# Suggest a scoring method for a friendly competition

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-scoring-method-for-a-friendly-competition/1031243>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 28, 2026, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-scoring-method-for-a-friendly-competition/1031243 "2026-06-28T09:06:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-scoring-method-for-a-friendly-competition/1031243/1 "2026-06-28T09:06:32Z")

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My mate and I are supporting England in the World Cup.  
Just for fun, we’ve decided to try to predict the results and scores between ourselves

Now I need a method to decide who wins - so your help is invited.

I thought of this:

- 10 points for forecasting the correct result (none for anything else)
- -1 point for each goal away from each team’s actual score (so if I put 2-0 for England v Croatia and the result is 4-2 I lose 2 points for each team’s score…i.e. -4)

Over to you…