How many home and how many away games are played each year in Rugby League?

Question

How many home and how many away games are played each year in Rugby League?

Answer 1

Well there are 25 rounds in the season and eash team has 12 home games 12 away games with each team having just one bye instead of 2 byes as the have had in previous years. Four byes have been scheduled around three key weekends:  Round 6 (following the April 20 Test); Round 10 (preceding Origin 1); Round 13 (preceding Origin 2); Round 16 (preceding Origin 3).

Every team plays every other team once in the competition with the remaining nine games the result of two eight team pools (in the fifteen team competition it was three pools of five). Each team plays all the teams in the other pool a second time once as well as a match against another team in their own pool.

The Pools are based on the teams’ finishing positions from the previous season and are as follows:

Pool A

Storm, Knights, Sea Eagles, Eels, Cowboys, Panthers, Sharks, Titans.

Poll B

Bulldogs, Broncos, Dragons, Raiders, Warriors, Tigers, Roosters, Rabbitohs.

Answer 2

12