Every rule. Nothing hidden.

Create a take

A take is an objective football prediction built from the game's conditions: “a penalty in the final”, “Messi scores a hat-trick”, “it finishes exactly 4-3”, or several of those stacked into one bold take. Objective means the result comes straight from real match data, never from an argument, and the builder refuses a leg that another leg already guarantees, so a take is never dressed up wilder than it is. Creating one costs 1 Take Ticket; you choose your stake, and those points lock the moment you post it. Takes unlock once your league seats 4 players.

Your league quotes it

Everyone who joined before your take went up (everyone but you) privately prices it with decimal odds: one quote each, fully anonymous. The median of those quotes becomes your League Odds, and it takes 3 quotes for the take to be playable.

You decide

Once it's priced, you have three moves: PLAY it at League Odds, PASS it BACK to the lowest quoter at their own price, or EXPIRE it and walk away. Your decision is due 6 hours before kickoff.

The match settles it

Real match data decides, automatically. Win, and the house pays your stake × odds. Lose, and the stake is gone.

Claim your winnings

Tap your winning card to bank the points. Forget, and it banks itself after 7 days; winnings are never lost to a busy week.

Your starting bankroll

Every player starts every league with the same pile. Points come in two states: free points are yours to stake, locked points are riding on open takes until they settle.

The Monday allowance

Lands every Monday, for everyone, no matter what. It's a safety net, not income: the leaderboard's Winnings column doesn't count it, so the drip never masquerades as skill. Go bust on a Saturday and you're back at the table by Monday. It grows with the league, too: the allowance is 0.5% of every point in play, rounded to whole thousands, whenever that beats the 10,000 base. The same indexed figure sets the pass-back floor and a House Call's stake cap, so the whole economy scales together.

The monthly prize

Each finished calendar month, the player who grew their winnings by the biggest PERCENTAGE wins a prize worth 5% of every point in the league, minted by the house, with a rare Abandon Ship wildcard on top. It pays in the first days of the next month, needs at least two members who predate the month, and a month a season reset lands in isn't scored. Percentage is the leveller, with one guard: growth counts winnings only (the Monday drip is stripped out), and a near-empty start is measured against at least the weekly allowance, so the prize is won by football, not arithmetic.

All-in is legal

Takes have no stake cap: any whole number up to your free points is a legal stake, a season-long Future included. The league's quotes, not a rule, are what punish reckless sizing. (House Calls are the one shaped stake in the game: 1,000 minimum, capped at the weekly allowance.)

Winners are paid by the mint

Each league has a house account that mints every take payout: winnings on takes are never taken from your friends, and nobody ever owes anybody. House Calls are the one exception: there the losing side's stakes fund the winners, openly, that being the whole game. Point inflation is intentional; the scoreboard that matters is who grew their pile the most.

Everything resets, the honours don't

A league plays in seasons that follow the football calendar. When the calendar runs out of matches, the season enters its lap of honour: new takes are refused while the last live ones play out. Then the top balance is crowned champion, the final table is kept forever, and everything resets: balances to the starting bankroll, tickets back to 3, unplayed wildcards expire and everyone is dealt a fresh starter card. Nobody runs away with it for years, and nobody who joins in month three is playing catch-up forever. Trophies survive the reset; those are the long game.

Cash value: none, ever

Points cannot be bought, sold or cashed out. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out: the only thing at stake is bragging rights. This is a game, not gambling.

When you join

Your opening hand of tickets, enough to come out swinging in week one.

Every Monday

A fresh grant lands alongside the points allowance. Talk is rationed, never gone.

Create a take

Every take spends a ticket the moment you post it. That's the whole point of tickets: takes cost something, so takes mean something.

Miss a quote

Skip quoting a take you were asked to price (you're asked when you joined the league before it went up) and it costs a ticket: at the close, or later if a pass-back finds you with no free points to take it. Only if you hold one, and never on a Future: quoting those is penalty-free. At zero you lose nothing: there's no ticket debt and no points penalty, ever.

Sharpest quote

When a creator PLAYS their take (including an auto-play), the member whose quote sat closest to the median wins a ticket. Pass-backs pay nothing: the reward is for pricing well, not for lowballing.

Refunds

If a take dies through no fault of yours (not enough quotes, or a voided match), the creation ticket goes back to whoever created it. Choosing to EXPIRE keeps it spent, and so does a pass-back that dies because nobody could take it: that's the price of asking.

Season reset

The season rollover deals every hand back to exactly 3 tickets: an empty hand refills, and a hoarded stack shrinks. Fresh season, fresh rations.

Hand it to the lowest quoter, at their price

Don't fancy it at the median? The member who quoted the lowest odds takes the take off your hands and owns it at their own quote. There is no refusing a pass-back: a quote is an offer, and the game holds you to it.

The new owner doesn't lock your stake; they lock the same share of their free points as you staked of yours when you created it. A small share gets lifted to the league's floor (at least 10,000, more once the league is rich; it tracks the weekly allowance), though the floor never exceeds the original stake or everything they have, and the result is never more than the original. Say you staked 10% of your free points and the new owner has 40,000 free: 10% is 4,000, and the floor lifts it to at least 10,000. An attached wildcard doesn't travel, either: your card comes home to your hand, and the new owner may play one of their own.

A quoter with zero free points is skipped (that costs them a ticket if they hold one, never on a Future) and the take cascades to the next-lowest quote. If nobody can take it, the take dies and your ticket stays spent: PLAY was on the table.

Walk away

Nothing plays, nobody owes anything, your stake unlocks. You can pull the plug early, too: expiring is legal before the league has even priced it. The ticket stays spent (that's the price of asking the league for a price) and an attached wildcard returns to your hand. And here's the twist: an expired take never reveals. Nobody ever learns whose it was, what was staked, or who quoted what — walking away buys your silence. Play it and you own it in public; expire it and it never happened.

Room to quote

A take can only go up on a match at least 48 hours away: the 24-hour close plus at least 24 hours for the league to quote, so nobody gets ambushed. The match picker greys out anything closer and says why.

Quotes close

Quoting ends 24 hours before the first kickoff the take covers. If every eligible member has already quoted, it closes early: no waiting around for a deadline that can't change anything.

Decision due

The creator's play-or-pass call is due 6 hours before kickoff. Miss it and the take auto-PLAYS at League Odds: quorum was met, the league priced it, you own it.

Kickoff. Cards freeze.

Once the first match a take covers kicks off, wildcards can no longer be attached or detached. Whatever is riding, rides.

Auto-claim

A won take left unclaimed banks itself after 7 days. Points are never lost to forgetfulness; claiming is a ritual, not a chore.

A take on the long run

A Future covers one of your league's LEAGUE competitions for a whole season instead of a match (cups don't qualify: a knockout isn't a season). Four claims are on the menu: a player scoring 25, a player reaching 15 assists, a player playing 1,800 minutes, a team winning 30. Slow-burn bragging rights that sit in your hand for months.

It counts from creation

Only matches kicking off after the moment you create it count. No banking history: a Future made in March is priced on what happens from March, and the card prints its counting-from date so every quoter knows the terms.

Its own clock

Futures detach from the fixture calendar: quoting runs a flat 72 hours, then the creator's play-or-pass call is due 24 hours after that. And quoting a Future is penalty-free: skipping one never costs a ticket.

Stake what you like

Futures used to be the one capped take in the game. They are not any more: put as much as you fancy on one, all of it if you like. Those points then stay locked until the take settles or the season ends, which is the whole risk. Pass-backs work like normal takes, minus the fines: dodging one on a Future never costs a ticket.

It settles the moment it's decided

The game tracks progress match by match. The moment a Future is mathematically secured it pays out, and the moment it's mathematically dead it settles as lost. Nothing waits for May if the answer arrived in February; if the season ends first, the season forces the verdict.

Transfers ride with you

If a player you named leaves the competition, their progress freezes and the take rides on. That risk is printed on the card at creation. Wildcards never touch Futures, in either direction.

Nobody made this take

When the board runs quiet, the house posts a House Call itself: one YES/NO question on a real upcoming fixture in your league's competitions. A clean sheet, both teams scoring, over 2.5 goals. Fully automated and rationed: one at a time, at least 3 days apart, only while a season is live, only for a league of 4 or more, only on a fixture 2 to 6 days out, and only while fewer than 3 takes sit open on the board. No House Call in sight just means the table doesn't need one.

Pick a side, stake your points

Everything the takes hide, a House Call shows. No quotes, no median, no anonymity: everyone stakes free points (1,000 minimum) on YES or NO, and the pools are public while they grow. The split between the sides IS the odds.

The house sweetens it

The house seeds every House Call with a sweetener worth the current weekly allowance, and the same figure caps what any one player can put in. Both numbers are stamped on the card when it's posted and never move under your stake.

Top up only

Your first stake picks your side for good. You can add to it any time until kickoff, but there's no switching and no pulling out: backing both sides would milk the sweetener risk-free, so the game simply doesn't allow it.

Settled by the final whistle

At full time, winners get their stake back plus their share of the losing pool and the sweetener, paid instantly, no claiming. If everyone backed the wrong side, the stakes burn to the house and the sweetener is never minted. A match called off in any way (postponed, cancelled, abandoned): void, everyone refunded in full.

It counts where it matters

House Call results are real Winnings on the leaderboard and real growth in the monthly race. They just never feed take trophies or earn wildcards: those stay reserved for takes you priced yourselves.