Fox Fantasy Super Rugby Week 2 Hit or Miss

Each week we provide our insight and opinion over weekly transfers and line-up advice . In the interests of full disclosure we’re going to review our selections to see whether we talk complete crap and our selections bomb, or more likely prove that we’re actually clairvoyants with an uncanny ability to see into the future.

First up let’s look at our collective Transfer Selections: (original post here)

BOSSMAN:

SELL:

•  Folau 51 pts – is solid, but this pick was because there was better value elsewhere at OBK and Izzy dropped another $65k. HIT
• Dane Coles 60pts – Ok he dropped $20k, but he was the 2nd highest scoring hooker. MISS 
• Haylett-Petty 44pts – Let’s face it that’s great for the Force, and solid on the week. He did drop another $38k though and there were plenty of cheaper options elsewhere who racked up points. HIT

HOLD:

• Kerevi 27 pts – kept in check by the Force. Outside the top 20 scorers and lost $64k in value. MISS
• Reiko Ioane 32 pts – average week for Reiko. Didn’t lose much value, but didn’t particularly excite. 50/50
• TJ Perenara 30 pts – looked better value that his 30 pts tells you. Top 5 SH. HIT

BUY:

• Reiko Ioane 32 pts – average week for Reiko and there were 20 other centres who scored higher. His price barely moved. MISS
• Beauden Barrett 20 pts – bottom quarter of starting fly halves. A little unlucky with his disallowed try, but still a bad performance. MISS
• Naholo 58 pts – another great outing. HIT

FEASTJUICE:

SELL:

• Ricciteli / Black / Aso / Laumape – Aso and Laumape started, scored big, and looked great. Ricciteli threw an insance wrong handed try assist, only Black was limited. BIG MISS
• Nanai 14 pts – the blues found it hard going agains the Chiefs, and Nanai was barely in the game. Lost another $94k. HIT
• Pieter-Steph Du Toit 48 pts– PSDT had a great week and was the top scoring lock. This pick was based on relative value. Whilst Eben under performed slightly at 30pts, there  were plenty of other locks like Whitelock, Snyman, Retallick who offered better value and got 30+ pts for $200k less. PSDT also lost another $43k. 50/50

HOLD:

• Folau 51 pts – if you had him, he had a good week in large part due to his insane last play side step. He lost a chunk of value again though. 50/50.
• McKenzie 70 pts– Great week, back to his best. HIT.
• Skelton 0 pts – missed the game with the Lions, so win this on a technicality. HIT.

BUY:

• Beauden Barrett 20 pts – bottom quarter of starting fly halves. A little unlucky with his disallowed try, but still a bad performance. MISS
• Stormers (SP Marais, Etzebeth, Kolisi) – Marais was the highest scoring OBK, Etzebeth was solid, but Kolisi was the worst pick of a high scoring Stormers back-row. 50/50.
• Hika Elliot 37pt – another great outing for Hika, snaffling a try. HIT

So let’s total is up for the week. If we take +1 HIT, -1 MISS, 0 for 50/50 then the week 2 totals are:

BOSSMAN: +0 on the week

FEASTJUICE: +2 on the week

Now let’s look at the Week 2 suggested line-up.

WEEK 2 LINE-UP:

There average score across week 2 was 544. Bossman’s team below scored a stonking 608, without taking into account captain choice. Clearly he bottled the captain choice and didn’t pick one in his original post, but captaining any of the outside backs would have put you in sniffing distance of 700pts. Anyway you slice it up there’s some good picks and it’s a solid side, within the $6M cap. HIT