Now is your chance to work with or against the Opta supercomputer in our Euro 2024 predictor game, the Opta Super Bracket.
Last week we revealed the Opta supercomputer’s favourites for Euro 2024, plus our European Championship group-by-group predictions for this summer. Now, we’ve launched a new game so you can win prizes for predicting which teams will make it to the knockout stage and beyond.
If you can successfully predict the perfect Euro 2024, then you have the chance to win a grand prize of $500,000 in the Opta Super Bracket. Even if you can’t, we must have a winner. Accumulate points by making correct decisions and you have the chance to win other huge prizes. If you accumulate more points than anyone else, you could walk away with $10,000.
Of course, being a football predictor, this is a game of two halves. Firstly, you must make your decisions in the Opta predictor for the Euro 2024 group stage. Pick the six teams you think will win each group, the six teams that you believe will end as runners-up in each group and then the four best third-placed teams to make it through to the knockout stage. This will leave eight teams that you have decided will not make it through to the last 16, and therefore eliminated from Euro 2024 at the group stage.
Once the group stage has ended, this opens the second half of the game where you have to come back and predict the knockout stage of Euro 2024. You will make your bracket picks from the last 16 through to the final, based on which team you believe will win each of the 15 knockout stage games in Germany this summer.
Simple, right? Well, we’ve added an extra layer of complexity to both halves of the game by assigning points values to each side based on their chance of progression according to the Opta supercomputer.
For example, the supercomputer has given England a 95% chance of progressing to the last 16, so you would earn just 5 points for selecting them to advance to the knockouts. Compare that to Group C rivals Slovenia, who were given a 42% chance of making it out of the group, you would earn 58 points if you were to select them to get through to the last 16. Additionally, if you took a gamble on Albania to advance from Group B, you could win 67 points rather than 32 for Croatia, 20 for Italy or 11 for Spain.
Selecting all the favourites to go through could be the best choice, but you may earn fewer points than other players who have taken a gamble on some of the more unfancied teams on making it through to the knockout stage.
Sign up online now and get playing to potentially win the maximum prize of $500,000. 18+ T&C’s apply.
To help you make your decisions in the game, you can find our Euro 2024 predictions via the links below:
Euro 2024 Tournament Predictions
Who Will Win Euro 2024? The Opta Predictions
Euro 2024 Group Predictions
Group A: Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland – CLICK TO READ
Group B: Spain, Croatia, Italy, Albania – CLICK TO READ
Group C: Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia, England – CLICK TO READ
Group D: Poland, Netherlands, Austria, France – CLICK TO READ
Group E: Belgium, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine – CLICK TO READ
Group F: Turkey, Georgia, Portugal, Czech Republic – CLICK TO READ
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