How to predict a match
On Tahmen you predict a scoreline for a match before it kicks off. Once it finishes, your points are calculated from the confirmed final score, you compete with every other user on the leaderboard, and you can compare your call with Buddy's.
How it works
- Pick an upcoming match.
- See Buddy's statistical prediction.
- Enter your own scoreline. You can change it until predictions close.
- Predictions lock 30 minutes before kick-off.
- Your points are calculated once the confirmed final score arrives.
- Check your place on the leaderboard and how you did against Buddy.
Scoring
- Correct result (home / draw / away): 3 points
- Exact scoreline: 5 additional points, 8 in total
- Correct goal margin with the wrong scoreline: 1 additional point
An exact score does not also collect the margin bonus — it already contains it. Correct draws do not either, because every draw has a goal difference of zero.
Example
The match finished 2-1. A 2-1 prediction scores 8, 3-2 scores 4, 2-0 scores 3, and 1-1 scores 0.
Rules
- Predictions close 30 minutes before kick-off. After that no prediction can be entered or changed. The deadline is enforced against the server clock, never the browser's.
- You have one prediction per match, and can revise it as often as you like until predictions close.
- No score is shown while a match is being played. A scoreline appears only after the match is complete and the result is verified.
- Postponed and cancelled matches are never scored.
- You can predict any match on Tahmen.
What is Buddy?
Buddy is Tahmen's prediction rival. It predicts the same matches, under the same kick-off lock, scored by the same rules as every user, and it sits in the standings as a row labelled "AI". Buddy will score higher than you on some matches and lower on others, and both are shown as they are.
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