What happens when a match is rained out?

That's a rule you set before the season. The three options are: score the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern result as a normal result, void the fixture so it counts for nobody, or pay every tipper. Whichever you pick, the platform applies it to the whole field automatically, so you're not adjudicating a washout on a Friday night in January.

Can we use margin tipping in cricket?

Partly, and it needs a decision. Matches won by the side batting second are decided by wickets, not runs, so a runs-based margin only applies to roughly half the season. Either restrict margin scoring to matches won by runs, or use a first-innings total prediction instead, which works on every match and gives you a tiebreaker that never has a gap in it.

Should a round be one night or one week?

Both work and they suit different audiences. Nightly rounds build a daily habit and suit a cricket-mad crowd. Weekly rounds mean one deadline and one email, which is better for a workplace or a member base you don't want to notify every evening over the holidays. It's a setting, not a rebuild.

Does the Big Bash run on the live data feed?

Yes. Cricket is on the feed, so Big Bash fixtures, start times, lock countdowns and results arrive automatically, and the Indian Premier League and the T20 Blast come through the same way. The feed is far wider than cricket, from Super Rugby and the NRL to Formula 1 and a long list beyond them, all set out on the sports page. Custom sports and manual fixture entry are there for anything the feed doesn't cover.

Free for up to 25 tippers, no credit card. Paid plans are billed in Australian dollars, and the pricing page lists each plan's price and tipper cap. A Big Bash comp runs from December to late January, so a paid plan for the summer is a short commitment.

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BBL tipping

Forty-four nights of cricket, and your tippers have something riding on every one of them.

A Big Bash tipping comp is the one summer comp where a round is a night rather than a weekend. From the December opener to the final on 26 January, fixtures, locks and scoring run themselves on New Zealand time, under your branding.

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The 2026-27 Big Bash, at a glance.

Teams: Eight, one per Australian city or region, in a single table with no conferences.
Regular season: 44 matches from 12 December 2026 to Sunday 17 January 2027. Cricket on essentially every night of that window, including Christmas Eve.
Match length: Twenty overs a side. A match starts and finishes in one evening, which means a result every night rather than a result every weekend.
Double-headers: Boxing Day, New Year's Day and the closing weekend carry two matches in a day. Two locks, two results, one evening.
Finals: Four matches on the IPL model. Qualifier, 1st v 2nd, on 20 January. Knockout, 3rd v 4th, and the Challenger on 23 January. The Final on Australia Day, 26 January 2027.
Second chances: The Qualifier loser drops into the Challenger rather than out of the tournament, so finishing top two is worth a genuine amount and your bracket is not a straight knockout.
On New Zealand time: Every match is played in Australia, behind your clock. An evening start in Sydney is a later evening here, so results tend to land close to bedtime.
Weather: Duckworth-Lewis-Stern decides rain-affected matches, and some nights are abandoned outright with no result at all.

What a Big Bash comp looks like in practice.

A round is a night, so the rhythm is daily.

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 summer holidays.
Locks land at the first ball, not the end of the day.

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 comp than in a weekly one.
Results score in the hour the match finishes.

A T20 is done in about three hours, so the ladder moves the same evening. Your tippers check their rank before bed rather than waiting for Monday, and the comp builds a daily habit no weekend code can match.

The arguments every Big Bash tipping organiser has.

Cricket breaks two things that work fine in the football codes: the assumption that a scheduled match produces a result, and the assumption that a margin is a single number.

Rain is the whole problem.

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 tipper? All three are defensible. Deciding it in January, after it has already cost someone the lead, is not.

Margin in cricket is two different units, and only one of them is a number you can tip.

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 rugby. 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.

The toss carries more weight here than in any other code.

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.

Power Surge and X-Factor make blowouts less predictable.

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.

Nightly cricket needs a shorter attention span than weekly rugby.

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 side comps run over a week of matches rather than the whole season.

Formats that suit a T20 season.

Nightly head to head

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.

Weekly rounds

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.

Survivor

One team a night, no repeats, one loss and you're out. With only eight teams, a survivor comp runs itself out in a fortnight, which is exactly the right length over the holidays.

Finals bracket

Four matches, a second chance for the Qualifier loser, and a final on 26 January. Small enough that everyone fills it in and public enough that everyone watches it.

Why run your Big Bash tipping on Fanzava.

Your brand on every screen, all summer.

Your logo, your colours, your domain. On a nightly comp that is 44 separate touchpoints between December and late January, arriving in the window where your audience is most relaxed and least busy.

Locks and reminders built for daily cricket.

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 tonight rather than Thursday next week.

A summer comp that fills the gap.

The NRL is finished, Super Rugby hasn't started, the Premier League is on in the middle of the night, and your tippers are at the bach. The Big Bash runs when the rugby codes have stopped.

Rain rules applied by the platform, not by you.

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.

Questions Big Bash organisers ask.

What happens when a match is rained out?: That's a rule you set before the season. The three options are: score the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern result as a normal result, void the fixture so it counts for nobody, or pay every tipper. Whichever you pick, the platform applies it to the whole field automatically, so you're not adjudicating a washout on a Friday night in January.
Can we use margin tipping in cricket?: Partly, and it needs a decision. Matches won by the side batting second are decided by wickets, not runs, so a runs-based margin only applies to roughly half the season. Either restrict margin scoring to matches won by runs, or use a first-innings total prediction instead, which works on every match and gives you a tiebreaker that never has a gap in it.
Should a round be one night or one week?: Both work and they suit different audiences. Nightly rounds build a daily habit and suit a cricket-mad crowd. Weekly rounds mean one deadline and one email, which is better for a workplace or a member base you don't want to notify every evening over the holidays. It's a setting, not a rebuild.
Does the Big Bash run on the live data feed?: Yes. Cricket is on the feed, so Big Bash fixtures, start times, lock countdowns and results arrive automatically, and the Indian Premier League and the T20 Blast come through the same way. The feed is far wider than cricket, from Super Rugby and the NRL to Formula 1 and a long list beyond them, all set out on the sports page. Custom sports and manual fixture entry are there for anything the feed doesn't cover.
What does it cost?: Free for up to 25 tippers, no credit card. Paid plans are billed in Australian dollars, and the pricing page lists each plan's price and tipper cap. A Big Bash comp runs from December to late January, so a paid plan for the summer is a short commitment.

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