Shiny wrote:Apart from the starting props (both grey dots) I have a green starting team at least. A couple of red or yellow dots on the bench though. Somehow I scraped through the third round of the cup last week against a much higher scoring team (with me producing my best round of the season so far with 511 points).
Yeesh - 511 points would've taken care of me handily! Good week.
I'm still in the cup, although I might need a bit of luck this week. Anyone who has Montoya, be aware that I've not only finally signed him, but also made him captain, so he's due to get injured in the first minute.
Puja
Duly noted. Shall start one of my five other hookers.
Anyone know when London Irish have a bye week? I'm increasingly reliant on them, but I also want to sign more of their players this week
Shiny wrote:Apart from the starting props (both grey dots) I have a green starting team at least. A couple of red or yellow dots on the bench though. Somehow I scraped through the third round of the cup last week against a much higher scoring team (with me producing my best round of the season so far with 511 points).
Yeesh - 511 points would've taken care of me handily! Good week.
I'm still in the cup, although I might need a bit of luck this week. Anyone who has Montoya, be aware that I've not only finally signed him, but also made him captain, so he's due to get injured in the first minute.
Shiny wrote:Apart from the starting props (both grey dots) I have a green starting team at least. A couple of red or yellow dots on the bench though. Somehow I scraped through the third round of the cup last week against a much higher scoring team (with me producing my best round of the season so far with 511 points).
511 nice. The du Preez twins let me down in epic fashion last weekend. I'm hoping they comeback firing this week as my Sarries contingent are having a week off. Shillcock's injury hasn't helped either. I've had to go flyhalf shopping on a limited budget.
Shiny wrote:Apart from the starting props (both grey dots) I have a green starting team at least. A couple of red or yellow dots on the bench though. Somehow I scraped through the third round of the cup last week against a much higher scoring team (with me producing my best round of the season so far with 511 points).
511 nice. The du Preez twins let me down in epic fashion last weekend. I'm hoping they comeback firing this week as my Sarries contingent are having a week off. Shillcock's injury hasn't helped either. I've had to go flyhalf shopping on a limited budget.
Yeah, that's my fault on the du Preez - I finally signed one of them for the first time in 3 (maybe? I forget) seasons of playing this game, so there'll be no more points for JL.
Shiny wrote:Apart from the starting props (both grey dots) I have a green starting team at least. A couple of red or yellow dots on the bench though. Somehow I scraped through the third round of the cup last week against a much higher scoring team (with me producing my best round of the season so far with 511 points).
511 nice. The du Preez twins let me down in epic fashion last weekend. I'm hoping they comeback firing this week as my Sarries contingent are having a week off. Shillcock's injury hasn't helped either. I've had to go flyhalf shopping on a limited budget.
Yeah, that's my fault on the du Preez - I finally signed one of them for the first time in 3 (maybe? I forget) seasons of playing this game, so there'll be no more points for JL.
Puja
Damn you, normally worth between 50 and 80 points combined but last weekend 25.
Hoskins is benched again which is my front row banker no longer guarantying points.
FKAS wrote:
511 nice. The du Preez twins let me down in epic fashion last weekend. I'm hoping they comeback firing this week as my Sarries contingent are having a week off. Shillcock's injury hasn't helped either. I've had to go flyhalf shopping on a limited budget.
Yeah, that's my fault on the du Preez - I finally signed one of them for the first time in 3 (maybe? I forget) seasons of playing this game, so there'll be no more points for JL.
Puja
Damn you, normally worth between 50 and 80 points combined but last weekend 25.
Hoskins is benched again which is my front row banker no longer guarantying points.
Could be an iffy weekend.
Didn't he score something like 40 off the bench last week?
Puja wrote:
Yeah, that's my fault on the du Preez - I finally signed one of them for the first time in 3 (maybe? I forget) seasons of playing this game, so there'll be no more points for JL.
Puja
Damn you, normally worth between 50 and 80 points combined but last weekend 25.
Hoskins is benched again which is my front row banker no longer guarantying points.
Could be an iffy weekend.
Didn't he score something like 40 off the bench last week?
Made a decent clean break from the highlights, which always skews the numbers for props.
I've taken a gamble in the same vein and am starting Barbeary, despite him being on the Wasps bench. He'll get a good few minutes, especially with Gaskell and JWillis in the back row who will likely both need a rest, and I think I fancy him to score more in a cameo than Karl Wilkins would as a starter, which was my other option.
Puja wrote:
Yeah, that's my fault on the du Preez - I finally signed one of them for the first time in 3 (maybe? I forget) seasons of playing this game, so there'll be no more points for JL.
Puja
Damn you, normally worth between 50 and 80 points combined but last weekend 25.
Hoskins is benched again which is my front row banker no longer guarantying points.
Could be an iffy weekend.
Didn't he score something like 40 off the bench last week?
He did after I benched him . He came on early though, if I remember rightly but not sure if he'll managed that again.
Hoskins has started more games this season, but he has generally scored better when deployed from the bench. Typically, he’s brought on as a primary carrier which really amplifies his scoring. He doesn’t seem to have quite the same role when he starts.
This week wasn’t quite as good, but his score from the bench will probably be better than quite a few of the starting props this round.
I’m in a weird situation where 10 of my starting XV and 6 of my bench have already played. Still should be a solid week but hard to tell at this point.
I'm also holding you responsible for Montoya being rotated out of the team, by the way.
Likewise, I've had a bit of a struggle this week. My squad is alreayd so full of cheap, international-weekend-only players that I've decided not to take a 20 point hit and just have a bench mostly occupied by grey dots. On the plus side, I think some of my cheaper players might surge in price slightly as they get picked up. Already noticing that with one or two.
Yeah. I’ve been hit harder than expected by rotation too. I was surprised to see no Montoya, Earl benched and Harding still missing. Spent all my money … we’ll see whether it was money well spent …
I've just about managed to scramble it together, light a hooker on the bench with Wasps having a bye week and Montoya given a rest. Three hookers unavailable. Didn't want to take a 20 point hit for a bench player, quite a bit of risk there though as there's a couple of hookers available who score between 40-50 points reliably.
Same. I checked this morning before a lot of the teams were announced and was pleasantly surprised thinking I may not even need any transfers. So very wrong!
Like Puja, plenty of cover in particular positions then nothing in others. Just scraped a starting 15 of green dots but plenty of gaps on the bench.
Crap week for me. Got every single 50:50 decision wrong, my gamble of a big signing went spectacularly badly (red card for DVDM) and I picked a captain who scored me 28pts.
Literally the one good decision I made was taking the captain’s armband off of Mako earlier this morning.
Feels like one of those weeks where choice is a bad thing …
I didn’t need to make any transfers but I have, mostly in preparation for Quins’ bye next round but if last round is anything to go by, I will almost certainly screw up all my 50:50 choices.
Good but not as good as it could have been last week. In a similar position to you in regards to player availablity though wish I had checked who had the bye for next week and I've moved players around in a less than efficient way now. Heyho.
Scrumhead wrote:Feels like one of those weeks where choice is a bad thing …
I didn’t need to make any transfers but I have, mostly in preparation for Quins’ bye next round but if last round is anything to go by, I will almost certainly screw up all my 50:50 choices.
Thank gods you reminded me about Quins' bye next week. I'm already overextended on them and I had just signed Murley. Backed out and picked up Skosan instead.
switchskier wrote:I've got mostly green dots and am just short on props. But I don't want to buy any of the ones that are starting. It's a conundrum
Props are hard. There’s only a handful worth spending money on and two of those are unavailable (Mako and Genge).
If you don’t have Hoskins, he generally scores more from the bench than he does as a starter. Don’t just take my word for it - his scores back that up.
Rodd is cheap and has had some very good scores this season?
Normally, if I find myself without a prop for the bench, I just take the 0 rather than sign someone who might only make me 5pts.
I've managed to acquire some decent scoring props for reasonable value but it took some trial and error. Hoskins is a very useful player to have very much second that one. Often outscores starting props with his bench impact. Of course having said that expect shockers from my props now.
switchskier wrote:I've got mostly green dots and am just short on props. But I don't want to buy any of the ones that are starting. It's a conundrum
Props are hard. There’s only a handful worth spending money on and two of those are unavailable (Mako and Genge).
If you don’t have Hoskins, he generally scores more from the bench than he does as a starter. Don’t just take my word for it - his scores back that up.
Rodd is cheap and has had some very good scores this season?
Normally, if I find myself without a prop for the bench, I just take the 0 rather than sign someone who might only make me 5pts.
That's the approach I've taken. Decided to sign a centre ahead of the quin's bye week instead.
552 points this week. I love international windows. Shame I can’t score like that the rest of the year. I guess that’s why I am in the bottom third of our league consistently.
. He came on early though, if I remember rightly but not sure if he'll managed that again.
