The OG League Super Rugby Pacific 2026 Draft
On Sunday 8 Feb, the OG League had our draft for Super Rugby Pacific 2026.
The OG League returns for its 14th year of Draft Rugby, this time we are off the spreadsheets and fully on the Draft Rugby platform!! How good.
A quick look back to 2025:
As always the first item on OG League Draft Day Agenda is a quick review of last years league. 2025 was an exciting year as the OG League played an ALPHA release of the Draft Rugby platform whilst we continued building out the core features.
As as much as it pains me to write this, in 2025 we crowned a new champion, Nabung, securing his first ever championship ring. The regular season was close fought to the final round with Nabung topping the table with 58 competition points after a truly blockbusting season with 8143 total fantasy points. He was almost 1000 fantasy points clear of Wylie in second place with 7264 but only two competition points, Wylie finishing on 56. A coveted 4th place and finals berth was also contested into the final round where Cargie (48) & Harry (44) went through in 3rd and 4th respectively, Nelson missing out by one competition point on the table with 43, proving that those bonus points really do matter! Remember to play the man.
In his first year of Draft Rugby it was a brutal reality check by Sean or ‘SeanAI’ or just ‘The Bye’ as he came to be known, choosing to place all of his faith in ChatGPT rather than just watching more rugby. Sean somehow won his first 2 league fixtures of the season and I quote said “this is easy” before proceeding to win no further matches and end the competition with 9 points on the table and 5701 fantasy points.
You can see the full 2025 season writeup including the initial draft, league fixtures, finals series, league punishment etc in our here
2025 OG League Table
The 2026 OG League Draft:
The draft order was decided in 2026 by each league member being randomly assigned a character in Super Smash Bros the game on nintendo and then set to a computer player at the highest settings for the computer played characters to battle in out in a royal rumble. First character eliminated resulted in the last (8th) draft pick and last standing was granted 1st.
Draft Order
OG League Bottom of the Table Punishment
It was resolved that the OG League punishment for 2026 will involve:
Step 1) Filming a makeup StoryTime/Getting Ready with me video recorded and put up on the Draft Rugby channels. See below for our inspiration:
Step 2) With face beautifully made up, donning a dress and heading out to the pub to watch the Super Rugby Pacific 2026 Semi Finals.
Step 3) Before entering the pub we are going to film a press conference where the OG League loser must answer questions about where their season went wrong.
The OG League Draft Results 2026:
Teams are from 1st pick to 8th.
Let us know who you think drafted the best roster?
What a fun day as always. Get your mates together and draft your teams now!!!
