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[tajhay]

"A bug has swept through the squad. Gerard Beale, Suaia Matagi and 2 others are all unwell"

● The four affected players in the Hawks' illness outbreak are:

1. Gerard Beale (id 85)
2. Suaia Matagi (id 257)
3. Blake Green (id 29)
4. Syd Eru (id 258)

 

[tajhay]

What’s the go with stuff like this? Did Henry drop it or did they score, I mean they scored but what?View attachment 17227

This was a bug. He did score the try, but this particular sequence forgot the break in change of possession. Sorry about that - it should have been a turnover after Henry lost the ball. Has been fixed.

 

[tajhay]

Match Engine Update — What's Changed

The Problem

The match engine wasn't reflecting real rugby league. Halfbacks were running like
forwards — piling up metres, busting tackles and throwing offloads at rates no
real NRL #7 ever does. Props, wingers and centres were under-used. Fullbacks were
behaving like extra playmakers instead of explosive runners.

Why It Needed Fixing

If halfbacks do forwards' jobs, having a strong front row stops mattering. If
wingers don't get the ball, signing a power finisher means nothing. The engine was
rewarding the wrong builds.

How We Fixed It

Everything was rebenchmarked against real NRL data (2024-2026) and each position now
has its own properly tuned profile:

▸ Forwards do the yardage work
▸ Outside backs get their proper share of carries
▸ Fullbacks are explosive runners again
▸ Halves win games via kicking and creating, not running
▸ Hookers stay in the offload mix without dominating play creation

Tackle breaks, offloads and line breaks now happen at NRL-realistic rates and flow
naturally from the play.

Squad Impact

Bigger games coming:

▸ Power props — workhorses finally do workhorse numbers
▸ Yardage wingers — strong, fast finishers will dominate
▸ Ball-running centres — real attacking weapons now
▸ Explosive fullbacks — power #1s break games open
▸ Edge backrowers — more impact with the ball

Quieter stat lines:

▸ Running halfbacks — value now lives in kicking and try assists, not metres
▸ Forward-style five-eighths — playmakers play, they don't carry like a
backrower

What To Do

1. Audit your forwards — quality front and back row matter much more now.
2. Audit your outside backs — pacy, powerful finishers pay off.
3. Audit your halves — playmaking and kicking ratings over running stats.
4. Audit your fullback — explosive runner archetype is king.

The engine now rewards real rugby league team-building. If your squad already
reflects that, you'll feel the upside straight away. If it doesn't, the trade
window is the time to act.

Round 8 is the first round on the new engine. Watch your stat lines and adjust.

 

[Cces]

@tajhay, with Bond, one part of the FAQs reads as if it relates to their actual playing careers and another part reads as if it can be developed in our game.
Is it one or the other, or both?

 

[tajhay]

@tajhay, with Bond, one part of the FAQs reads as if it relates to their actual playing careers and another part reads as if it can be developed in our game.
Is it one or the other, or both?

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Its actual playing career. I need to update that faq as i do want to broaden it to their ultimate team playing career in the future, but in a diff way - but not this season.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Match Engine Update — What's Changed

The Problem

The match engine wasn't reflecting real rugby league. Halfbacks were running like
forwards — piling up metres, busting tackles and throwing offloads at rates no
real NRL #7 ever does. Props, wingers and centres were under-used. Fullbacks were
behaving like extra playmakers instead of explosive runners.

Why It Needed Fixing

If halfbacks do forwards' jobs, having a strong front row stops mattering. If
wingers don't get the ball, signing a power finisher means nothing. The engine was
rewarding the wrong builds.

How We Fixed It

Everything was rebenchmarked against real NRL data (2024-2026) and each position now
has its own properly tuned profile:

▸ Forwards do the yardage work
▸ Outside backs get their proper share of carries
▸ Fullbacks are explosive runners again
▸ Halves win games via kicking and creating, not running
▸ Hookers stay in the offload mix without dominating play creation

Tackle breaks, offloads and line breaks now happen at NRL-realistic rates and flow
naturally from the play.

Squad Impact

Bigger games coming:

▸ Power props — workhorses finally do workhorse numbers
▸ Yardage wingers — strong, fast finishers will dominate
▸ Ball-running centres — real attacking weapons now
▸ Explosive fullbacks — power #1s break games open
▸ Edge backrowers — more impact with the ball

Quieter stat lines:

▸ Running halfbacks — value now lives in kicking and try assists, not metres
▸ Forward-style five-eighths — playmakers play, they don't carry like a
backrower

What To Do

1. Audit your forwards — quality front and back row matter much more now.
2. Audit your outside backs — pacy, powerful finishers pay off.
3. Audit your halves — playmaking and kicking ratings over running stats.
4. Audit your fullback — explosive runner archetype is king.



Round 8 is the first round on the new engine. Watch your stat lines and adjust.

At last!

Sick of my expensive, world class forward being ineffective every week!

I traded Hoffman after doing 40m per week and losing us 3 games by being generally hopeless and now after the tweaks he’s probably going to become a weapon