Beat the Bookie

A Premier League picking contest

PREMIER LEAGUE 2026/2738 GAMEWEEKS · 380 MATCHES

The basics

Each match you receive 100 points to wager. You pick one outcome per match — home win, draw, or away win — and the entire 100 is staked on it. You pick every match in a gameweek before the deadline.

Scoring

If you're correct, your return is 100 × the decimal odds— and that already includes your stake back. Pick a winner at 2.55 and you get 255 points: your 100 back plus 155 profit. If you're wrong, you forfeit the 100.

Your netis total returns minus total staked. Back a favourite at short odds and you'll rarely lose your stake, but gains pile up slowly. Chase an underdog and the payout is bigger — if they come through.

Deadlines

Each gameweek locks at the kickoff of its first match. Once the deadline passes, picks are final and visible to everyone.

Miss the deadline and you're picked for you

Nobody sits a gameweek out. If the deadline passes and you haven't picked, every match you missed is assigned a random outcome— home, draw or away, straight coin toss — and staked as normal. Those random picks score exactly like real ones: they win if they come in, lose if they don't.

The catch is a 15-point fee for every match picked for you. A standard 10-match gameweek missed costs you 150 points on top of however the random picks land. Some gameweeks have more than 10 matches when fixtures get rescheduled, and the fee applies to every one of them.

Odds lock three days before each gameweek

When you pick early in the week, the odds shown are provisional and may move as the bookmakers update them. Three days before a gameweek's deadline, the odds lock. From that point everyone who has backed the same result is playing at the exact same price, however early or late they picked. Any picks you made before the lock are automatically updated to the locked odds.

No one gains or loses from the timing of their pick, only from how good their predictions are. You're free to change your picks after the odds lock right up until the deadline.

Chips

Two ways to raise the stakes. Both can only be played once you've picked every match in the gameweek, and both can be changed or cancelled right up until the deadline.

Double Down — available every gameweek. Nominate one match and your stake on it doubles to 200. Get it right and you earn double; get it wrong and you lose double. It follows the match, not the result, so you can still change your mind about who wins.

All In— once per season. Every match in that gameweek is staked at 200. Best saved for a gameweek with extra fixtures, when there's the most on the table. It replaces Double Down for that week rather than stacking with it.

The leaderboard

Everyone is ranked by net points across the whole season — 38 gameweeks, 380 matches. Fees from auto-picked gameweeks come off your net too, so the surest way to climb is simply to keep picking.