PredictaScore.com was created by a group of friends in April of 2016. PredictaScore.com was a game created by three friends in early 2016.
The website provides a rules-based platform for users to predict on all fixtures across the Premier League and Champions League. The idea was to find which one of us could best predict the results to football matches across the Premier League. We devised a prediction game with a points based system, with each of us receiving a varying amount of points for each fixture that we as a group predicted
in. Our overall points tally was governed on how closely our individual predictions were to the actual match results across the Premier League. The game was created to make football predictions between us more enjoyable, challenging and accountable over time. Instead of placing a bet on each fixture, a points system was created, similar to the points given in real-world football fixtures. For example, if one of us were to correctly and exactly predict the final result of a fixture, that person would gain three points. One point would be gained if the outcome was correct (e.g. home team was predicted to win and they did, or the game was a draw, but the prediction was for the incorrect scoreline). Zero points were awarded to a completely wrong prediction. Before the creation of the PredictaScore.com website, the entire game, from our predictions to fixtures, as well as the overall predictions table, was hosted in a Whats app group. Here, we would specify each upcoming fixture, list our individual predictions for each fixture, as well as show our three-person ordered predictions table. The process would work as follows:
- We’d each take turns manually noting the weekend’s fixtures into the Whats app group chat, days before the fixture(s)
- We’d individually place our predictions for each fixture in the group chat, so we each had a known position before kickoff
- Once the fixture(s) had concluded, we’d have to manually calculate and cross-reference each prediction to the actual result, noting down the points to be awarded to each individual for each fixture. Whilst this process technically worked between the three of us, it proved to be fairly error-prone, and simply not scalable, especially when other friends wanted to join in. We therefore decided to create a more suitable platform for others to join us - hence the birth of PredictaScore.com!
