NRL Supercoach gun Valentine Holmes will feature for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Vegas opener, but a pre-season hamstring concern has his Supercoach credentials under major scrutiny.

Supercoach veteran Tim Williams has his say on stacks of questions from the SC Playbook subscriber community, looking at key issues plaguing people before round 1.

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NRL Supercoach has a new stats system, and centres are the huge winners with Herbie Farnworth headlining a list of outside backs set to explode under the interpretations.

Beers & Breakevens pits SC Playbook's 2020 runner-up Tim Williams and the Rugby League Guru together to help you nail your NRL Supercoach teams heading into round 1.

The boys assess the top owned centres, now the most important position to begin the season, with elite players such as Farnworth and Val Holmes looking even better, and a number of mid-rangers including Stephen Crichton coming into relevance.

00:00 Matty the Waterboy joins the show

01:00 Question time: What does the new stat system look like?

29:30 Centre analysis: Latrell's positional shift gets a boost

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NRL Supercoach 2026 has been sent into a frenzy, with a new stats provider announced which will shake-up the game substantially ahead of NRL round 1, so what does it all mean and how can we exploit it to succeed?

Former NRL Supercoach runner-up Tim Williams is joined by the SC Spy, Random Stats Guy and Matty the Waterboy as we launch deeper into the 2026 campaign.

The boys deep dive into new stats system, explaining the changes, what it means for the game, and the positional winners and losers.

They also discuss the Supercoach team list Tuesday eye catchers, then Spy reveals his full squad with analysis to begin the new campaign.

00:00 Supercoach stats overhaul

06:20 New stats system explainer: Positional winners and losers

32:00 Team list Tuesday: Bad news for Cowboys cheapie

47:30 Spy's team reveal: Weird Flex and seeing Cleary

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