2026 NRL Draw

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Tried to tell us all 28 dozen times this year wed get the spoon again

Mate he's so bleak it's liking receiving a black hand from the mafia, I swear one day I will learn not to waste another comment on his annoying ones.

 

[clontarfkid]

You also start the season against a team with match fitness when you don't have any.

It's such a big scheduling disadvantage. Total disgrace we got it again.

They'd never give it to a club like the Roosters, Broncos e c c

 

[clontarfkid]

its actually a waste no team wants it..and we are the path of least resistance
NRL knows that
Cld u imagine Dogs/Storm/Broncos reaction?

 

[Flippedy]

Who do you think will get the spoon over us? Is there a worse coach than benji? Our recruitment not good. Lot of overhype

Well we didn’t get it this season and I expect us to improve as a team next season, so take your pick. I don’t know who will get it, there’s a few candidates but I don’t think it will be us.

 

[Rowdy12]

Apparently despite us being drawn to play Brisbane, Penrith and Melbourne 5 times each, PVL has insisted there is no bias against the Wests Tigers.

 

[tiger_one]

Apparently despite us being drawn to play Brisbane, Penrith and Melbourne 5 times each, PVL has insisted there is no bias against the Wests Tigers.

Champion @Rowdy12, where did he say that?

 

[Kelce68]

Disgraceful. I've written to the NRL with a please explain. Won't get a reply. Reeks of bias and could even be punitive because Richo refused to play in Las Vegas.

I'd bet everything I own that this has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

 

[tiger_one]

 

[diedpretty]

As long as we don't get the first round bye again i can live with it.

that went well

 

[cochise]

Im.not sure our desire to support magic round is.a.consideration when they do the draw ..however considering weve "done our bit" re rd 1 bye your think that would go some ways to us not missing MR

The club is contracted and paid to play a home game at magic round

 

[jadtiger]

that went well

Unfortunately even i didn't expect the NRL to stoop so low as to abandon all pretence of fairness and equality.As a wise man said many centuries ago "Beware Greeks bearing gifts".

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

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Going to go much further than Richo did, someone has to take a leak on AI's internal wires, sometimes the NRL really gives me the shits.

 

[rugbygoated]

Mate you're like the black sheep of the Tiger's forum, you go fairly quiet for a while and then you start wailing like a banshee again.

Stop whinging and start supporting, if the Tigers don't pass your expectations why not go for one of the top 4 teams like I'm sure there's a lot of fickle minds out in NRL land that do.

I'm a realist. I was actually quite optimistic last season with the recruitment and preseason camp etc. but it seems very little changed. I am not accepting mediocrity

 

[happy_tiger]

The rich get richer
The poor get the picture

The bombs never hit you
When your down so low

 

[Telltails]

Getting the bye in the first three rounds is not great but first is useless. No team should get it twice with in a three year period.

 

[Tigerdave]

Yeah letting AI do the draw is pathetic and clearly doesn't work, we should not have the 1st round bye again

 

[diedpretty]

How good would it be if one of the Vegas teams gets a bye in round 2 - watch the proverbial hit the fan then.

 

[hammertime]

Yeah letting AI do the draw is pathetic and clearly doesn't work, we should not have the 1st round bye again

AI needs to be trained or prompted with the expected output, and it should have governance. AI is not an excuse; whoever was in charge of the prompt engineering or the verification of output has not done their job.

Absolute rort. We'd better have the softest remaining draw in NRL history to make up for it.

 

[jadtiger]

AI needs to be trained or prompted with the expected output, and it should have governance. AI is not an excuse; whoever was in charge of the prompt engineering or the verification of output has not done their job.

Absolute rort. We'd better have the softest remaining draw in NRL history to make up for it.

No chance us getting a soft draw from the NRL unfortunately,they are probably still annoyed we missed the wooden spoon.

 

[BunganHead Tiger]

Fellow Forum Members I have dusted off the abacus and have 'attempted' to calculate the probability that one team can be given a first round bye twice in a 3 year period in a 17 team competition based on random selection. Here is the result:

The probability that a given team is awarded a first round bye in two of three consecutive years is (48⁄4913), or about 0.980 %.

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In any one year only one of the 17 teams receives the first round bye, so the chance that a particular team gets it is (1⁄17).

P=1/17

Across three independent years, the number of first round byes a given team gets follows a binomial distribution;

X Bin(3, \(1⁄17)\).

We want P(X=2)


P(X=2)=(3/2)(1/17)2(1−1/17)

Compute the value.

P(X=2)=3⋅1/289⋅16/17=48/4913≈0.0098

Therefore according to this probability calculation the chances of a team being awarded a first round bye twice out of three consecutive years in a 17 team competition on a random basis is 0.0098, or less than 1%.
As always I accept NO responsibility should this arithmetic be proven wrong.