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I thought I was being clever by not having many international’s in my squad. But then a lot of my high scoring players get rested this week so I’m in just as bad a position. Half my bench is red but at least there is no gray on the starters.

Shiny wrote:I thought I was being clever by not having many international’s in my squad. But then a lot of my high scoring players get rested this week so I’m in just as bad a position. Half my bench is red but at least there is no gray on the starters.

This is me, but with a few that I thought would be available also being called up (Dingwall and Hill). Can't decide whether to sign Segun or Rees-Zammit. Want the later but will he be away from now on?

Also, why have Armand and Evans fallen so out of favour?

Which Evans? With Armand, I think it’s simply a case of Vermeulen settling really well while Armand was out injured and keeping his place.

switchskier wrote:

Shiny wrote:I thought I was being clever by not having many international’s in my squad. But then a lot of my high scoring players get rested this week so I’m in just as bad a position. Half my bench is red but at least there is no gray on the starters.

This is me, but with a few that I thought would be available also being called up (Dingwall and Hill). Can't decide whether to sign Segun or Rees-Zammit. Want the later but will he be away from now on?

Also, why have Armand and Evans fallen so out of favour?

If it helps, Segun was thoroughly underwhelming, points-wise, when I had him at the start of the season.

Puja

Puja wrote:

switchskier wrote:

Shiny wrote:I thought I was being clever by not having many international’s in my squad. But then a lot of my high scoring players get rested this week so I’m in just as bad a position. Half my bench is red but at least there is no gray on the starters.

This is me, but with a few that I thought would be available also being called up (Dingwall and Hill). Can't decide whether to sign Segun or Rees-Zammit. Want the later but will he be away from now on?

Also, why have Armand and Evans fallen so out of favour?

If it helps, Segun was thoroughly underwhelming, points-wise, when I had him at the start of the season.

Puja

Artfully done after the week is closed. Went for Rees-Zammit anyways as seems a worthwhile gamble

Bollocks. I could have afforded L R-Z but having seen him on crutches last week I assumed he would be injured

switchskier wrote:

Puja wrote:

switchskier wrote:
This is me, but with a few that I thought would be available also being called up (Dingwall and Hill). Can't decide whether to sign Segun or Rees-Zammit. Want the later but will he be away from now on?

Also, why have Armand and Evans fallen so out of favour?

If it helps, Segun was thoroughly underwhelming, points-wise, when I had him at the start of the season.

Puja

Artfully done after the week is closed. Went for Rees-Zammit anyways as seems a worthwhile gamble

Can't you do transfers mid-matchweek as long as they haven't played yet? I thought that had been carried over from the RWC game.

I think LRZ is the right call anyway. Not sure he'll start many of Wales's games and he'll be back for the off weeks anyway.

Puja

Puja is correct. Selection is only locked for tonight’s game.

My side got screwed by last minute drop outs from Thacker and van der Merwe. No starting hooker, no bench hooker, no bench prop and no bench centre/wing ... could be among my worst ever weeks!

456 points is a good return bearing in mind I took a 20 point hit, lost Thacker and Van der Merwe, and had a couple of other no-shows in there too.

Yep. 451 is an average week for me despite having 4 zero scoring players. Annoying that having a couple of those could have made it a very good week.

I tried to plan around the 6Ns but call-ups for people like Tompkins and Earl has scuppered that. Hopefully a couple of my injured players are back for the Valentine’s weekend fixtures.

455 for me which is above average so I’m happy enough.

6 Nations league is ready to go:

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Unique token: 5fdeabd42d18

I'm in three leagues across three different platforms. I have to say, the ESPN scrum one, having been the only option for years, is by far the worst. Poor functionality, little imagination, the interface is shite.

Of the three, TRM is the best. Although the Guiness competition has a cool feature - the super sub. Basically you pick a player who's starting on the bench, and then their points are tripled. When so many users pick the same squads, it can be a real point of difference

I’ve never played the Guinness one but TRM is easily the best fantasy sports game I’ve played. The other fantasy rugby games only really award players who score tries and assists, whereas with TRM, you can get as many points from a player who has a good performance in a losing team. Take Watson and Gray for example - they’re both among the highest scoring players from round 1 but neither scored a try and neither were on the winning team.

I’m glad I didn’t make Josh Adams my captain this week!

Had a really good week, cleared 500 points with a couple of bench players, and even a zero as I forgot I could have played NTamack in the centre and kept Biggar in the side.

Same here. The one saving grace of Josh Adams’ low score is that most people picked him too.

The only annoying thing for me is if I’d picked Sinckler or Fagerson to start over Mako and Ryan over Gray, I’d be in the top 5.

After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Shiny wrote:After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Suspect that we're all in the same boat. Scrum half appears particularly difficult given the number of us that have Reinach.

Speaking of which, is Whitely now ahead of Spencer at Sarries or has the later been in camp with England (thought that he wasn't)?

switchskier wrote:

Shiny wrote:After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Suspect that we're all in the same boat. Scrum half appears particularly difficult given the number of us that have Reinach.

Speaking of which, is Whitely now ahead of Spencer at Sarries or has the later been in camp with England (thought that he wasn't)?

I must have a very different squad to all of you, cause I sailed through picking a XXIII with the only problem being having not a single hooker, which was sorted with my one transfer.

Novel not to be having selection problems!

Puja

Shiny wrote:After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Similar here. Had to drop 20 points in order to get a side out and I still have 3 reds on the bench.

Injuries, rotations and 6N travelling reserves really f*cked me over.

switchskier wrote:

Shiny wrote:After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Suspect that we're all in the same boat. Scrum half appears particularly difficult given the number of us that have Reinach.

Speaking of which, is Whitely now ahead of Spencer at Sarries or has the later been in camp with England (thought that he wasn't)?

My master plan for world domination is to have my two scrum-halfs as Reinach and Mitchell so hopefully one will be starting. I guess I am just the Eddie Jones of fantasy rugby selection.

Shiny wrote:

switchskier wrote:

Shiny wrote:After scoring the highest points in our little league last week this week I have gone to utter despair at not even having a starting 15 of starters and subs. Most of my bench is red too. I shall be lucky to get into the top 50,000 this week.

Suspect that we're all in the same boat. Scrum half appears particularly difficult given the number of us that have Reinach.

Speaking of which, is Whitely now ahead of Spencer at Sarries or has the later been in camp with England (thought that he wasn't)?

My master plan for world domination is to have my two scrum-halfs as Reinach and Mitchell so hopefully one will be starting. I guess I am just the Eddie Jones of fantasy rugby selection.

I've got Randall and Uren on the same (slightly more of a Tesco Value) master plan. So far it's working okay.

Puja

Puja wrote:

Shiny wrote:

switchskier wrote:
Suspect that we're all in the same boat. Scrum half appears particularly difficult given the number of us that have Reinach.

Speaking of which, is Whitely now ahead of Spencer at Sarries or has the later been in camp with England (thought that he wasn't)?

My master plan for world domination is to have my two scrum-halfs as Reinach and Mitchell so hopefully one will be starting. I guess I am just the Eddie Jones of fantasy rugby selection.

I've got Randall and Uren on the same (slightly more of a Tesco Value) master plan. So far it's working okay.

Puja

I started with Reinach and Mitchell but sold the later when Taylor was starting, curses.