BLR 2026
John Tasker
Head Analyst
BestLeagueRatings is a time proven Rugby League Rating System which was created around 30 years ago to take the emotional side out of your Rugby League Selections.
This system of Ratings has been pursued by Gambling Agencies but the Owner, Creator has stayed loyal to grass roots Rugby League Supporters.
The Owner has been offered deals by a few large Gambling Agencies but along with his upbringing would prefer to support the battlers.
Time now for making this successful formula open to all, where a subscriber can enter their own intuitive Player Ratings into BLRs unique stats formula and get a predicted game margin based on their input, as well as a Professional BLR game rating.
Years ago confronted by a renowned Journalist about who did my player ratings, when I replied "I did". the Journalist rolled his eyes to his Journalist mate to which I replied, " If you have to play 1st grade NRL to know anything about League, we would have a lot of empty newspapers.
A First Grade, Australian Rep sitting with us put the Journo in his place as well.
Any way the time is right now for the Player Rating side of the formula to be opened to Rugby League Supporters.
Over 30 years BLR has a success rate at the handicap line of over 60% and around 85% head to head.
BLR has their own exclusive Investment strategy on Rugby League that maximises their year Invest on seasons but is not here to tell you what to do but will let you know what they do.
Subscribers will be able to change their player ratings up till kick off in case of late changes.
BLR has predicted game margins to within a converted try (6pts) of 33% of all games over the last 30 years and within a point of game margins 1 out of every 12 games.
BLR will provide a Subscriber with their own game rating plus a Professional Rating for each game.
This season 2026 BLR will run a Virtual Competition if a Subscriber does a one off player ratings of the predicted top 17 players loaded onto the website, we will run a comp based on the Official 2026 NRL draw which will be a competition, plus a predictor for the real season ahead.
2025 BLR ran their first Virtual Comp and ended up with 9 of the actual top 10 in the same finishing place.