The A-Z Guide to NRLCEO Lingo
NRLCEO is an extremely niche product compared to the big guns of fantasy NRL. Therefore the passionate CEOs have contributed to use developing our own lingo. Here is the A-Z guide of NRLCEO.
Assist – Meaning assisting a player to score a try. Assists can often be controversial. They are worth a decent amount and we get the most conjecture about try assists than anything else on NRLCEO.
Bible – “The Bible” is what our NRLCEO Season Guide is now affectionately known as.
Close But No Cigar Club – 40 or more involvements means you are in the points for a Workhorse. When your player ends up on 39 involvements at full time there isn’t anything more frustrating in NRLCEO. So the Workhorse Watcher coined it the Close But No Cigar Club because it’s just soooooo close…
Dual Position Player – when you’ve got a restricted squad number and the draft method means that things are pretty tight it’s so crucial to look for players who are designated as more than one position on NRLCEO.
Efforts – an involvement means a tackle or a run for a player.
Franchise – in NRLCEO there is no sharing of players. You create your own franchise and pick the best players you can during the draft.
Gun – borrowed from traditional NRL Fantasy games but still relevant to NRLCEO. Paul Gallen is a NRLCEO “gun” meaning he’s a tried and tested high scorer. Despite a few lean weeks you don’t cut your “guns” from your squad in case they hit form and someone picks them up for virtually nothing.
Hand Cuff – Kicking Points are a unique part of NRLCEO and most competition put a cap on the number of kickers you can select. With that in mind most CEOs try and “hand cuff” the first choice and back-up kicker of the same team so that if the first choice kicker plays rep footy or gets injured your team is covered. You can also “hand cuff” players in the same position at a club.
Involvements – similar to efforts, an involvement means a tackle or a run for a player.
JT – There’s something about the intials JT that equate with NRLCEO greateness. Jonathan Thurston. Jason Taumalolo. And now Jake Trbojevic. Jason Taylor would have been a gun kicker back in the day too.
Keeper League – the Holy Grail of NRLCEO. A Keeper League is a type of league where you are allowed to keep one or more players from your squad in the next season. This allows you to predict future talent and retain it over a number of seasons depending on your rules.
Live Draft – the best way to draft is a live draft. Get all your mates together at a pub or rent a house for a weekend. The Live Draft is the best way to determine who can handle the pressure and who can’t. Then beers flow if not during.
MVP – the NRLCEO MVP is the highest scoring player overall each year. His reward is front page of the next Season Guide.
NRL Physio – wanted to call this bloke out specifically as he has transformed the access NRLCEOs have to information on injuries. There is always one bloke in your league who picks up a replacement player before he’s off the ground on the medi-cab. The NRL Physio helps to assess the potential length of time out almost immediately.
Owner – The beauty of NRLCEO is that you are the “Owner” of each player. You are the only one in your league with Cam Smith. This gives you a far greater sense of attachment to each of your players. But be careful with confusing emotional attachment with fantasy output.
Podcasts – Our two podcasts are the core of our community. Both the Moneyball and Tantasy Podcasts are essential listening. They won’t always help you win your league but you’ll have a laugh along the way.
Quick Draft – Our quick draft if our draft method on speed. You can knock over a 25 man squad draft in 50 minutes. It’s fast and furious.
Risk and reward – When picking a captain for double points each week many opt for the tried and tested workhorses. Risk and reward is when you pick a winger who scored a hat-trick and scores you 30+ points single handedly.
Spud Pool – This refers to the free agency pool which in deep leagues generally consists of U20’s players who haven’t yet debuted and NRLCEO rejects – aka Spuds.
Trade Rape – Whilst the reference itself is a little vulgar, we didn’t make it up ourselves. The term was taken from the TV Show The League and refers to an unbalanced trade where one person dominated the other and forced a dodgy trade.
Upside – a term used in trading a lot. A player who is outperforming his current value.
Volunteers – the lifeblood of NRLCEO. We have an incredible amount of people who help with Live Scoring, blogging and podcasting to make this the best damn fantasy community around.
Workhorse – the most unique aspect of NRLCEO is our Workhorse scoring option and it’s also the most discussed part when CEOs get together. Get 40+ involvements and you’re in the points. Anything less and you miss out. It’s cur throat but that’s the beauty of it.
X- Rays – Getting those all important X-Ray results is important to each NRL club, but more important to NRLCEOs! You need to keep an eye on the aforementioned @NRL_Physio to determine whether your NRLCEO player will be back playing next week or out for a long period of time.
Youth Keeper – more and more leagues are starting to expand their keeper league rules to include youth keepers. This means that you can use your knowledge of the lower grades to predict a young player who is going to be a gun and keep them before they take off in the NRL and everyone soon knows about them.
Zelezniak – there are 552 players on our database and Watene-Zelezniak would be one of the hardest to pronounce but the brothers are good players!
JB
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