Season Pass

What the AFL Season Pass covers.

One AFL Premiership season, from the opening round in March through the finals series to the Grand Final. The pass window follows that season's fixture list, so buy before Round 1 and your tippers are in from the first bounce; buy mid-season and the window still closes after the Grand Final.

Eighteen clubs make a nine-match round when everyone plays, and the bye rounds carry fewer. Fixtures come through with the matches that are actually on, so a lighter round is scored over the games played and nobody is asked to tip a match that isn't happening.

AFLW is a separate sport on Fanzava, with its own season and its own pass.

What your tippers do every round.

1. Tip a winner in every match. Each match locks at its own bounce, so Thursday night closes first and the Sunday twilight game stays open until it starts. Tips can be changed any time before a match locks.
2. Add a margin, a joker or a draw, if you switch them on. AFL margins run wide, which is why margin prediction separates the people who watch from the people who guess. A joker scores one chosen pick at 1.5 to 3 times its value, and draw picks let a tipper call the rare level result.
3. Check the ladder on Monday. Results arrive from the data feed as each match finishes, and the leaderboard moves overall and inside every group. By Monday the round is settled and the argument has started without you.

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What the AFLW Season Pass covers.

One AFLW season, from its opening round in August through a top-eight finals series to the Grand Final in late November. The pass window follows that season's own fixture list, which starts while the men's home-and-away season is still being played and finishes weeks after the men's Grand Final.

All eighteen clubs play every round, so every round is nine matches and there are no byes to work around. It is a short season, which makes each round count for more of the final ladder than a round of the men's competition does.

AFLW is its own sport on Fanzava rather than a league inside AFL, with its own fixtures, its own default margin and its own pass.

What your tippers do every round.

1. Tip nine matches. Every club plays, every round. Each match locks at its own first bounce, and a tip can be changed until it does.
2. Keep up with a moving fixture. AFLW is scheduled around the men's season, so timeslots shift from round to round. Reminders go out before the first lock of each round rather than on a fixed weekly deadline, so nobody is working from a date printed a month ago.
3. Call the margin on a lower-scoring game. AFLW scores run lower than the men's game, so a margin weight tuned for the AFL pays very differently here. Set it for AFLW before the first round locks.

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What the NRL Season Pass covers.

One NRL Premiership season, from round one at the end of summer through a top-eight finals series to the Grand Final. The pass window follows that season's fixture list, so the finals sit inside it whenever you buy.

An NRL round runs from Thursday night to Sunday, and every match locks at its own kick-off. State of Origin arrives mid-season and takes representative players away from their clubs either side of each game, which is when the form guide stops meaning much.

One pass covers one competition. Tipping another code beside the NRL, or two competitions at once, is a job for an annual plan.

What your tippers do every round.

1. Tip across four nights. Thursday's match locks first and Sunday's last, so a tipper who forgets on Thursday only loses that one game. Tips can be changed any time before each kick-off.
2. Know the draw rule before round one. Golden point settles most level games, but a regular-season draw can still happen. You decide whether tippers can pick the draw and what it pays, before round one rather than in the round it matters.
3. Use a joker to survive Origin. A joker scores one chosen tip at 1.5 to 3 times its value, which gives a tipper a way back after an upset-heavy Origin stretch. Results arrive from the data feed and the ladder moves as each match ends.

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What the cricket Season Pass covers.

One competition's season, chosen at checkout. For an Australian summer that means the Big Bash League: eight teams, played across December and January, with a match most nights rather than a round every weekend. Because the season crosses New Year, it is named across two years when you pick it.

A short finals series follows the regular season, ending with the Final on Australia Day, and the pass window takes it in.

A Twenty20 match starts and finishes in one evening, so the leaderboard moves nightly and your tippers build a daily habit through the holidays. Rain is part of any cricket summer: a match the feed marks cancelled or postponed is voided, so every tip on it scores nothing and none counts as wrong.

What your tippers do through the summer.

1. Tip a winner in each match. Every match locks at its first ball. On the days that carry two matches, that means two locks hours apart, and a tip can be changed until each one closes.
2. Winners only, no margins. A cricket result is counted in runs or in wickets depending on who batted first, so margin prediction is not offered for cricket. Tippers pick the winner, and a joker lets them score one pick at 1.5 to 3 times its value.
3. Check the ladder before bed. Results arrive from the data feed once each match ends, so the leaderboard has moved by the end of the evening rather than on Monday morning.

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What the soccer Season Pass covers.

One league's season, chosen at checkout: the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga or Ligue 1. European league seasons run from August to May and are named across two years, so pick the season you are about to run. The pass window follows that season's own fixture list, not twelve months from the day you pay.

Every club plays every other club home and away, and most matchweeks fall on a weekend with a handful played midweek. For an Australian audience most kick-offs land overnight, so each match locks at its own kick-off and reminders go out before the first lock of the matchweek.

One pass, one league. A hub that wants several leagues running at once needs an annual plan.

What your tippers do every matchweek.

1. Pick home, away or the draw. A level score is an ordinary football result, so draw picks earn their place here: switch them on and tippers can call the draw as a third option, worth whatever you set. With them off, a team pick on a drawn match scores nothing.
2. Tip match by match. Each match locks at its own kick-off, so a matchweek's later games stay open after the early ones start, and a tip can be changed until its match locks.
3. Call the goal margin. Margin prediction works in goals. At the default weight an exact margin scores 3 and each goal out costs one, which suits a low-scoring game. Postponed matches are voided, so nobody loses ground to a fixture that did not happen.

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What the NFL Season Pass covers.

One NFL season, from the opening week in September through the playoffs to the Super Bowl in February. The pass window follows that season's own fixture list, and the season is named for the year it starts, so the one that finishes in February carries the previous year's name at checkout.

Every week is a round. From Australia, the week opens with Thursday night football on Friday morning, the main Sunday slate kicks off overnight into Monday, and Monday night football closes it around Tuesday lunchtime. Bye weeks mid-season mean some weeks carry fewer games, and the fixture list handles that for you.

What your tippers do every week.

1. Tip every game in the week. Each game locks at its own kick-off, so the Thursday game closes on Friday morning Australian time and the Monday game stays open until Tuesday. A tip can be changed until its game locks.
2. Get the reminder while you are awake. Reminders go out before the first lock of each week, at times you set: a primary one between 4 and 72 hours before, and a final one between 30 and 240 minutes before.
3. Add a margin or a joker. NFL margins are supported, and a joker scores one chosen pick at 1.5 to 3 times its value. Results arrive from the data feed as each game ends, and the ladder is settled when the Monday game finishes, in time for the Tuesday afternoon argument.

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What the NBA Season Pass covers.

One NBA season, from opening night in October through the regular season, the play-in and the playoffs, to the Finals in June. The pass window follows that season's own fixture list, and because the season crosses New Year it is named across two years at checkout.

Thirty teams play an 82-game schedule, so there are games most nights of the week. US evening tip-offs land in the Australian morning and early afternoon, which means results arrive during the working day rather than overnight.

The NBA Cup sits inside the regular season, and its group games count as regular-season games, so they arrive in your fixtures with everything else. The All-Star break in February is the one week with nothing to tip.

What your tippers do every round.

1. Tip the games in each round. Every game locks at its own tip-off, so a round that spans several nights stays open for the later games after the early ones start. Tips can be changed until each game locks, so a late injury update is not a lost tip.
2. No draws to worry about. A basketball game always has a winner, so draw picks do not apply and every tip is simply right or wrong.
3. Let the margin separate the field. Scores run into the hundreds and margins spread wide, so margin prediction does real work in basketball. Set the margin weight high enough to reward a good call, or run Margin as its own competition type.

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What the Formula 1 Season Pass covers.

One Formula 1 World Championship season, race by race, from the opening Grand Prix in March to the final race late in the year. The pass window follows that season's own calendar, named by year at checkout.

There is no home team in Formula 1, so there is nothing to tip head to head. Each Grand Prix is a round of predictions instead, and results come from the data feed after the chequered flag, retirements included.

With eleven teams and twenty-two drivers on the grid, calling a podium takes a real read of form, and a single first-lap incident can reshape a whole round. F1 has no knockout finals, so the championship is the competition from the first race to the last.

What your tippers do every race weekend.

1. Call the winner and the podium. For each Grand Prix, tippers predict the race winner and the drivers finishing second and third. Picks can be changed any time before they lock.
2. Add pole and the fastest lap. Pole position and the fastest lap are scored as categories of their own, and you set what each category is worth.
3. Watch the leaderboard after the flag. Once the race is classified, every category scores and the leaderboard moves, overall and inside every group, without anyone typing in a result.

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