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Sabacc is a football prediction game. You are in a league with other players. Before each match kicks off, you predict it. Right calls earn points. Points decide the table. That is the whole game.

A match can take more than one pick: the winner, the exact score, and whatever extras your league runs. Each pick pays on its own. Get them all right and they all pay.

A pick only pays if you made it. A right exact score does not pay the winner points by itself — make the winner pick too.

You can enter or change a pick until the match kicks off. Then it locks. Each match locks on its own: an early kickoff locks while a later one is still open. Kickoff times are always shown in your own time zone.

Skip a match and nothing is filled in for you. Once the match is played, the skip counts as a miss, worth zero. A wrong pick also scores zero — but it is a wrong call, not a miss. Sabacc counts the two apart.

A week runs Monday to Sunday in the league’s own time zone — the one its owner set, the same for everyone. Kickoff times, though, always show in yours. Two clocks, two jobs.

Each league gives you one joker per week. Put it on a match, and every pick you made on that match pays double. It is used up whether it pays or not. You cannot put it on a match that has already started.

You can move the joker to another match. Pick the other match on the predict page and save — that is the whole move. It works until either match kicks off.

A joker you never place is gone when its week ends. Next week brings a fresh one. You cannot save them up.

A miss is a played match you never predicted. A wrong pick is not a miss. And matches played before you joined the league never count against you.

Level on points in the league table? Most exact scores wins. Then most right results. Then fewest misses. Still level after all that, and you share the place — shown as “=3”.

Weekly tables and duels use a shorter list: points, then exact scores, then right results. There is no misses step. Still level there stays level.

A streak counts rounds called right in a row. A round is every match that kicks off at the same moment — sometimes one match, sometimes a whole Saturday. Call every match you could in the round, and call them right, and the streak grows by one.

One skipped or wrong match ends the streak, right away. A round still being played neither grows nor ends it until it finishes. A right exact score counts as a right result here.

A week is perfect when you called the result of every match you could — and every match in the week, across the whole league, has a result. Exact scores are not required. A week with none of your matches in it cannot be perfect. And if one match never gets a result, that week can never be perfect for anyone.

A perfect week gets a PERFECT tag on the weekly table. It is an award, not a report card: an ordinary week shows nothing at all. If a postponement moves a match into or out of a week, the week is judged again — so a tag can appear, or go.

Each week the league draws you against one other member. Whoever scores more that week wins. There is no prize — bragging rights only, ever.

A formula makes the draw. Nobody picks the pairs, and a drawn week is never redrawn.

Odd number of members? Someone sits the week out. That is a bye. You are back in the next draw.

Only that week’s matches count. Season picks never move a duel. A postponed match counts in the week it is actually played. Level duels break like the weekly table, and dead level is a draw.

Old duel results are read from what has been scored. A match that finished but is not scored yet can still flip a verdict on the next scoring run. And a week where nothing was scored shows no result at all — Sabacc never invents a 0–0.

Season picks — like naming the champion — close on a date the league owner sets. You see the date before you pick. After it passes, your picks stay visible, but locked. No date set means closed.

In a cup, the winner is whoever wins the final — not whoever topped the table. Sabacc scores the champion pick on the real winner.

Your league’s rules decide how many relegation picks you get. The form shows exactly that many slots. One club cannot fill two of them.

A postponed match keeps your pick, and the pick reopens until the new kickoff. The match counts in the week it is actually played. A joker on it stays spent in the week you placed it, though. And if a match is abandoned and a result is awarded later, an admin enters that result by hand.

Matches score on the 90-minute result. Extra time and penalties are ignored — a cup tie that ends level is a draw, however the shoot-out goes. That is why Draw stays a normal pick in a knockout. The one exception is the champion pick: that follows the trophy.

Hit rates show as 12/17, never as a bare percentage — 3 of 4 and 750 of 1000 are not the same claim. An over/under that lands exactly on the line counts as neither hit nor miss.

The chart on the tables page shows your place after every scoring run. On a long league the drawn line skips some points to stay readable — the numbers underneath never do.

The shaded stretch of the chart was rebuilt later, from old records — it is from before the chart existed. It is honest, but not perfect: a few miss counts inside it can be slightly off.

Leave a league and come back, and your history stays one unbroken line. No gap is shown. In the rebuilt part of history, weeks you were away can count misses against you.