahs.

@Canes4life I've gone for Pellegrini, although cold do the unlimited $$$ on DMac if you dont have enough....

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life I've gone for Pellegrini, although cold do the unlimited $$$ on DMac if you dont have enough....

Already used my boosters, so I'll likely slowly stumble down the table for the remainder of the season.

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

I'll post a weekly update shortly. Yeah, the limitless booster just means you have an unlimited budget to spend so can select anyone you want for a week.

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

I'll post a weekly update shortly. Yeah, the limitless booster just means you have an unlimited budget to spend so can select anyone you want for a week.

I've obviously been too lazy to read the rules properly - is it only the same set budget every week?

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

I'll post a weekly update shortly. Yeah, the limitless booster just means you have an unlimited budget to spend so can select anyone you want for a week.

I've obviously been too lazy to read the rules properly - is it only the same set budget every week?

Yep, 100M budget every week. When you use that limitless booster, you have an infininate number of $$ to spend.

After the completion of round 6, @antipodean and @bones had very strong weeks with 730 and 713 points respectively. @antipodean's big players were Fehi Fenanganofo and captain Jordie Barrett, while @bones big movers were Fehi and DMac (captain).

@bobily2 remained in poll position and currently holds an 8 points lead over @jamesb.

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

I'll post a weekly update shortly. Yeah, the limitless booster just means you have an unlimited budget to spend so can select anyone you want for a week.

I've obviously been too lazy to read the rules properly - is it only the same set budget every week?

Yep, 100M budget every week. When you use that limitless booster, you have an infininate number of $$ to spend.

Hah, I was under the disillusion I could build my budget across the season with savvy trading. What a moran.

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Having quite the turnaround in fortune this week, no boosters yet either.

Anyone understand how the limitless one actually works?

I'll post a weekly update shortly. Yeah, the limitless booster just means you have an unlimited budget to spend so can select anyone you want for a week.

I've obviously been too lazy to read the rules properly - is it only the same set budget every week?

Yep, 100M budget every week. When you use that limitless booster, you have an infininate number of $$ to spend.

Hah, I was under the disillusion I could build my budget across the season with savvy trading. What a moran.

I too thought that was the point

@Bones same here, it made a lot of sense to me for it to be this way

After the completion of round 7, @dmoney and @taniwharugby had very strong weeks with 631 and 621 points respectively. They picked the try scoring machine Fehi Fineanganofo.

@bobily remained in poll position and currently holds an 16 point lead over myself in 2nd, with @jamesb in close pursuit 8 points behind in third.

I toyed with the idea of making him captain, but didnt....

Team gutted for this weekend though!!

@taniwharugby said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

I toyed with the idea of making him captain, but didnt....

Team gutted for this weekend though!!

It's slim pickings this weekend with so many byes in play. I'm sure most Fantasy teams will be filled up largely with Chiefs, Crusaders and Reds players.

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

poll position

Just no. I let it slide last week, but two weeks in a row is hurty, especially since you actually follow F1.

Or did we all vote for him?

@Bones said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

@Canes4life said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

poll position

Just no. I let it slide last week, but two weeks in a row is hurty, especially since you actually follow F1.

Or did we all vote for him?

This is why we don't copy and paste from the previous week. Pole it is.

Hotham out

@mikedogz said in Fantasy Super Rugby:

Hotham out

Yeah fuck. Caught that as they were walking on, but was already locked and couldn't seap him out. Boo.

Round 8 in the books and I'm stoked to announce that I've managed to sneak back up to the top of the Ferner's Fantasy league standings after chipping away at both @bobily and @jamesb in the last two weeks.

I managed to get some good pay by picking Ben Donaldson, whereas many picked Carter Gordon at 10. That was pretty much the difference this week.

Quite a few players were caught out by the last minute Hotham injury, despite Chapman not scoring too many in the end.

@mikey_woa had the biggest shift this week scoring a very impressive 753 points. Captaining Fihaki was definitely a selection that paid dividends and has also meant he's now putting the heat on @bones for 8th position.

A really competitive round of games coming up which will likely spell yet more position changes prior to the next update. Goodluck everyone.