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 Zebre by 31 points
- Lions to beat Dragons by 26 points
- Munster to beat Glasgow by 11 points
- Ulster to beat Edinburgh by 11 points
- Leinster to beat Connacht by 8 points
- Benetton to beat Ospreys by 7 points
- Bulls to beat Sharks by 7 points
- Cardiff to beat Scarlets by 7 points
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
- JP Smith (Lions)
- Wilco Louw (Bulls)
- Ntuthuko Mchunu (Sharks)
- Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh)
- Asenathi Ntlabakanye (Lions)
HOOKERS
- Joseph Dweba (Stormers)
- Akker Van Der Merwe (Bulls)
- PJ Botha (Lions)
LOCKS
- Tadhg Beirne (Munster)
- Ruben Schoeman (Lions)
- Edwin Edogbo (Munster)
- Thomas Ahern (Munster)*
- Ruben van Heerden (Stormers)
BACK ROW
- Evan Roos (Stormers)
- Nick Timoney (Ulster)
- Emmanuel Tshituka (Lions)
- Max Deegan (Leinster)
- Francke Horn (Lions)
- Elrigh Louw (Bulls)
SCRUM-HALF
- Sanele Nohamba (Lions)*
- John Cooney (Ulster)
- Herschel Jantjies (Stormers)
FLY HALF
- Curwin Bosch (Sharks)
- Jack Crowley (Munster)
- Manie Libbock (Stormers)
CENTRES
- Paolo Odogwu (Benetton)*
- Ciaran Frawley (Leinster)*
- Jamie Osborne (Leinster)*
- Henco van Wyk (Lions)
- Mason Grady (Cardiff)*
- Sean O’Brien (Munster)*
- Stewart Moore (Ulster)*
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Edwill van der Merwe (Lions)
- Makazole Mapimpi (Sharks)
- Duhan Van Der Merwe (Edinburgh)
- Warrick Gelant (Stormers)
- Courtnall Skosan (Stormers)
- Aphelele Fassi (Sharks)
- Quan Horn (Lions)
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…
- Cam Winnett (Cardiff) – Outside Back – $3m
- Kyle Rowe (Glasgow) – Outside Back – $3m
- Antoine Frisch (Munster) – Centre – $3m
- Will Addison (Ulster) – Centre – $3m
- Mason Grady (Cardiff) – Centre* – $3m
- Ciaran Frawley (Leinster) – Centre* – $3m
- Jamie Osborne (Leinster) – Centre* – $3m
- James Hume (Ulster) – Centre – $3m
- Ruhan Nel (Stormers) – Centre – $3m
- Sean O’Brien (Munster) – Centre* – $3m
- Morne van den Berg (Lions) – Scrum Half – $2m
- Andy Uren (Benetton) – Scrum Half – $2m
- James McNabney (Ulster) – Loose Forward – $2m
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