Fantasy basketball simplified: Play Beat the Coach, SuperCoach’s new format

The 2025/26 season introduces Beat the Coach, a new weekly format designed for fast, accessible play.

Gone is the grind of building team value across a season. This is all about one-off contests, outscoring a superstar and chasing weekly glory.

What is Beat the Coach?

Classic SuperCoach NBL was built around long-term strategy: trading smart, managing the salary cap and planning weeks ahead.

Beat the Coach is a new week-to-week format focusing on shorter, sharper gameplay and tactics.

Each round, NBL championship player and expert analyst Damon Lowery will pick a team that will be available to review in SuperCoach well before the round begins.

Your job? Beat his squad.

Outscore the coach and you’ll be in the winners’ circle, with chances to pick up prizes.

Beat the Coach in any round of the 2025-26 season and you’ll receive an entry into the end-of-season $10,000 prize draw including $5000 cash and $5000 Choice Hotels travel voucher. Every round you Beat the Coach earns you an additional entry.

Beat the Coach head-to-head in any round and you’ll go into the draw to win 1 of 3 weekly prizes for that round, including 2 x $500 cash prizes and 1 x $500 Choice Hotels travel voucher.

Beat the Coach is simple, exciting and competitive.

The scoring system is the same as SuperCoach NBL Classic.

Think of Beat the Coach as SuperCoach in sprint mode – a weekly test against the best.

You can still join or create leagues to play against mates, but the focus is firmly on one-off match-ups and round rankings.

How rounds work

Most rounds will run Wednesday to Sunday.

Rolling lockouts apply, meaning you can keep swapping players once the round has started.

But once a player’s first game tips off, they’re locked for that week.

Be wary of early Wednesday games: those players are locked for the entire round.

Rounds 13–15 add a wrinkle with daily fixtures between December 18 and January 5, plus overnight turnarounds after rounds 13 and 14.

Picking your team

Each week you’ll select a fresh starting six:

* 2 forwards

* 1 centre

* 2 guards

* 1 sixth man (any position)

All six players score. Captains score triple, vice-captains double.

No squads carry over. It’s a clean-slate fantasy clash every round.

Salary cap rules

Each week you’ll get a set salary cap of $1.4m to spend.

Player prices move based on form, but unlike classic SuperCoach: No banking cash, no compounding price rises, no trades to manage.

Every round, every coach has the same budget to work with.

Leagues and rankings

Open Leagues are in, letting you track yourself against mates or the broader SuperCoach community.

Club and state rankings add another bragging-rights ladder to climb.

What about SuperCoach Plus?

SuperCoach Plus still brings premium insights. The core tools remain powerful for salary cap calls.

Quickfire guide

Beat the Coach: Take on an expert’s team head-to-head each round.

Rounds: Mostly Wed – Sun with rolling lockouts. Wednesday players lock early.

Team: 6 per week (2F, 1C, 2G, 1 sixth man). All six scores count.

Scoring: Captain = 3x, Vice = 2x.

Salary cap: $1.4m per round, reset weekly. No carry-over cash.

Leagues: Open Leagues to compete with mates

SC Plus: Still stacked with stats, adjusted for the weekly format.
Prizes: Grand Prize – Beat the Coach in any round of the 2025-26 season and you’ll receive an entry into the end-of-season $10,000 prize draw including 1 x $5000 cash and 1 x $5000 Choice Hotels travel voucher. Every round you Beat the Coach earns you an additional entry.

Weekly Prizes – Beat the Coach head-to-head in any round and you’ll go into the draw to win 1 of 3 weekly prizes for that round – including 2 x $500 cash prizes and 1 x $500 Choice Hotels travel voucher.

Play Beat the Coach today.