NRL SuperCoach

Supercoach is an online competition that has been running for a few years; it’s basically a fantasy Football league. You get a $5,000,000 salary cap and choose your players. It’s a nice way to enjoy the NRL, depending on how they do in game they score points and your total points are tallied up and used in head-to-head matchups with other players of the game.

You choose a total for 25 players and choose a 17 man line-up week to week. It’s not all as simple as it sounds though; you have to take into account injuries, suspensions, byes and players who aren’t playing that week due to representative commitments. Players’ values go up or down depending on their week to week performances, choosing rookies who will play well and go up in value is a good way to increase the net worth of your team and then selling them off to buy the greats of the game to further increase your points per week.

Although there are some problems, the way easily score points are putting in all of the game’s greats and choosing decent, cheap rookies to play alongside them. Most teams have Farah, Cronk, Thurston, Inglis, Merrin and Smith, then surround them with rookie players. The interchange is also slightly flawed, in a typical game of NRL you’d have mostly forwards on the interchange, but in Supercoach it’s not limited, you can put a fullback, two wingers and a centre if you really wanted too.

Even with its flaws, it’s a nice way to pit your favourite players against your friends’ favourite players in private leagues or against completely random in public leagues. You can even win money for being the first overall, or first in each round. Link: http://nrlfantasy.dailytelegraph.com.au/.

- Daniel Arthur

An overview of a team in NRL Supercoach [source: http://nrlfantasy.dailytelegraph.com.au/global_2013/news/nrl/common/indexField.jpg ]