How THESCIP Works
A complete breakdown of every tool, what data powers it, and how to get the most out of each feature — from your first login to end-of-season.
Everything you need, at every level
All tiers include access to the platform. Start unlocks personalization and the AI tools, Pro adds deeper market intelligence and the simulator.
Free
Free
Always free
  • Injury & availability alertsLive weekly updates, all 16 clubs
  • Player stats & historyScores, averages, breakevens
  • Trade suggestionsFor any player you select
  • News search
  • My Team tracker
  • AI Coach & Ask THESCIP
  • Squad simulator
  • YouTube creator signals
  • Buy / Hold / Sell board
Start
Start
$9.99 / season
  • Everything in Free
  • My Team trackerSquad value, price changes, cap state
  • Personalised trade suggestionsRanked for your squad and cap position
  • News searchSemantic search across all indexed articles
  • Ask THESCIP
  • AI Coach
  • Round simulator
  • YouTube creator signals
  • Buy / Hold / Sell board
  • Community creator consensus
Pro
Pro
$19.99 / season
  • Everything in Start
  • Ask THESCIPNatural language queries over your data
  • AI CoachWeekly briefing & chat for THESCIP league teams
  • Round simulatorBuild a squad, fill your cap, and replay rounds
  • YouTube creator signalsPlayer mentions across SC channels, linked to source
  • Buy / Hold / Sell boardFull squad BSH analysis with scoring
  • Community creator consensusAggregated buy/hold/sell from all SC YouTubers
  • Trade pair recommendationsSell → Buy same-position pairings
  • Advanced fixture analysisOpponent difficulty ratings by position

What each tool actually does
A plain-language breakdown of how every feature works — no jargon, no black boxes.
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Free
Injury & Availability Alerts
THESCIP monitors major NRL news sources around the clock — every article is scanned and structured player events are extracted automatically.

Each alert shows the player, their status (injured, doubtful, available, suspended), and the reason. Alerts are scored by confidence — only high-signal events make the feed. You'll also see origin and cover-risk alerts flagging players likely to be rested or fielded out of position.
Injured Doubtful Available Suspended Origin Cover risk
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Start
News Search
Type anything — a player name, an injury type, a team situation — and THESCIP finds the most relevant articles across thousands of indexed news items.

It uses semantic similarity rather than keyword matching, so searching "Panthers prop unavailable" will surface articles about specific players even if the exact phrase isn't used. Each result shows the article, source, date, and any extracted player events.
Semantic search All sources Player events
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Start
My Team Tracker
Connect your SuperCoach team and THESCIP keeps a live picture of your squad value, price movements, breakevens, and cap position.

Prices are updated each week. You can see which players are gaining value, which are burning through their breakeven, and exactly how much cap you have available — including banked cash from completed trades.
Live prices Cap tracker Price change Breakevens
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Free
Smart Trade Suggestions
THESCIP surfaces the best available trades using a blend of form, predicted scoring, price trajectory, and fixture difficulty. Each suggestion is ranked by expected net gain — the combination of points improvement and cash freed or spent.

Anyone can run trade analysis on a hand-picked list of players for free. Connect My Team (Start) to get suggestions ranked against your actual squad and cap position.

You can filter by position, budget, and trade type (single or double trade). The two-trade planner shows the best pair of moves you can make within your cap constraints simultaneously.
Form score Predicted pts Price delta Fixture rating
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Pro
Round Simulator
Before committing a trade, model it in the simulator. Add a player to your virtual squad, remove one, and instantly see the projected impact on squad value, average score, and breakeven obligations.

The simulator also highlights R1 pre-season picks recommended by SC creators — useful for planning your starting squad before the season opens.
Squad modelling Cap impact R1 targets
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Pro
Buzz Feed
THESCIP monitors a curated list of SC-focused YouTube channels and podcasts, transcribes every video and episode, and extracts every player mention. You get a searchable feed of who's being talked about, in what context, and at what point in the video or episode.

YouTube mentions link directly to the source video at the exact timestamp, so you can jump straight to what the creator said.
Transcript search Timestamped clips All SC channels
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Pro
Buy / Hold / Sell Board
Enter your squad and THESCIP scores every player with a BSH signal — a composite rating that weighs multiple independent factors to give a clear directional recommendation.

Players are sorted into three columns: Sell (trade out this week), Hold (keep, no action needed), and Strong Hold / Buy (worth holding or targeting). The tool also surfaces the top buy targets from the full player pool — filtered to your budget if you set one — and shows suggested trade pairings by position.
Form vs breakeven Price momentum Injury news Fixture difficulty Creator consensus
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Pro
Community Creator Consensus
Alongside your squad analysis, THESCIP aggregates buy / hold / sell signals from every SC YouTube creator it monitors. Each creator's recommendation is extracted from their transcript, confidence-scored, and attributed to the specific player.

The result is a community consensus view — you can see how many channels are bullish or bearish on any given player, filter by signal type, and click through to the exact quote in the source video.
Multi-channel Confidence scored Source linked
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Pro
Ask THESCIP
Ask anything about your squad, the player pool, or the current round in plain English. THESCIP queries your live data and returns a structured answer — no need to navigate to specific pages.

Example questions: "Who has the easiest run of fixtures in the next three rounds?" or "Which of my mids have a breakeven over 100?" or "What's the latest on Cam Munster's injury?"
Live data Natural language Fixture-aware
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Pro
AI Coach
A conversational AI that knows your squad, the player market, and current news. Use it to talk through trade decisions, get a second opinion on a move, or ask it to build a case for or against a specific player.

If your team is in the THESCIP SuperCoach league, you'll also get a weekly coach briefing email and full access to past briefings — a running history of how the AI saw your team each round.

The Coach has full context — it knows your cap position, which players you own, their recent scores, and what creators have been saying. It won't just tell you what you want to hear.
Squad-aware News-aware Conversational

How the scoring works
Every score and recommendation THESCIP produces is built from independent signals. Here's the logic — without the recipe.
1
Form vs Breakeven — the primary signal
A player's recent scoring average is compared against their breakeven. A player comfortably above their breakeven is making you money; one consistently below it is losing value. The gap between average and breakeven is the single strongest indicator of whether to hold or sell — everything else is context on top of this.
2
Price momentum
Price movements across the last pricing cycle are factored in. A player whose price is rising confirms good form; a falling price confirms poor form or injury concern. Large moves (above a meaningful threshold) amplify the primary signal — a player surging in price and scoring above their breakeven is a stronger hold than one doing so quietly.
3
Injury and availability news
THESCIP's news pipeline runs daily. If a player has an active injury or availability flag from a news source in the last 14 days, it is applied as a negative modifier. The severity of the modifier scales with the status — a confirmed injury is treated differently to a doubtful or uncertain tag. A returning player gets a small positive lift.
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Fixture difficulty
The next three fixtures for each player are rated by how many SuperCoach points that opposition has conceded to their position over the last three rounds. Easy upcoming fixtures (high-conceding opponents) give a small positive lift; a brutal run — three consecutive difficult matchups — is a meaningful negative. The adjustment is intentionally moderate: fixtures are important context, not a standalone reason to trade.
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Community signals (Pro)
For Pro users, a fifth input is layered in: the aggregated buy / hold / sell sentiment from SC YouTube creators. Creator signals only carry weight when there are multiple channels in agreement — a single mention from one creator is treated as noise. When two or more channels independently reach the same conclusion, that consensus shifts the score in the direction of the majority view.
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Final signal — BUY / HOLD / SELL
The five inputs combine into a single score on a roughly −5 to +5 scale. The thresholds for each signal are calibrated to produce meaningful, actionable results — not noise. A player needs a reasonably strong positive or negative composite to be flagged as BUY or SELL; most players in a healthy squad will sit in HOLD, which is the correct outcome for most rounds.

Common questions
Player prices, scores, and breakevens are updated each week after the round is processed. News and injury alerts are checked multiple times daily. YouTube transcripts are processed as new videos are published. Fixture ratings update after each round of results.
My Team tracker reads your squad data from the SuperCoach API using your connected account. THESCIP never stores your SuperCoach password. The connection is read-only — THESCIP cannot make trades or changes on your behalf.
The BSH score is a data-driven starting point, not a command. Common reasons a good player might score low: their breakeven has risen above their recent average (price has run ahead of form), they have a difficult fixture run coming up, or they have an active injury flag. Use the signal as a prompt to investigate — the reasons are always listed on the card.
Each video from THESCIP's monitored channels is automatically transcribed. An AI model then reads the transcript and identifies every player mentioned with a clear buy, hold, or sell recommendation. Vague mentions ("I'm not sure about him") are not counted. Each signal is confidence-scored — signals from creators who give explicit reasoning score higher than passing mentions. The resulting data is what powers the community consensus view.
YouTube creators often use nicknames, shortened names, or abbreviations. THESCIP maintains an alias database to match these to official SuperCoach player IDs. When a name can't be automatically resolved, it goes into a review queue. Unmatched signals still appear in community data by player name — they just don't link to official stats until the alias is confirmed.
Start and Pro are available as annual subscriptions. Given the low price point, there's no formal trial period — but if you're not happy after your first week, reach out and we'll sort it out.