Discussion 2024-2025 NBA RDT Discussion: GW17 TUES 25th FEB 10:00am AEST

[The Night Manager]

I'd be interested in what you could achieve with Wagner, Miller and Mathurin out ....
- as that would be my first line of thoughts ...

In that scenario I would bring in J Dub, Hart, & D Daniels with 1M to spare. (Ideally Daniels would be Anunoby but am 500k short)

Daniels not much of an upgrade on Mathurin, but he has a b/e 9 and 4 games in Rd9 so his price should peak at 12M+ by Rd10 whilst Mathurin will likely slip to sub 10M by then. Daniels definitely the easier Rd10 upgrade to premo.

I could still get SGA in a straight swap for Sabonis in Rd9. This is probably the most sensible trade route to full premo for my side.

 

[The Night Manager]

So if I'm going to comment on other peoples trades I might as well put some of mine on the table ...

At the moment plan A is:
- AD, Wagner Mathurin out and two of SGA, Sabonis or Doncic in + a cheap play in Castle, Boston Jr etc ...

Leaves me with a few week links on field but I haven't had the chance to cash out my bench yet ...
- that doesn't concern me yet as I want to be fully set up by round 11 (when the Eliminator starts) ...

If everyone has Jokic as a Perma C for the rest of the season (most likely) ... then the difference is going to come down to what you can afford to put around him ..
- to me that is gong to be the minefield to navigate through and the cheaper you can buy them (thinking of the top line guns) the better off you may be ...

Plan B ... I have considered actually trading out Jokic if I could get all three which I can with 4 mil left in the bank ...
- but it'd leave me with a Mathurin sized headache on field ....
- yep, I can come up with some crazy ideas but this one isn't out of the equation yet as long as I can get Jokic back ...
- I reckon I could but not sure if I'm brave enough to chance it ....

Plan C, D etc .... still in progress ...

Jokic another 500k-600k+ price rise this round is highly likely. All the harder to get him back in for Rd9.

Have you considered holding AD through his 3 game round and upgrading Wagner & Mathurn via a bench downgrade?

 

[Herbie66]

31 , DNP , 31 , 27

Operation get Jokic by completely re-structuring my side , Ranked 619 (up 1 spot) it probably doesn't matter in any case + I still have Knecht onfield.

864 AD

AD & Mobley good

Poeltl ✓ , Wagner ✓ , Miller ✓ , Monk ✓

Giddey & Garland reasonable enough

Need to fix Wagner first then might spend some time (pretend I know what I am doing) see what options are out there.

Might need 2-3 downgrades to get some cash to play with.

Had a look , might go :-

Hartenstein - > Jones
Wagner - > Hart
Garland - > Murray
Knecht - > Anunoby

Following Round :-

2 bench downgrades for cash
Poeltl - > Jokic

Take a hit in the next 2 rounds , then hopefully can consolidate things Round 10-12

Baby steps

 

[mattdickster]

So if I'm going to comment on other peoples trades I might as well put some of mine on the table ...

At the moment plan A is:
- AD, Wagner Mathurin out and two of SGA, Sabonis or Doncic in + a cheap play in Castle, Boston Jr etc ...

Leaves me with a few week links on field but I haven't had the chance to cash out my bench yet ...
- that doesn't concern me yet as I want to be fully set up by round 11 (when the Eliminator starts) ...

If everyone has Jokic as a Perma C for the rest of the season (most likely) ... then the difference is going to come down to what you can afford to put around him ..
- to me that is gong to be the minefield to navigate through and the cheaper you can buy them (thinking of the top line guns) the better off you may be ...

Plan B ... I have considered actually trading out Jokic if I could get all three which I can with 4 mil left in the bank ...
- but it'd leave me with a Mathurin sized headache on field ....
- yep, I can come up with some crazy ideas but this one isn't out of the equation yet as long as I can get Jokic back ...
- I reckon I could but not sure if I'm brave enough to chance it ....

Plan C, D etc .... still in progress ...

Pretty much in the same boat as your plan A
AD wagner mathurin out for Sabonis and 1 of SGA/Doncic which gives me 4 ubers on field
Doncic requires rookie downgrade, unless i trade miller over mathurin
(AD and mathurin losing a combined $870k has ruined initial plans)
SGA allows me to get braun/pritchard/trey murphy/daniels/TJ mcconnell type, possibly Quickly if hes back by then
and switch sabonis to Doncic week after.
havent really looked at a more balanced team yet, i think 1st place is going to do that and having the 4 ubers go bang 140+ could close the gap

 

[The Night Manager]

Jalen Johnson is listed with "shoulder soreness" but so was Irving who looked just fine today ...

- hard to put any trust in team medico's these days ...
- if they want to give a player a day off then IMO they will make it happen and invent an excuse ...
- but that is the side affect of the "new rules" .... all good if you invent an excuse (injury) to get around them ...

JJs shoulder was just a resting if today's game is any indication.

 

[Tails]

Jokic another 500k-600k+ price rise this round is highly likely. All the harder to get him back in for Rd9.

Have you considered holding AD through his 3 game round and upgrading Wagner & Mathurn via a bench downgrade?

I have considered holding AD ...
- that would be plan C ...

 

[Tails]

Some RDT scores I manually calculated for my players (or those on my watchlist) today ...

- Williams 14 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Lillard 28 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- SGA 50 pts

I'll add to these as the non-fantasy week unfolds ...

Edit: if anyone wants additional players to be added just let me know
- it really doesn't take me very long to come up with the scores ...

Some RDT scores I manually calculated for my players (or those on my watchlist) today ...

- Daniels 13 pts
- Williams 14 pts
- Brunson 17 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Young 23 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Lillard 28 pts
- Hart 32 pts
- Johnson 34 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- KAT 40 pts
- SGA 50 pts

I'll add to these as the non-fantasy week unfolds ...

Edit: if anyone wants additional players to be added just let me know
- it really doesn't take me very long to come up with the scores ...

 

[Tails]

We now know most of the game counts / schedule heading into next round:

- 4 teams left in the In Season Tournament and only the remaining two finalists will play 3 games ...

 

[Tails]

In that scenario I would bring in J Dub, Hart, & D Daniels with 1M to spare. (Ideally Daniels would be Anunoby but am 500k short)

Daniels not much of an upgrade on Mathurin, but he has a b/e 9 and 4 games in Rd9 so his price should peak at 12M+ by Rd10 whilst Mathurin will likely slip to sub 10M by then. Daniels definitely the easier Rd10 upgrade to premo.

I could still get SGA in a straight swap for Sabonis in Rd9. This is probably the most sensible trade route to full premo for my side.

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I was more thinking along the lines of:

- keep SGA and Hart as the ins ......
- instead of McCain > Vincent .... I was thinking of a Mathurin > Castle type move ...

I know the end result is running two of Micic, McCain, Wallace, Castle etc on field ....
- but I'd take that for this round ...

 

[Bermi]

After assessing various players, I have come up with the following trades:
OUT: Donovan Mitchell, Franz Wagner & Elfrid Payton
IN: Karl-Anthony Towns, Matas Buzelis & Derrick White

Butler is a GTD, so I will have to monitor him.

 

[Tails]

After assessing various players, I have come up with the following trades:
OUT: Donovan Mitchell, Franz Wagner & Elfrid Payton
IN: Karl-Anthony Towns, Matas Buzelis & Derrick White

Butler is a GTD, so I will have to monitor him.

View attachment 81163

Looks good ...
- hard to pick a hole in those trades ...

 

[Bermi]

Looks good ...
- hard to pick a hole in those trades ...

Thanks, that provides a comforting assurance.

 

[tso]

Leaning on this now

Lillard, Wagner, Siakam to SGA, Brown, Anunoby

Then i can go
Monk, Mathurin, Edey out following round unless Mathurin stands up in his 2 games
to stay one more week. Could downgrade another bench instead.

Herro, Johnson go round after with another chance to nick funds from the bench.

 

[The Night Manager]

I was more thinking along the lines of:

- keep SGA and Hart as the ins ......
- instead of McCain > Vincent .... I was thinking of a Mathurin > Castle type move ...

I know the end result is running two of Micic, McCain, Wallace, Castle etc on field ....
- but I'd take that for this round ...

I figured that's what you had in mind (2x sub 7M rookies on-court) , however, I don't have enough bench currency to upgrade 2 on-court rookies the following week or two or three.

With my current model I can still aquire SGA next week, start Wallace (4x games Rd9) for a week then upgrade my last on-field rookie in Rd10 with a 1 up 2 down. Then upgrade the mid-pricer Daniels to full premo in Rd11 with a 1up 1 down.

As for your team, the 2 rookies on-court for 1 week is a viable option since you have 34M worth of currency on your bench as opposed to my 28M so that extra 6M would be close enough to turn a MacCain for example into a 14M player the following round with a 1 up 2 down so long as you don't have unexpected injuries to deal with.

 

[The Night Manager]

Damn it Sabonis, this huge DT score could have waited until Rd8!

 

[Tails]

Some RDT scores I manually calculated for my players (or those on my watchlist) today ...

- Daniels 13 pts
- Williams 14 pts
- Brunson 17 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Young 23 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Lillard 28 pts
- Hart 32 pts
- Johnson 34 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- KAT 40 pts
- SGA 50 pts

I'll add to these as the non-fantasy week unfolds ...

Edit: if anyone wants additional players to be added just let me know
- it really doesn't take me very long to come up with the scores ...

- Monk 11 pts
- Boston Jnr 12 pts
- Daniels 13 pts
- Williams 14 pts
- D*ck 16 pts
- Agbaji 16 pts
- Brunson 17 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Wallace 22 pts
- Young 23 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Lillard 28 pts
- Hart 32 pts
- Johnson 34 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- KAT 40 pts
- SGA 50 pts
- Sabonis 54 pts

 

[Tails]

I figured that's what you had in mind (2x sub 7M rookies on-court) , however, I don't have enough bench currency to upgrade 2 on-court rookies the following week or two or three.

With my current model I can still aquire SGA next week, start Wallace (4x games Rd9) for a week then upgrade my last on-field rookie in Rd10 with a 1 up 2 down. Then upgrade the mid-pricer Daniels to full premo in Rd11 with a 1up 1 down.

As for your team, the 2 rookies on-court for 1 week is a viable option since you have 34M worth of currency on your bench as opposed to my 28M so that extra 6M would be close enough to turn a MacCain for example into a 14M player the following round with a 1 up 2 down so long as you don't have unexpected injuries to deal with.

For your team I wouldn't worry about the bench cash to fund those final upgrades ... lots of ways to skin a cat ...
- I'd just follow the hot hands each round (BE's) to gradually get to full premo ...
- if you already have say SGA and Hart then you could be looking at something like Sabonis + cheap player to 2 x 15 mil priced players etc

For my team accessing the bench cash is not as easy as it sounds the following round ... ie:
- if I bring in Sabonis then he will be one trade, might be able to cover Monk to squeeze a downgrade in ...
- that means I probably can't bring in Boston Jnr this round as that could make my trades even more constrained ... now looking at Wallace etc

Also watching who makes the IST final .... as OKC have B2B away games to commence the next round ??
- that could change who I bring in or put on field ...

 

[Connoisseur]

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[Tails]

- Monk 11 pts
- Boston Jnr 12 pts
- Daniels 13 pts
- Williams 14 pts
- D*ck 16 pts
- Agbaji 16 pts
- Brunson 17 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Wallace 22 pts
- Young 23 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Lillard 28 pts
- Hart 32 pts
- Johnson 34 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- KAT 40 pts
- SGA 50 pts
- Sabonis 54 pts

Some RDT scores I manually calculated for my players (or those on my watchlist) today ...

- McCain 3 pts
- Micic 5 pts
- Monk 11 pts
- Boston Jnr 12 pts
- Braun 12 pts
- Williams 14 pts
- D*ck 16 pts
- Agbaji 16 pts
- Mathurin 17 pts
- Brunson 17 pts
- Jokic 19 pts
- Black 22 pts
- Wallace 22 pts
- Champagnie (WAS) 22 pts
- Sarr 22 pts
- AD 23 pts
- Doncic 24 pts
- Hart 32 pts
- Johnson 34 pts
- Giannis 35 pts
- Haliburton 37 pts
- KAT 40 pts
- SGA 50 pts
- Sabonis 54 pts

I'll add to these as the non-fantasy week unfolds ...

Edit: if anyone wants additional players to be added just let me know
- it really doesn't take me very long to come up with the scores ...

 

[Dazza]

Jokic in snooze mode today, he knows DT pts are not on line today