If you are like us, and spend too much time on NRL tipping, only to get a lousy three or four correct, then we offer you our Alternative NRL Round 8 Tips.
Perhaps you could just do less tipping, so you get less NRL tips wrong. Much like how a certain President suggests for other things. By the way, he and others are nominated for June 2020 Jerk of the Month awards.
Back onto the tipping, instead of allowing the competition admin to give you the away teams for when you don’t care about who you tip, why not take on board our weekly Alternative NRL Tipping method?
Each week there will be a new theme, and occasionally it will have nothing to do with rugby league. Just the way we like it.
This week’s Alternative NRL Round 8 Tips are all about happiness. After last week’s anger towards the Broncos appearing to laugh after losing. And the fans angry responses.
Our theory is that a happier area makes a happier team, and thus a winning team.
Enough of that for now, your Alternative NRL Round 8 Tipping guide awaits.
Alternative NRL Round 8 Tips – Distance from Melbourne
Here are the Alternative NRL Round 8 Tipping selections you need. Refer below for the method behind the madness.
METHOD
We found two recent articles (this one and this one) that explored which part of Australia was the happiest and unhappiest.
So we ranked which team was happier or more unhappier, the happier side wins.
In the case of not featuring in either the top ten happy or unhappy, we class them as neutral.
In the event neither side’s area featured, it seems the further west and north you go the unhappier you are. So the more extreme is unhappier and the other tip gets the team.
One particular game got different treatment….
In one case
Season Progress:
R4 – Full Moon – 4/8
R5 – Better Coaching Record – 6/8
R6 – Neutral Ground Performance – 4/8
R7 – Distance from Melbourne – 4/8
Best of Barely Interesting NRL Round 8 Stats
Our full preview below has loads of barely interesting facts (link below), and we’ll bring the best of them here for you for your NRL Round 8 Tipping pleasure.
The last two trips to Suncorp by Roosters and Storm have resulted in wins. The for and against for these four combined games is 193-38.
Canberra lead the Dragons 12-3 for night games, but trail 7-8 for day games.
Parramatta have never lost to teams with human based nicknames at Bankwest Stadium.
No Christmas in July for these sides, Gold Coast have the worst winning record in July at 29% and Sharks have the third worst record in July with 39%.
The Broncos have now lost their last three games at the Central Coast. The Warriors have won their last three.
In the three results for Penrith games so far at Bankwest Stadium, the winner has scored 16 points on all three occasions. And conceded either 10 or 8 points.
Manly and Newcastle have played the same amount of day and night games since 1998, and the record is exactly the same 9-7 to Manly.
South Sydney have lost just two of their last 18 games on a Sunday against Sydney teams. Bulldogs have lost eight of their previous nine against Sydney teams on a Sunday.
LINK TO BARELY INTERESTING ROUND 8 PREVIEW
Our own NRL Round 8 House Tips
Don’t trust our alternative NRL Round 8 Tips? Well here are our official selections from our main preview.
Melbourne 20 Roosters 18
Canberra 30 St George Illawarra 12
Parramatta 26 North Qld 18
Gold Coast 24 Sharks 14
Warriors 18 Broncos 14
Wests Tigers 20 Penrith Panthers 21
Manly 22 Newcastle 18
Bulldogs 10 South Sydney 18
Season Progress:
Round 3 – 4/8
Round 4 – 3/8
Round 5 – 6/8
Round 6 – 3/8 – 1 Correct Score
Round 7 – 6/8
