- What is the difference between a pick'em pool and a confidence pool?
- In a pick'em pool every game is worth the same, so your score is just how many winners you got. In a confidence pool you also say how sure you are, and your points follow your conviction. Same picks, different leaderboard. Fanzava runs both, and confidence weighting is part of the scoring rather than something you calculate on the side.
- Do you handle bye weeks and flexed kickoffs?
- Yes. Fixtures, lock times and results come from the live data feed, so a week with four teams on bye is simply a 14-game week and a schedule change updates without you touching it.
- Can we run this for something other than the NFL?
- Yes. The live feed reaches a long way past the NFL: the NHL, the NBA, MLB, a dozen national soccer leagues, rugby union and rugby league, six golf tours, Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar and MotoGP, UFC and boxing, cricket, esports and plenty more. The sports page has the full list. Tennis is on the feed but its scoring is still being built, so it is coming rather than ready. Anything the feed does not cover runs as a custom competition with fixtures you enter yourself.
- What happens to people who forget to pick?
- That is a setting. Reminders go out 24 hours and one hour before lock, and you decide the late pick policy for anyone who still misses: a zero, a default, or whatever keeps your pool civil.
- Is there any betting involved?
- None. There are no odds, no spreads and no wagering in Fanzava. It is a fan and workplace engagement platform, so picks are picks and the prize is the leaderboard.
- What does it cost to run a pool?
- Plans start free. The free plan covers 25 players and one competition at a time. Paid plans are billed in Australian dollars, and the pricing page lists what each plan adds from there.