Slovakia's leading sports media platform has enhanced their user engagement through a comprehensive loyalty system. Their leaderboards are a core component of this ecosystem, working alongside badges, points, and tiers. The platform's leaderboard implementation demonstrates how competitive rankings function within a broader loyalty framework to drive user participation, create healthy competition, and establish long-term engagement pathways.
Fans United Implementation Background
Their journey with Fans United features began with participation-based elements like Top X and Match Quizzes, enhanced with loyalty features such as badges, tiers, and ranking systems. The platform continues to expand their loyalty offerings by promoting leaderboards, offering rewards for winners, and integrating new gamification elements while also promoting existing ones.
Their strategic Fans United Features implementation approach has yielded impressive results, with some gamification features like Classic Quiz reaching over 20,000 participations, largely due to seamless integration of these features within sports articles.
Platform Integration
The platform has created a dedicated "Fans Arena" space where users can access multiple Fans United gamification features. Within this arena, there is a specific section for rankings that serves as the central hub for the platform's leaderboard system.
The leaderboard interface is clean and intuitive, featuring a prominent "Tipster rankings" header that clearly communicates its purpose. Users can easily navigate between different leaderboard categories through a tabbed interface at the top of the rankings page, allowing them to switch between leaderboards with a single click. For the TOP 7 leaderboard specifically, the platform offers additional functionality where users can see from one central place both the general TOP 7 ranking and the ranking from only the last TOP 7 game, providing both long-term and immediate competitive context.
Prominent "Rankings" option in the main navigation menu, making leaderboards easily accessible from anywhere in the platform's 'Fans Arena' section. The TOTAL leaderboard opens by default, with Top7 & Match Quiz specific rankings just a single tab click away.
TOP 7 leaderboard interface showing dual view functionality: "Current games" (displaying rankings from only the last TOP 7 game) and "All season" (showing cumulative seasonal Top 7 rankings) from a single screen.
💡Note: The "See tips" feature visible next to each user 's points allows viewers to access others' predictions for the last Top 7 Round. This functionality is powered by our Top 7 detailed prediction history feature, which stores and displays comprehensive prediction data for all users.
Leaderboard Categories
The platform has implemented a structured leaderboard system across three main categories:
Comprehensive "Total" Leaderboard
- Combines points from both TOP 7 predictions and Match Quiz participations
- Displays a complete ranking of all users across these gamification activities, thus offering a view of overall platform engagement
TOP 7 Dedicated Leaderboard
- Focuses specifically on TOP 7 prediction performance
- Features additional filtering options:
- "Current games" view showing results from the last Round of Top 7
- "All season" view displaying cumulative Top X Predictions performance
- Includes "See tips" functionality allowing users to view others' predictions
Match Quiz Dedicated Leaderboard
- Tracks performance solely in Match Quiz participations
Each leaderboard category offers a clear ranking system with user order, profile pictures, names, and point totals prominently displayed. The system's tabbed interface makes navigation between different leaderboard categories intuitive and seamless.
📌 Note: A well-designed leaderboard system transforms passive browsing into active participation! By offering both current and season-long competitions with performance transparency, platforms create multiple engagement cycles that cater to diverse fan interests. Leaderboards naturally foster community while motivating increased user activity, making them one of the most effective tools for driving long-term platform engagement.
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Learn more about our Leaderboards by referring to our articles
- Learn How to Configure Competition, Teams, Matches and Custom Leaderboards
- Explore our Leaderboards FAQ for answers to common questions