Season Pass

What the AFL Season Pass covers.

One AFL Premiership season, the top league of Australian rules football, from the opening round in March through the playoffs (called the finals) to the Grand Final. The pass window follows that season's schedule, so buy before Round 1 and your players are in from the first game; buy mid-season and the window still closes after the Grand Final.

Eighteen clubs make a nine-game round when everyone plays, and the bye rounds carry fewer. The schedule comes through with the games that are actually on, so a lighter round is scored over the games played and nobody is asked to pick a game that isn't happening.

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

What your players do every round.

1. Pick a winner in every game. Each game locks at its own start time, so the Thursday game closes first and the Sunday evening game stays open until it starts. Picks can be changed any time before a game locks.
2. Add a margin, a joker or a tie, 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 player call the rare tied result.
3. Check the standings on Monday. Results arrive from the data feed as each game finishes, and the leaderboard moves overall and inside every group. By Monday the round is settled.

What the AFLW Season Pass covers.

One AFLW season, the women's Australian rules league, from its opening round in August through a top-eight playoff series to the Grand Final in late November. The pass window follows that season's own schedule.

All eighteen clubs play every round, so every round is nine games and there are no byes to work around. It is a short season, which makes each round count for more of the final standings.

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

What your players do every round.

1. Pick nine games. Every club plays, every round. Each game locks at its own start time, and a pick can be changed until it does.
2. Keep up with a moving schedule. Game times 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.

What the NRL Season Pass covers.

One NRL Premiership season, Australia's top rugby league competition, from round one in March through a top-eight playoff series to the Grand Final. The pass window follows that season's schedule, so the playoffs sit inside it whenever you buy.

An NRL round runs from Thursday to Sunday, and every game locks at its own kick-off. The State of Origin series arrives mid-season and takes representative players away from their clubs either side of each game.

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

What your players do every round.

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

What the cricket Season Pass covers.

One competition's season, chosen at checkout. For the Australian summer that means the Big Bash League: eight teams, played across December and January, with a game 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 playoff series follows the regular season, ending with the Final on Australia Day, and the pass window takes it in.

A Twenty20 game starts and finishes in one evening, so the leaderboard moves daily. Rain is part of any cricket summer: a game the feed marks cancelled or postponed is voided, so every pick on it scores nothing and none counts as wrong.

What your players do through the season.

1. Pick a winner in each game. Every game locks at its first ball. On the days that carry two games, that means two locks hours apart, and a pick 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. Players pick the winner, and a joker lets them score one pick at 1.5 to 3 times its value.
3. Check the standings daily. Results arrive from the data feed once each game ends, so the leaderboard moves game by game rather than once a week.

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 schedule, 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 a Canadian audience most kick-offs land in the morning or early afternoon, so each game 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 players do every matchweek.

1. Pick home, away or the draw. A tie is an ordinary soccer result, so draw picks earn their place here: switch them on and players can call the draw as a third option, worth whatever you set. With them off, a team pick on a drawn game scores nothing.
2. Pick game by game. Each game locks at its own kick-off, so a matchweek's later games stay open after the early ones start, and a pick can be changed until its game 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 games are voided, so nobody loses ground to a game 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 schedule, 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: Thursday Night Football opens it, the Sunday slate carries most of the games, and Monday Night Football closes it. Bye weeks mid-season mean some weeks carry fewer games, and the schedule handles that for you.

What your players do every week.

1. Pick every game in the week. Each game locks at its own kick-off, so the Thursday game closes first and the Monday game stays open until Monday night. A pick can be changed until its game locks.
2. Get the reminder before Thursday. 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 standings are settled when the Monday game finishes, in time for the Tuesday morning 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 schedule, 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, and most tip off in the evening across North American time zones.

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

What your players do every week.

1. Pick the games in each week. Every game locks at its own tip-off, so a week that spans several nights stays open for the later games after the early ones start. Picks can be changed until each game locks, so a late injury update is not a lost pick.
2. No ties to worry about. A basketball game always has a winner, so draw picks do not apply and every pick 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 pool 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 Canadian Grand Prix in Montréal included. 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 pick 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 playoffs, so the championship is the pool from the first race to the last.

What your players do every race weekend.

1. Call the winner and the podium. For each Grand Prix, players 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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