The NRL’s pre-season kicks off in solely 16 days and a whopping $100,000 payday is on the road for the 18 groups competing.
All 17 NRL golf equipment, together with debutants the Dolphins plus Super League champions St Helens, will participate within the pre-season problem, going through each the Dragons and Panthers.
While the competitors is about to be affected by rising stars and a few of the sport’s most fun expertise — NRL bosses have thrown a number of curveballs into the combination.
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The factors system will see groups awarded 12 factors for a win, and 6 for a draw, with a number of methods to attain bonus factors guaranteeing no contest is a useless rubber.
If a group scores 5 or extra tries, they earn one further bonus level, while incomes the identical quantity for 5 or extra linebreaks and 10 or extra offloads.
Therefore, the utmost a group can rating with a win is 15 factors, whereas three factors are nonetheless on supply for the shedding facet — with attracts awarded if groups are degree on factors on the finish of 80 minutes.
The NRL may also permit golf equipment to area as many as 28 gamers within the first week of the pre-season problem, and 26 within the second — with limitless interchanges.
The reigning premiers, the Panthers, will tackle St Helens within the World Club Challenge within the second week of pre-season.
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In this conflict, groups will be capable to earn factors as per the pre-season guidelines, nevertheless squads will solely stretch to 17 gamers with an 18th participant named as an head harm substitute ought to two or extra gamers fail a HIA.
In the occasion of a tie in spite of everything video games are accomplished, a system has been laid out to make sure the pre-season problem will at all times have a victor.
The group with the very best factors differential will stake the cash dwelling, however within the occasion groups are nonetheless degree it comes all the way down to a proportion.
The winner turns into the group with the larger proportion of factors scored for and in opposition to, from tries and objectives.
If one way or the other there may be nonetheless a impasse on the high of the ladder, the winner is set by these statistics, so as — most tries, scores, most objectives kicked, most area objectives kicked, least quantity of penalties conceded — and finally, the toss of a coin.