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. And 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 Add apps button under the Admin Area of your whop, which is only visible to your whop staff, and clicking on the Add app button of the Guess The Score app.
Using the Guess The Score app
Once you add the app to your whop, you’ll be taken to its Set up section. Like most Whop apps, Guess The Score has three sections: Set up, Preview as user, and Access. These sections, like the Admin Area buttons, are only visible to staff members of your whop. Let’s examine each one, starting with the Set up section.
1. Set up
The first thing you’ll see when you’re in the Set up section of the app 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 the Start Competition button to see the games list.
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 your screen. 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 be able to see it in the Set up section with two additional buttons: The Cancel Competition button, which will remove the game from the app, and the See All Guesses button, which will display all the guesses people have made.
2. Preview as user
In the Preview as user section of the Guess The Score app, you’ll be able to see 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.
After you submit a prediction, you’ll see it below the prize box with the See All Guesses button next to it. You can click on the See All Guesses button to see others’ predictions.
3. Access
Just like most apps on Whop, the Guess The Score app has two access types: Free and Paid/Private. Selecting the Free option in this section will allow everyone on the internet to access the app. Since the Guess The Score app only supports a single winner, this isn’t a big disadvantage - but it’s still for communities that want to be partially or fully public.
The other option, Paid/Private, requires users to obtain a product to access the app. When you select the Paid/Private option, you’ll see a list of the products on your whop with toggle buttons next to them. Turning on the toggles will link the app and the product so that users will have to obtain it to access the app.
If you don’t have any products, however, you’re going to have to create one. Since products can be created in under 3 minutes and can be free, paid, private, waitlisted, and more, you’re going to have greater control over who accesses the app and how.
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.
