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Which matches your round plays

A round does not have to stick to a single competition. Your round admin may pull several competitions together — league, cup and the European nights in one round, with a single leaderboard. Which matches belong to it is then no longer fixed once and for all; it follows rules the admin sets.

The simplest one is the whole competition: everything played there comes in. On top of that, individual teams can be added or excluded — that is how you get a round that follows your club alone, across everything it plays. Together the rules have a clear order of precedence: what is explicitly wanted wins, and what is explicitly excluded beats anything automatic. So a chosen team brings its match in even when the opposition is excluded — an exclusion says “not because of this team”, not “never alongside it”.

The third rule moves: the table rule. It takes the teams at the top of a league table — how many is up to your round — and it keeps moving with them. If the table turns over the weekend, your round plays different matches afterwards. It only applies to leagues, because only they have a table, and on the opening matchday it yields nothing yet.

Above all of this sits one condition no rule overrides: whatever has already kicked off does not come in. Add a team today and you get its upcoming matches, not its past ones — nobody could have predicted those, because at the time they were not part of the round.

The other way round, your round never loses what it already holds: a match that has kicked off, or that someone has predicted, stays in even if its competition is dropped later. Otherwise leaderboards would change in hindsight.

Where a round mixes several competitions, every match says which one it came from.

Predicting and deadlines

You may predict up until the kick-off of the match in question — no grace period, not a minute of leeway. Until then you may change your prediction as often as you like. With the kick-off, two things happen at once: your prediction is locked, and it becomes visible to the other members — before that nobody sees what you predicted, not even the admin. Who wins the tournament as a whole is a separate prediction, and that deadline already ends with the very first kick-off of the schedule; it does not come back.

The joker

The joker is a tactical decision while predicting: play it on a match and it multiplies the points you get for that match — it is not a fixed bonus, it depends on the result. How many jokers your round has is set by its admin in the rules; how many you have left you see right where you predict. A joker beyond your allowance automatically turns into an ordinary prediction — so you cannot play more than you are entitled to.

Coins and prize groups

Besides the overall standings, a round can set up further prize groups — smaller pots for a single matchday, a month, a tournament group or a knockout stage, plus the overall-winner prediction and a consolation prize for everyone who would otherwise have come away empty-handed. Which groups exist and how richly they are endowed is decided by each round for itself. The coins in them are pure play money: not for sale, not payable out, without monetary value — whatever your round agrees outside the app is your business, not the app’s.

How scoring works

Every prediction earns points, graded by how close you were to the result: an exact hit brings the most, the right tendency less — and depending on your round’s rules a wrong prediction can even cost points. The standings are the running total of those points; they update as soon as a result is final. If several members are level at the end of a segment, the prize is split among them — unless the round has laid down that everyone level gets the full amount. What you see alongside that under the community tendency or the prediction variety does not change your score, by the way: the one only shows how others predicted, the other how often you make the same prediction yourself.

Joining and the waiting list

An invite code makes you part of a round — one click on the link and you are in, as long as the round is still before its first kick-off. Once a round has kicked off, nobody new gets in: whoever joins when others have long been scoring is playing a game they can no longer win. If the round is already full, you land on a waiting list, and the admin decides who moves up when a place becomes free.

Account and emails

Whether a round reminds you of open predictions by email is something you decide for each round separately in your account. Above all of them sits a single bolt: flip it and you get no emails at all — it overrides every individual round setting. A second, independent question is whether a fellow player you have already predicted with gets your address when they invite you all from an earlier round to a new one — that too you decide yourself, and as long as you have not answered, only your name appears there, no address.