Bracket !

The Bracket game invites your participants to predict the results of matches in a sports competition. They earn stars and points based on the accuracy of their predictions, then climb the leaderboard throughout the tournament.

The Bracket Block turns a competition (World Cup, championship, in-house tournament) into an engaging prediction experience on your Fanzone. Before each match, participants predict the final score. Once the match is over, their predictions are compared to the actual result and their score is calculated automatically.

Depending on the configuration you choose, participants can be rewarded:

The goal stays simple: make the best possible predictions to compete against the other participants from the start of the competition to the end.

You can let participants predict all the matches of a phase, or enable the Day by day option. In this mode, predictions open at 00:00 on match day and close 15 minutes before kick-off. This rhythm encourages participants to come back to the Fanzone regularly.

The scoring system is fully configurable and works in two modes.

In this mode, points depend on the predicted winner, the exact score, a potential underdog bonus, and phase bonuses.

Calculation examples

In this mode, no odds are used. Participants earn stars and points.

The Exact score bonus (+2 stars and +300 points) always stacks with the Correct winner bonus (+1 star and +150 points). When odds are not enabled, no underdog bonus is available.

Phase bonuses are calculated automatically once a phase is fully completed. To be eligible, a participant must have predicted every active match of the phase: a single missing prediction cancels the bonus.

Once the Bracket is live, an Analytics tab lets you track the game's performance and better understand participant engagement. Statistics are organized into several views.

It gathers the workspace's different Brackets along with their number of participants.

It gives you a global picture of the Bracket at a glance.

It analyzes participants' performance for each round of the competition: number of participants, average stars and points, share of correct winners, share of exact scores, number of phase bonus winners, and number of perfect phases. This view helps you spot the most engaging or the most difficult phases.

The Leaderboard displays the Bracket's top 20 participants. For each one, you can see their rank, username, avatar, total score, number of stars, and prediction ratio per match. The leaderboard can be filtered by phase to identify the best performers on a specific round.

The Analytics tab also measures whether participants come back to play several times during the competition. This analysis relies on the notion of an activity day: a day on which a participant made or edited their predictions. Several actions on the same day count as a single activity day; coming back on another day adds a new activity day. This reading is especially useful when the Day by day option is enabled.

This section shows how many different days participants came back to play, as a table and a chart.

This statistic includes all participants, including anonymous ones.

Retention measures the share of participants who come back to play after their first participation, with milestones over time (for example D+7, D+10, D+20, D+30, D+90, and D+180). A participant is considered retained at D+7 if at least 7 days have passed between their first and last activity day. Over a recent period, the last points on the curve may look lower, because some participants have not yet had time to come back.

This section summarizes loyalty in two categories: a New participant came on a single activity day, a Returning participant came back on at least two days. Three views are available: a new/returning chart, a weekly breakdown, and a recurrence rate curve over time.

Good to know: loyalty statistics only appear when the analysis covers the entire Bracket. If a specific match is selected in the filters, these sections are hidden, because loyalty is measured over several days, not on a single match. These statistics respect the filters already applied in the Analytics tab, such as the selected Bracket and the chosen period.

Enable the Points + Odds mode. The underdog bonus (odds above 3.00) strongly rewards participants who dare to bet on an unlikely win, and it is a proven way to add excitement.

Go for the Stars + Points (no odds) mode. Rewards are easy to read (1 star for the correct winner, 3 stars for the exact score) and require no knowledge of odds.

Enable the Day by day option and follow the Retention and New vs returning sections of the Analytics tab to measure the Bracket's ability to bring your audience back.

Rely on phase bonuses. By requiring participants to predict every match of a round, you reward those who stay committed until the end of each phase.

Before each match, they enter the final score they expect directly in the Fanzone's Bracket Block. Once the match is over, Fastory compares their prediction to the actual result and calculates their score automatically.

The Points + Odds mode uses team odds and adds an underdog bonus, which rewards difficult predictions more. The Stars + Points (no odds) mode is simpler: it grants stars and fixed points based on accuracy, without using odds.

They lose their eligibility for the phase bonus on that round. On Fastory, a single missing prediction among the active matches of the phase means no phase bonus is awarded.

No. The score calculation is based only on the result at the end of regulation time, whichever scoring mode is selected.

Without odds, the maximum is 3 stars per match (1 for the winner, 2 for the exact score). With odds enabled, a correctly predicted underdog adds one star, bringing the maximum to 4 stars.

In the Bracket's Analytics tab, once the game is live. There you will find the List, Overview, By phase, and Leaderboard views, as well as participant loyalty indicators.