BBL tipping
A BBL tipping competition is the only summer competition where a round is a night rather than a weekend. From the December opener to the Australia Day final, fixtures, locks and scoring run themselves under your branding.
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Fixtures arrive from the live data feed with first-ball times and lock countdowns. You choose whether a round is a single match, a calendar week of matches, or a block you define. Most organisers run weekly rounds and let people tip a week ahead, which suits a season played in the middle of everyone's holidays.
Each match closes at its own start time. On a Boxing Day double-header that means two separate locks hours apart. Reminders go out 24 hours before the first lock of the round and again 75 minutes before, which matters far more in a nightly competition than in a weekly one.
A T20 is done in about three hours, so the leaderboard moves the same evening. Your audience checks their rank before bed rather than waiting for Monday, and the competition builds a daily habit no weekend code can match.
Cricket breaks two things that work fine in every other code on this site: the assumption that a scheduled match produces a result, and the assumption that a margin is a single number.
A Big Bash summer produces shortened matches, Duckworth-Lewis-Stern results and nights abandoned with no result at all. Decide the rule before December: does a DLS result count as a normal result, does an abandoned match void the fixture for everyone, or does it pay out to every participant? All three are defensible. Deciding it in January, after it has already cost someone the lead, is not.
The side batting second wins by wickets. The side batting first wins by runs. A runs-based margin tiebreaker only works on half the results, which is why margin tipping doesn't translate straight across from football. Either score margin only on matches decided by runs, or replace it entirely with a first-innings total prediction, which works on every match regardless of who wins.
Chasing is a real advantage on most Big Bash grounds, and the toss happens roughly half an hour before the first ball. If your locks sit at the first ball, people can tip with the toss already known. If you want tips in before the toss, set the lock earlier and say so.
Two overs of powerplay the batting side can take late, plus a substitute who can come in after ten overs of the first innings. Both of them turn a chase that looked dead into a live one. It's the argument for a Joker multiplier rather than flat scoring: a surprise result should pay someone.
Forty-four matches in five weeks is a lot of deadlines. Perfect round bonuses work well here because a round is small enough to sweep. So do short-format side competitions run over a week of matches rather than the whole season.
Pick a winner in every match. With one or two matches a night, the tipping load per day is trivial and the daily result keeps people coming back.
Group the week's matches into a single round with one deadline. Better for a workplace or member audience that doesn't want a notification every evening in January.
One team a night, no repeats, one loss and you're out. With only eight teams, a survivor competition runs itself out in a fortnight, which is exactly the right length over the holidays.
Four matches, a second chance for the Qualifier loser, and a final on Australia Day. Small enough that everyone fills it in and public enough that everyone watches it.
Your logo, your colours, your domain. On a nightly competition that is 44 separate touchpoints between December and Australia Day, arriving in the window where your audience is most relaxed and least busy.
Fixture-level locks handle double-headers without anyone having to think about it, and the reminder cadence is tight enough to work when a deadline is 7pm tonight rather than Thursday next week.
The football codes are finished, the Premier League is on in the middle of the night, and your audience is home. The Big Bash is the one Australian competition that runs when everything else has stopped.
Set the abandoned-match policy once. When a night gets washed out, the rule applies itself across the whole field and nobody sends you a message about it.
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