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 16 Tips.
Perhaps you could just follow an expert’s tips, but what’s the fun in that.
And 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 9 Tips are all about sacked coaches. Given the saga of Anthony Seibold and the Broncos divorce has finally passed, and there’s likely to be no more coaches sacked during the season, we think it’s interesting to use coach’s longevity to decide winners.
Of course it’s pretty simple, teams with sacked coaches were going terribly so less likely to win, but we’ll see at the end.
Enough of that for now, your Alternative NRL Round 16 Tipping guide awaits.
Alternative NRL Round 16 Tips – Referee Bias
Here are the Alternative NRL Round 16 Tipping selections you need. Refer below for the method behind the madness.
METHOD
This one is easy, the longer a coach has been around for the more likely they are to win.
And so we have applied that to this week’s NRL games. The longer the stay, the more liekly that team will win. It was pretty close in the case of the Wests Tigers for obvious reasons.
Whether changing a coach during a season ultimately works is coming soon, but for now please accept the alternative tips.
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
R8 – Happiness – 5/8
R9 – Referee Bias
NRL Round 16 Best of Stats
If you haven’t yet caught up with our 2,000 word+ behemoth of a NRL Betting and Stats Preview for Round 16, then to save you time here are our top picks for barely interesting stats.
- Since lockdown, Parramatta’s result have followed a pattern – (Earliest game first) WWWLWWWLWWWLW….so Parra aren’t due another loss yet.
- St George Illawarra have lost just once in their last 12 games v Queensland opponents.
- The Roosters have lost just three of 16 home games v Queensland opposition. The Cowboys have two of those wins.
- Cronulla have won the last four straight against the Cowboys and eight of the last ten. Coincidentally, Cronulla have also won their last four and eight of the last ten games v Cowboys on a Saturday.
- Penrith have scored the first try in all but one game this season.
- Melbourne have won their last 15 games in Queensland. Melbourne obviously also like a coast in Qld, they have won their last seven Qld coastal games dating back to 2013.
- Bulldogs have only won once in their last nine games on a Sunday. Canberra have only won once v Sydney teams on a Sunday in their last five matches.
