Custom sports

Custom sports let you run tipping competitions for any sport, league, or event that isn’t in Fanzava’s built-in data feed, or for non-sport events entirely.

When to use custom sports

Use custom sports when you want to run tipping for:

• A local or amateur league not covered by the data feed
• A sport in a country/division not yet integrated (e.g. A-League, Super Rugby)
• Non-sport events like the Oscars, reality TV finales, or political elections
• An internal company competition with custom matchups

Setting up a custom sport

1. Go to Admin → Competition → New competition
2. Choose Custom sport as the sport type
3. Name your sport/league
4. Set the scoring unit (e.g. “goals”, “points”, “runs”) for margin prediction display

Creating fixtures manually

With a custom sport, you enter fixtures by hand:

1. Go to Admin → Competition → Rounds → Add round
2. Click Add fixture
3. Enter Team A, Team B, fixture name, date, and start time
4. Save

You can bulk-add fixtures by uploading a CSV with columns: round, team_a, team_b, date, time.

If every team in your league plays every other team, the free round robin generator draws the season for you, with byes rotated fairly, so you only have to copy the matchups into the CSV.

Entering results manually

Results don’t come in automatically for custom sports. After a fixture concludes:

1. Go to Admin → Competition → Rounds → [Round]
2. Click the fixture
3. Enter the result (winning team, score if using margin prediction)
4. Click Confirm result

Fanzava scores the round and updates the leaderboard as you confirm each result.

Manual fixture entry for live sports

If a supported sport has a schedule change or an unlisted fixture, you can also add individual manual fixtures to a live-data competition. See Manual fixture entry.

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Note

Custom sports support the standard scoring features: jokers, margin prediction and perfect round bonuses.