Help & Rules
Hunchers is an advanced Prediction League application.
You register, start predicting what will happen in your favorite sports events and find out if you are a natural Huncher.
All the games in Hunchers are real games from the relevant leagues.
Each game has 3 basic challenges that relate to it, but can have more.
A challenge is the basic unit in Hunchers on which you can post your prediction.
Basically, a game can have and usually does have more than one challenge.
The following are the main challenge types:
Game Challenge
Half Time Challenge
Over Challenge
Challenges are usually locked for hunches 15 minutes before the game starts.
Each challenge has a 'Base Points' attribute which is set prior to the game.
In game challenge you should predict what will be the final score.
You simply fill your estimated score in the boxes for the teams.
The most important element of your prediction is who will win the game (or whether it will end up in draw where it is possible).
At the most basic level of points granting, if you hunched the winner/draw right - you will gain points, if not you will loose points.
The final result includes OT (Over Time) if this was required, but does not include penalty Shoot-Outs (for Soccer)
In a 2 leg competitions (home and away) each game should be predicted separately and NOT the aggregated score
In half time challenge you should predict what will be the half time score .
You simply fill your estimated score in the boxes for the teams.
The most important element of your prediction is who will lead at half time (or whether it will end up in draw).
At the most basic level of points granting, if you hunched the winner/draw right - you will gain points, if not you will loose points.
In over score challenge you should predict whether the total score (accumulative for both teams) will be over the mentioned threshold.
You will see what is the threshold for each game and you should answer with a simple Yes/No answer.
Yes - if you think the total score will be above the mentioned threshold.
No - if you think the total score will be less or equal to the mentioned threshold.
The final result includes OT (Over Time) if this was required, but does not include penalty Penalty Shoot-Outs (for Soccer)
Your pitch is the area in which you can express yourself.
This is where you can provide your professional analysis of why did you predicted in a certain manner and impress your fellow Hunchers.
Basically, you gain points on successful Hunches and loose points on wrong ones.
Each challenge has a number of points assigned to it (usually between 5 to 10).
This is called the 'base points' and is used to calculate your score on this challenge.
A successful hunch is one in which you have more than 50% of accuracy (e.g. in a game challenge, if you didn't pick the winner right it doesn't matter if you predicted an individual team's score right).
Your score will be calculated based on the base points parameter, your accuracy and the risk you chose to take.
The following formula is used in case of a successful Hunch:
Base Points X Accuracy X Risk
For example:
A set of 10 base points were assigned for a certain challenge.
You hunched right 60% of the challenge (for example you predicted the winner right, but got the score all wrong in a game challenge).
The risk you took was 1 to 4 (meaning that only 25% of the fellow Hunchers predicted the winner like you).
You will get 24 points for this challenge (10 X 0.6 X 4).
Each hunch you post has a risk element within in it.
In Hunchers the community is setting the risk.
For example:
In a certain prediction 800 Hunchers predicted that team A will win and only 200 predicted that team B will win.
It means that the risk that Hunchers that predicted that team A will win are taking a lower risk (1 to 1.25) then Hunchers that predicted that team B will win (1 to 5).
The maximum risk at Hunchers is 1 to 10.
The bigger risk you take the more points you can gain (the downside is that you might loose the points of course) - see the Scoring System section for a more detailed explanation.
When the result is known for a specific challenge, the hunch accuracy level can then be calculated.
At the most basic level, if you didn't hunched right the winner or chose a "Yes" answer (in over score challenge for example) when the answer was "No" you have 0 accuracy for that challenge.
Accuracy calculation can differ in the different challenge types but here are the main principals of the main challenge types:
Game Challenge - A correct choice of the winner / draw will win you a 60% accuracy of the hunch.
The correct spread between the teams can win you up to 20% of the hunch.
The correct score (individually for each team) can win you up to 10% for each (a total of another 20%).
Half Time Challenge - Same as Game Challenge.
Over Score challenge - A correct hunch will gain you 100% accuracy and a wrong one will gain you 0% accuracy.