Score Prediction Fantasy Football Games
- last updated 06 June 2006
Score Prediction fantasy football games reflect the outcome
or result of real-life football
matches. Our review of these games offered online should help you choose which competition
suits you best. If you know of a Score Prediction
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What follows is a listing of all the games with the date
of review followed by our commentary on each online game.
BetDaddy
BetDaddy.com
is a fantasy fixed odds betting site with the ability to play against
other users in the main league or set up your own leagues to play against
your own friends or colleagues
Conference
Prediction League
Predict the outcome of weekend Conference matches. Free
to enter.
Cool
Predictions
Cool Predictions is a predictions fantasy
football game based on the teams in the North East of England. Simply predict
the scores of Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Get 3 points for
getting the score spot on or get 1 point for getting the right results (e.g.
win, lose or draw). Also get bonus points for accurately guessing large
scores. Compete against your friends in your own league, view your ranking in
the whole tournament and also create yourself a profile. Forum also
available for each league for maximum goading opportunities.
Reviewed 16 September 2002.
Correct-Score
After a successful World Cup game, the
Correct Score Premiership game is open for entries. It is free to play and
consists of 9 monthly score prediction games plus the Overall Season game.
Mini-league facility. Reviewed 13 August 2002.
Euro2004Predictor
Predict the scores of all the matches
in the Euro 2004 finals. Points are awarded to players as follows -
Correct score 3 pts;
Correct result + correct margin 2 pts;
Correct result 1 pt.
Bonus points are also available for predicting the overall winner and
being the closest to guessing the number of yellow and red cards in the
tournament. Reviewed 2 June 2004.
FantasyChampions
FantasyChampions
offers real-life performance fantasy football, based on the English
Premiership. In addition, there are Prediction Leagues for the World
Cup, UEFA Champions League, Rugby Six Nations and more to come.
Entry to their competitions is usually between £2 to £5. The season long
2001/02 Premiership Manager game had 79 Managers, with a total prize
money of £375.
Reviewed 7 May 2002.
The Fantasy Factory
The Fantasy
Factory raise funds for charitable causes through the fantasy games and
here they challenge you to predict the position of each team in the English
Premier League. Points are allocated every Monday morning
based on your ranking of the 20 teams and the league positions each week.
Earn bonus points from weekend prediction tests. The winner wins £250 of
travel vouchers and if anyone is lucky enough to predict all 20 teams in the
correct order at the end of the season there is a £10,000 bonus prize.
Entry fee is £5. Updated review 1 August 2002.
Football56
The aim of Edinburgh based score-prediction game, Football56, is to score the highest number of points from 6 fixtures each week throughout the course of the season. There is a free 4 week demo from 17th August 2002 to 7th September 2002 and the person whose team has scored the highest single week score during the demo period will win £250. Each player must select the fixture list they would like to predict scores on; 3 to choose from: English, Scottish and European.
Points are scored for each prediction as follows:
6 pts - Correct score.
4 pts - Correct result and correct total of goals scored.
3 pts - Correct result.
1 pt - Correct total goals scored.
0 pts - None of the above.
Prizes will be offered on a pools basis for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition weekly and monthly prizes are offered as well as a Jackpot prize if the maximum score of 36 is achieved in any week. Free Mini Leagues are available.
Reviewed 5 August 2002.
Footballbrain
The game allows you to predict the outcome
of matches from the English, Scottish or Italian leagues. The main game is free
to play but if you wish you can compete for cash in the weekly or monthly 'Prize
Leagues'.
In addition to competing against every other user you can also set up your own
mini league and compete directly against an unlimited number of friends/work
colleagues.
A supporter's league and message board also provide a community feel.
Footballbrain claim to have over 4000 registered players.
Reviewed 17 January 2003.
Football Fantastic
Football Fantastic is based on real life team performances in
the top leagues of Europe. The rules are very simple. You pick
teams from the top leagues throughout Europe and score points
dependent on their performances against other teams in the competition.
The game has been running since 1995 and the game runners have
high expectations for entry numbers and prize money for the 2003/4
season. Reviewed 30 June 2003
Football
Manager
Prediction league - you predict the scores from a weekly fixture list.
Footie-Forecast
Footie Forecast is an online football prediction league. The first weekend of games will be
17/08/02. It is a season long (40 week) game in which players are ranked by their average score per set of 10 weekly predictions. Players can join up to half way through the season, and must predict at least 20 weeks of games to get a true average at the end of the season. Either play for free of pay £20 for the season to take part in the pooled prize competition.
Reviewed 12 August 2002.
FootyMad
Predict the result of each of your team's matches. Free game.
Reviewed 13 August 2001.
Forecast-sports.co.uk
Forecast-sports.co.uk
provides a regular football prediction competition with small cash prizes. They
offer a series of shorter competitions giving everyone a chance to win. Points
are awarded for correct predictions and the player with the most points at the
end of the competition is the winner.
Reviewed 3 January 2003.
FORS
Footy Challenge
The FORS Footy Challenge is based on
score prediction plus associated match questions. It is designed so that
players can easily miss several weeks and still be in with a chance of
winning the overall pot, and half the prize money is distributed weekly.
Entry cost is £2 per week and the aim is to have the best 5 scores over
the season. Mini-league facility.
Reviewed 13 August 2002.
FreeBetting.net
FreeBetting.net
is a free to enter European soccer prediction league. There are prizes for
the best in every league. Reviewed 5 April 2002.
Golden Goal
Golden Goal is the first known Live Interactive Football
Prediction Competition in the UK. The basis of the competition is to
predict the results and scores of eleven matches and gain as many
points as possible on a weekly basis using their scoring system. There will be live score updates, live forums but more
importantly a Live Player Table. You will therefore be able to log onto our
site and see yourself moving position within the competition with
every goal scored! Reviewed 30 June 2003.
GoHighOrLow
For the 2002/3 football season, GoHighOrLow have predicted how many points they think each team in the Premiership will get by the end of the season. You choose five different teams where your prediction differs most from theirs, and decide if those teams are going to score more (go higher) or less (go lower). The aim is to differ as much as possible. You need to also pick the winner of the F.A. Cup and Worthington Cup. Mini-leagues facility available. Game running has been outsourced to GFM
Services. There is a £1,000 prize for the winner. Entry fee is £5. Reviewed 12
August 2002.
I
Know The Score
The FA Premier League are running a free to play EPL
predictions game called 'I Know The Score'. Select
the score for each EPL match and compete against others. There is a FISO
mini-league available named - FISO.co.uk FORUM.
Review 28 August 2003.
LoadFootball.com
Fancy yourself as a bit of a soccer pundit? Well,
Loadfootball give you the chance to show what a great football tipster you
are by predicting the results of the weekend Premiership matches. Points
are scored as follows: 3 for the exact score, 1 for the right team and 1
for the correct margin of victory. Prediction deadline is 11 a.m. on
Saturday. Late joiners are not penalised - they are given a mid-table
points score to get them started. Loadfootball's prediction game is free
to play and if you are successful you get the chance to graduate to their
fantasy football management games - see our review.
LoFFT LoFFT
- League of Fantasy Football Teams - dares you to predict the outcome of
10 selected matches each weekend over a 10 week period, which makes 4 10
week LoFFT seasons each football year. Matches selected can be from the
English or Scottish leagues and Cups but will always include the Swansea
City match! Your selections need to be in by 1pm on the Saturday.
Promotion or relegation from your division rest on the accuracy of your
predictions. A cup competition runs the full length of the football
season. No prizes but free to enter and very popular with 11 Divisions of
25 teams in each. Updated review 8 August 2001.
MOOSENET PREDICTION LEAGUE
The Moosenet Prediction League (MPL) is based on the results of CAMBRIDGE UNITED and is
FREE and open to all. Predictors have to nominate their view of what the scoreline will
be, pick one Cambridge player to score and have a stab at the attendance. Points are
allocated based on a number of outcomes and bonus points are available depending on how
accurate you are with your predictions. The points go towards an aggregate table made up
of Divisions with promotion and relegation at the end of each season, with 20 players in
each division and a '6 up 6 down' system in force. There are two Prediction League seasons
per football season, one before the New Year and one after. In addition, there are
knockout cup competitions based on the three domestic trophies in which Cambridge are
entered (with Cambridge United's conquerors taking on their mantle when (sorry, if) they
are knocked out). The webmaster typically receives 40 or so predictions per game, and up
to 80 different predictors per season and the MPL has been going since March 1999. There
are NO prizes, apart from the adoration of the general public! Updated
review 27 July 2001.
PorraFutbol
Well presented Basque soccer prediction competition.
PorraFutbol (porra means prediction in Spanish slang, and futbol means soccer) is the
1st virtual Basque League. Build up your own team with the 4 Basque soccer teams actually playing in the 1st Division of the Spanish League.
PoraFutbol are running a new competition for the 2001-02 Spanish League
season. Make predictions about Basque teams playing in 1st Division exclusively
i.e. Athletic Club, Osasuna, Alaves and Real Sociedad. Also they will start the
2nd Basque Fantasy Competition just with the Basque team players above
mentioned. Site is in
Spanish only. Updated review 1 October 2001.
predict-a-league
predict-a-league is a season long
football prediction game which is designed to
capitalise on the excitement and turbulence of real-life football league
tables and outcomes. Players are required to place league teams in their
correct league position, as well as spotting a wide range of predictions
concerning the Premier League, Nationwide, domestic and European cup
football.
By doing this you enter FIVE simultaneous competitions, with all the
opportunities for rewards that brings;
- the overall
p-a-l Championship
- the p-a-l
Premier League Competition,
- the p-a-l
Nationwide Competition
- the p-a-l Cup
- the p-a-l
Spot prediction Competition
The league predictions form the basis
of their predict-a-league score. So every game and every result of the
full season matters, as every minor change in the real league
tables impacts on their position within predict-a-league. The second
component of predict-a-league is a running spot competition which occurs
throughout the season at regular intervals and requires the users to both
predict individual events, e.g. Liverpool vs Manchester United, and
knowledge predictions, e.g. who will be this month's leading goal scorer.
The game is quite different from fantasy, dream and weekly forecasting
formats and regarded by regular players as a far more thorough test of
their football expertise. The game amounts to an innovative and intricate
way of attaching scores and values to, in effect, a mass of spread and
forecast bets. The window for entries should be in mid October.
p-a-l charge £30 per player to participate, half of which will be
retained as the prize fund.
Reviewed 1 October 2001.
Predictionleague
Prediction Leagues for the top 5 English Divisions, Scottish
Premier
League, Serie A, Bundesliga, Dutch First Division. Leagues for each
individual team as well as for each league as a whole. Free to enter. Reviewed
13 August 2001.
PredictionsLeague
Each weekend predict the outcome to the EPL matches. Your
points score depends on the published bookmaker odds for the game (so do you go
for the odds on Man Utd home win for 0.4 points or for the Fulham away win with
7 points on offer!). Free entry with £40 of prize money available.
Reviewed 13 August 2001.
PredictToWin
Predict To Win is an online Predictions
League game. Each week, players predict the results of 20 matches (10 on a
Wednesday and 10 on a Saturday). Depending on the accuracy of their predictions,
every player then receives a cash prize according to their individual
performance. It's free to play.
Reviewed 16 September 2002.
Premiership
Fantasy Footy
A free to enter Premiership
fantasy footy game. Predict the correct scorelines and first team to
score in each game in the Premiership. The PFF site is personalised with
your team's colours and has a mini league function. Winner's prize is £500
and prizes also on offer for being top of your mini-league.
Reviewed 13 August 2002.
Premiership
Predictions
Free to enter Prediction League covering 10 matches every Saturday from the English
Premiership and 1st Division. Now entering its 2nd season after an encouraging 1st
season, Registration is now open to new teams wishing to join in. Reviewed
14 July 2001.
ScorePredict
A
simple and well presented score prediction game which gives you the option
to play as an individual or as a group of friends and it's free. Mini-leagues,
Champions League and multi-lingual options available. The scoring
system is:
·
2 Points for the correct result.
·
1 Point for each correct team score.
·
1 Point bonus for predicting the exact score.
Updated
review 10 July 2002.
Scorecaster
Barclays Premiership
football prediction game offering monthly and seasonal cash prizes in
excess of £7500. Reviewed 6 July 2005.
Showcase Soccer
Showcase Soccer is a subscription based football score prediction game where your fantasy team predictions are based on the real scores of 10 of the weekend Premiership, Division 1, Division 2 or Division 3 matches
Sidewinder
Sidewinder is a free to enter and easy
to play Premiership predictions competition. Free minileague available for
you and your friends.
Soccer Hunchbacker
Fantasy football Prediction League game based on the Premiership (and other
leagues incl. Divisions 1-3 plus Spanish, Scottish and Italian). Choose
between a free league with no prizes or a league costing 50p per week for
the prize league. Updated review 15 August 2001.
Soccer
Polls
Soccer
Polls is a Score Prediction League Football game providing soccer fans with an
opportunity to predict on live football matches and be entered into a tournament
at the same time. There are updated headline polls covering news events and
midweek and longlist polls for the more varied divisional matches.
Reviewed 5 April 2002.
SoccerWinners
SoccerWinners
TopTipsters is a free tipster competition. Tipsters are
asked to predict the results of the matches in the top 4 European leagues
(usually English, Italian, Spanish, German).
Reviewed 29 August 2002.
The
SPC
The
SPC (The Sports Predictions Centre) offers 'fantasy betting' style
competitions originally based around correct score predictions on 10
chosen football matches each weekend. Each weekend (commencing 23rd March)
is a separate game with entries costing £2 each. Each entry entitles you
to 100 tokens in total which must be placed 10 on each of the 10 matches
chosen. You place your tokens on correct-score outcomes at their
associated odds. Once the 10 matches are complete, any correct predictions
are rewarded at their associated odds and all entries are ordered
according to their success.
The game is a little more involved than some score-prediction games but
using correct-score odds as their judging system gives the games a fairer
system for rewards than others in this arena. The game is being
started with a guaranteed £100 first prize for the first few weeks of
games, with the anticipation that this will be exceeded substantially as
the game grows in popularity. Prizes are generally shared out amongst the
best performers each week with a high percentage of entry fees going into
the pool.
Games are generally priced up around 3 weeks in advance and obviously the
odds associated with the correct-scores can change over the course of this
time and so there is some opportunity to get some decent early prices as
part of your predictions. Payments are currently restricted to online bank
transfers and cheques (both deposit and withdrawal) although The SPC do
offer an account system so you do not have to make a separate £2
transaction for every entry. All in all, this is an interesting deviation
from the standard score prediction games and one that will be worth
keeping an eye on especially if they prize pools get to a decent level.
Reviewed 18 March 2002.
Tipsters
League
Tipsters League offers a
football score prediction game, with three competitions running together, (plus
a lottery bonus ball game). The game is FREE to play at the moment and starts on
Saturday 10 August.
Reviewed 28 July 2002.
TopTipper
TopTipper provide 3 types of prediction competitions for sports all over the world,
including many European soccer competitions. Reviewed 5 August 2002.
UKFPL -
UK Footy Predictions League
The
UK Footy Predictions League (UKFPL) is a Prediction game where you predict
scores of English League Games (Premiership to Division Three) to work
your way up the FPL Leagues to try and become the FPL Champion to win a
prize. With new features being added every week, it's a league worth
joining and playing in.
Updated review 26 November 2002.
WeekendFootball
It's very simple - you just need to correctly predict 3 results at the weekend and you could be on your way to £5,000! Entry to the competition is FREE, and will run through the 2002/03 season.
Late entrants may well have a distinct advantage with this game.
You need to register first and be logged in to vote and take part in the competition. Once you have voted for at least 3 weekend results you can choose any 3 of your votes for the prize 'treble' competition.
Your 'bank' is calculated by multiplying the accumulated odds of the 3 correct matches against a "notional" £10 stake. If one or more of your match predictions are wrong your bank will reduce by £10. The competition takes into account the difficulty of predicting each game, and even if someone is bottom of the league, you could win the next week because of the effect of multiplying 3 sets of odds
In summary:
The voting coupon contains the next 4 to 5 days football fixtures (the weekend coupon is available every Thursday).
To vote, click on the icon next to a match and select a home win, draw or away win in the window that pops up and add your comment. (The radio buttons on the face of the coupon are for calculating returns not voting)
To enter the competition, click on any 'voted' icon and a window will display all the matches you have voted on in this weekend coupon, you can then select up to 3 matches to submit to the competition. (You can change your competition selections any time up to 11am on Saturday).
Effectively you need to vote twice. Firstly (once the coupon is up on Thursday), on the main coupon vote on at least 3 matches that take place on Saturday or Sunday. Then click on one of the matches you have already voted on (i.e. on the 'voted' button next to the match which is highlighted in white, rather than original 'vote' in red) - this will bring up the tipping competition box and then you select 3 of your tips for the £5k weekend tipping competition. You need to select your 3 by 11am each Saturday.
For the FISO leaderboard, click here:
New Features Added:
1. Tipster Profile
A tipster profile has been added, which shows how accurate each tipster has been historically - effectively proofing their forecasts. Click on a tipster name who has voted on a game in the coupon or via the leaderboard.
2. Average odds of correct predictions
When you click on a tipster profile, you can now see which tipsters are predicting the tough games and which are going for the safe bets as the average odds of their correct predictions is displayed.
3. Top 10 tipsters by team
You can now click on any team name in the coupon and display the top 10 tipsters for that team. Click to display their details and you can see their profile, including their predictions this weekend and last weekend, and how many predictions they have got correct since they registered.
Updated review 10 October 2002.
WorldJay
Free online World Cup 2006 prediction game.
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