Fantasy Leagues

[Monk]

suck up to me, give me a reason to include you.

 

[Ewan McGrady's Lovechild]

I did the NRL.com fantasy league last year and thought it was awesome. Anyone else do that one?

Yeah I did it last year and it was excellent. As well as having you head to head in your League, they had like an eliminator series. Where all the teams who were in the top 8000 or so at one point in the year all got thrown into a draw with the best side playing the 8000th ranked side. If you lost you were out until the last two teams were standing. I got through the first 4 or 5 weeks and then came up against some guy ranked in the Top 50 who knocked me out.

 

[Monk]

someone mind answering my Q's on the nrl.com fantasy league.

What is the scoring system like.?

Is there a salery cap?

Is it like, say only 1 team in the comp can have Greg Inglis?

Can we have our own private comps?

Is It Free?

 

[gong_eagle]

suck up to me, give me a reason to include you.

 

[Monk]

:lol: i need to wash my hands.

 

[gong_eagle]

:lol: i need to wash my hands.

was checkin out the torrent sites and saw that logo :lol:

 

[Monk]

lol, merged.

 

[_Johnsy]

kogsy's mob is going to get a damn good molesting by my mob.

Keep your dirty fngers and hands too your own roster thanks mate, my players have no idea about the employers duty of care in a workplace.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

any decision on which site we are doing?

 

[Satsok]

im in..

hook a brother up

 

[Chook Norris]

meeeeeeeee.....

1. Johnsy *
2. Griffo*
3. Monk*
4. Tonearm Terrorist*
5. Dutchy*
6. mxlegend
7. Non Terminator*
8. Frederick*
9. Butters
10. Dazraider
11. Unforgiven
12. pervese*
13. Sharkadelic
14. Pumba*
15. Shane 1970
16. pnub
17. Victor
18. redvscotty
19. saint colsey
20. rhino NQ
21. sting
22. abpanther*
23. liam
24. sans souci sainter
25. OVP*
26. Ewan McGrady's Lovechild
27. EA
28. Gong eagle
29. SSU
30. Dragon Punk
31. Forest Dragon
32. Perverse (on the list twice :S)*
33. Redback71
34. Jokers wild
35. Aussies1st
36. nz eagle
37. Evil Borad
38. Shaun Hewitt
39. Smacky
40. Chook Norris
41.
42.
43.
44.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

McKenzie Maulers Football Club ... tearing fantasy leagues apart since 2004

 

[_Johnsy]

any decision on which site we are doing?

Mate, probably wont be for a month or so. When they are up everyone can look and we'll reach a concencus.

1. Johnsy *
2. Griffo*
3. Monk*
4. Tonearm Terrorist*
5. Dutchy*
6. mxlegend
7. Non Terminator*
8. Frederick*
9. Butters
10. Dazraider
11. Unforgiven
12. pervese*
13. Sharkadelic
14. Pumba*
15. Shane 1970
16. pnub
17. Victor
18. redvscotty
19. saint colsey
20. rhino NQ
21. sting
22. abpanther*
23. liam
24. sans souci sainter
25. OVP*
26. Ewan McGrady's Lovechild
27. EA
28. Gong eagle
29. SSU
30. Dragon Punk
31. Forest Dragon
32. Perverse (on the list twice :S)*
33. Redback71
34. Jokers wild
35. Aussies1st
36. nz eagle
37. Evil Borad
38. Shaun Hewitt
39. Smacky
40. Chook Norris
41. Satsok
42.
43.
44.

 

[Ewan McGrady's Lovechild]

someone mind answering my Q's on the nrl.com fantasy league.

What is the scoring system like.?

Is there a salery cap?

Is it like, say only 1 team in the comp can have Greg Inglis?

Can we have our own private comps?

Is It Free?

Firstly..I should be in the elite league (thats if you want the best) I've been doing these for a while now....but I'll happily take a back seat and be the underrated one

For the scoring system you get points for tackles, hitups etc which I like. One thing they do different is that kickers in general play also score points if they make a certain amount of metres from kicks. You also get points for assists but lose points for mis tackles and maybe penalties conceded as well. Unfortunately its not done on a bidding basis so anyone can get anyone provided they fit under the cap. Last year I did pretty well by selecting backrowers in my backline. Guys like Nathan Smith and Fraser Anderson scored pretty highly.

Player values increase and decrease on a 3 week scoring basis (much like Sportal does) dependant on their value etc.

If anyone has done the EPL Dreamteam they will understand what I'm talking about. A mate of mine managed to work out the formula so he could work out what a player will increase/decrease in value depending on what he scores. We could use the formula to trade in/out players selling them when they were about to decrease in value and purchase players who were about to increase in value. Doesn't always work out the best as you have to figure out whats more important between making money and scoring points that week. This formula only works for the EPL Dreamteam though.

You can have private comps but I'm not sure if there is a limit or not.

http://nrl.virtualsports.com.au/ - That is the NRL one.

http://league.virtualsports.com.au/ - This is the Virtual Sports one which is very similar to Sportal. Its where only tries, goals and win pts count.

http://www.nearlynrl.com/preseason.asp - Nearly NRL. My favourite but it costs $50 for a Private comp. I paid for one last year for a few of the boys at The Colosseum. Had lots of fun as you could sledge a lot.

 

[_Johnsy]

http://nrl.virtualsports.com.au/ - That is the NRL one.

http://league.virtualsports.com.au/ - This is the Virtual Sports one which is very similar to Sportal. Its where only tries, goals and win pts count.

http://www.nearlynrl.com/preseason.asp - Nearly NRL. My favourite but it costs $50 for a Private comp. I paid for one last year for a few of the boys at The Colosseum. Had lots of fun as you could sledge a lot.

Mate, out of those 3, which one allows for a player to play for one team, and one team only ?

IMO this is the most important feature.

 

[Ewan McGrady's Lovechild]

Only Nearly NRL and to get everyone in the same comp you need to pay for it. You get a salary cap and once everyone joins the bidding usually starts 48hrs after that (so its a good idea to ensure that it starts in the evening so most people have a shot).

Reason being is once someone makes the first bid on a player, only he will know the exact time the bidding will end. If someone else bids on that player it comes up that he will make a decision in the next few days or if that player's decision will be made at lets say 2.30pm (they go to the highest bidder) then the player who bid second is just told "Player 'X' will make his decision today".

There are some advantages to being the first bidder. As an example lets say I have made bids on Glenn Stewart and Anthony Laffranchi. I might be the first bidder on Laffranchi and miss him. If thats the case then I can increase my bid on Stewart and nobody else will know that as I will have more money to spend and I will want to get one of those guys (if possible).

By clicking on a player you can see how many people are bidding on him. However you can't see who is bidding or how much they are bidding. Sometimes you can work it out as you can click on a team and it shows how many players they are bidding on. At the start its useless but during the season it can help. As an example I might be bidding on lets say Greg Inglis. One other team is bidding on him so I can click on each team and figure out who it is. After that I might find that they only have $200K left in their salary cap so I can just bid $201K and get that person....but I had someone do that to me but when I knew the bidding was nearly over I sold a player and with that extra $30K cash I increased my bid at the last minute and got my player.

Maybe I should keep these tips to myself

 

[_Johnsy]

Only Nearly NRL and to get everyone in the same comp you need to pay for it. You get a salary cap and once everyone joins the bidding usually starts 48hrs after that (so its a good idea to ensure that it starts in the evening so most people have a shot).

Reason being is once someone makes the first bid on a player, only he will know the exact time the bidding will end. If someone else bids on that player it comes up that he will make a decision in the next few days or if that player's decision will be made at lets say 2.30pm (they go to the highest bidder) then the player who bid second is just told "Player 'X' will make his decision today".

There are some advantages to being the first bidder. As an example lets say I have made bids on Glenn Stewart and Anthony Laffranchi. I might be the first bidder on Laffranchi and miss him. If thats the case then I can increase my bid on Stewart and nobody else will know that as I will have more money to spend and I will want to get one of those guys (if possible).

By clicking on a player you can see how many people are bidding on him. However you can't see who is bidding or how much they are bidding. Sometimes you can work it out as you can click on a team and it shows how many players they are bidding on. At the start its useless but during the season it can help. As an example I might be bidding on lets say Greg Inglis. One other team is bidding on him so I can click on each team and figure out who it is. After that I might find that they only have $200K left in their salary cap so I can just bid $201K and get that person....but I had someone do that to me but when I knew the bidding was nearly over I sold a player and with that extra $30K cash I increased my bid at the last minute and got my player.

Maybe I should keep these tips to myself

you have way too much time on your hands mate.

 

[aussies1st]

By clicking on a player you can see how many people are bidding on him. However you can't see who is bidding or how much they are bidding. Sometimes you can work it out as you can click on a team and it shows how many players they are bidding on. At the start its useless but during the season it can help. As an example I might be bidding on lets say Greg Inglis. One other team is bidding on him so I can click on each team and figure out who it is. After that I might find that they only have $200K left in their salary cap so I can just bid $201K and get that person....but I had someone do that to me but when I knew the bidding was nearly over I sold a player and with that extra $30K cash I increased my bid at the last minute and got my player.

Maybe I should keep these tips to myself

I too figured these tricks out. My problem has been getting players at the start, didn't have the right values on the players and missed out on the good ones.

 

[Lambretta]

Mate, out of those 3, which one allows for a player to play for one team, and one team only ?

IMO this is the most important feature.

I'd be interested in a NRL Fantasy league that did that.

Sportal or Virtual Sport do NOT have this feature. The sportal comp last season was the worst fantast league in history. The Telegraph one was about the best I have found - but anyone can buy any player once again.

If you follow NFL - the CBS Sportsline fantasy site follows the one player per team and I found it one of the most enjoyable things about the competition.

This means organising your draft becomes all important - as does watching for free agents who are in form - but it made it a hard game to play (and therefore more enjoyable in my opinion).

 

[_Johnsy]

Virtual NRL was the best fantasy league game I have ever played, by a country mile.