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What is PredictTheScore?
PredictTheScore is a website that runs football based prediction games where you can test your knowledge, skill and luck by battling it out with like-minded individuals for prizes. As of July 2006 membership and entry to the games is free - PredictTheScore.co.uk is run by us, from our own pockets, in our spare time. The aim is to grow the site until we can attract sponsorship and tie-ups that will allow us to break even.
So far we have launched three competitions:
Prediction Premiership is a league competition, where players predict the scores of Barclaycard Premiership games on a weekly basis, and score points for accuracy. They can pick up bonus points by selecting five players who they think will score goals - points are awarded based on the risk of that prediction.
The are prizes for the players finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league, as well as monthly prizes for the top scoring Manager of the Month and a Golden Boot competition for the player scoring the most bonus points.
The FAntasy Cup (formerly The CreamFAce Cup) is a knock-out cup competition, where players predict the scores of FA Cup games, again scoring points for accuracy. There is also a bonus element to this game, but it involves picking teams, not players, and points are awarded based on the division that team plays in.
The FAntasy Cup is a winner-takes-all competition.
The PTS World Cup ran during the summer of 2006 (and may resurface in 2010!). It was also a league competition with essentially the same rules as Prediction Premiership.
Prizes were again awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league, as well as a Golden Boot.
Both Prediction Premiership and The FAntasy Cup are now into their third season.
How did PredictTheScore come about?
Once upon a time there were two Marketing Managers who both worked for a multinational supermarket chain. They sat opposite each other and would often while away the hours talking about non-work-related matters, in particular football. In July of 2005, they got talking about the upcoming season and fantasy football games that they might decide to play, and came to the conclusion that they could do a great job running their own and roping in their friends and colleagues to play.
After bouncing around some ideas in the staff canteen, they decided that predicting scores would provide a truer test of skill, and devised the format for a predictions league. It was launched, as Prediction Premiership, and was originally aiming for 20-30 players within the office, being run by email, spreadsheets and an Access database that they threw together one lunchtime.
Soon it became obvious that there was more demand that they had anticipated and that to run such an operation from their work email accounts probably contravened the odd company policy so they decided to set up a website.
Those Marketing Managers were called Phil Oddy and Bambos Christophi, and that website eventually became PredictTheScore. The rest is history.
How can I get involved?
In July 2006 we set up the PredictTheScore Supporters Club, which aims to harness the energy of our members to help us grow PredictTheScore to its full potential (whatever that may be). If you want to help promote us, send us some money, blag us some prizes or help out with aspects of running or improving the site you can be a member of the club - it earns you a shout out in the Supporters Club area, a free ad if you have something you want to promote and, once we have some stuff to give away, preferential access to exclusive competitions and giveaways. To find out more click here.
Finally, some thanks from Phil and Bam:
To Susan and Andria, for putting up with excessive time spent at the computer, obsessive Saturday afternoons spent providing up-to-the-minute score updates and really flimsy excuses for hogging the TV to watch even more football.
To Hugh, our former boss, for his faith in the fact that we could continue to do a good job whilst simultaneously planning PTS's world-wide launch.
To everyone in the PTS Supporters Club, without whom we would still be sixty spreadsheets and a database.
PredictTheScore is a website that runs football based prediction games where you can test your knowledge, skill and luck by battling it out with like-minded individuals for prizes. As of July 2006 membership and entry to the games is free - PredictTheScore.co.uk is run by us, from our own pockets, in our spare time. The aim is to grow the site until we can attract sponsorship and tie-ups that will allow us to break even.
So far we have launched three competitions:
Prediction Premiership is a league competition, where players predict the scores of Barclaycard Premiership games on a weekly basis, and score points for accuracy. They can pick up bonus points by selecting five players who they think will score goals - points are awarded based on the risk of that prediction.
The are prizes for the players finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league, as well as monthly prizes for the top scoring Manager of the Month and a Golden Boot competition for the player scoring the most bonus points.
The FAntasy Cup (formerly The CreamFAce Cup) is a knock-out cup competition, where players predict the scores of FA Cup games, again scoring points for accuracy. There is also a bonus element to this game, but it involves picking teams, not players, and points are awarded based on the division that team plays in.
The FAntasy Cup is a winner-takes-all competition.
The PTS World Cup ran during the summer of 2006 (and may resurface in 2010!). It was also a league competition with essentially the same rules as Prediction Premiership.
Prizes were again awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league, as well as a Golden Boot.
Both Prediction Premiership and The FAntasy Cup are now into their third season.
How did PredictTheScore come about?
Once upon a time there were two Marketing Managers who both worked for a multinational supermarket chain. They sat opposite each other and would often while away the hours talking about non-work-related matters, in particular football. In July of 2005, they got talking about the upcoming season and fantasy football games that they might decide to play, and came to the conclusion that they could do a great job running their own and roping in their friends and colleagues to play.
After bouncing around some ideas in the staff canteen, they decided that predicting scores would provide a truer test of skill, and devised the format for a predictions league. It was launched, as Prediction Premiership, and was originally aiming for 20-30 players within the office, being run by email, spreadsheets and an Access database that they threw together one lunchtime.
Soon it became obvious that there was more demand that they had anticipated and that to run such an operation from their work email accounts probably contravened the odd company policy so they decided to set up a website.
Those Marketing Managers were called Phil Oddy and Bambos Christophi, and that website eventually became PredictTheScore. The rest is history.
How can I get involved?
In July 2006 we set up the PredictTheScore Supporters Club, which aims to harness the energy of our members to help us grow PredictTheScore to its full potential (whatever that may be). If you want to help promote us, send us some money, blag us some prizes or help out with aspects of running or improving the site you can be a member of the club - it earns you a shout out in the Supporters Club area, a free ad if you have something you want to promote and, once we have some stuff to give away, preferential access to exclusive competitions and giveaways. To find out more click here.
Finally, some thanks from Phil and Bam:
To Susan and Andria, for putting up with excessive time spent at the computer, obsessive Saturday afternoons spent providing up-to-the-minute score updates and really flimsy excuses for hogging the TV to watch even more football.
To Hugh, our former boss, for his faith in the fact that we could continue to do a good job whilst simultaneously planning PTS's world-wide launch.
To everyone in the PTS Supporters Club, without whom we would still be sixty spreadsheets and a database.
