The NRLCEO Ladder
NRLCEO tries to be reflective of real life games to make things interesting and different to the other fantasy games out there, but of course when you mix attacking points (such as try assists, tries, 40/20’s and line breaks) alongside defensive statistics (workhorse points) you find that some teams just generate more NRLCEO points than others.
So I added up all the points scored by players up until Round 10 so far this season to give us a quick snapshot of which NRL clubs score the highest in NRLCEO (minus conversions). The results are astounding! While you recover from reading the table below I will prepare for a further analysis below…
Well take a look at that!
It doesn’t overly surprise me that the Broncos score well, but it does surprise me that as of Round 10 they effectively climb 10 places to be the top of the NRLCEO Ladder. They just have so many great workhorses in their team. Their 49 total workhorse efforts so far is 9 more than the next best (40 from the Bulldogs) and 32 ahead of the lowest (just 17 from the Eels). The Broncos consistently score well in their forward pack with Andrew McCullough starring this season with 71 points and Matt Gillett also performing admirably on 52, but the big surprise packet has been Ben Hunt who has also cracked the half century (52) already.
The Sea Eagles are just so consistent! They find themselves in second on both the NRL Table and the NRLCEO Table. They haven’t necessarily been great, but they just know how to grind out points and grind out the wins. Shocking the world, and particularly NRLCEOs has been the impressive start to the season of Steve Matai. Nine tries and a host of other involvements have him on 68 points already.
The Warriors and Rabbitohs move themselves up higher on the NRLCEO Table than the real life ladder. The Warriors have been particularly attacking scoring 40 tries in the first 10 Rounds and adding 52 line breaks along the way. The Rabbitohs scoring potential has been boosted by big Sammy Burgess knocking up 15 total workhorse through five singles and five doubles. His “little” brother George has also added another eight of his own.
The Eels actually fall down the ladder five places on the NRLCEO Table. Their scoring is massively hampered by their lack of genuine workhorses. Since Hindy left they have found it hard to replace him with a real tackle hungry machine and while Nathan Peats (8) and Joseph Paulo (7) have tried their best, only three other players have added workhorses to the overall tally.
The Panthers are also a big mover on the NRLCEO Table – but in the wrong direction. Whilst they find themselves sitting in third place in real life, their scoring potential shows they might be lucky to be there. They have the 11th highest points for in real life and find themselves in lowly 13th in terms of NRLCEO scoring capacity. Their highest scoring players are Dean Whare and Josh Mansour (each with 35 points) who are a long way down the top players in equal 59th.
I don’t think anyone will mind is a slate the Titans because let’s be honest, they hardly have any fans anyway! The lowest supported team in the league also had the third lowest points for after Round 10. They have much more workhorse (38) than tries (29) with even less line breaks (21). They may have been getting the results early in the season, but they were mostly in tight games and low scoring. CEOs are not looking to the Titans for points goldmines.
JB
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