From NRLSCtalk:
“Okay, then. How do I do the vice captain loophole?
There are a couple of things to take into account. First, your vice captain option needs to play earlier on in the weekend than your captain option. It sounds simple, but it’s a common mistake to try to play them in the wrong order. Ideally there would be at least one day between their games to allow for any scoring corrections, or updates, to be made as well, to allow you to make a better decision with more information available. Now to the actual mechanics of it. First, you select someone who you think could potentially score a much higher than average score, whether it’s due to the opposition they’re playing, their own form, or other reasons. You choose them to be your vice captain, and then you let the game go on. Most likely they probably won’t score one of those outrageously good scores that you’re hoping for, and you just go ahead and leave the captaincy option on your regular pick. However, if they do score very well – and this is generally considered to be in excess of 130 to be a viable option, otherwise the points differential is more likely to not be in your favour – then with the vice captain settled, you remove the captaincy from your choice and you put it on someone who **definitely** isn’t playing first grade that weekend. Let me repeat that – they absolutely **must not** be available, let alone being only extremely unlikely to play, because strange things happen when you try to do the VC loop and you probably will be screwed if you leave it up to chance. Who you take out of your side to allow this to happen is up to you, and is a matter of your own judgement of who is likely to score the least and that you have a player available in that position later in the round that you can swap them with. Just to demonstrate with an example, Shaun Johnson is your vice captain and he scores 155\. Paul Gallen was to be your captain, but he’s likely to play less minutes with Origin looming, and so you’re keen to do the swap. You remove the captaincy from Gallen and, looking at your CTW, see Brett Morris is suspended this week and is not playing, so you replace you’re 4th CTW, Sione Mata’utia with Morris and make him captain, leaving Gallen still in the side to gain you points, and Shaun Johnson’s score to double at the conclusion of the Bulldogs’ game later that weekend.
It all sounds really easy, right? …right.”