NPC Tipping 2025

Kick off time is less than an hour away now and we still need more tippers. KPs competition is unique in that it is both a teams event as well as having an individual competition so it is twice as fun!!! With the change in URL we are still missing quite a few regulars so the call goes out to all you others that contribute to this great forum but have yet to put their thoughts into action by backing your judgement as to who you think should win each game. Now is the time to put that to the test.
Each Provincial Team has a maximum of six players but just the top five each week count towards the team total and at this stage there are teams that are hovering around the four tippers at this stage so please help out if you can.

Use this link to get you into the tipping page

Even if you miss the deadline for the first game you can still enter with the game you miss being recorded as a default Away 17+ score @Dan54 can't be too far away from joining in this year..........

Easily my favourite tipping comp, and so much better with more competitors

Last chance

We have 40 now, about the same as last year

@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.

Just saw this have chucked my picks in obviously picked the wrong result tonight on purpose, hopefully I’m not too late

@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.

Link to tipping seems broken?

Any issues here @Duluth ? - the link was working fine earlier on but failing for me now.

@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.

It’s back

@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.

Oops

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.

@KiwiPie said in NPC Tipping 2025:

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.

Apologies mate, was sick last week and completely forgot. Frustrating.

Sorry! Added in a reminder so I won’t forget, was traveling…

@KiwiPie Sorry about that. Knew I forgot to do something on here last week.

Good to see all the contrition on this thread - onward and upward!

Time to get your tips in everyone https://silverfern.rugby/tipping-submit/

Just got them in!

TIP EARLY THIS COMING WEEK - OPENING GAME IS ON THURSDAY NIGHT.

Results are updated after the weekend https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/

Nobody at all picked Taranaki as top scorers and BoP as low scorers. Picking 6/7 results were @jamsb Plastered Peni @ploughboy @bayimports & @Chris with Chris top scoring with 46. @george33 showing an uncanny knack of picking the wrong winner scoring just 12 and forcing all the non tippers to have just 7 points.

@Laurence still leads but only by 2 from @hydro11 with @jamsb up to 3rd. Wellington wins again with their 3rd bonus point win, also wins for BOP and first wins of the season for Counties-Waikato and Northland. The Cup is into the last 16 - no ties this weekend. Missing tippers were @trooa @Kruse @Yeetyaah Glen @Canes4life @Tim and @BorderJB was late again.

Wait, what, nah.. sure I fucking tipped. Got a reminder in work Outlook and everything.
Fuuuuck. This is some BoP Mafia rigging buuuullshit.

Remember to tip today. There's a game tonight

Sorry, just tipped now…

This time-zone is a prick for NPC and Thursday games - gonna have to move my reminder to Wednesday.

@Kruse not to worry, unsure many would have had Southland so you will have the same points as most still

@taniwharugby said in NPC Tipping 2025:

@Kruse not to worry, unsure many would have had Southland so you will have the same points as most still

Don't you get an Away 17+ for a missed tip if you are late with your tips? If so then it turns out to be an inspired tactic!

@Higgins said in NPC Tipping 2025:

@taniwharugby said in NPC Tipping 2025:

@Kruse not to worry, unsure many would have had Southland so you will have the same points as most still

Don't you get an Away 17+ for a missed tip if you are late with your tips? If so then it turns out to be an inspired tactic!

Nah I ditched that rule a long time ago (for this very reason). You get zilch, nada, nothing. If you don't submit at all you get 5 points less than the lowest score of someone who put their tips in on time.

If you think your tipping score was terrible at the weekend, you're in good company - we were nearly all terrible. https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/

Best was 5/7 picks by @Corkscrew and a top score of 39, 4/7 for @Joan-and-Mary & @MacDazzler and only 1/7 for some - if they picked Counties to win. Season low score of 7 for @george33 & @Duluth

No real change at the top but Corkscrew moves up from 20th to 6th overall. We've reached the last 8 in the Cup. Joan and Mary very unlucky to lose as the 2nd highest scorer of the weekend.

Wellington and BOP tie their game so Wellington still unbeaten. Only 4 points cover 2nd to 7th on the ladder.

Get those tips in https://silverfern.rugby/tipping-submit

Still about half of the tipping contingent are yet to tip.

The results are in https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/

An easier week and almost everyone picked 5/7, missing out on the Northland and Southland wins. @Landers92 with the top score of 52 getting both Canterbury and Harbour as the category picks. 49 for @barky1 & @Kirwan

Not much change at the top with @Laurence increasing the lead to 5 ahead of @hydro11 and Propsicle up into 3rd ahead of @jamsb . The Cup semi-finals will be
Plastered Peni v Barky1
Propsicle v @Corkscrew

A first defeat of the season for Wellington who lead by 2 from BOP and Counties-Waikato with Hawke's Bay making up the top 4. 2 more rounds of games to decide the semi-finalists and 7 teams still in contention as the Bush and Northland still have to play the hopeless Harbour-Auckland.

Remember the first game of the round is tonight so get your tips in soon https://silverfern.rugby/tipping-submit/

The results are in - remember there is another Thursday night game this week so tip early. https://silverfern.rugby/tipping/

The week was OK for tipping until Sunday with 2 big upsets, only 3 picking a Steamers win and only 2 going for Auckland. The best results picked was 5/7 for @barky1 @taniwharugby Richie & @MacDazzler But the best score was 44 for @antipodean with 2 margins correct and both category picks (Canterbury & Northland).

We have a new leader, @jamsb now leads by 2 from @Laurence with Propsicle 3rd, @barky1 up to 4th and Plastered Peni dropping to 5th. Still only 20 points between 1st and 13th so plenty are still in contention for the title.

In the teams comp, with one week of round robin left there are 6 teams still battling for the top 4 - 4 points from Counties-Waikato in 1st and Northland in 6th.

Finally in the Cup, the final will be between Barky1 & Propsicle - to be played out over the next 2 weekends.