Looking for a Kicktipp alternative in English
Dardan Hasku3 min read
Kicktipp has run football prediction groups for two decades, mostly in German, and it is genuinely good at the thing it does: set up a group, everyone tips the fixtures, a table sorts you out. If you are looking for an alternative, it is usually for one of a few specific reasons.
Why people go looking
- Language. The interface and the help are German first, which is fine until half your group is not.
- Setup work. Somebody has to configure the competition, the scoring and the rules before anyone can play, and that somebody is you.
- One competition per group. Fine for a Bundesliga season, less so if your friends care about three leagues.
- Flat scoring. Standard setups pay the same for any match, so the difficult fixtures are worth no more than the obvious ones.
What a replacement needs to keep
Whatever you move to has to keep the parts Kicktipp got right, or the group will not follow you:
| Keep | Why |
|---|---|
| Scores, not just winners | It is the reason the table separates people |
| A private group table | The public leaderboard is not what your friends care about |
| Automatic results | The moment somebody scores it by hand, it dies |
| Free entry | Nobody joins a paid game on a group chat link |
How BankerBall is different
No setup. There is one coupon a week for everybody, hand-picked across the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and the Champions League league phase. You do not configure a competition, choose fixtures or set a scoring system. You make a mini-league, send the code, and everyone plays.
Hard matches pay more. Every match carries a K stamp from 1.00 to 2.50 based on league position, form and home advantage, and points are multiplied by it. Flat scoring rewards caution; this rewards reading a difficult game correctly.
Being right alone pays extra. A correct score nobody else called earns a rarity bonus on top, so agreeing with the whole group is worth less than backing your own read.
Something to risk. Ten bankers a calendar month, spent whenever you like. A banker doubles that match if you call it and wipes it if you miss. Kicktipp has nothing quite like it, and it is the mechanic most groups say they were missing.
Where Kicktipp still wins
Two things, honestly. If your group wants one specific competition covered in full, every Bundesliga fixture every week, Kicktipp does that and our hand-picked coupon does not. And if you want to write your own scoring rules, they let you and we do not.
Our answer to the second one is that fixed rules are a feature: nobody argues about the scoring in October because nobody chose it. But if configuring your own is the point for you, that is a fair reason to stay.
Try a matchday before moving the group. Fill in this week's coupon, then create a league and send the code round.
Call this week's matches