How Pikum Works

Wednesday, 23 Jul 2008 (23:44 UTC)


How Winners Are Determined

Pikum is more fun because in every game, there is always a winner. When you enter a Pikum, you are asked to predict what you think is going to happen across a number of events – we call these piks. When the host setup the Pikum, each of those pik was given a certain number of points (out of 10,000). If you're exactly right, you'll get all of those points. If you're not right, but close, then you'll get some of the points. At the end of the Pikum, the person (or people) with the most points win.

Here's how it happens

  1. The host creates a Pikum and chooses how many points can be won for accurately predicting each Pik. The total number of points in a Pikum is always 10,000. This is a way for the host to have one pik be more valuable than another.
  2. Each player makes a prediction for each Pik in the pikum. Each prediction is either a yes/no prediction like "Will the Red team win?", or "Will player Jon Smith score?", or a numeric guess prediction like "How many corner kicks will the Red team have" or "what minute will the first goal be in"
  3. The events take place and Pikum receives the results through our data provider, PA Sports. We use this data to score the Pikum.


How Different Types of Piks Are Scored
Pik Type Examples How is it Scored
Multiple Choice
or Yes/No
Which team will win the match?
Home Team
Away Team
Draw

Will Arsenal score a goal?
Yes
No
You receive all the available points if you are correct.

You receive no points if you are incorrect.
Free Choice In which minute will the first goal be scored?

How many goals will Chelsea score?

How many corners will there be?
Peerscore:
If you get the result exactly right you get all the points for that Pik

If you’re close but not right the closer you were to the actual result (when your predictions are compared to other players in that Pikum) the more points you’ll get for each Pik.

Find out more about Peerscore