Bracket challenge
Everyone fills in the same tournament bracket before it starts, and points follow the real results. Fanzava runs yours under your own brand: our team builds the bracket and records every result. Looking for an official bracket instead? The links are just below.
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Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs
Both leagues finish with 16 teams and four rounds of best-of-seven series. That is a clean knockout tree, which is why a playoff bracket is the pool most Canadian offices run in the spring.
Eight teams per conference: the top three in each division plus two wild cards. Division winners play the wild cards, second plays third, and the route stays inside the division until the conference final, with no reseeding. Fifteen series from the first round to the Stanley Cup Final.
Six teams per conference get in on record and two more come out of the play-in tournament that seventh to tenth place play. Then it is four rounds and 15 series, and the route is set once the 16 are known.
A series is up to seven games between the same two teams, so each pick names the team that wins the series, not the number of games. Our team records the winner once a series is decided, and every bracket rescores.
Ask for the bracket once the field is set: after the NHL regular season ends, or after the NBA play-in. Lock it before the first game of the first round, and everyone picks all four rounds in one sitting.
Seeds, first-round matchups and the shape of the draw go up at once. Everyone picks every game through to the final in one sitting, rather than being chased week after week.
One deadline, usually minutes before the puck drops or the ball goes up on the first game. Nobody sees anyone else's picks before then, so there is nothing to copy. After lock, pick percentages show how the field split.
Each result is recorded as its game is decided: from Fanzava's results feed where it carries the game, and by our team where it does not. Correct later-round picks are worth more, so a bracket that looks dead after one upset can still win.
A bracket has one deadline and almost no admin. What it has instead is scoring design.
Double elimination gives every entrant a second life but doubles the games and produces a tree most people cannot read at a glance. For prediction, single elimination is almost always right, and it is the only kind Fanzava runs.
Fanzava scores one point in round one, two in round two and so on, with ten more for the champion. Doubling weights make every round worth the same in total. Linear keeps the opening round meaningful and lets the champion pick swing the contest.
Some pools pay extra for correctly picking a lower seed. Fanzava does not: points follow the round, not the seed, and the weighting is not set per competition.
16 teams and four best-of-seven rounds each, one pick per series.
64 teams, 63 picks, three weeks from first tip to title game.
The knockout rounds of the tournament, one bracket for the whole office.
The last sixteen, with a route to the final fixed by the round of 16 draw.
128 players and seven rounds, from the Australian Open to the US Open.
Knockout brackets run on Fanzava today, scored round by round, with results recorded for you. Our team builds the draw and records every result the feed does not carry.
Paid plans and a Bracket Pass ship full white label. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender. Groups let an office floor or a friend group run a league inside your challenge.
Brackets start above the Free plan. Run them on Starter or higher, or pay once for a Bracket Pass that covers a single knockout event with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
All prices in Australian dollars. See Bracket Pass →
Free to start. No credit card.