How Sweeper works
Sweeper is our office football prediction game: everyone chips in a small entry fee, predicts the results, and the sharpest minds split the pot. Here's the whole journey.
Create an account
Register with your email and confirm it via the link we send you (check the spam folder — workplace mail can be slow). Unverified accounts can't join tournaments.
On a work email? The confirmation can land in your spam digest (e.g. Mimecast's "Messages on hold") — click Permit there and future Sweeper emails arrive normally. No email at all? Ask an admin to verify you manually.Join a tournament & pay the entry fee
Open a tournament and hit Join. Pay the entry fee with Swish — most tournaments show a button and QR code with the amount and message pre-filled. The admin confirms your payment manually, and then you're in. The whole pot is paid back out as prizes; nobody takes a cut.
Predict the scores
Enter your score for each match — you can change it until the betting deadline (shown on every match, typically 30 minutes before kickoff). Your picks are private until the deadline; after that everyone's picks go public, with stats and reactions. Tip: turn on auto-pick on My page to get a standard score entered if you ever forget, and enable notifications (the bell) for deadline reminders and full-time results.
One limit worth knowing: if your standard score is level, auto-pick can't say who goes through in a knockout match, so that point is lost. Pick those by hand, or make your standard score a win.Score points
Results import automatically — live too. The standard scoring (tournaments can tweak it): 3 p for the exact score · 1 p for the correct outcome (win/draw/loss) · +1 p for picking the team that advances in a knockout. Level on points? Most exact scores wins, and after that the tiebreak: when you join you guess how many goals will be scored across every match you can predict on, and whoever lands closest finishes ahead. The guess is locked once the first of those deadlines passes.
Win the pot
Follow the scoreboard and the rank race as the tournament unfolds. When the last match is played the tournament finishes automatically: the podium appears, prize winners get an email, and the admin pays out the prizes (a typical split is 70/20/10 % of the pot to the top three). Anyone still dead level after the tiebreak shares the money of the places they occupy, so a tie never costs you.
While the tournament runs
There is more to it than the table. Every match has a comment thread, and once the deadline passes you can see everyone's picks, react to them, and check how the 1 / X / 2 split went. While matches are being played the scoreboard shows a dashed +n live pill: the points you would gain if the current scores held. The rank race traces everyone's position matchday by matchday, and the recap writes up each day in a line or two. Turn on the bell to get a nudge before a deadline you have not picked for, and a full-time notification with the points you just earned.
Fair play & money
Sweeper is run by colleagues, not by a company. Whoever creates a tournament is the one organising it: they collect the entry fees over Swish, confirm each one by hand, and pay the prizes out the same way. Nothing is deducted along the way — the pot is exactly what everyone put in.
If a tournament is called off before it starts, the organiser hands the entry fees back. If a payment hasn't been confirmed, or a result, a position or a prize looks wrong, say so — an admin can correct a result, recalculate the points and undo a payment. None of that happens on its own, so there is always a person to ask: the admin of that tournament.
Badges
Earned automatically and shown on your player profile. Nothing is stored, so they follow the results — if a score is corrected, the badges correct themselves too.
Ready? Create your account — or sign in if you already have one.