Rules

1. Core idea

Snap & Mate is a weekly football pick and ranking game. Each game week you build a board from predictions and player/unit selections. After scoring, your points appear in rankings, profiles and friend comparisons.

2. Game week

Each week contains ten predictions, five player/unit fields and a deadline. Until the deadline you can edit your board.

3. Your board

A complete board contains five prediction fields and five player/unit fields. Each prediction and each selection may be used only once on the board.

4. Prediction fields

The five prediction fields use different scoring logic:

• +-3: true gives +3 points, false gives -3 points.
• -1: true gives -1 point, false gives 0 points.
• +1: true gives +1 point, false gives 0 points.
• +1: true gives +1 point, false gives 0 points.
• -+3: true gives -3 points, false gives +3 points.

5. Player and unit fields

Each chess-piece field can have its own restrictions, for example position, team, conference, age, draft round or a special weekly rule. The exact rule is shown directly on the board.

6. Locks and deadlines

Before the deadline you can edit your board. After the deadline the board is closed and selections are locked for your profile. Locked players/units may not be reused in later weeks where the rules apply. Bye-week players/units are not selectable for that week.

7. Scoring and rankings

After the football week, the admin enters results and finalizes the game week. Prediction and player/unit points are added. Rankings and profiles show public game information such as username, favourite team, boards, points and locked selections. Email addresses and passwords are never shown publicly.

8. Fair play

Do not use duplicate accounts, automated abuse or manipulated inputs. Snap & Mate may correct, block or remove obviously wrong, abusive or technically manipulated entries to keep the game fair.

9. Rule changes

Rules and technical processes may evolve. Changes generally apply to future weeks. If an active week is affected, this will be communicated as transparently as possible.