SuperCoach BBL 2025 winner reveals secret to bagging $25,000 main prize

Teacher Locky Price turned his summer SuperCoach hobby into a jaw-dropping payday, outsmarting 56,000 players to clinch the BBL14 title and top prize. Here’s how a game-changing new feature played a pivotal role in his stunning win.

Patience is a virtue – especially when it comes to SuperCoach.

Just ask Locky Price.

The 29-year-old schoolteacher from Queensland finished ahead of more than 56,000 SuperCoaches to be crowned the SuperCoach BBL champion for BBL14 and pocket $25,000.

After being 230 points behind the leader with two rounds remaining, Price rode his luck and cashed in thanks to big scores from Jacob Bethell and Riley Meredith.

But ultimately, it was Jake Fraser-McGurk in the new flex position that proved the difference.

Price was forced to play the out-of-form Renegades batter after being stuck with Josh Philippe, Chris Green and Sam Billings on his bench when the Sydney Smash was washed out.

Jake Fraser-McGurk hits out at Marvel, helping deliver a big final round score for Locky’s BBL XI. Picture: Getty

After scoring 138 points in the first eight rounds, Fraser-McGurk more than doubled his tally with 140 after plundering 95 from 46 balls against Brisbane Heat.

“I had him all the way from 120k to 50k, then he got that score. It was great,” Price said.

“It got to the point where he was 60k and I was like, ‘what’s the point (trading him)’.

“You can do as much work as you want planning, but the luck has got to go your way.”

Price is a Canterbury supporter who devotes most of his time to SuperCoach NRL.

Price, who says his highest finish before this season was about 400th, initially signed up to BBL to get his SuperCoach fix during summer and fill a void in-between league seasons.

“I’m a head-to-head player. Always about top 5000 or so, around that mark. But more head-to-head, playing against a few mates,” he said.

Now, he has gone into the history books and joined an esteemed group of winners who have conquered SuperCoach BBL.

“I’ve been doing NRL SuperCoach for about the last 10 years. But started well (in BBL) … and when you start well you get that bit of a hit,” he said.

SuperCoach BBL winner for BBL14, Queensland teacher Locky Price.

Price’s biggest stroke of fortune came when Chris Jordan was a late withdrawal before Hobart Hurricanes’ clash with Melbourne Renegades on January 14.

He realised in time to update his trades, bringing back Englishman Jacob Bethell, who scored 170 points, and trading Jordan.

“There was a lot of luck involved,” he said.

Price spent the summer juggling parental duties with his almost two-year-old son Koa and SuperCoach lockouts.

“He watched me watch a lot of cricket,” he said.

But the nightly juggling act – with support from his partner Tanisha – paid off when he finished 15 points ahead of second to take out the main prize.

Originally published as SuperCoach BBL 2025 winner reveals secret to bagging $25,000 main prize