This weekend marks the AFL and NRL Grand Final – so it marks a perfect opportunity for us to recognise our winners and losers from our annual footy tips competitions and to provide our tips for the big games this weekend.
In another hard-fought year of AfMA Footy Tipping we were delighted to reward our Top 3 winners in both codes. Thanks to the 68 tippers (50 paid) who joined our AFL competition and the 36 tippers (25 paid) who joined our brand new NRL one.
Our AFL winner Daniel Sanchez finished on top after 18 rounds with a total of 112, two ahead of our AfMA Director Mace Hartley. Remarkably we had a tie for 3rd, not just in points but in the margin as well with both Andrew Nibloe (Hopper Motor Group) and Travis Wait (Custom Fleet) splitting the prize money.
In the NRL competition David Still (Summit Fleet Leasing and Management) took home our inaugural trophy with 126 correct tips. Meanwhile UnitingCare Queensland’s Mark Stephens brought home 2nd and AfMA’s Daniel Braid just held onto 3rd place by correctly tipping the very last game of the year.
A final shout out to Able Australia’s Tom Leggett who expertly mastered his way into Last Place to receive our highly coveted Wooden Spoon trophy in both the NRL and AFL competition for the 2nd consecutive year. In his words it’s apparently harder to do than you might think – “Do you know how hard it is to intentionally come last?” he says with a wry smile.
AFL Winners
$1000 base + $500 player pool
| Prizes | Winners: | Cash Prize: | Allocation: |
| 1st | Daniel Sanchez | $ 750.00 | 50% of base and player pool |
| 2nd | Mace Hartley | $ 450.00 | 30% of base and player pool |
| 3rd | Andrew Nibloe
Travis Wait |
$ 300.00 ($150 each) | 20% of base and player pool |
| Last Place | Tom Leggett | Wooden Spoon | 0% of base and player pool |
NRL Winners
$1000 base + $250 player pool
| Prizes | Winners: | Cash Prize: | Allocation: |
| 1st | David Still | $ 625.00 | 50% of base and player pool |
| 2nd | Mark Stephens | $ 375.00 | 30% of base and player pool |
| 3rd | Daniel Braid | $ 250.00 | 20% of base and player pool |
| Last Place | Tom Leggett | Wooden Spoon | 0% of base and player pool |
2020 AFL/NRL Grand Finals – Who Wins It?
AfMA’s expert team is on hand with our tips for the big weekend of Grand Final football.
- AFL: Richmond Tigers v Geelong Cats – 7:30pm (AEDT) Saturday @ The Gabba
- NRL: Penrith Panthers v Melbourne Storm – 7:30pm Sunday (AEDT) @ ANZ Stadium
- Daniel Braid (AfMA)
- Richmond Tigers 16
- Melbourne Storm 8
- Mace Hartley (AfMA)
- Geelong Cats 6
- Penrith Panthers 4
- Lee Sauerwald (United Communities)
- Geelong Cats 12
- Melbourne Storm 6
- Andrew Nibloe (Hopper Motor Group)
- Geelong Cats 21
- Melbourne Storm 4
- Mark Stephens (UnitingCare)
- Geelong Cats 5
- Melbourne Storm 1
- David Still (Summit Fleet Leasing and Management)
- Geelong Cats 15
- Melbourne Storm 12
Our Verdict:
- Geelong Cats 5 – Richmond Tigers 1
- Melbourne Storm 5 – Penrith Panthers 1
