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Every match has a price

The K stamp K 2.20

Not all matches are equally hard to call. Before a round opens, every match is stamped with a multiplier between 1.00 and 2.50, and your base points on that match are multiplied by it. Hard calls pay more.

Why the letter K

K is the classic symbol for a constant coefficient: mathematics writes multipliers as k, physics fills its formulas with them, and odds markets have used the same shorthand for decades. Our K is exactly that, a coefficient stamped on the fixture. The stamp look comes from matchday programmes inked at the turnstile.

How K is computed

The formula is deterministic and uses only our own tables, no betting odds. Three ingredients:

Evenness, up to +1.10

How close the two teams sit in the league table. Neighbours are hard to call and score high; first against last scores zero.

Away favourite, +0.15

If the better-placed team plays away, home advantage muddies the call, so the match pays a little more.

Form against the table, up to +0.25

When the lower-placed team is the one in better recent form (points from the last five matches), the table lies and uncertainty rises.

K = 1.00 + evenness + away favourite + form term, clamped to 1.00 through 2.50, rounded to two decimals.

A worked case: 3rd hosts 5th (evenness 0.98), the 5th-placed side is the in-form one with a six-point form edge (0.10), favourite at home so no away bump. K = 1.00 + 0.98 + 0.10 = 2.08. A big stamp; the filled ink marks every match at 2.00 or higher.

The fine print

K is set when the round opens and never changes afterwards, so everyone predicts against the same price. Until three rounds of the season are settled there isn't enough table to trust, so every match starts at K 1.50. An admin can adjust a stamp before a round opens, never after. The exact definition lives in the open scoring spec, and the highest stamp of the round usually becomes the Match of the round.