Setting up a Standings Prediction Game requires several steps to ensure proper configuration of participants, rankings, and game settings. This guide walks you through the complete setup process.
Creating a New Standings Prediction Game
- Navigate to the Games Management section in the left sidebar
- Select Standing Games from the game options
- Click the Create button to begin setup
Basic Configuration
When creating a new Standings Prediction Game, you'll need to configure these essential settings:
Game Information:
- ID: Enter a unique identifier (e.g., "standings-game-f1")
- Title: Add a descriptive title for users (e.g., "F1 - Predict the Final Driver Standings")
- Description: Enter any content you find appropriate - competition details, prize information, how the game works, engagement incentives, or other relevant information (Optional Field)
- Cutoff Time: Set the deadline for users to submit their predictions
⚙️ Note: The right sidebar contains additional configuration tabs including Configuration, Custom fields, Images, Related, and Rules. Each tab provides specialized settings for your game. For more details, see our Shared Configuration Articles.
Managing Participants
The Participants tab allows you to add all competitors that users will rank:
- Click the Add participant button to add each participant
- For each participant, configure:
- ID: Numerical identifier
- Name: Competitor's name
- Group: Assign to teams or categories if applicable (e.g., "Ferrari" for F1 drivers)
- Undecided: Toggle for placeholder participants if needed
- Image: Upload competitor photos, team logos, or flags
⚙️ Important: To enable the image upload option, you must first click the "Add images" button in the Additional fields section. Without enabling this option, the image upload functionality will not be available for participants.
Setting Up the Outcome Interface
The Outcome tab displays all participants that you've entered for the standings game. After the competition concludes, you'll return to this tab to manually enter the final results.
⚠️ Important: As this feature does not integrate with sports APIs, it's your responsibility as the administrator to manually enter the correct final standings after the competition ends. The user predictions will be evaluated against these manually entered results.
Managing Results
After the competition concludes:
- Navigate to the Outcome tab
- Manually enter the actual final standings by arranging participants in their correct order
- Save the changes to finalize the results
- Click the "Resolve predictions" button (shown in the game management interface) to officially conclude the game and calculate user scores
- Scores will be calculated based on the accuracy of user predictions and final results and leaderboards will be available to display to users
Related Articles
- Standings Prediction Games Overview - Understanding the core concept and benefits
- Implementation Examples (Coming soon as more clients adopt this feature)