AFL tipping
An AFL tipping competition that runs itself from the first bounce in March to the Grand Final in October. Fixtures arrive on their own, tips lock at each bounce, and the ladder updates before the post-match is over. Your logo, your colours, your domain.
Free to start. No credit card.
Every match in the round lands in your hub from the live data feed, with teams, bounce times and lock countdowns already attached. Bye rounds come through with the correct number of matches, so nobody is tipping a game that isn't on.
Your audience picks a winner in each match and nominates a Joker if you've enabled one. Reminders go out 24 hours before the Thursday night lock and again 75 minutes before, which is the difference between a full field and a field with twelve people who forgot.
Results arrive as each match ends. The ladder moves in real time, overall and inside every group. On Monday morning everyone gets their score, their rank and their group position, and the argument restarts on its own.
Australian rules has a structural quirk no other code on this list shares: the number of matches in a round changes. Most scoring problems in an AFL competition trace back to that.
With 18 clubs and 24 rounds, plenty of rounds carry six or seven matches instead of nine. Under flat points-per-tip, a perfect six-game round is worth less than a middling nine-game one, and anyone who joins during the byes starts from a shallower hole than the people who have been playing since March. Either weight rounds by fixture count, or accept the distortion deliberately rather than by accident.
Margin prediction runs on one designated fixture per round and settles the season when two people finish level on points. In a six-game round there are fewer sensible fixtures to designate, and the designated match is more likely to be a blowout. Pick the margin fixture on competitiveness, not on the timeslot.
Since 2026 the finals run five weeks and ten teams, with the 5th and 6th placed sides not knowing their opponent until both Wildcard results are in. Decide before Round 1 whether your competition stops at Round 24, tips through all five weeks of finals, or closes tipping and runs a four-team bracket once the preliminary finals are set. Changing it in August is how organisers lose people.
One match, midweek, usually before anyone has looked at the team sheets. Locks are per fixture rather than per round, so a late Thursday tip is impossible and a late Sunday tip is fine. Set your late-tip policy now: auto-assign to the favourite, score zero, or don't count the fixture.
Nine from nine happens a handful of times a season across a whole field. A perfect round bonus costs you almost nothing in points inflation and buys a genuine moment. Configure the value per competition, or leave it off.
A winner in every match, every round, March to August. The default, and the right call for a mixed audience where most people just want a reason to check in on Monday.
Predict the winning margin, not just the winner. Australian rules scores run wide enough that margin genuinely separates the people who watch from the people who guess.
One club a round, never twice, one wrong call and you're out. With 18 clubs and 24 rounds, nobody survives to the end, which is the point.
The preliminary finals and the grand final are a true four-team knockout. Tip the earlier weeks, then ask our team for a bracket once the preliminary finals are set.
Your logo, your colours, your domain on every screen and every email. Pro and above run on a custom domain with a custom email sender, so the Monday recap arrives from you and nobody sees a Fanzava logo at any point.
Fixtures come from the live data feed, so a seven-game round is a seven-game round. No phantom matches, no manual editing on a Tuesday, no spreadsheet formula that collapses the first time a club has a week off.
Split your audience into groups by department, branch, suburb or supporter club. Group leaderboards run alongside the overall one, and the Banter Board gives the trash talk somewhere to live that isn't your inbox.
Sponsor placements appear on the leaderboard, in round result emails and in the weekly recap. Prize categories are configurable and can be funded by sponsors, so what people are playing for is visible from Round 1.
Free to start. No credit card.