Confidence

Pick the winners, then rank how sure you are.

Setting up your league

Confidence runs on team sports week by week, and on Formula 1 race by race. Name the league, pick the season, and choose the rules.

Straight up or against the spread
For team sports, decide whether a pick needs to win outright or cover the spread. Formula 1 leagues are always straight up.
Picks per week
Require a pick on every game, or cap it at a number of games per week. The number of confidence points available each week matches that number.
Pick deadline
Lock each pick when its game starts, or lock the whole week when the first game kicks off. In Formula 1, the race weekend locks when qualifying begins.
Formula 1 matchups
In F1 leagues each pick is a head-to-head between two drivers. Set how many matchups each Grand Prix has, between 8 and 12, and either build them yourself or let the app pair the drivers at random each round.
Tiebreaker and entries
With every game required, you can turn on the tiebreaker: predict the total score of the week’s last game, or in F1 the pole-position lap time. Allow up to 5 entries per person.

Share the league code and the first week is ready to pick.

Picking the winner is half the game. Deciding how much you trust each pick is the other half.

Pick a winner for every game of the week, straight up or against the spread depending on your league. In Formula 1, pick the driver you think finishes ahead in each matchup.
You get one confidence point value for every pick that week, from 1 up to the number of games. A full 16-game NFL week means 16 down to 1; a bye week or a pick-10 league means fewer. Give the highest number to your surest pick and 1 to the coin flip. Each value can be used once.
If the tiebreaker is on, enter your total-score prediction for the last game, or your pole lap time in F1.
When results come in, correct picks earn exactly the points you gave them and wrong picks earn nothing. In F1, if one driver does not finish the other wins the matchup, and if neither finishes everyone who picked it gets the points. Everyone’s picks are visible once the games start.

The weekly winner and the season leaderboard are updated as each game or race finishes.

Protect your top points
Your highest values are the whole game. Put them on the matchups you trust most, and remember a team can carry your top points as many weeks as you like.
Let the spread guide the ranking
Big spreads signal lopsided games, which are the natural home for high confidence values. Toss-ups belong at the bottom of the list.
In F1, read the weekend
Qualifying pace, track history and reliability decide driver matchups more than the championship table does. Picks lock when qualifying starts, so make them before the weekend.