Newcastle Northstars @ Melbourne Mustangs
These percentages are a prediction based on each team's Elo rating, a score that goes up after wins and down after losses. You can check how this is calculated below.
How this probability was calculated
Melbourne Mustangs gets a small bonus for playing at home. A big win raises a team's rating more than a close one does, and overtime or shootout wins count for less, since the game was still tied when regular time ended. Ratings update after every game, so each team's recent form is already built into the number you see here.
Head-to-head this season
| Date | Away | Score | Home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 4 Jul, 2026 | Melbourne Mustangs | 6–5 | Newcastle Northstars |
| Sun 28 Jun, 2026 | Newcastle Northstars | 5–2 | Melbourne Mustangs |
| Sat 27 Jun, 2026 | Newcastle Northstars | 3–4 | Melbourne Mustangs |
In-Form Players
| # | Top Forwards | PTS | Form (L10) | Lg Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Evgenii Skachkov | 69 | #1 | |
| 20 | santeri haarala | 67 | #4 | |
| 17 | Francis Drolet | 40 | #22 |
| # | Top Defence | PTS | Form (L10) | Lg Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Akihide Watanabe | 40 | #23 | |
| 77 | Ethan Hawes | 17 | #71 | |
| 10 | Aziz Baazzi | 13 | #90 |
| # | Goalies | SV% | GP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | Matus Trnka | 0.893 | 24 |
| 75 | Matthew Montgomery | 0.000 | 7 |
| # | Top Forwards | PTS | Form (L10) | Lg Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Scott Timmins | 59 | #6 | |
| 6 | Brody Crane | 46 | #18 | |
| 15 | Brody Lindal | 39 | #24 |
| # | Top Defence | PTS | Form (L10) | Lg Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Philippe Caron | 44 | #20 | |
| 22 | Mike Giorgi | 17 | #70 | |
| 94 | YUKI SASAKI | 10 | #101 |
| # | Goalies | SV% | GP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | noah giesbrecht | 0.894 | 22 |
| 30 | Sebastian Woodlands | 0.863 | 7 |
How Elo ratings work
Elo is a rating system first made for chess, and it works just as well for ranking hockey teams. Every team starts the season with a rating of 1500. After each game, the winner's rating goes up and the loser's rating goes down. The size of the change depends on how surprising the result was. Beating a much stronger team gains more points than beating a weaker one, and losing to a weaker team costs more points than losing to a stronger one.
Here's how AIHL Forecaster calculates its ratings. The home team gets a +35 point bonus before each game, since playing at home is a real advantage in hockey. A win in regular time earns extra points if the margin was large, up to a cap, so a blowout moves the rating more than a one-goal win. Overtime and shootout results only shift the rating a small amount, since both teams were still tied when regular time ended. Ratings are recalculated after every single game, so a team's Elo rating always reflects its most recent form, not just its overall record.