How Spreadzi works
Spreadzi is where friends make spread predictions on competitions: pick a side of each match, earn points for the calls you get right, and climb your private league tables. New here? This page explains the words you will see.
The basics
Competition
A bounded contest you predict on, like a cup or a season. It runs between a start and end date and has a set of competitors. It need not be a sport.
Competitor
One of the two sides that face off in a match, for example a team or a player.
Match
A single head-to-head between two competitors, with a start time and, once an admin sets one, a spread to predict against.
League
A private group of friends ranked on one competition. Join with a six-character code, and you can be in several leagues on the same competition.
Enrolment
Joining a competition so you can see and predict its matches. You are enrolled automatically when you join a league, or you can enrol on its own from the home screen.
Spreads and scoring
Spread
A single number that handicaps the favourite. You back the side you think will cover: win outright, or lose by less than the spread. For example, a side at -1.5 needs to win by 2 or more, while the other side at +1.5 covers if it wins, draws, or loses by just 1.
Prediction
The side you pick on a match. One per match, and it counts in every league you are in for that competition. It stays hidden from everyone else until the match starts, then locks.
Points
You earn one point for every pick that covers the spread. A wrong call scores nothing.
Spread Difference (SD)
The running total of how far your picks beat or missed the spread. It is positive when you are beating the spread overall, and it breaks ties on points in the league table.
Push
When a match lands exactly on the spread, neither side covers. The pick is void: zero points and no change to your SD.
What counts towards the result
By default, when a match has tie breakers after its normal length, the spread is settled on the score before the tie breakers. A competition can override this, and when it does its admin says so in an announcement on the competition page.
Match states
Every match card shows a small icon in its bottom-right corner. Here is what each one means:
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