Rivals FanFutureCast - Frequently Asked Questions

RivalsFanCast gives you, the Rivals subscriber, the ability to predict where the top high school basketball and football prospects are going to commit to play college ball.

It also gives you the chance to compete against your fellow fans at how good you are at predicting these commitments!

Got questions on how RivalsFanCast works? See below.

Your total score for a class year is the sum of all scores from forecasts made against prospects in that class year that have committed.

Each forecast score is calculated based on the following criteria:

* Forecast scoring is based on the date the prospect commits vs when you made your most recent forecast; earlier correct forecasts earn more points

* The 14 day period just before a prospect's commitment date is the 'Red Zone'. Forecasts made in this range have less points than those made before it

* The base correct forecast score per prospect is 100 points

* Every time you change a forecast for a prospect, the potential score is substantially penalized; even more so if change is done inside the 14 day Red Zone

* Every day earlier you make a forecast outside of the Red Zone, the potential score goes up.

* Each day closer to the commitment date inside the Red Zone , the potential score goes down.

* Failed forecasts are a flat -10 points (no adjustments from the above are applied)

NOTE: Specific bonus values and scores are subject to change, but all players are scored with the same formula.

Normally it is roughly once every 20 minutes, however under some conditions it can take longer - you can look at the "as of ____ (time) ago" message at the top of the leaderboard page to get a sense of how recently it's been refreshed.

It can take some time for a commit to get fully processed and appear in your score on the leaderboards, especially when there are heavy commit loads.