Predicting the matches
Firstly before tournament starts there are 3 major question worth lots of points asking to choose WC26 winner, runner up and which country player will get the golden boot. They are located at the bottom of the prediction sheet. Make sure you answer them before 1st tournament game.
Predict the end score of all the matches in the tournament/competition. You have until 15 minutes before the start of a match to add or change your prediction.
The server time is used. No discussion about that, so be on time if you want to fill in your scores.
As you may have noticed the matches in the next stages are not yet filled at the beginning of the tournament. Once the teams are through to the next round, I will add them. These games can also be changed until 15 minutes before the game starts. Or, if you’re feeling lucky, you can predict them now. Also past the group phase each game has a choice question worth 2 additional point where you predict if the game will end in regulation, overtime or penalties. There penalties do not count in the score so if the game ended up in 2:2 tie the winning team will be awarded just 1 goal 3:2 in this example.
The scoring
In the group phase the scores at the end of the game are used for the calculation of the scores. For final rounds the score at the end of the game including extra time is used. Goals in a penalty shoot-out are not taken into consideration.
You get points for predicting the correct winner of the match or prediction of a draw. We call this the game outcome score. In case you also predict the exact amount of goals scored, you get extra points. We call this the full score. If you got the goals correct you get the extra goal bonus, even if you didn’t get the match result correct (e.g. match ends in 1-1 and you predicted 0-1 you will still get 1 points). The last scoring options is the goal difference bonus: if you predict the correct winner, not the exact score, but you predicted the correct difference in goals, you get the goal difference bonus (e.g. you predicted 3-1 or 4-2 and result is 2-0). Perfect game prediction is game outcome + full score + bonus question (after the group phase)
| points | |
|---|---|
| game outcome score | 2 |
| full score | 3 |
| goal bonus | 1 |
| goal difference bonus | 1 |
| bonus question | may be different for every question |
Few examples:
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- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 3-1 Point scored 5 (2 outcome + 3 full score)
- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 2-1 Point scored 3 (2 outcome + 1 goal bonus for loosing team)
- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 3-0 Point scored 3 (2 outcome + 1 goal bonus for winning team)
- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 4-0 Point scored 2 (2 outcome)
- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 4-2 Point scored 3 (2 outcome + 1 goal difference)
- Prediction 3-3 Actual score 2-2 Point scored 3 (2 outcome + 1 goal difference)
- Prediction 3-1 Actual score 0-1 Point scored 1 (0 outcome + 1 goal bonus for winning team)
I hope it is pretty clear after these examples how it works.
If you want to view the ranking, then go to the ranking page and pick the correct league. If you’re logged in, then the league for which you subscribed, is automatically picked.
Same ranking?
When multiple players have the exact same amount of points, then the following sorting rules are applied on the ranking (most important one at the top):
- amount of full scores;
- amount of game outcome scores;
- amount of correct bonus questions.