Superbru Alternative: How It Works and Where Tipmaster Fits

Superbru is a free prediction game built around scorelines: you pick the exact result of each upcoming match, join a pool with friends or a public group, and score points for accuracy. Its clever bit is pool-relative scoring, which pays you more for a correct pick that most of your pool missed. If you want a continuous, year-round alternative that predicts result tendencies inside a manager storyline, Tipmaster is the natural place to look.

Both are genuine free prediction games and both are worth playing. This piece explains how Superbru works, what it does well, and where a different format earns its place.

How Superbru works

The core loop is exact-score prediction. Before each round you submit a scoreline for every fixture, a 2-1 here, a 0-0 there, and you are scored on whether you called the result and how close you were on the margin. Nail the exact score and you bank the maximum; get the winner right but miss the margin and you take a smaller return.

What sets Superbru apart is that scoring is partly relative to your pool. A correct pick that most entrants got wrong is worth more than one everybody saw coming. That rewards reading a game against the grain, and it stops the whole pool bunching up on the obvious results. It is a smart mechanic, and it is a big part of why Superbru pools stay competitive deep into a season.

What Superbru does well

The exact-score format is satisfying because it demands a real opinion. You cannot hedge; you have to commit to a number, and there is a genuine buzz to calling a 3-2 that nobody else saw. For a group that enjoys the precision of scoreline prediction, Superbru is hard to beat.

It is also cleanly built and free, with a solid app and web experience, and it spans rugby and cricket as well as football. If your mates already run a Superbru pool for the Six Nations, extending into a Premier League or Champions League pool is frictionless. For a single-competition scoreline game shared with people who already use it, it is an easy recommendation.

Where it leaves a gap

Two things push some players to look elsewhere. The first is that Superbru pools are organised around a competition and a season. When the tournament ends, that pool’s story ends with it, and the group reconvenes for the next one. That is fine by design, but it means the sense of a long-running rivalry resets rather than compounds.

The second is the exact-score demand itself. Committing to a precise scoreline every week is the appeal for some and the friction for others. Plenty of people would rather back a result, home, draw or away, and follow a running narrative than sweat whether it finishes 2-1 or 2-0. Neither preference is wrong; they are just different games.

The year-round manager-format alternative

Tipmaster answers both of those gaps in a different way, and it has been doing it since 1997. It is free, has no stake and no paid tier, and runs entirely in the browser with no app to install.

Instead of scoreline pools, you take charge of a club and run it through a league pyramid with promotion and relegation. Each round you predict the tendency of real fixtures, home, draw or away. Every correct call earns odds based on how probable that result was, so a well-judged underdog pick pays far more than a safe home banker, with an extra bonus on the genuine long shots. Those odds convert into goals for your club, which are played out as a real head-to-head against another manager. The result of that duel is what sends you up the pyramid or down it.

Because there is always a next fixture and a next division, the game does not stop when a competition does. The same group keeps its rivalry running month after month, which is the piece a per-tournament pool cannot offer. You can take a club and start a league in a couple of minutes.

Superbru vs Tipmaster at a glance

Which one should your group play?

If your people love calling exact scorelines and mostly play around specific tournaments, Superbru is an excellent, well-run choice and there is no reason to move. If you want a game that keeps the same rivalry alive all year and prefer predicting results inside a manager storyline, the Tipmaster format is built for exactly that.

There is no rule against running both, and plenty of groups do. For a wider view of the free options and how their scoring compares, our Premier League prediction game guide are good next reads. For a weekly look at form, fixtures and injuries, see our Premier League predictions for this weekend. Or just pick a club and get started.