What is NRL Fantasy Pro

What is NRL Fantasy Pro?

If you have access to a laptop or desktop, NRL Fantasy Pro is an absolute must-use.

Feel free to skim this page and jump to the sections that interest you most.

If you’re currently mobile-only, the good news is this: over the next 12 months, a major focus of our development will be redesigning and rolling out stripped-down, mobile-friendly versions of our tools. Our goal is that by 2027, phone-only users can fully benefit from what we provide.

In the meantime, if you have access to a work computer or any larger-screen device, you really should be checking out what NRL Supercoach Pro offers.

Our Background

I first started playing the predecessor to NRL Fantasy — NRL Dream Team — more than 20 years ago. At the time, I was studying a double degree in Mathematics and Education at the University of New South Wales.

Over the last two decades, I’ve been deeply involved in the NRL Fantasy community — through fantasy groups, analytics work, and direct involvement with the development side of the game. I’ve had numerous meetings and communications with the company contracted to run NRL Fantasy, and I was the person who originally proposed the unstructured bench and Auto-Emergency system that exists in the game today.

In the very same meeting where I put forward the unstructured bench concept, I also presented a number of ideas to overhaul the Fantasy Coach Subscription and turn it into a genuinely useful product. The response was refreshingly honest: they had no interest in developing their coach subscription offering.

Where It Started

Over the years I had been building my own stats sets and fantasy tools, which were used by members of NRL Fantasy Lounge — a group I founded for passionate fantasy players and as a fundraiser for the Starlight Foundation, a charity close to my heart since my university days volunteering at Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Despite the group being limited to roughly 500 members, between 2018 and 2023 it produced:

• The Overall NRL Fantasy Winner (2021) – Shane Ewart
• Multiple multi-season Top 10 finishers – Cooper Gehrman and Robert Fung
• A large number of Top 100 finishers

The group also directly led to the formation of NRL Fantasy Amateurs, founded by Mark Jessup alongside several Fantasy Lounge members.

At that point, it became obvious this needed to move online — especially with no intention from NRL Fantasy themselves to improve their subscription tools. Fortunately, our group included an exceptionally high-calibre software and web developer with the same passion for building something better.

Rugby League Fantasy Pro Pty Ltd was registered on August 22, 2022, and the platform launched at the start of 2023.

Our Vision

From day one, the vision was simple:

Build a genuine alternative to the NRL Fantasy Coach Subscription — at a similar price point — that actually delivers value.

In our view, the existing plus subscription provides very little: breakevens and largely gimmicks.

NRL Fantasy Pro was built to:

• Deliver intelligence-based player projections
• Provide serious research and planning tools
• Centralise everything NRL Fantasy players need in one platform

Stats tools, game tools, breakevens, price calculators, player history, injury and suspension tracking — all in one place.

All for $30 per year.

Unmatched Innovation

Along the way, our internal motto became:

“Next Level Cubed.”

Anything that exists elsewhere in the NRL Fantasy (and SuperCoach) space, we aim to take further — deeper data, better logic, more practical application.

We don’t just copy ideas. We rebuild them properly.

A Platform for Every Type of NRL Fantasy Player

If you’re a hardcore researcher who loves deep dives, building your own projections and valuations — we’re unmatched in the depth and flexibility of the tools available.

If you’re a casual player who just wants a strong, competitive team without hours of research — we’ve already done the work for you.
No other platform maintains full-competition player projections, constantly updated for:

• Team selections
• Role changes
• Injuries and suspensions

Our Team Picker, Best Buys, Rankings, and Projections pages give you a massive head start — with or without your own research.

We Even Record Our Own Stats

If the data doesn’t exist, we create it.

This includes:

• Try Movement Values
Every try is manually analysed to determine the fantasy and SuperCoach value of the actions leading to the score.

• Player Role & Edge Data
We are the only platform that tracks left and right edge roles, including players who shift between middle and edge roles within the same game.

• Try Location Data
• Try Position Data

What We’re Currently Building

Right now, we’re taking our Team Planner to Next Level Cubed, including:

• A planner page for every round
• Sync with your actual Supercoach team
• Optimised team setup and projected round score for each round
• Hypothetical trade simulation
• Projected player values by round
• Projected bank tracking
• Trade impact analysis (round score, roster value, season points)
• Carry-forward rosters across rounds to incorporate proposed trades
• Factor in Origin, injury, and suspensions
• Trade remaining health indicators
And, as always, more ideas will be added as we build.

Why This Probably Shouldn’t Exist

If this project needed to generate immediate revenue to justify the time and resources invested, it simply wouldn’t exist.

I currently work up to 60 hours a week on this platform without relying on income from it. In 2025, my personal return for that time was under $10,000.

Likewise, my business partner — who could comfortably earn well over $150 per hour contracting — continues to build this platform largely for passion, growth, and belief in what it can become., whilst also working full-time corporately.

We believe that over time, across our four platforms (NRL Fantasy, SuperCoach, Draftstars, and Punting tools), the subscriber base will reach a point where this becomes a sustainable business.

If it fails, it’s unlikely anything like it will be attempted again. The time, effort, and resources required are simply too great.

We’re just passionate enough — and stubborn enough — to believe we can make it work.

The Bottom Line

For $30 per year, if you love NRL Fantasy and have access to a larger screen, it’s honestly hard to justify not using NRL Fantasy Pro.

Published on 28-Jan-2026