Glossary & frequently asked questions

When the commissioner turns the tie-breaker on, everyone also predicts the total combined score of the last game of the week (in Bracket, the championship game). If two players finish a week tied, the closest prediction wins it. If both the score and the prediction tie, the week has two winners.

In Formula 1 Confidence leagues the tie-breaker is the pole-position qualifying lap time instead, entered as minutes, seconds and thousandths, for example 1:23.456.

They are the point spread and the odds. The favorite, the team expected to win, carries a negative number; the underdog a positive one. On a spread, −7 means the favorite has to win by more than 7. On odds, −400 means you risk 400 to win 100, and +125 means a 100 bet wins 125.

Spreads in Superfan Games are always half points, so there are never pushes in Pick ’em, Confidence or Survivor against the spread.

If the commissioner allows it. Every game except Bet ’em lets the commissioner set up to 5 entries per person, and that number can be raised later but never lowered. Bet ’em is always one entry per person.

Each pick locks when its game starts, so you can change your mind right up to kickoff. Commissioners of Confidence leagues can choose to lock the whole week at the first game instead. Brackets lock when the tournament starts, Lineup when the tournament tees off, and Formula 1 picks when qualifying begins.

In leagues played against the spread, the line itself locks 72 hours before the game.

Superfan Games tracks who has paid, it does not move money. The commissioner sets the buy-in, marks entries paid or unpaid in the app, and collects and pays out however the league prefers. Many leagues use TeamStake or LeagueSafe to hold the pot; the Commissioner Center has the current fees and suggested payout structures.

A private league is yours: you name it, set the rules, and share a code or password with the people you invite. Public leagues are open to anyone with fixed settings and one entry per person, and a new one opens automatically when the previous one fills up.

Once a week you can mark one of your picks as your Moneyball. If it wins, you earn a bonus on top of the regular point; the commissioner decides how big the bonus is. If it loses, you lose nothing. Each team can be your Moneyball only once per season, so save the strong ones for the right week.

Moneyball is not available in NBA leagues.

That depends on the league. The commissioner can require every game or cap it, for example 5 picks a week. The tie-breaker is only available when every game is required.

No. Correct picks earn one point, Moneyball winners earn the bonus, and wrong picks score zero. In straight-up leagues a tied game counts as a wrong pick.

Open the sportsbook from your league (New Pick on iOS, Make Picks on the web). Every game shows three markets: the money line (who wins), the spread (by how much) and the total (over or under the combined score). Tap a price to add it to your bet slip, set your stake, and place it.

A straight bet is a single pick. A parlay combines two or more picks into one ticket: the odds multiply, and every leg has to win. A teaser is a parlay on spreads and totals where every line is moved in your favor, 6 points in football and 4 in basketball, in exchange for a smaller payout.

You cannot parlay the money line and the spread of the same game, or both sides of one game.

Superfan Games uses American odds. Pretend you are betting 100 points. With positive odds, +125 for instance, a 100-point bet wins 125. With negative odds, −400 for instance, you have to risk 400 points to win 100.

Commissioners can also run the league on flat payouts, where spreads and totals pay even money and only money-line bets use real odds.

Bets cannot be edited. You can delete a bet as long as its game has not started (for parlays and teasers, none of the games). The commissioner decides whether deleting is free or costs 10%, 25% or 50% of the stake.

If a game lands exactly on the spread or the total, that bet is a push and your stake is returned. In a parlay, a pushed leg simply drops out of the ticket.

Ask your commissioner. Bet ’em commissioners can record a buy-back that credits points to your entry, usually for an extra buy-in agreed by the league. They can also award or penalize points for house rules.

Pick a winner for every game, then rank your picks. You get one point value per game, from 1 up to the number of games that week, and each value can be used once. Give your highest number to the pick you are surest of. Correct picks earn the points you gave them; wrong picks earn nothing.

Because the scale always matches the number of games you have to pick. A full NFL week is 16 games, so 16 down to 1. A bye week with 14 games runs 14 down to 1, and a league capped at 10 picks a week runs 10 down to 1.

Instead of games you get driver matchups, two drivers head to head, 8 to 12 per Grand Prix depending on the league. Pick who finishes ahead in each matchup and rank your picks with confidence points as usual. Picks lock when qualifying starts.

If one driver does not finish, the other wins the matchup. If neither finishes, everyone who picked that matchup gets their points. The optional tie-breaker is the pole-position lap time.

Yes, once the games start. Everyone’s picks and confidence points become visible as each game kicks off, so you can follow the week together.

Once per season, per entry. If you have two entries, each entry has its own list of used teams.

The mirror image of Survivor: each week you pick a team to lose. If it loses, you survive. Anti-Survivor is always played straight up, not against the spread.

A missed pick costs you a life, the same as a losing pick. Commissioners can give everyone 1 to 5 extra lives; traditional Survivor is one loss and you are out.

They share the title. Survivor has no tie-breaker; the leaderboard shows who is still alive and how many winning picks each entry has.

Every correct pick earns points, and the points double each round, so a championship pick is worth far more than a first-round pick. In a World Cup bracket with the group stage on, you also predict the finishing order of each group and which third-place teams advance, worth 2 points each.

When the tournament starts. Fill in every game before the first tip-off or kick-off; after that no changes are possible.

Every later pick you made on that team is marked as a loss automatically. The rest of your bracket keeps scoring as normal.

Each lineup spot gives you 5 credits, so a 6-golfer lineup has 30 credits and a 10-golfer lineup has 50. Golfers are priced by world ranking in the field: the top five cost 8 credits, the next ten 6, then 4, 2 and 1. Spend it all before the tournament tees off.

Your golfers earn points on every hole: +13 for a double eagle, +8 eagle, +3 birdie, +1 par, −1 bogey, −2 double bogey, plus +5 for a hole in one. On top of that, each golfer earns a finishing bonus from 30 points for the win down to 1 point for 41st to 50th place. Only complete lineups score.

No. Lineups lock when the first round tees off. In a season-long league you set a new lineup for every tournament.