Round 21 Dream Team
Looking at the best performances each week to determine the Team of the Week and using the player’s season totals to determine the overall Dream Team for 2016 on a week by week basis.
Round 21 Team of the Week:
There was a tie for the Player of the Week for the first time this year, but luckily we have SuperDraft points to split them too which usually favours the more attacking player.
So the Player of the Week is Jordan Rapana (15). What a stunning year he has had after looking like he would be a backup winger to Edrick Lee and Sisa Waqa. It is his second highest score of the year after his stunning 27 points back in Round 8.
Equal on 15 points with him was Dale Copley (15). After a few ordinary performances this one might just stamp his first grade spot for the rest of the year. His 15 points almost double his yearly tally to 32 NRLCEO points. It consisted of two tries, a try assist, three line breaks a metre eater.
English import Elliott Whitehead (14) had a day to remember as well. Renowned as a try scoring machine in the Super League but only had three tries this year up until this week. After his two tries, workhorse and metre eater performance, he’s now passed 100 NRLCEO points for the year.
NRLCEO Score |
SuperDraft Score |
|
| 1. Tom Trbojevic | 11 | 8.2 |
| 2. Jordan Rapana | 15 | 16.4 |
| 3. Joey Leilua | 11 | 9.7 |
| 4. Dale Copley | 15 | 14.5 |
| 5. Josh Mansour | 12 | 12.8 |
| 6. Mitch Moses | 8 | 8.3 |
| 7. Shaun Johnson | 9 | 10.2 |
| 8. James Graham | 8 | 6.7 |
| 9. Jake Friend | 7 | 7.8 |
| 10. Andrew Fifita | 11 | 10.5 |
| 11. Elliott Whitehead | 14 | 12.1 |
| 12. Boyd Cordner | 11 | 9.4 |
| 13. Greg Bird | 12 | 6.2 |
Note: NRLCEO points are based on tries (4), workhorses (4), double workhorses (8), try assists (2), line breaks (1), line break assists (1), metre eaters (2), double metre eaters (4), field goals (1), 40/20’s (1), sin bins (-2) and send offs (-4).
SuperDraft points are based on tries (4), try assists (2), line breaks (1), line break assists (0.5), tackles (0.1), runs (0.1), field goals (1), 40/20’s (1), sin bins (-2) and send offs (-4)
Overall Dream Team:
Each week we will accumulate the points for each player to come up with the Overall Dream Team for 2016.
James Graham (144) extended his lead by two points again this week and with just five rounds remaining, looks hard to beat!
Only one new member this week as the English backrower Elliott Whitehead finds his way back into the team after a few weeks behind Tohu Harris. His two try, workorse and metre eater for 14 points was his best performance for his NRLCEO career. For someone who was meant to be a bench player for the Raiders he has been a picture of consistency. Surprisingly he only has one duck egg for the whole year and has only missed out on a workhorse twice – in those games he had 34 and 37 involvements.
There were six new members in the NRLCEO Century Club this week. Congratulations to Jordan Rapana (112), Elliott Whitehead (107), Shaun Johnson (107), Tom Trbojevic (106), Josh Hodgson (101) and Cooper Cronk (101) for breaking the magical barrier.
The following players are still in the 90’s; Jake Trbojevic (99) , Andrew Fifita (97), Josh Mansour (95), Paul Gallen (95), Ethan Lowe (93), Darius Boyd (92), Bryce Cartwright (91), Dale Finucane (91), Kevin Proctor (91) and Cameron Munster (90).
Here is the full Dream Team after 21 rounds:
1. Ben Barba (132)
2. Jordan Rapana (112)
3. Tom Trbojevic (106)
4. Jarrod Croker (101)5. Valentine Holmes (108)6. Anthony Milford (122)
7. Shaun Johnson (107)
8. James Graham (144)
9. Cameron Smith (110)10. Ryan James (124)11. Trent Merrin (110)12. Elliott Whitehead (107) – NEW13. Sam Burgess (120)
JB
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