Rules of the Game

Predict the score of every game. Points are awarded per game once the result is in: a base score from how well you called the scoreline, plus a +1 bonus for correctly picking a knockout penalties winner.

3 pts
Exact score. Your scoreline matches the result exactly.
2 pts
Correct outcome. You got the home win, away win, or draw right — but not the exact score.
0 pts
Anything else, including having no prediction saved when the game kicks off.
+1 pt
Penalties bonus. On a knockout game, if you predicted a draw, the game really was a draw after extra time, and you named the team that won the shoot-out. This adds to your base score, so the most a game can be worth is 4 (an exact drawn score plus the right penalties pick).

Group games

The score you enter implies the outcome (home win / away win / draw), shown live as you type. There are no penalties — a drawn group game is simply a draw.

Knockout games

The “score” is the score after extra time (if the game goes that far). A drawn knockout score means the tie was settled on penalties, so when you predict a draw you must also pick which team wins the shoot-out. Admins enter results the same way: the after-extra-time score, plus the penalties winner for a draw.

The penalties bonus needs both your prediction and the result to be draws and your penalties pick to be right — the drawn scorelines don’t have to be identical. It adds +1 to your base score: predicting 1–1 against a 2–2 result scores 3 (2 for the draw plus 1 for the shoot-out), while an exact drawn score with the right pick scores the full 4.

Worked examples

You predict England 2–0 Wales Result England 0–1 Wales
0 pts Wrong outcome — you said home win, Wales won.
You predict England 2–0 Wales Result England 3–1 Wales
2 pts Correct outcome (home win), but not the exact score.
You predict England 2–1 Wales Result England 2–1 Wales
3 pts Exact score.
You predict Brazil 1–1 Spain, Spain win on pens (knockout) Result Brazil 1–1 Spain, Spain win on pens
4 pts Exact drawn score (3) plus the correct penalties winner (+1).
You predict Brazil 1–1 Spain, Spain win on pens (knockout) Result Brazil 2–2 Spain, Spain win on pens
3 pts Right that it was a draw (2) plus the correct penalties winner (+1) — the scoreline wasn’t exact.
You predict Brazil 1–1 Spain, Brazil win on pens (knockout) Result Brazil 1–1 Spain, Spain win on pens
3 pts Wrong penalties pick, but the exact drawn score still earns 3.
You predict Brazil 1–1 Spain, Brazil win on pens (knockout) Result Brazil 2–2 Spain, Spain win on pens
2 pts Right that it was a draw, but wrong score and wrong penalties pick.
You predict Brazil 1–1 Spain, Spain win on pens (knockout) Result Brazil 2–1 Spain
0 pts You predicted a draw but the game was decided in normal/extra time — no penalties points.

The leaderboard

Players are ranked by total points. Ties are broken, in order, by:

  1. the most exact scores (games where your predicted home and away scores both matched the result — whether that earned 3 or 4 points);
  2. then the most games you scored points in (games worth more than 0 points).

Players who are still level after that share a place: two players tied for 1st are both 1st, and the next player is 3rd (the skipped place reflects the tie). Tied rows are listed alphabetically by name purely to keep the order stable — names no longer decide your position.