Score predictions are one of the most fun activities every sports community has. It’s like sharing feedback for arts and crafts communities - a must. That’s why Whop is super excited to introduce Guess The Score - an app where your users can compete with each other to be the first one to guess a future game’s score correctly and win prizes you determine.
In this guide, we’re going to remember what a whop is, what the Guess The Score app does, and how you can add it to your whop and use it.
What is a Whop app?
Apps on Whop can be simply explained as the building blocks of your whop. When you first create your whop, it will be a blank canvas with no functionality—until you start adding apps to it. Whop offers a variety of apps to cater to your needs.
What is the Guess The Score app on Whop?
The Guess The Score app allows you to add score prediction competitions on NFL, MLB, and NBA games. The app provides live updates, leaderboards, and result history to track and rank user predictions in real time.
Admins of your whop select games from the three leagues we’ve mentioned, set up a prize for the winner, and publish the competition. Then, the members of whop can make predictions on games, and submit them. Of course, there are some rules of the app:
- Users can only make one guess per game, and they can view others’ guesses only after submitting a guess
- Users can’t guess after a game starts
- Correct winning side guesses are prioritized
- When multiple users guess the winner, the closest score to the actual is prioritized
- When multiple users guess the game score, the earliest guess is prioritized
Why you should use the Guess The Score app to engage your community
So, what’s there to gain from setting up the Guess the Score app? Since everyone loves to predict how a game will go, it can be an excellent way to increase engagement in your community and bring members together for a fun activity.
Tracking members’ progress will make them keep coming back to your whop to compete against others, too. And they can even utilize the results of these competitions to create better plays for themselves.
Now, let’s look at some practical examples of the Guess The Score app:
- Weekly NFL Prediction Pool
The NFL regular season is an excellent period to run weekly competitions with members guessing scores on the entire game pool. You can keep track of their prediction records and create leaderboards, which will make each member return every week and create friendly rivalries. As the season progresses, members will improve their predictions by spotting certain trends, which will make them feel more engaged in the competitions. - Daily NBA Predictions Card
Since the NBA runs multiple games a day, you can run daily competitions and basically ensure members will come to your whop for daily predictions. You can even include large prizes for the member who gets closer to the final score every day or even a jackpot prize for anyone who manages to guess the exact score of a game. - MLB World Series Predictions
Important events like the MLB World Series are a prime opportunity to host community-wide tournaments with huge prizes. Since it’s a BO7 series, you can encourage members to drop into your whop every day and guess the game’s score, earning tournament points in the process. Once the series ends, the member with the most points gets a big prize and bragging rights to their friends and other members.
How to add the Guess The Score app to your whop
Adding the Guess The Score app to your whop takes only two clicks - but before we see how you can do it, let’s make sure you have a whop to begin with. If you don’t, take a look at our quick guide on how you can create a whop in under 5 minutes.
If you have a whop ready to go, you can add the app to it by clicking on the Manage apps button in the Your apps section at the top left of your screen. This is going to display the Edit apps popup on the right side of your screen.
There, you're going to see the New app button - clicking on it will display a list of all the apps you can add to your whop. Find the Guess The Score app on the list (you can search for it for quick access), click on it, and select the visibility of the app on the App visibility popup.
Adding the Guess The Score app to your whop is that easy.
Using the Guess The Score app
Once you add the app to your whop, you’ll be taken to its user preview. To be able to configure the app (add competitions), you need to click the Configure Guess The Score button at the top of the app.
Once you're in the app configuration view, the first thing you’ll see is the Start Competition button. In the center of the app, you’d normally have a list of all the games you’ve set up a competition for, but since you just added the app to your whop, you see the button instead.
Let’s click on either of the Start Competition buttons to see the game lists. In the game list, which is the Start a Competition popup, you can switch between leagues (NFL, MLB, and NBA) using the dropdown menu at the top left of the popup.
Once you select the league you’re interested in, you’ll see a list of upcoming games with the exact time, the away team, the home team, and a Start Competition button for each game. Let’s click it to proceed to the next step.
After clicking the Start Competition button of a game, you’re going to see an input field called “Prize name” - that’s where you should write down what the winner will get. It’s a free text field so that you can write anything you want. Once you’re done deciding on your prize, click the Start Competition button to finish the process.
After creating a competition, you'll see it listed on your screen with two buttons: The Cancel Competition button, which will remove the game from the app, and the See Guesses button, which will display all the guesses your members have made.
Making guesses in the app
To see how your members can make guesses, let's go back to the user preview view of the app by clicking on the Guess The Score button at the top left of the app.
Now, you're seeing the app from the perspective of a regular user. Each competition you create in the Set up section of the app will be listed here as well, with a Guess Now button that allows users (and you) to submit predictions.
Clicking on it will display a popup, prompting you to guess the score for that game. After you submit a prediction, you’ll see it below the prize box with the See Guesses button next to it. You can click on the See All Guesses button to see predictions other members made.
Create the best sports community on Whop
Whop has been helping hundreds of sports communities grow and create new business opportunities for them - it can help you, too. If you have an idea about a sports community or if you have a community, using Whop will give you the leverage most communities lack.
Sign up for Whop, connect your community to it, or create a new one and start selling access to it - it will take less than 10 minutes to do so.
