Easily my favourite tipping comp, and so much better with more competitors
@taniwharugby Interesting to note seemingly perennial top contender @winger has not fronted yet but he tends to be a very late tipper each week so there is still time he may front up. If not then it opens the competition up a bit more! My guys look to only have four starters at this stage so I've got my fingers crossed someone might front up late in the piece to fill the squad out without having to rely on the draft organised by KP.
Edit: And as I wrote the above Winger does front up. Still it is small consolation that he can't improve on his finishing position last season when he sneaked ahead of @Donsteppa to win the thing right on full time.
@Higgins said in NPC Tipping 2025:
Edit: And as I wrote the above Winger does front up. Still it is small consolation that he can't improve on his finishing position last season when he sneaked ahead of @Donsteppa to win the thing right on full time.
I vaguely recall the result effectively being staked on the NPC final. I went double or nothing on that one 
Silver Fern is only tipping I ever go in. Have to miss this one as I maybe away for a part, and just find it too hard to do tips when I not home.
The results are live for week 1. Bookmark this link as they will appear here every Sunday/Monday https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/
@ploughboy is our early leader. 5/7 results with 3 margins was enough for 47 in what was a low scoring week. 6/7 was the best for @justin77 who was 2nd with 46 (not enough margins) and 3rd is @Laurence with 40 - only 4/7 but all with a correct margin. Also getting 5/7 were @trooa and @BorderJB in 4th and 5th. 3 players picked only 2/7 (which given Taranaki and Hawke's Bay were banker home wins was pretty poor!) and worst was @Yeetyaah with just 15.
Still time to join if you want to, you will get 10 for the first round. All players (43) have been assigned a team - BOP, Counties-Waikato & Wellington have 6 as they were popular and their spares have been drafted to other teams. Narrow first round wins for Hawke's Bay, BOP, Wellington and a convincing win for Wairarapa Bush over South Island for whom every player scored 27 points.
@taniwharugby said in NPC Tipping 2025:
Link to tipping seems broken?
Do we want to actually see the results? 🫣
@bayimports said in NPC Tipping 2025:
@taniwharugby said in NPC Tipping 2025:
Link to tipping seems broken?
Do we want to actually see the results? 🫣
Some do - most don't!
@KiwiPie said in NPC Tipping 2025:
the link was working fine earlier on but failing for me now.
When was it working?
@Kirwan was doing something last night. He'll fix it soon
@Duluth said in NPC Tipping 2025:
@KiwiPie said in NPC Tipping 2025:
the link was working fine earlier on but failing for me now.
When was it working?
@Kirwan was doing something last night. He'll fix it soon
It was definitely working 5 hours ago when I did the updates.
@KiwiPie said in NPC Tipping 2025:
@bayimports said in NPC Tipping 2025:
@taniwharugby said in NPC Tipping 2025:
Link to tipping seems broken?
Do we want to actually see the results? 🫣
Some do - most don't!
I'm surprised. I actually thought none of the results went my way.
First game of round 2 of NPC is tonight, make sure you get your tips submitted https://silverfern.rugby/tipping-submit
There will be a bit of a delay before week 2 scores are online - I seem to have lost the workings for week 1 in my spreadsheet so I will need to do a bit of reconstruction. Meanwhile the tipping form is live for Week 3.
Not quite as bad as feared - Sharepoint had hidden it somewhere. Everything updated now at https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/ - report to come later on.
Report time - firstly going AWOL were @Chris Glen @MacDazzler @Canes4life @Tim @Kirwan - sort yourselves out, it is only week 2! The Teams comp relies on people tipping every week - maybe do it earlier in the week.
A much easier week for picking the winners - getting 7/7 were @Laurence who moves top overall, 7 points clear and also @jamsb who moves up to 6th. They both scored 61 but topping all scorers was @hydro11 with 65 - picked Waikato to win but got 6/6 margins on the other games and moves up to 2nd. Sharing 3rd spot are @Higgins and @trooa
16 players in total topped 50 after nobody managed it last week. At the other end of the scale, @george33 scored just 21. The first round of the Cup is next week, the draw has been made. 2 of @BorderJB @ploughboy @sportboy will make the draw depending on which of them scores best in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd game etc.
Wins for Wellington and Wairarapa Bush mean they are 1 and 2, Harbour-Auckland are already looking wooden spooners and Counties-Waikato and Northland fought out an honourable draw.