Warming up the pitchβ¦
Warming up the pitchβ¦
Predict who wins each knockout match β from the Round of 32 all the way to the Final β and pick more accurately than your friends.
Everyone in your league plays the same real-world bracket. As actual games finish, scores update automatically and the leaderboard re-ranks. You're ranked by Power Score β correct picks are worth more in later rounds, scored out of the points that were available to you β so the sharpest picker wins bragging rights, no matter when they joined.
It takes about a minute to get going.
Everything happens on a single screen: your bracket.
Open Your bracket and tap the team you think wins each match. That's it β there's just one pick per match. As real results come in, the next round's matchups fill in automatically with the teams that actually advanced, and you pick those too.
You only ever pick real matchups, so you can never back a game that doesn't exist. Change your mind as often as you like β a pick stays editable right up until that match locks.
Picks close 30 minutes before each match kicks off.
Locking is per match, not per round. If some games in a round have already started, the matches that haven't hit their 30-minute cutoff are still open β so a round that is partway through doesn't lock you out of the rest of it. Once a match locks, its pick is final.
On game days, your league page becomes the place to be.
Matches that are live, kicking off soon, or just finished get a spotlight at the top of your league page. While a match is still open, everyone's picks stay secret β you can only see how many are in, so nobody can copy anyone. The moment it locks, the league's picks are revealed head-to-head: who's backing whom, the split between the two sides, and β once it finishes β who called it and who didn't.
Later rounds are worth more β your Power Score is what ranks you.
Every finished match you were able to pick counts, and correct picks earn points that grow round by round: 1 for the Round of 32, 2 for the Round of 16, 3 for a quarter-final, 4 for a semi-final and 5 for the Final.
Your Power Score is the points you earned divided by the points your matches could have given you, scaled to 100 β call everything right and you're at 100. Because it's scored out of what was available to you, it stays fair however early or late you joined, while big calls in big games count for more.
Your accuracy β the plain share of your graded matches you called right β still sits next to it on the leaderboard, and breaks any Power Score tie.
Every round crowns its own winner.
Below the leaderboard, each stage β Round of 32 through the Final β crowns the player with the best accuracy in that round alone. While a round still has matches to play, the current leader is shown with a (Round still active) note; once its last match finishes, the crown is locked in. Exact ties share the crown. Joined late? The next round's crown is still anyone's.
Joined late? You're only judged on the games you could actually pick.
Any match whose picks had already closed before you joined is not graded for you β it's left out of your accuracy entirely, so it can't help or hurt you. Two people who joined at different times are still compared fairly, because each is measured only on the matches that were open to them. Not-graded matches show a not graded badge on the bracket.
Each column tells you how someone is doing.
No. You can pick each match whenever you like β future rounds open up as the teams for them are decided. You only pick real matchups.
Yes β right up until that match locks (30 minutes before kickoff). After that the pick is final.
Nothing carries over β each match is its own pick. When the next round is set, you pick from the teams that actually advanced.
Yes β tap anyone on the leaderboard to see their bracket, and watch the match-day spotlight on game days. But picks for matches that haven't locked yet stay hidden everywhere, so nobody can copy anybody. All is revealed at kickoff.
Match results sync automatically from football-data.org, so scores and the leaderboard update on their own as games finish.
Absolutely. Your picks are per-league, so you can run different brackets in different groups.