Key concepts
Understanding these terms will help you navigate the rest of the documentation.
A hub is a branded instance of Fanzava owned by an organisation. It has its own subdomain (e.g. acme.fanzava.com), its own logo, colours, and settings. Participants access competitions through the hub. Hub admins manage everything inside it.
One Fanzava account can manage one hub per plan subscription.
Hub admin
Section titled “Hub admin”The person or team responsible for running the hub. Hub admins access the admin dashboard at yourhub.fanzava.com/admin. They create competitions, manage participants, configure branding, and view analytics.
Competition
Section titled “Competition”A competition is a tipping or bracket contest tied to a sport, league, and season. Participants join a competition, submit tips each round, and accumulate points over the season.
A hub can run multiple competitions simultaneously — for example, an AFL tipping comp and an NRL comp running in parallel.
A round is a set of fixtures within a competition. In AFL, a round is typically eight games played across a weekend. Tips are submitted before each round’s lock time and scored after results are confirmed.
Fixture
Section titled “Fixture”An individual match or game within a round. Each fixture has a lock time — the deadline after which tips can no longer be submitted for that match.
Tipset
Section titled “Tipset”A participant’s complete set of picks for a given round. A tipset is submitted all at once, though participants can edit individual picks up until each fixture’s lock time.
A persistent segment of participants within a hub. Groups let you create sub-leaderboards and internal rivalries — for example, separating departments in a corporate comp, or regional teams in a franchise network.
Groups exist independently of competitions. You create a group once, and it applies across every competition in your hub.
Leaderboard
Section titled “Leaderboard”A ranked view of participants sorted by points. Leaderboards can be:
- Hub-wide — all participants in the competition
- Group leaderboard — only members of a specific group
Leaderboards update automatically after each round’s results are scored.
Round result and lock time
Section titled “Round result and lock time”Lock time is when tips close for a fixture. Fanzava locks individual fixtures as they start — so in a round with games on Friday and Saturday, Friday game tips lock Friday evening, Saturday game tips lock Saturday morning.
Results are confirmed automatically from the sports data feed. Once a result is in, Fanzava scores the round and updates the leaderboard.
Plan and tier
Section titled “Plan and tier”Fanzava has four plans: Free, Starter, Pro, and Enterprise. Plans differ in participant limits, competition limits, group limits, and feature access. See Billing and plans for details.