By the
numbers
What our games have done so far. We count the people who showed up and what they got up to together, because that is the part worth counting.
We opened it to six friends in May. Then we spent five days telling anyone who would listen, and 126 more people signed up before a ball was kicked. Here is what those few weeks actually looked like.
Word of mouth moved faster than we did
141 players
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Between 7 and 11 June the curve went vertical: 126 people in five days.
The deadline did the work
5,706 calls
Group calls only. They lock at kick-off, so the chart stops there.
5,706 is only the group stage. Add the knockout picks and the tournament took just over 9,000 calls in all.
The group chat was the product
26 leagues
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Six in ten played in a league with friends or family. A game that built mini communities.
Jungle Draft is still early. The first cohort is drafting now, and their numbers will show up here once they have played a season.
Football's biggest summer, called match by match. One tournament, 104 matches, and a group chat's worth of banter.
- 19 May 2026
First sign-up
Footie Predict opens quietly to friends.
- Early June
People showed up
Five days of outreach: 138 players and 5,706 predictions, well before kick-off.
- 11 June
Kick-off
Group predictions lock at the first whistle. 100 players are in before it.
- June
Arena and Insights ship
A daily football game with five modes, then Insights: your predictor archetype, and why you rank where you rank.
- 26 June
515 bits of banter
In fifteen days friends overtook friends 515 times and the number one spot changed hands 24 times. We posted it, because that is the number that tells you people were playing with each other.
- 19 July
The final
104 matches called. 129 players on the public ranking. Bragging rights settled.
Six in ten brought someone with them.
83 of 141 sign-ups joined a league with people they already knew. We built this one for the group chat, and that is exactly where people took it.
Overtakes are the number we watch.
Footie Predict is built to be closed. You make your calls, you get on with your day, and then you argue about it in the group chat. 605 friend overtakes and 26 lead changes are how we know that is happening.
Exact is rare, and that is the fun.
9% of scorelines were exact; 58% got the result. The gap between the two is where jokers, insights and the table's daily drama live.
Early access. The world is built; the numbers below are sample figures until the first cohort plays, and will be replaced with real ones.
- 2026
The world is built
271 animals, ten biomes, three realms, a live match engine, leagues, cups and a transfer market.
- August 2026
Early access
The first friends-and-family cohort drafts its clubs. Real numbers replace the samples here.
Watch this space.
The first insight arrives with the first season: which realm wins more, which biome flips a match, how long a five-minute match really takes.
Counted from our own databases on 20 August 2026: aggregates only, no personal data. Footie Predict's tournament is complete, so its figures are final. Jungle Draft is in early access; its sample figures are marked and will be replaced by real ones as soon as there are any.