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The Fantasy King: Year in Review (part 4)
By Mick 'the King' Adams Fantasy is not a subjective concept. As such, any attempt to list top ten players of the year or select an All-fantasy First XIII will be rendered moot for the simple fact that looking at the Supercoach ladder will tell you exactly the same story in a thousand words fewer. […]
Rookies of the Year
By Mick 'the King' Adams Historically, there have been only three things you can reasonably ask of rookies in fantasy: regular first grade appearances, a plus-40 season average and a season price value increase of over 100k (please note this will be my only reference to the vastly inferior non-draft form of fantasy in this […]
The Fantasy King year in review Part 2: Duds, Busts and Disappointments
By Mick 'the King' Adams In part two of my fantasy season review, I present my top ten fantasy busts of the year. Let’s dive straight in, keeping in mind that 2013 rankings are liable to change before the end of the season: 10. Paul Gallen 2012: 16th overall, average 94.27; 2013: 78th overall, average […]
The Fantasy King: Year in Review Part 1
By Mick 'the King' Adams Fantasy finals begin this weekend, and for many thousands of fantasy coaches this means some last minute tinkering and agonising over who to put in and who to leave out. This number does not include myself however, with PriddleUpTheMiddle finishing embarrassingly close to the bottom of Making The Nut’s Supercoach […]
The Fantasy King: On Dugan
By Mick 'the King' Adams Last week I wrote about the effect of blowouts on fantasy scores. As it turned out it was very prescient, with round 21 being one of the more uneven in terms of scorelines. In all, four of the eight games were blowouts by the criteria I laid out in last […]
The Fantasy King – the Run Home
By Mick 'the King' Adams The latest stage in my unending quest to crack the Supercoach code, this week I thought I’d focus my attention on just what it takes to get those big scores on a regular basis. Looking at the top ten fantasy scorers over the last ten weeks, it’s clear that solving […]
The Fantasy King: Origin 3
By Mick 'the King' Adams A longstanding personal tradition post-Origin has been to read the SMH player reviews first thing the next morning. With Origin fantasy now a thing, I thought I’d rate the players by their fantasy performances. Note on scoring: given that Origin fantasy is new, we don’t really know what the ceiling […]
The Fantasy King – Fantasy Redraft
By Mick 'the King' Adams With the 2013 fantasy season now past the halfway point, we have a pretty clear look at the fantasy landscape as it currently stands. With that in mind, it’s time for a fantasy redraft. If we were able to draft again, what would be done differently? I know I’d make […]
The Fantasy King: Bye Week Blues
By Mick 'the King' Adams It was a brutal morning for me when I looked at my fantasy team to see how few players I had available for selection this weekend, with byes and Origin severely depleting my squad. Casting a net across the NRL to study the meagre pool of players going about their […]
The Fantasy King: Ode to A Hooker
By Mick 'the King' Adams Looking at the stat sheet in my morning Origin post-mortem I didn’t have too much of a problem with Luke Lewis as man of the match, or as it’s been rechristened “the hardest working player” award. WTF is that all about anyway? It sounds like a consolation prize you’d hand […]
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