Key concepts
These are the terms the rest of the documentation uses. Each one maps to something you will see in your hub or its admin dashboard.
A hub is an organisation’s own space on Fanzava. It has its own address (a subdomain such as acme.fanzava.com, or your own domain on the Pro plan and above), its own name, logo, colours and settings, and its own participants. Everything a participant sees happens inside a hub, and nothing in one hub is visible from another.
A hub’s admin dashboard is at /admin on the hub’s address.
Hub admin and moderator
Section titled “Hub admin and moderator”The people who run a hub. Hub admins create competitions, manage participants, set branding and scoring, and see analytics. Moderators help look after the hub’s community, such as the Banter Board, without running its competitions. Both are added under Admin → Settings → Team members. See Hub admin permissions.
Participant
Section titled “Participant”Anyone who has joined a hub to take part. Participants join by accepting an invitation or through a join link, and they create their account on the hub’s own address, so they see the hub’s branding and not Fanzava’s. A pending invitation is not yet a participant.
The docs use “participant” throughout. Inside a hub, participants are often called tippers or members.
Competition
Section titled “Competition”A contest tied to a sport, a league and a season. Participants join it, make their picks, and collect points. A competition is one of four types:
| Type | What participants do |
|---|---|
| Tipping | Pick the winner of each fixture every round |
| Margin | Pick the winner of each fixture and predict the winning margin |
| Bracket | Predict a knockout bracket from the first round to the final |
| Fantasy | Not open yet. Participants will draft a squad of individual players and score on their performances |
Tipping and Margin run on every plan. Bracket starts on the Starter plan. Fantasy is not open to participants yet, and Fantasy overview has the limits that will apply when it is.
A hub can run several competitions at once, such as an AFL tipping competition and an NRL one side by side. How many can be live at the same time depends on your plan. A competition saved as a draft does not count toward that limit until it is published.
A competition is either Public (anyone in the hub can find and join it) or Private (invite only, and hidden from the hub’s competition list).
Season and round range
Section titled “Season and round range”The season is the sports season the competition follows, such as the AFL 2026 season. By default a competition covers the whole season. It can instead start at a later round or finish early, which is useful for a competition that starts mid-season or covers the finals only.
A set of fixtures played together, such as an AFL round played across a weekend. Rounds are scored as their results come in, and round-level rewards such as the perfect round bonus are paid once every fixture in the round has a result.
Fixture
Section titled “Fixture”A single match within a round. Each fixture has its own lock time, at its scheduled start by default, after which it can no longer be tipped. Fixtures, start times and results come from the sports data feed for supported leagues. See Lock policies and late tips.
A participant’s pick for one fixture: one of the two teams, or the draw where the competition allows draw picks. A participant tips each fixture separately and can change a tip until that fixture locks. A tip can also carry a joker, a confidence rating or a margin prediction, depending on what the competition has switched on.
A fixture a participant does not tip before it locks is handled by the competition’s late-tip policy, which can fill it with an automatic pick.
Scoring rules
Section titled “Scoring rules”Each competition’s scoring rules decide what a correct tip is worth and which extra mechanics apply. The rules are versioned: once a round has been scored, a change is published as a new version, which applies either from then on or to the whole season through a rescore. See Scoring.
A named set of participants, such as a department in a company competition or a region in a franchise network. There are two kinds:
- Hub groups belong to the hub and are managed under Admin → Settings → Group settings. A hub group has its own page and leaderboard, the hub can scope things such as the Banter Board and access to a competition to it, and a competition’s Group Rankings tab ranks hub groups against each other.
- Competition groups are created with a competition. Every competition has an All Participants group that everyone in it joins, and the create-competition wizard can add more.
See Creating groups.
Leaderboard
Section titled “Leaderboard”A ranked list of participants by points. A competition has an overall leaderboard for everyone in it, and each group has its own. When the hub has groups, the competition also shows a Group Rankings tab that ranks the groups against each other.
Ties on points are broken by the competition’s tiebreaker rules. See Tiebreakers.
Sport terminology
Section titled “Sport terminology”The words a hub uses for its competitions can be changed to suit the sport or the audience under Admin → Settings → Sport terminology. The terms that can be renamed are tipping, tip, tips, tipper, tippers, fixture, fixtures, leaderboard, round, hub, joker, lockout, margin, banter and competition. The competition page and its tabs use the hub’s words, so a football hub can say “Gameweek” where an AFL hub says “Round”.
Rename a whole family together: the editor warns when, for example, “tip” has a new name but “tips”, “tipping”, “tipper” and “tippers” do not, because a half-renamed page reads like a mistake.
Fanzava has six plans: Free, Starter, Growth, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise. Plans differ in participant limits, the number of live competitions and groups, and feature access. See Billing and plans for the full ladder, or the Fanzava pricing page, which is the authority on plan names, prices and caps.