The group chat
Nobody wants to be the group’s accountant
There is always one friend who volunteers to run the league. After two matchdays, that friend is the accountant, the referee and the complaints department. They collect predictions by message, copy everything into a spreadsheet at two in the morning and still have to hear someone swear the prediction “was sent before the whistle, it just didn’t show up”.
There is also the one who waits for everyone else’s predictions to copy the best one, the one who vanishes from the group chat when they are bottom of the table, and the one who insists the spreadsheet “is rigged” when, poor thing, it simply has too many formulas.
With WisePaul, the organising friend goes back to being just a friend. Invite the group with a code, set the scoring rules and let the platform do the rest: each prediction locks on its own at kick-off, other people’s predictions only become visible once the match locks (nobody copies anybody) and the points appear with nobody adding anything up. The table shows everyone’s form, streaks and progress, more than enough material for banter all week long.
Whoever loses may hear about it at every dinner until the next tournament, but that is up to the group. WisePaul only takes care of predictions and points, with no betting and no money.
