There is no secret formula for winning a tipping competition, but Power Tip gives you more decisions to make than normal tipping, and making them well matters. This guide covers practical ways to use your Power Ratings, your Power Tip and your Power Round, all based on how the scoring actually works. If you need a refresher on the rules first, read How Scoring Works.
Because each standard rating can only be used once per round, the order you put the games in matters as much as any single pick. Before you assign a single number, look at the whole round. Work out which game you are most confident about and which one feels closest to a coin toss. Your strongest calls deserve your highest ratings, and the game you are least sure about can take your 1.
Doing it this way stops you from spending a big rating early on a game that turns out to be one of the harder calls of the round.
A correct tip scores the rating you gave it and a wrong tip scores nothing. That means a high rating on a game you get wrong does not just miss out on a point. It misses out on all the points that rating was worth. The gap between your high and low ratings is where rounds are won and lost, so put your biggest numbers where you have the most confidence, not just on the teams you like.
Your Power Tip is the most valuable pick in your round: 10 points in the AFL, NRL, AFLW, NRLW and A-League, 15 points in the EPL and 20 points in the NFL. It is the single biggest swing in your round, so it belongs on the game you are surest about.
Where you sit on the ladder can shape that choice. If you are protecting a lead, a safer Power Tip keeps you steady. If you are chasing, remember that the members around you are playing their own Power Tips as well, and a well-placed Power Tip is one of the quickest ways to close a gap.
In the AFL, NRL, AFLW, NRLW and NFL there is no draw option, and if a game finishes level your tip counts as correct whichever team you picked. A level result can never cost you in those sports, so you can rate those games purely on who you think will win.
In the EPL and the A-League a draw is a result you can tip, and if a game is drawn only a draw tip is correct. When a game looks evenly matched, think about whether a draw is your strongest pick, and rate it the same way you would any other tip.
You get one Power Round per season in each sport, and it doubles every point you score in that round. It must be chosen in the app before the first game of the round starts, and it is locked in once the round begins.
Two approaches make sense. Pick a round where you feel confident across most of the games, so the doubling has the most to work with. Or pick a round where you need to make up ground on your league. Keep in mind that the Power Round only doubles correct tips. Wrong tips still score nothing, so doubling a poor round does very little. And because it is once per season, a Power Round you never use never doubles anything.
The Player Power Page and the app give you tools to plan with. The Round Predictor lets you see how the ladder would shift with different results, which is handy for planning your Power Tip before the first game. Power Rating Stats show how each of your ratings is performing across the season. Team Ratings show how your tips on each team have gone, which can reveal teams you read well and teams you keep getting wrong. Round Scores and Last Round Stats help you see what has been working.
Tips lock when the first game of the round starts. If you have not tipped by then, you receive automatic tips that back the team placed lower on the ladder in each game. They are scored like any other tips, but they are not your calls. The simplest strategy of all is to get your tips in every round, and the app can send reminders before the tipping deadline.
Ladders are ranked on points first and percentage second. Percentage counts how many of your tips were correct, not how many points they scored, so a correct tip rated 1 helps your percentage just as much as a correct Power Tip. If you finish level on points with a rival, those low-rated games can decide who is placed ahead.
For how Power Tip compares with the tipping you might be used to, read Power Tip vs Normal Tipping. For quick answers, see the FAQ.