Welcome to our latest instalment of our weekly pre-match updates for this year’s United Rugby Championship. This is where we analyse the weekend’s lineups, crunch the stats and see what the bookies are thinking to help you optimise your lineups for peak performance this weekend! By the time you finish this article you should have all the insight you need to score big fantasy points this weekend. Make sure you come back every weekend before finalising your lineups!
The United Rugby Championship is only available on one Fantasy Rugby platform this season, and that’s SuperBru.
Potential mismatches
Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…
- Stormers to beat Scarlets by 23 points
- Leinster to beat Sharks by 18 points
- Ospreys to beat Zebre by 14 points
- Edinburgh to beat Lions by 12 points
- Ulster to beat Bulls by 5 points
- Munster to beat Benetton by 3 points
- Connacht to beat Glasgow by 2 points
- Cardiff to beat Dragons by 1 point
Expected to go well on Superbru
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
PROPS
- Jack Boyle (Leinster)
- Boan Venter (Edinburgh)
- Zander Fagerson (Glasgow)
- Josh Wycherley (Munster)
HOOKERS
- Tom Stewart (Ulster)
- Joseph Dweba (Stormers)
- Johan Grobbelaar (Bulls)
LOCKS
- Ruben van Heerden (Stormers)
- Jason Jenkins (Leinster)
- Kieran Treadwell (Ulster)
- Ross Molony (Leinster)
- Ruan Nortje (Bulls)
BACK ROW
- Elrigh Louw (Bulls)
- Marcell Coetzee (Bulls)
- Evan Roos (Stormers)
- Max Deegan (Leinster)
- Jack O’Donoghue (Munster)
- Marcel Theunissen (Stormers)
SCRUM-HALF
- Caolin Blade (Connacht)
- Embrose Papier (Bulls)
- Ben Vellacott (Edinburgh)
FLY HALF
- Harry Byrne (Leinster)
- Ben Healy (Edinburgh)
- Sacha Mngomezulu (Stormers)
CENTRES
- Werner Kok (Sharks)*
- Huw Jones (Glasgow)
- Ciaran Frawley (Leinster)*
- Ruhan Nel (Stormers)
- Stravino Jacobs (Bulls)*
- James Hume (Ulster)
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Tommy O’Brien (Leinster)
- Jordan Larmour (Leinster)
- Aphelele Fassi (Sharks)
- Warrick Gelant (Stormers)
- Ben Loader (Stormers)
- Jacob Stockdale (Ulster)
Bargain buys
The following players have been identified as potentially scoring well for their cost in the game and should be considered as good value enablers…
- Ben Loader (Stormers) – Outside Back – $3m
- Tommy O’Brien (Leinster) – Outside Back – $3m
- Shay McCarthy (Munster) – Outside Back – $3m
- James Hume (Ulster) – Centre – $3m
- Ciaran Frawley (Leinster)* – Centre – $3m
- Ruhan Nel (Stormers) – Centre – $3m
- Antoine Frisch (Munster) – Centre – $3m
- Jack Walsh (Ospreys) – Fly Half – $4m
- Andy Uren (Benetton) – Scrum Half – $2m
- Cormac Foley (Leinster) – Scrum Half – $2m
- Taine Plumtree (Scarlets) – Loose Forward – $2m
- Cameron Hanekom (Bulls) – Loose Forward – $2m
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