1. Competitions. There are two separate competitions, VFL and VFLW. You can enter one or both.
  2. Who can enter. Any vflfooty.com member with an approved account, with one entry per person in each competition.
  3. Entry fee. $20 per competition for 2027, paid by PayID or bank transfer to the site admin, with your vflfooty username as the reference. You’re entered once the admin marks your payment as received.
  4. Entries close when Round 3’s tips lock. If you join after Round 1, you score from the first round you join, and earlier rounds count as 0.
  5. Tipping. Pick the winner of every game. Each game locks at its scheduled start time, and you can change your tip until then. Other members can’t see your tips until the game locks.
  6. Scoring. 1 point for each correct tip. If a game is drawn, everyone who tipped it gets the point. A missed tip scores 0. Finals are tipped and scored like any other round.
  7. Margin tiebreaker. In the first game of each round, you also tip the winning margin. Members on equal points are ranked by their total margin error for the season, lowest first. If you miss a margin tip, you’re given the round’s biggest error.
  8. Postponed and cancelled games. If a game is replayed later, your tip stands and you can change it until the new start time. If it’s cancelled, nobody scores for it.
  9. Results are entered by the admin, usually on the day or by the next morning. If an official result is corrected, the scores are updated.
  10. Prizes. All entry fees are paid out as prizes, with nothing kept for costs. Each competition’s pool is split 1st 60%, 2nd 25% and 3rd 15%. If members are still level after the tiebreaker, the prize money for the places they share is split evenly between them. Prizes are paid after the Grand Final.
  11. Free competitions. If a competition is ever run without an entry fee, any prize will be announced before entries open.
  12. Disputes. The admin’s decision is final. An entry can be removed for cheating, such as tipping from more than one account.
  13. The ladder is public and shows usernames only.