How Forecast Club works

Free points

On first participation each season you receive 10,000 Forecast Points. They are not purchased, not transferable, not redeemable, and not linked to referrals or subscriptions. Nothing on this site lets you buy more.

Each pick allocates one of 100, 250, 500, 1,000 points — bounded by your spendable balance — or 0 for an accuracy-only pick. Accuracy-only picks count toward your accuracy statistics but never move points or standings, and you can keep making them when you've run out of points.

You can have at most 50 unresolved picks at once. Picks are immutable: no editing, cancelling, topping up, or taking the other side after acceptance.

A sample prediction

Every outcome has a fixed game multiplier set by the editor at publication — a game quote, not a live or certain probability. It's frozen for every participant. With a 50/50 quote and 500 points allocated, this is exactly what you'd see before confirming:

The arithmetic, in integers with downward rounding: correct award = floor(allocation × 10,000 ÷ quote); incorrect award = 0; void award = allocation. Awards include your original allocation — it's deducted once when you pick and the award is credited once at settlement.

Live questions always render amounts from the server's own quote — never from these examples.

Settlement rules

• Every question names its result source, source event identifier, lock time (cutoff), expected result time and cancellation policy before you pick. Rules are frozen at publication.
• No pick is accepted at or after the server's cutoff. There are no in-play picks; event status checks can close a question earlier.
• Questions marked Automatic settle when the published source result is final. Reviewed questions get a staff check first. Manual questions are decided by staff with recorded evidence and a separate approver.
• Settlement credits your award once. Correct picks receive the full award; incorrect picks receive 0.
• Late-entry checks: if a pick is found to have been accepted after the effective cutoff, it's marked late-invalid, the allocation is returned, and it's excluded from results.

Voids and refunds

If the event is cancelled, the source publishes no final result by the question's evidence deadline, or the question can't be resolved under its frozen rules, the question is voided: every allocation is returned and the net change is 0. Voids don't count toward accuracy or ranking.

While a source is late you'll see "Waiting for the published result source. Your pick is safe." A candidate result received on time can get a bounded extension for finality checks rather than an automatic void.

Corrections

A result can be corrected through a reviewed, audited workflow. Corrections create a new result revision with a visible notice showing the previous and updated result, the adjustment, the reason, and the standings update.

A correction can remove points you've already used. Your internal balance stays signed: the page shows 0 spendable and a correction deficit. New point allocations are blocked while a correction is applied, accuracy-only picks stay available, later valid picks aren't undone, and their awards reduce the deficit. The next season starts from a fresh account. This is a game; the competition isn't financially or mathematically risk-free.

Season schedule

• Seasons are calendar months in Asia/Kolkata. Each question belongs to one season by its scheduled cutoff.
• At month end, old-season questions stop admitting picks; their pending results settle into the original season account.
• A seven-day grace window follows. Standings show as provisional until the last reviews and refunds complete, then a standings revision is frozen. Corrections after that produce a new revision with a notice.
• Every season starts with a fresh 10,000-point grant. Points never carry over.
• Ranking: season earnings from ranked picks, after at least five settled non-void point picks. Below that you're provisional. Equal earnings share a rank. Accuracy is shown separately with its sample size — high earnings alone don't prove better forecasting.

Leagues

Private leagues are filtered views of the same questions — no separate point pools, no extra grants. The owner sets a name, optional category filter, start and end inside one season, and a member cap. Membership freezes at start; picks from before the start are excluded; you can't place a second pick just for a league. Casual mid-season leagues disclose that members bring unequal balances. See Leagues.

Eligibility and fair play

• You must be 18 or older and eligible to take part where you live, and accept these rules (v1) and the privacy notice (v1) before your first pick.
• All rewards are status only: rankings, badges (First Pick, Five Correct, League Participant) and profile presentation. No cash, gift cards, discounts or merchandise — ever.
• Accounts that abuse the game can be restricted. Restricted accounts see a neutral notice and a support route; nothing is silently deleted.
• Think a result is wrong? Use "Report this result" on the question with your evidence. Decisions are recorded with a reason.

Privacy

Your public profile shows your display name, opted-in season stats and badges — never your email or private league memberships. You control the public-stats switch in Settings. Invite tokens are stored only as hashes. Notifications are in-app only in this version.