The finals are fast approaching, and so NRL tipsters everywhere need more help than ever to pick a winner or eight. So here are our bold NRL Round 23 Tips and Stats Preview that you don’t even have to leave the toilet with your team mate to enjoy.
Each week we offer up a quick preview glance for each match, a bunch of barely interesting stats, probably more than one could ever need or want.
We also offer up some alternative tips. These alternative tips are often based on a rugby league stat, and sometimes something completely absurd, and are aimed at those NRL tipsters who just can’t be bothered.
This week we have based them on whatever day each team is playing on.
So enjoy the 2022 NRL Round 23 Tips Stats Preview + Alternative Tips where there’s something for everyone. Mostly.
Or our Round 22 Team of the Week.
2022 NRL Round 23 Tips – Alternative Tips – August Winning %
Short on inspiration already? Or looking for that edge to your tipping that no one else in your competition has? Well here are the Alternative NRL Tips for this round.
It’s been a long season and we had started to run out of ideas for an alternative tip. But this week is a goodun’.
We took every team’s winning % on each day this season and then compared the H2H winning % for each H2H on the relevant day.
E.g. for Souths-Penrith we took both team’s winning % on a Thursday, and whichever team’s was better on the Thursday, they get the tip for this weekend. Friday for Cowboys v Warriors as so on.
ALTERNATIVE TIPS 2022 PROGRESS – 60% – 101/168
2022 NRL Round 23 Predictions – Gurgler Tips
Can we beat our own Alternative NRL tips? Usually not, so again we’ll have to keep trying.
Panthers by 6
Cowboys by 18
Storm by 12
Eels by 8
Sharks by 4
Roosters by 16
Dragons by 2
Raiders by 4
OUR TIPS – 65% – 109/168
2022 NRL Round 23 Weekly H2H Stats
Looking for a cheat sheet for the weekend’s upcoming games?
Here’s as much information that we could cram into one size fits all visual.
2022 NRL Round 23 Barely Interesting Stats Summary
Here we take the best points of interest for each match coming up this weekend, and share them with you for no cost. Feel free to share with friends and family.
Souths have lost all three Thursday games this season, including the last two by the exact same score of 32-12.
You could almost bank on Souths to score 12 points v Penrith. Not only have they scored exactly 12 points in their last two Thursday games, but also their last two games v Penrith and four of the last five Panthers clashes.
Going back to 2019, Penrith have won five Thursday night games in a row v Sydney clubs.
Warriors have won their last two games v Queensland sides. And five of their last seven v North Queensland.
Warriors are 4/5 v North Queensland on a Friday.
Melbourne are on a winning streak of 11 games v Broncos at all grounds with the last win for Brisbane in 2016. It is 11 straight wins for Melbourne at Suncorp Stadium and eight games straight v Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium on a Friday night with the last win for Brisbane in 2009 for both.
Melbourne have won 16/17 v Brisbane on a Friday night at all grounds.
Melbourne have won 27 of their last 28 games v Queensland sides. And their last 14 games on a Friday.
Melbourne have won 9/10 matches at Suncorp Stadium on a Friday.
Bulldogs last beat Parramatta on a Saturday in 2005. It’s been five losses in a row since.
Bulldogs have won 2/16 on a Saturday since 2020.
Bulldogs have won 2/4 at Commbank Stadium this season.
Manly have won seven games in a row on a Saturday, and all five Saturday games in 2022.
Cronulla last beat Manly at Brookvale in 2008. Since then it is a run of seven losses.
Roosters have won 15/16 v Wests Tigers going back to 2012.
Roosters have won all four home games v bottom eight sides this season. (Bottom eight at time of match).
Gold Coast have won three in a row v St George Illawarra.
St George Illawarra have never lost to the Titans in four games at Win Stadium.
St George Illawarra have lost six in a row v Queensland sides.
Newcastle have lost their last four Sunday home games by a combined 20-155.
Canberra have won five in a row against the bottom eight teams, including both games on a Sunday. One of which was a win against Newcastle.
2022 NRL Round 23 NRL 2022 Season – Team Stats
We have taken the best of the NRL data and turned them into visuals you can use to enjoy your rugby league this weekend.
There’s run metres, kicking stats, errors, tackled and lack of tackles.
Plus we also have each team’s record against the top and bottom teams and home v away.
There’s so much you’ll need to stop halfway to catch your breath.
TEAM RECORD V TOP & BOTTOM EIGHT SIDES
Note – top / bottom eight is decided at time of match not current ladder.
TEAM RECORD – HOME & AWAY
Note – not the awful soap on Channel 7
TACKLES AND BREAKS
Who are the Running Men?
RUNS, OFFLOADS, POST CONTACT METRES
Here is the break down of who is breaking through to the other side.
KICKING STATS
Note: last graph is a 100% breakdown of kick types.
BAD BOYS
Want to know which team gives away the most penalties? Or makes the most errors? Or a report card with Sin Bins and Send Offs. It’s all yours below.
2022 NRL Season Prediction Results
Our tips jumped ahead of the alternative tips last week, so now onto bigger and better things.
ALTERNATIVE TIPS
6/8 First Round Form
4/8 More Dangerous Mascot
3/8 Best H2H
6/8 April Fools
7/8 Bad Boy Points (Penalties/Sin Bins etc)
5/8 Greens Votes
6/8 Marginal Seats
5/8 Covid Cases
6/8 May Record
3/8 Suncorp Stadium Record
4/8 ALP Voting
2/8 Green / Teal Colour Wheel
1/4 June Form since 1998
6/8 Post Origin I Form
5/8 Winter Form
5/8 Post Origin II Form
4/4 Kicking Kings
5/8 Post Origin III Form
3/8 Twitter Followers
6/8 Current Ladder
7/8 August Form
2/8 Alphabetical Order
