FRG’s Six Nations 2021 Rugby Predictor Games Overview

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Here at Fantasy Rugby Geek, when all is said and done, we’re just massive Rugby fans and whether we are watching as a fan, have valuable fantasy points at stake or maybe have a cheeky punt on the game, we love it. With this in mind we love all kinds of games around the sport, not just fantasy, and one area that is growing rapidly is the world of rugby predictor games.

Predictor games are brilliant, especially if you don’t have as much time to plan and execute your fantasy rugby game. You can just log in, predict the results and then sit back and enjoy the games.

Today we are checking out 5 of the biggest predictor games in place for this year’s Six Nations; Match Pint, Who Knows Wins, Rugby Predictions, SuperBru and ESPN Rugby Pick’em.

What Are Rugby Predictor Games?

Rugby Predictor games are extremely simple yet surprisingly challenging games. The aim of the game is to log in each week, look at the fixtures lined up for that week and predict the outcome of the match. The more accurate your prediction is, the better you do. It is a marathon, not a sprint and over the course of the season, the most knowledgeable players always rise to the top. It’s a great way to stay focused on the season if maintaining your fantasy team is too much, and can take as little as 5 minutes each week to maintain.

The Games

Match Pint

A mobile-app only game, Match Pint’s Guinness Pint Predictor is a great little game with some cracking prizes.

To get started you need to Download MatchPint (iOS and Android), then once you’re in, select Guinness Pint Predictor.

For every Guinness Six Nations game, simply call the winner of each fixture and the margin of victory to play. You can set your predictions anytime before kick-off. Crucially, you can make sure it means more by challenging your mates in a private league, by taking on our Guinness Legends or by taking on the Eggchasers Podcast’s Tim, JB and Phil in the Eggchasers league (enter eggchasers when you go to join private league).

The closer your prediction, the more points you’ll get towards the league tables each week. Usually pints are on offer, and while obviously this can’t happen right now, they’ve still got some awesome prizes up for grabs, including Guinness Six Nations 2022 tickets, Signed shirts, Signed match balls, Dozens of ultimate Guinness gameday bundles and Guinness bomber jackets

Who Knows Wins

If you want to put your money where your mouth is, Who Knows Wins, another mobile only predictor game, let’s you buy in to predictor pools and keep the winnings. 

To get started you need to Download the Who Knows Wins app (iOS and Android). Once you have signed up and made your deposit you can make your Six Nations picks in the Rugby Section.

Make your predictions on the outcomes of your chosen fixtures. For every result you guess correctly, you get a point in your league. At the end of the competition, whoever’s got the most points wins and takes home the winnings. Couldn’t be simpler.

Rugby Predictions

Rugby Predictions is a simple and well delivered game. Signing up is easy and the game itself involves predicting the outcome of each game as well as the winning margin. The scoring is based on how close you are to the actual winning margin, with the points scoring being as follows…

  • 10 points for predicting the correct home/away win margin
  • 4 points for predicting the correct home/away win margin within 3 points
  • 3 points for predicting the correct home/away win margin within 4-6 points
  • 2 points for predicting the correct home/away win margin within 7-10 points
  • 1 point for predicting the correct home/away winner
  • 5 points for predicting all correct home/away winners in any single round

Points are accumulated over the course of the season either in public leagues or you can also choose to join a private league to share with your mates.

There are some great prizes on offer. For the armchair fan, you can win your club or Nations jersey for winning any of the main public leagues, however they are also supporting the grassroots game, so you can be given the option to swap your prize for training equipment for your club team. There are also prize draws for round winners offering branded merchandise; mugs, stickers, travel mugs. All in all, we’re big fans of Rugby Predictions, it’s a great game to dip into and their support of the grassroots game is a really positive touch.

Make sure you check out their blog for tips and advice on how to get the advantage over your mates, and if you want to learn more of how to play, check out this video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGaUuy9OmI4

SuperBru

SuperBru is a classic game and one of the original Predictor games. They cover a wide range of tournaments, obviously including Six Nations, Premiership Rugby, Super Rugby and the Rugby World Cup, but also ranging out into the likes of Major League Rugby, Currie Cup, Mitre 10 Cup and the Shute Shield. Not only that, but they provide games for many other sports including Rugby League, Rugby Sevens, NFL, F1, Football and Golf among many many others. They also offer up Fantasy games (including Six Nations, Super Rugby and Champions Cup) and their short-form fantasy game, Superstars. It is a bit of a sports fan’s paradise!

Their Rugby Predictor Games are where they started out and as such they have a large and loyal community of players. It is a simple and well executed game. To play simply select who you think will win and by what margin and based on the actual result, you will gain points that accumulate over the course of the season.

The scoring is as follows…

  • Win Point (WP) – If you correctly predict the outcome of a match (the correct winning team, or a draw), you will earn a Win Point. During league games, the WP is typically valued at 1 pt but, it can rise to 1.5, 2 or 3 in knockout stages to reflect the greater difficulty in picking winners amongst more competitive teams. If you miss a pick, you can still earn a WP through a default pick. A default is a pick for the team the community most expects to win. You are eligible for 7 default picks in Gallagher Premiership.
  • Margin Point (MP) – If your margin prediction is within 5 of the actual margin, you will earn a Margin Point valued at 0.5 pt. You can earn a MP even if your outcome is wrong in close situations: e.g. if you pick the Blue team by 2 and the Red team wins by 1, your margin prediction is 3 away from the actual margin and you qualify for MP.
  • Bonus Point (BP) – If you get the outcome right and your margin prediction is the closest in your pool and within 15 points of the actual margin, you will score a Bonus Point valued at 1 pt, but, if more than one player qualifies, the BP is shared, down to a minimum value of 0.25pts. Because each pool contains different players, your pick might be the closest in one pool but not in another. You’ll earn BP in the first but not in the second. The Bonus Point is only used inside pools: not on the global or country leaderboards.
  • Grand Slam Point (GSP) – If you correctly predict the outcome of every match in a round, you will score a Grand Slam Point. GSP value can vary by round. In Gallagher Premiership the GSP values are 2.00 pts (only in the league rounds, not the knockout rounds). There is no GSP if there are fewer than 4 matches in a round.

There are a huge range of public and private leagues that you can join, some of which have prizes on offer, so have a dig around the site and see what you can find!

ESPN Rugby Pick’em

Replacing their long-running fantasy game, ESPN Rugby Pick’em is ESPN’s foray into games for the Six Nations.

Rugby Pick’em is easy to play. You are asked questions throughout the Six Nations Championship, you pick the winners. Each matchup will have between two and four answer choices. Correct answers are worth 10 points. You can create groups to play with friends, family and co-workers. 

When a matchup goes final, assuming you made the pick, you’ll either get it correct (10 points), incorrect (0 points) or there will be a push where no points are awarded because the matchup was cancelled. Your results from each round of the playoffs will be added together, forming your total score for the game. Your groups and the leaderboard will update as the matchups are scored. 

There are no prizes to win, it is simply one of those “just for fun” type things.

The Edge

Crunch the data

There are a wealth of great sites out there offering up statistical analysis as to the likely outcomes in the games. One of our personal favourites is Rugby Vision, which takes an incredible level of data to establish the likely outcomes, and more often than not, they are right!

What are the bookies saying?

The bookies are rarely wrong, their livelihood depends on it, so check out the match odds, and in particular the handicap odds to see their opinion on how the game will go to help you make your decision.

Dodge the draws

With big points on offer for the draw in a number of Rugby Predictor Games, choosing the draw can be extremely tempting. However, draws happen less than 3% of the time so it simply is not worth the risk.

If you back your Fantasy Rugby skills to lead you to Fantasy Six Nations glory and win you some stash while you are at it, then join our public fantasy league on The Rugby Magazine fantasy game, where a signed paperback copy of the Fantasy Rugby Handbook and a Fantasy Rugby Geek Trucker Hat, will be on offer for the winner of the league. Join it here!

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