A big week in TipBetPro land – we have expanded our empire!
As always we’ve done our NRL tips again (http://www.tipbetpro.com/#!current-round/kzu9o) and new to this week we’ve done our first ever cricket tip (http://www.tipbetpro.com/#!tips-and-bets/zxtux) for the England v Sri Lanka series.

Another week of looking for an upgrade target for Buy of the Week – this week we’ll look for a forward as I don’t think we’ve chosen a forward as Buy of the Week yet.

Some could say we’ve played it safe the past few weeks – Parker, Shaw and Pendles – so this week we are taking a stab at a bit of a dark horse, but that’s not to say that this choice is without merit…

As previously stated we are going with a forward this week, and no its not Waite or Zorko (although the latter is a good pick, but a bit more expensive than our BoTW). This week’s choice is in less than 10% of teams, yet by average he is the 5th highest ranked forward. Due to a 130 last week his price has gone up $20k from his starting price, but is still cheap for a guy averaging 106 at just under $500k. We normally look ahead to see which teams the BoTW will be playing against, but when you play for Essendon it probably doesn’t matter (let’s face it, they’re likely to lose most games). So if you are in the 90% of teams who don’t have him, think very seriously about picking up this week’s Buy of the Week - Zac Merrett.
(FYI - that pun earlier in the write-up was 100% intended)

Again, the format below is:
POSITION Name (CLUB) – current price (expected increase) – AVERAGE

DEFENDERS
Rookies:
DEF Kaiden Brand (HAW) - 124k (+34k) - AVG=59 (Promising early form but job security always at risk in the powerful Hawks)
DEF Thomas Lee (STK) - 124k (+42k) - AVG=67 (Concerning that despite dominant form at VFL level can’t break into the Saints side even with Sam Fisher out)
DEF Aaron MULLETT (NTH) - 200k (+16k) - AVG=56 (May be one of the players to pay the price for the Roos second half fade out against the Bombers)

Keepers:
DEF Sam Docherty (CAR) - 513k (+22k) - AVG=106 (an ex-BoTW, still going well)
DEF Kade Simpson (CAR) - 548k (+8k) - AVG=106 (Will Kade and Carlton’s form continue?)
DEF Heath Shaw (GWS) - 600k (-2k) - AVG=110 (another ex-BoTW)

Midfielders
Rookies:
MID Darcy MacPherson (GCS) - 102k (+48k) - AVG=68 (One of the few shining lights at the Gold Coast in the past fortnight)

Keepers: (all these are quality picks)
MID Steele Sidebottom (COL) - 575k (+4k) - AVG=114
MID Callan Ward (GWS) - 578k (-10k) - AVG=114
MID Luke PARKER (SYD) - 584k (-23k) - AVG=118
MID Adam Treloar (COL) - 586k (+13k) - AVG=115
MID Scott Pendlebury (COL) - 613k (+16k) - AVG=117
MID Daniel Hannebery (SYD) - 629k (-2k) - AVG=122
MID Patrick Dangerfield (GEE) - 654k (-1k) - AVG=129

Rucks
Keepers (hopefully you already have two of these):
RUC Todd Goldstein (NTH) - 553k (-4k) - AVG=112
RUC Nic Naitanui (WCE) - 586k (-6k) - AVG=116
RUC Max GAWN (MEL) - 618k (-10k) - AVG=117

Forwards
Rookies:
M/F Benjamin Crocker (COL) - 117k (+24k) - AVG=48 (Scores modest at best and uncertain job security)
M/F Mason Redman (ESS) - 117k (+18k) - AVG=42 (Has shown signs of potential but drifting in and out of games may place job security at risk)

Keepers:
M/F Zac Merrett (ESS) - 496k (+15k) - AVG=106 (This week’s BoTW)
M/F Luke DAHLHAUS (WBD) - 567k (-3k) - AVG=110
M/F Dayne Zorko (BRL) - 568k (+6k) - AVG=118 (Doing very well, and was almost the BoTW this week – but I decided to go for a cheaper roughie)
M/F Leigh Montagna (STK) - 530k (+9k) - AVG=104 (EDIT - A LATE INCLUSION)

Still a week away:
M/D Bailey Williams (WBD) - 117k - AVG=60
DEF Tim Mohr (GWS) - 195k - AVG=46
DEF Jack Leslie (GCS) - 254k - AVG=90
MID Jacob Hopper (GWS) - 194k - AVG=106 (although who could blame if you jumped on a week early!)
MID Bradley McKenzie (NTH) - 242k - AVG=94
MID Gary Ablett (GCS) - 542k - AVG=111 (may miss this week, so could be 2 weeks away)
R/F Majak DAW (NTH) - 244k - AVG=97 (Was good for North but bad news for Daw with Brad Scott commenting post-match that their forward line was too tall)
M/F Jack Hiscox (SYD) - 124k - AVG=25
FWD Jarrad Waite (NTH) - 507k - AVG=113 (has dropped a bit in price, but if he returns to form he may be good value)

So that’s Best Buys for this week.

Good luck to all with your trades and hopefully some wins on the weekend. For all your trade discussion feel free to join us in the comments section below.

Cheers
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