AFLW tipping
An AFLW tipping competition built for the season as it actually runs: eighteen clubs, nine matches every single round, no byes anywhere, and a Grand Final on the last weekend of November. Fixtures arrive on their own and lock at first bounce. Your logo, your colours, your domain.
Free to start. No credit card.
Every match in the round arrives in your hub with clubs, venues, first-bounce times and lock countdowns already attached. Because all 18 clubs play every week, the round is nine matches from Round 1 to Round 12. Nobody is ever tipping a game that is not on.
AFLW is scheduled around the men's season, so a round can run Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon and the timeslots shift week to week. Fixtures lock individually at first bounce. Reminders go out 24 hours before the first lock of the round and again 75 minutes before, set against the fixture rather than a printed deadline.
Results score as each match ends. Overall standings and every group leaderboard update in real time, and the Monday recap goes out with everyone's score, rank and group position. With only twelve rounds in the season, that Monday email is most of your engagement.
AFLW has none of the men's competition's bye-round arithmetic. Its problem is the opposite one. With 12 rounds instead of 24, a single round is more than eight per cent of the home and away season, and a scoring rule that is harmless across 24 rounds is decisive across 12.
A round is one twelfth of the AFLW home and away season and one twenty-fourth of the men's. Someone who misses a single week has given up the equivalent of two men's rounds and there is no long tail left to claw it back in. Decide up front whether that is acceptable, or whether a make-good rule applies, and publish it before Round 1. What you cannot do is invent the rule in October when someone points out they were away for a wedding.
Dropping one round from 24 forgives four per cent of a season. Dropping one from 12 forgives more than eight, and it hands identical relief to the person who was away and the person who simply tipped badly. If you want to protect people who miss a week, allow exactly one drop and say in writing that it covers absence, not a bad guess.
The round size never changes, which removes the single biggest scoring headache in men's AFL tipping. It creates a smaller one in its place. With a fixed nine-game round and only twelve of them, a perfect round bonus large enough for anyone to notice can decide the whole season on its own. Set the bonus low, or leave it off entirely.
Twelve home and away rounds and four weeks of finals means finals are a quarter of the competition. Tipping straight through them reshapes the leaderboard far more than September does in the men's game, because the base is half the size. Decide before Round 1 whether you stop at Round 12, carry tipping through all four finals weeks, or hand the top eight over to a bracket.
Because the season is scheduled around the men's competition, first-bounce times move between rounds and matches spread across suburban venues in several time zones. Lock each fixture at its own bounce rather than closing the round at one time, and set reminders against the first lock of that round. A deadline printed in a welcome email will be wrong by Round 3.
The joint CBA allows for 14 rounds from 2027 if the competition hits its benchmarks. Any rule expressed as a fixed number of rounds, a points target, or a drop-two allowance has to be rewritten if that happens mid-setup. Express the rules as a proportion of the season and they survive the change without you reopening anything.
A winner in every match, nine a round, twelve rounds. Short enough that people who join for the novelty are still playing in November, which is not true of a 24-round season.
Four 17-minute quarters produce lower totals than the men's game, so margins cluster in a narrower band. That makes margin a sharper tiebreak here than it is in men's AFL, where one blowout can decide a season.
One club a round, never twice. Eighteen clubs against twelve rounds means there are more teams than weeks, so a survivor competition can genuinely run to the final round with someone still standing. In men's AFL, 24 rounds against 18 clubs makes that impossible.
Top eight, four weeks, from qualifying and elimination finals through to the last Saturday in November. Fill it out once in early November and watch it survive.
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 in the season.
AFLW timeslots shift week to week around the men's draw. Fixtures arrive from the data feed with their real bounce times and lock individually, so a Thursday evening game closes on its own and a Sunday afternoon one stays open until the siren. No spreadsheet to re-time on a Tuesday.
Split your audience into groups by department, branch, suburb or supporter base. Group leaderboards run alongside the overall one, and the Banter Board gives the trash talk somewhere to live that is not your inbox.
AFLW starts while the men's home and away season is still going and finishes two months after it. Run both as separate competitions on one hub with separate leaderboards, so your audience signs up once in March and is still there in November.
Free to start. No credit card.