How Points Work

Every match, you predict a scoreline, say 2-1. That's it. You don't separately pick a winner or a margin, they're worked out automatically from the score you enter. You can score points in five different ways on the same match, and they all add up:

You don't need to choose between these. If your prediction qualifies for several, you get all of them added together.

Scoring in Detail

Winner (3 pts)

Simplest way to score. Predict which team wins, or if it's a draw, correctly and you're on the board.

Exact Scoreline (+5 pts)

Predict the final score exactly, with the correct team winning. For example, you called 2-1 to Newcastle, and that's exactly what happened.

Wrong Side, Right Score (+2 pts)

Sometimes you call the right shape of the game but back the wrong team. For example, you predicted 2-1 to Brighton, but Aston Villa actually won 2-1. You still read the game well, so you get a smaller reward for that.

Margin Points (up to +4 pts)

Even without nailing the exact score, you get credit for correctly reading how tight or one-sided the match would be.

Exact Margin: Correctly predicting the exact winning margin awards points on the scale below. Exact-margin points apply whether or not you backed the right team to win (which is why a reversed scoreline can still stack with margin points):

Near-Miss Bands: If your predicted margin is close but not exact, you can still earn bonus points under two conditions — provided you back the correct winning team:

• Off by 1 goal (+2 pts): Awards +2 points whenever the actual match had a winning margin of 2 or more goals and you predicted the correct winning team.
  Example: Chelsea win 3–1 (actual margin of 2 goals). You predicted Chelsea 2–1 (predicted margin of 1 goal, off by 1) → you earn +2 pts on margin.
• Off by 2 goals in Blowouts (+1 pt): Awards +1 point when the actual result was a genuine blowout (actual margin ≥ 3 goals), your own predicted margin was also at least 2 goals (≥ 2), and you predicted the correct winning team.
  Example: Liverpool win 4–1 (actual margin of 3 goals). A 5–0 prediction (predicted margin of 5 goals, off by 2) earns +1 pt on margin. But a 1–0 prediction (predicted margin of 1 goal) earns 0 on margin, because a 1-goal margin prediction represented a tight-game call rather than a blowout read.

Key guardrails for near-miss points:
1. Requires the winning side: Backing the wrong team on a near-miss earns zero (e.g. predicting Chelsea 5–0 when Aston Villa won 4–0 scores zero, despite the numbers looking close).
2. No near-miss on 1-goal margins: In tight 1-goal margin matches (like a 2–1 win), only an exact 1-goal margin earns points. An off-by-1 prediction on a 1-goal margin result drops to 0 on margin, correctly rewarding the player who called the exact tight finish.
3. Prediction margin floor for blowouts: Off-by-2 blowout credit requires your own predicted margin to be at least 2 goals (a 1-goal margin prediction cannot claim blowout credit).

Upset Bonus (+4 pts)

Every team has a Difficulty Rating from 1 (weakest) to 5 (strongest), based on how they performed last season, you'll see this next to each fixture. If you correctly predict a clear underdog to win (a team rated at least 2 points weaker than their opponent), you get an automatic +4 bonus on top of everything else. No card needed, it just happens whenever you call it right.

For example: Manchester United (rated 4) against Coventry (rated 1) is a gap of 3, so a Coventry win would trigger the bonus. But two closely-rated teams, say a 3 versus a 2, don't qualify, even if the lower-rated side wins.

Perfect Prediction (+5 pts)

If you nail the winner, the margin, and the exact scoreline all in one go, you get an extra +5 on top of everything else for getting a "Perfect Prediction". This is the biggest single reward in the game. Precision pays.

Draws

Draws work a little differently, since there's no "winning margin" to read. Instead, you're rewarded for correctly calling how high-scoring the draw was:

A 2–2 or 3–3 draw is much rarer than a 0–0 or 1–1, so calling it exactly is worth more.

Worked Examples

Result: Arsenal 2–1 Man City (Actual margin: 1 goal, Arsenal win)

Result: Chelsea 3–1 Spurs (Actual margin: 2 goals, Chelsea win)

Result: Liverpool 4–1 Everton (Actual margin: 3 goals — 3-goal blowout margin, Liverpool win)

Result: Chelsea 2–2 Spurs

The Dugout (Bonus Cards)

Alongside normal scoring, you'll receive a set of Dugout Cards each season, one-time boosts you play on a specific match before kickoff. Once played, a card is locked in and can't be swapped or reversed once the match starts. You can play one card per match, maximum.

Worth knowing: cards refill each new season, unused cards don't carry over. All In is the highest-risk, highest-reward card in the game. Save it for matches you're genuinely confident about.

Rivalry Fixtures

Certain fixtures are marked as Rivalry Games: derbies and historic big-club matchups where Rivalry Boost becomes available. These are flagged clearly on the fixture list and prediction screen. A Rivalry Boost can only be played on one of these matches.

The Shadow Table Coming Later This Season

This one isn't live yet, but it's worth knowing about now since it's a real part of how points get earned once it launches. Every scoreline you predict this season doubles as a hypothetical result. Put all of them together across all 380 fixtures, and you get a full 20-team league table built entirely from your own predictions, separate from what actually happens on the pitch.

How it's built

Standard league table math applies to your predicted scorelines: a win is 3 points, a draw is 1, a loss is 0. Ties are broken the normal way too, first by points, then goal difference, then goals scored. This turns your 380 individual predictions into one ranked table, unique to you.

How it scores

At the end of the season, your personal table gets compared slot by slot against the real final Premier League table:

This is a completely separate bonus from everything else in the game. It doesn't touch your weekly Outcome, Scoreline, Margin, or Upset points at all, it's an entirely independent pot of points paid out once, at the very end of the season, purely for how well your predictions read the league as a whole.

What happens if you miss a prediction

If you don't submit a prediction before a match locks, it defaults to 0-0 for the purposes of your Shadow Table, so every one of the 380 fixtures always counts toward it, whether you predicted that particular match or not.

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