The new NRL Season is close you can almost taste the XXXX Gold and Hot-ish Chips, and with a new season comes excitement and expectation, until the reality of the season for most fans kicks in around April. Everyone will try before the season starts to guess you will finish where, and this website is no different. So for your consideration, and some extra filler for the website we present our 2025 NRL Season Ladder Predictions.
But we don ‘t just deliver one prediction and sit back and smoke a big fat cigar. No, we offer up four different ways of coming up with a prediction for the 2025 NRL Premiership ladder using stats, AI, gut feel and then simply via pure chance.
THE OVERLY COMPLICATED DATA DRIVEN 2025 NRL SEASON LADDER PREDICTION
We thought the best way to start our 2025 NRL Season Ladder Predictions is to get a bunch of stats from the past few seasons of NRL, throw in some subjective ones about the 2025 NRL Season, and determine a potential end of season ladder.
Where it is not subjective, the points are awarded as 5 or 10 for the best results, then down to 0 based on a % of that high figure. Then calculate all the totals from those data points. Then work out the % of competition points each team could get based on the 510 available from 2024.
Sadly using so much recent data it doesn’t allow for a bolter. Maybe there won’t be one in 2025. But anyways, here is the official Overly Complicated Data Driven Ladder.
Team |
Final 2025 Pts |
| Melbourne | 44 |
| Penrith | 42 |
| Bulldogs | 38 |
| Cronulla | 38 |
| Roosters | 36 |
| North Queensland | 34 |
| Manly Warringah | 32 |
| Dolphins | 28 |
| St George Illawarra | 28 |
| Newcastle | 26 |
| Gold Coast | 26 |
| Canberra | 26 |
| South Sydney | 24 |
| Wests Tigers | 24 |
| Brisbane | 22 |
| Warriors | 22 |
| Parramatta | 20 |
Data fields used…..
2024 Ladder position
Improvement Ladder position 2023 to 2024
Improvement Points per Game 1st Half 2024 to second half
Average last three Ladder positions
2024 Ladder vs 5 Year average
Betting markets
2025 Draw Difficulty – based on 2024 Ladder
2025 Draw Difficulty First Six Rounds – based on 2024 Ladder
2025 Draw Difficulty – based on 10 seasons of H2H results
2025 Draw Difficulty – distance travelled in 2025
2025 Player Movement Ranking
2025 Coach O Meter – under pressure or King of the Hill
THE GUT FEEL 2025 NRL SEASON LADDER PREDICTION
After wasting way too much time on the above data fields and overly complicated way to combined them into a 2025 NRL Season Ladder prediction, we thought we’d ask our gut in between sips of SP Lager and spoonfuls of Stagg Dynamite Hot Chilli for its opinion.
Our gut feel includes viewing social media, soaking up all the clickbait on Fox Sports, listening into conversations on public transport, and arrogantly ignoring all of it and coming up with our own 2025 NRL Ladder prediction.
| 1 | Penrith |
| 2 | Manly Warringah |
| 3 | Melbourne |
| 4 | Bulldogs |
| 5 | Dolphins |
| 6 | North Queensland |
| 7 | Warriors |
| 8 | South Sydney |
| 9 | Wests Tigers |
| 10 | Canberra |
| 11 | Cronulla |
| 12 | Roosters |
| 13 | Newcastle |
| 14 | Gold Coast |
| 15 | Brisbane |
| 16 | Parramatta |
| 17 | St George Illawarra |
THE AI GENERATED 2025 NRL SEASON LADDER PREDICTION
Courtesy of Grok. Which is excellent.
With AI becoming ever more used and fashionable, we’d be mad not to ask the great machines who they think will win the 2025 NRL Premiership, who will take the wooden spoon and fill out all the positions in between.
There’s good news for Tigers fans among others, and another thing for coaches to pin up on the dressing room walls as inspiration for those who haven’t caught Grok’s eye.
TOP FOUR
REST OF TOP EIGHT
THE LOWER MIDFIELD
THE BOTTOM FOUR
THE RANDOM RESULT GENERATED 2025 NRL SEASON LADDER PREDICTION
To balance out the opinion and technology, we end our 2025 NRL Season Ladder Predictions with something random. Literally. We plugged all 17 teams into a free available random result generator 10 times and the below is the average result.
A cynic would say of course the Roosters are favoured by something, and we guess for once Penrith don’t win everything.
| Team | Avg Prediction |
| Roosters | 5.5 |
| Wests Tigers | 6.3 |
| Melbourne | 6.7 |
| Manly Warringah | 7.0 |
| South Sydney | 7.1 |
| Parramatta | 8.3 |
| St George Illawarra | 8.5 |
| Warriors | 8.8 |
| Newcastle | 9.2 |
| Canberra | 9.3 |
| Gold Coast | 9.9 |
| Cronulla | 10.0 |
| Brisbane | 10.2 |
| North Queensland | 11.0 |
| Dolphins | 11.2 |
| Bulldogs | 11.6 |
| Penrith | 12.4 |
READ MORE: THE GURGLER’S 2025 NRL SEASON SPECIALS
NRL 2025 BOLD PREDICTION FOR EACH CLUB
WOODEN SPOONERS 2025 NRL HEADLINES
