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Ranger Picks Week 14 Results
Ranger Picks Week 14 results are in. No bonus points and judging by the large number of 1-2 points, quite a week of upsets!
Only 2 players got 4 out of the 5 matches correct, congrats FreeJack Fitzy and RuckNRoll!
This means that Fitzy is stretching out his lead, will anyone catch up in the remaining weeks?
Don’t forget Week 15 is open. Good luck as always!
Ranger Picks Week 15 form open
Ranger Picks Week 15 form is now open! I’m hoping to get week 14 results out tomorrow with the final match of week 14 playing as I type this.
Good luck as always!
Ranger Picks Week 14
A very late update for Ranger Picks Week 14 with some results already known. I would say this will never happen again but… I won’t.
New England Free Jacks were a huge favorite over Miami - 93% picking the visitors. Houston and San Diego were also favorites but with a smaller edge - 62% and 55% respectively. I’m sure you all know how those 3 turned out already ;)
Anthem continues to be an underdog - 80% favoring OGDC. And with now some serious post season implications, Chicago is an 80% favorite over LA.
As for our OG squad, Beaver Paw and current leaders… Freejack Fitzy went out on a limb for Miami, Beaver Paw zagged for Anthem and UnforgivenPotato was the lone picker for RFCLA. A healthy mix for the Utah and San Diego matches.
Week 15 form will open tomorrow, and I’ll post the results of Week 14 on Tuesday.
Ranger Picks Week 13 Results
Ranger Picks Week 13 results are in. Some people might say this was a week of upsets, but 10 players managed to pick 4 out of the 6 matches correctly. 2 got 5 right… which left Ranger Lil Payne picking up the lone bonus point having selected all 6 winners (her vibe picking paid off).
That massive points haul catapulted her into the overall top 10, tied with Ranger X, Ranger Kathy and Bozo6 at 7th. For those keeping track at home, I’m trailing behind all of my kids.
Don’t forget Week 14 form is open. Only 4 weeks left for this MLR 2025 regular season, we can expect things to get spicy as teams fight for the remaining post season spots and those all important home matches in the post season!
Ranger Picks Week 14 form open
Gooooooood morning Rangers! Ranger Picks Week 14 form is now open. We’re still waiting for the results from tonight’s Seattle @ Utah and tomorrow’s NOLA @ OGDC matches before we can publish week 13 results, but spoiler alert - only 3 players are still in a bonus point hunt!
Ranger Picks Week 14 has matches Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday so we’ll be looking at results next Tuesday after we open week 15!
Ranger Picks Week 13
Ranger Picks Week 13 is already under way, so let’s jump right in.
The home teams for Miami @ NOLA and Chicago @ NEFJ are both strongly favored in our picks. It’s a closer selection between Houston and San Diego with the Sabercats just squeezing ahead.
Anthem has again lost its support amongst our players with 97% picking LA to win. The home teams for Seattle @ Utah and NOLA @ OGDC are also strongly favored… with a massive 93% picking Utah over the reigning Western Conference champions.
Our OG Squad, Beaver Paw and current leaders have a slightly more favorable view of Miami with 4-3 picking the Sharks, otherwise the picks are in line with the bigger picture with unanimous picks for LA, Utah and OGDC!
The NOLA @ OGDC match happens on Tuesday, so don’t expect results before Wednesday. We’ll open Ranger Picks Week 14 on Monday as always.
Good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 12 Results
Ranger Picks Week 12 results are out (and week 13 is open)!
With LA and Seattle managing to beat OGDC to the first tie of 2025, there were no bonus points available, and the highest achievable score in Ranger Picks presented by TJRS for week 12 was 4 points. 4 players got the 4 points available:
Finally hearing from our Reigning Champ Beaver Paw, that guy who doesn’t like being a ranger, and 2 of the Payne kids!
Not too much movement at the very top of the table though… we need to try harder!
As mentioned above, week 13 is open - and it brings the return of the mid week madness. We have a Friday night match as well as Monday and Tuesday nights… so we’ll be opening week 14 before getting results from week 13.
Good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 12
Ranger Picks Week 12 (which is slightly different from MLR Week 12 due to how we handle the mid week madness)… is upon us! Sneaking in this update just before the first match of the week - LA traveling to Seattle with 2/3rds expecting the visitors to win. Utah @ OGDC also has the visitors as favorites with 82%.
The first predicted home win is Free Jacks over Houston - with the home team at 79%. Miami traveling to Chicago has the sharks the underdogs at an even 25%
The heaviest favorites this week are San Diego with a 90% favored win over the visiting Gold.
The current leaders, OG squad and reigning champ Beaver Paw have LA a much closer favorite, Utah pretty close to the bigger pool at 75%, almost unanimous for the Free Jacks with just UnforgivenPotato picking Houston, an exact match for the full pool with 75% taking Chicago and a unanimous San Diego pick.
As always, good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 11 Results
Don’t forget your Week 12 picks… just a few hours to go!
Week 11 results are in. 3 bonus picks including a first one in 2025 for Dingo - congrats.
Otherwise not too much change at the top of the season table - FreeJack Fitzy, Pingree Panthers and UnforgivenPotato continue to pull in great results and stretching their leads - although the bonus points are mixing up the order there.
Ranger Picks Week 12 form open
Ranger Picks Week 12 form is open! We do not have results from week 11 yet as we still have a match on Wednesday to get through! Stay tuned for a results post probably on Thursday but definitely before the week 12 form closes on Friday!
Looking at the calendar, Week 12 has a match on Friday (so the form MUST CLOSE ON FRIDAY) and then 4 matches on Sunday! No mid week matches, so we should have results and Week 13 forms next Monday :)
Good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 11
Week 11 picks are in! With one match on Wednesday, we will again be opening Week 12 on Monday while still waiting for week 11 results!
6 matches and no unanimous picks across all pickers. A pretty heavy bias (87%) towards Houston picking off OGDC, 70% are predicting Utah over Chicago - a reaction to Seattle defeating the Hounds last week? The closest match for Saturday is LA hosting San Diego - just 44% going for the home team.
Sunday brings another tight match - Seattle (53%) traveling to NOLA with a thinnest margin this week… followed by Anthem traveling to Miami, once again losing the faith of the pickers (87% choosing Miami).
The last match for our week 11 is San Diego traveling to Utah, with 80% picking Utah for this match - perhaps forgetting Utah has been better on the road thus far this season with 5 of their 6 wins coming from the road, and both their losses at home.
How did our OG squad, reigning champ and current leaders pick?
Overall very closely matching the bigger picture, but unanimous for Utah over Chicago and Miami over Anthem.
As always, good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 10 Results
Don’t forget your Week 11 picks!
Week 10 results are in. Congrats to Ranger Travis for their first bonus point week. Ranger Lil Payne and Ranger Frank close behind with 6 out of the 7 matches correctly predicted. Ranger Frank let down by the Legion, Ranger Lil Payne disappointed by Chicago.
A close battle for the lead developing between UnforgivenPotato, FreeJack Fitzy and Pingree Panthers with just 2 points separating the top 3, but with almost half the matches left, anything can happen. Ranger Abi holding onto a top 10 position but Diamond Dave has caught up.
With just a couple of hours left before Week 11 kicks off, don’t forget your picks: https://rangerpicks.rugby/week11
Ranger Picks Week 11 form open
Ranger Picks Week 11 form is open! We do not have results from week 10 yet as we still have matches on Tuesday and Wednesday to get through! Stay tuned for a results post probably on Thursday but definitely before the week 11 form closes on Friday!
Week 11 includes the 3 matches on Sat 4/26, 2 matches Sun 4/27, and the single match on Wednesday 4/30. So we’ll have a similar situation next week with Week 12 opening before Week 11 is complete.
Good luck!
Ranger Picks Week 10
Week 10 is upon us and it’s a really big week. As mentioned previously, we’re diverting from the MLR week count and including next week’s Tuesday and Wednesday matches in our week 10… which means 7 matches, with 3 teams playing twice in the same week.
Starting off the week with the back to back reigning MLR champions your New England Free Jacks traveling to Charlotte to take on Anthem RC. An almost unanimous pick of the Free Jacks. Next we hit Chicago traveling to Seattle, currently the best of the East taking on the worst of the West. A perhaps surprisingly low 75% picking Chicago. Saturday sees Miami traveling to Maryland taking on Old Glory we have our first predicted home win. Despite NOLA beating OGDC last week, we have a very strong prediction of Houston taking the home win… and “at home Saturday” wraps up with a closer prediction of the Legion beating the road warriors.
The mid-week madness matches continue the home win predictions with 80% taking the Free Jacks before an away win prediction for the SeaWolves with almost 60% taking Seattle. Seattle had a late surge in the picks - all week long it was either tied or Anthem taking the slight edge.
Continuing to look at the OG, reigning champ and current leaders:
These seem to mostly follow the bigger trend although as a group we’re giving Anthem the nod for Wednesday.
Good luck everyone!
Way too Early look at the Way too Early Predictions
After week 9, the Free Jacks have played 8 of their 16 regular season matches so perhaps it’s time to check in on the way too early predictions?
For the TJRS outriders predictions, I don’t want to give too much away, but Dave and Phil are tied for the number of correct predictions, with Bozo6 doing 1 better. However, Dave is right on the record (5-3) thus far.
The Ranger Picks Way Too Early we can take a closer look at.
The overall record predictions were led by 14-2 which isn’t in the cards now, followed by 12-4 then a tie between 13-3, 11-5, and 10-6. A couple of optimistic 16-0s and a single 0-16 round out the predictions.
In terms of correctly predicting each match, we have 22 picks at .500 or better! 4 have 7 correct! Celta just getting the Chicago match wrong, Ranger Bunny getting the San Diego match wrong, with Bozo6 and Ranger Erikk both incorrectly predicting a win against DC.
Which leaves Hori Stylz standing alone with 8 correct predictions out of 8 matches played!
Still anybody’s game!
Ranger Picks Week 9 Results
Week 9 came to a close with only 2 matches avoiding upsets! I thought Anthem might actually pull off a win against the current top of the table team… but it wasn’t to be.
Miami’s defeat of Houston locked the door on any bonus points this week, although we were already down to a handful who’d successfully called the first 2 matches.
With no bonus points possible, we were down to those who held faith in Utah… so congrats to our Week 9 winners: TBD, Ranger Jules and Ranger Abi! A few more managed to break .500:
A little bit of a shake up at the top of the table. OG Ranger Picks Freejack Fitzy holding strong at the top, but Rugby Morning slipping a little (it wouldn’t be nice to point out that only Chicago kept a 0 off the table, right?).
Week 10 form is open, but we’re entering the “mid week madness” phase of MLR 2025.
Regardless of how MLR is labelling these matches, we at Ranger Picks are handling weeks from Friday -> Wednesday. There are no Thursday matches fortunately. So Week 10 will stretch from Friday April 18th’s New England Free Jacks @ Anthem Rugby Carolina all the way through Wednesday April 23rd’s Seattle Seawolves @ Anthem Rugby Carolina. So several teams have TWO matches in this week’s Ranger Picks.
With a Friday night match, I will be closing the form Thursday night. If you’re constantly late (you know who you are), try really hard to get them in early this week!
Week 11’s form will be opened by next Monday - so week 11 picks will be open before we know results from week 10. “Mid week madness” for all!
Ranger Picks Week 9
Ranger Picks Week 9 is here. We have 2 unanimous picks this week.
Free Jacks are a 3/4s fav to keep the Fort undefeated. Will the freezing rain keep the Legion at bay? The same number of pickers have chosen DC to get over NOLA at the Gold Mine, and then our first unanimous pick for Houston to defeat Miami.
We have exactly 75% of picks for LA to defeat Utah but the second unanimous pick is Chicago beating Anthem.
Our OG Squad, Leaders and reigning champ are unsurprisingly fairly consistent this week, with just a couple of deviations:
Bozo6 and UnforgivenPotato taking Utah with everyone else picking LA, Freejack Fitzy taking NOLA against the OGDC consensus and Rugby Morning (Not a Ranger) taking SD over the reigning back to back champions.
Ranger Picks Week 8 Results
Another weekend of MLR comes to a close… and what a week! No bonus points this week and only 4 managed 4 correct picks!
This has a small shake up in the overall leader table, some more representation from the OG Squad!
The week 9 form is open, and it starts with the first EVER meeting of the Free Jacks and San Diego in Quincy!
https://rangerpicks.rugby/week9
This will be the last week in a while that I’ll be able to be lenient on the form closing time. Week 10 is going to be a crazy week with matches on Friday and we’ll be including the Tuesday and Wednesday matches, so the week 11 form will be open before the week 10 results are in. More on this next week.
Good luck as always!
Ranger Picks Week 8
Ranger Picks presented by TJRS for MLR Week 8 picks are locked in!
We have a couple of potentially predictable picks and a couple of somewhat surprising picks I think.
First up we have a close choice between OGDC and Seattle with OGDC gaining the slight edge in popularity.
Then, I believe for the first time… Anthem RC is the (slight) favorite in their match up over NOLA Gold. I don’t know if this is more of a statement in how our pickers feel about Anthem’s streak of close matches or NOLA’s recent performance?
Houston is a strong favorite over LA, as is San Diego over Chicago. I’m a little surprised it’s not a closer call for either of these matches.
And finally, for the first time in a long time (also perhaps the first time? I’m not tracking these)… we have a 100% of our pickers predicting reigning back to back MLR champions, your New England Free Jacks staying undefeated at home and taking care of the Miami Sharks! I hope we are right!
Our OG Squad, reigning champ and leaders picked roughly in proportion to the overall picks.
Good luck everyone!
Ranger Picks Week 7 Results
MLR Week 7 is done and dusted. Judging by only 3 Bonus Point picks this week, I’m going to assume that means several upsets and not just zigs failing to zag.
Congrats to Ranger Kathy, Ranger Horkan and Uncle Philly!
Rugby Morning has managed to eke out a lead over Pingree Panthers, but there’s still plenty of rugby left this season!
Talking of plenty of rugby left to come, I was able to get to the WER Boston Banshees home opener this weekend - an amazing turnout, excellent rugby and the rain mostly held off! Not bad for under the lights in March in New England.
Week 8 picks are now open. Good luck!