NEW: Introducing Superbru Football

It's been great to have had plenty of enthusiastic responses to the news we shared about our soon to be released apps, Superbru Football and Superbru Rugby.

As promised, we're now keen to give you some greater detail on the Superbru Football app which will be available to download in the coming days. Though many of the features and upgrades outlined in this piece will also apply to the rugby app, please note that not everything does and there will be a separate Superbru Rugby article ahead of the release of that app very soon.

Superbru Football will gradually become available to users over the next few days. The vast majority of what is outlined in this piece will be available immediately, though some features will be added as updates (mostly automatically without requiring a full app store update) in the coming days and weeks.

UPDATE: iPhone users can download Superbru Football from the App Store by clicking here.

UPDATE: Android users can download Superbru Football from the Play Store by clicking here.

Superbru Football

Our brand new Superbru Football app will be an app dedicated only to our football Predictor tournaments, making it a hub for all football fans. The clarity of focus around a single sport and game format will enable us to deliver the best experience we can, with appeal to existing and new users alike.

This means there's a fair number of changes from our current app, which the General has explained a bit (since he's the one that has built Superbru Football!):

"We have redesigned the app navigation and user experience from the ground up. This means some things will be in different places from what you're used to, and at first that might feel strange, but please keep exploring because we think it'll all make sense and become familiar very quickly. Being able to focus on a single sport means we've been able to make a lot of things feel more intuitive than in the multi-sport app, where we have to cater not just for football but also sports as diverse as motorsport, golf and rugby sevens."

"We have re-oriented the navigation tabs away from the rather specific needs seen in the multi-sport app (Picks, Pool Results, Leaderboards etc) towards more high-level "objects" from the game (Matches, Leagues, Profile), which enables us more elegantly to present all the relevant content and features about each of these in their own, logical spaces. Each screen is really a Version 1.0, and based on feedback and our own plans we will continue to evolve and improve them over the coming weeks and months."

As you may have noticed in that quote, Pools have been renamed as Leagues on the new app. This makes no difference at all to how they work, and is more a reflection of what we've noticed many people calling them anyway. We like 'Leagues' as a more obvious place to find leaderboards for new users, as well as the fact that it's a move away from the slight betting connotations that the word 'pools' can carry since we're a totally free-to-play platform.

Though I'll now be running through each of the major tabs on the app as a way of providing order to this explainer, a key thing on Superbru Football is that you don't have to be within a specific tab to access the majority of the things you need since everything will be interactive and reachable from whichever tab you happen to be on. This should make sense as we go through!

Home

After initially opening the app and either signing up as a new user or logging in with your existing Superbru profile, you'll be met with a new 'Home' tab, consisting of a range of widgets that will vary between showing recent news articles, buttons taking you to predictions you need to make, information about upcoming fresh tournaments or the live status of an important ongoing match depending on when you login.

Your home tab is specific to you, meaning alerts/reminders will be tailored to your pick status. Articles and graphics that are often posted on our social media channels will be integrated into the app, and the ability to engage and comment on these features will give you a chance to interact with others in our community.

Matches

The matches tab will be slightly more familiar to those of you that use our current app, though there are a number of significant changes. Matches houses both upcoming fixtures and live scores/results, and you can filter your view of the fixture lists to either show all of the tournaments you are playing or to focus upon a specific tournament we cover that you may or may not be playing via the trophy icons at the top of the screen.



From the fixture list of upcoming matches, you tap on a specific fixture to be taken to the predictions page for the tournament where you can make your picks. Note: If while on the Home tab you selected a 'Predictions Needed' widget, you would of course be taken straight through to the predictions page without needing to go to the Matches tab at all.

I'm sure I don't need to talk you all through how to actually make a prediction, which we've obviously kept as straightforward as possible since it's the primary function of Superbru, but like the rest of the app we've made the prediction pages as interactive as possible which means it's now nice and straightforward to do plenty of research about a certain fixture within the app.

As the screenshots below show, if you were to tap on Manchester City's jersey when making your pick for Burnley v City, you are now taken to a new club profile feature which provides extra information including a team's recent results and upcoming fixtures across all competitions covered by Superbru. This is often very significant once the season gets going as the results page differs from the tournament-specific form guide that will remain beneath jerseys on the predictions pages as the season goes on.



From here, you could tap on any one of those previous results to remind yourself of the match information and even what your friends and family predicted for the game. From there, you could tap on a different team, or the stadium to see which results have taken place there, or on one of the profiles of a player in your league so that you can view their Superbru Football profile and so on and so on - we'll come back to profiles in a moment!

Features such as the Head-to-Head tab and Superbru Insights remain visible beneath each match on the predictions page (Insights are Superbru Premium-only feature available in certain tournaments to Premium members providing information such as referee, team news and other relevant context to ensure you have the lowdown before making a prediction), with the H2H tab again interactive so if you'd like to go down a rabbit hole and see how many people correctly predicted Burnley's 1-0 win over City back in March 2015, you're welcome to.

Leagues

In the same way the Matches tab includes both upcoming fixtures and previous results/live scores, we've merged all aspects of Leagues into a single tab meaning this is the place to come to view both round standings and overall leaderboards.

After selecting 'Leagues', you'll be met with a screen where you can select the relevant tournament (if you're playing more than one) and it will show a list of your leagues as well as options to create/join new ones. This is also the place where your league invitations will appear - the screenshots below show the General to be a fairly popular bru with 16 outstanding invitations on his Leagues tab.

Once you select a league, you can then choose to view individual match results which show what everyone predicted for a certain scoreline, round standings which show the number of points each player has managed in a certain round, or leaderboard to view the all-important current overall standings.



By selecting a player's name within round standings or matches, you can view a summary of their picks for the ongoing round, while selecting a player's name on an overall leaderboard will give you a view of their performance throughout the tournament as a whole including their rank in each of the leagues they are competing in.



From any of these screens, tapping on a player's name/picture for a second time will take you to their main Superbru Football profile, which brings us to the 'Profile' tab on the Superbru Football app.

Profile

When visiting the Profile tab, or after tapping on your own/anyone else's profile from anywhere else in the Superbru Football app, you can find a detailed history of prediction performance.

In addition to the headline data which shows your overall football prediction accuracy in your Superbru career and your prediction accuracy percentage for the current season as a way in which to tell whether you're having a good, average or bad campaign, tournament-specific data is also available to show you which competitions you have performed best in.

Over time, we'll be looking to add more features in this brand new area including a 'trophies' element to reflect league successes over time, but this very first version of Superbru Football provides a full breakdown of the football tournaments you have played as well as your prediction accuracy % in each season, your league ranks and your global leaderboard position.



Superbru is all about competition and we hope that these profiles will provide a fresh way in which to compete against your friends or even just against yourself, as making predictions in various football tournaments provides you with a challenge to try and improve your overall accuracy percentage and collect trophies.

As you can see in the screenshots above, core Superbru stats such as your number of caps and the number of tournaments you have played across our entire platform in multiple sports remain as another measure of your predicting career.

Other Features

Premium

Those of you who support Superbru with a Premium subscription will continue to enjoy the Premium experience on our website and app as well as on both of our new apps - Superbru Football and Superbru Rugby.

This will include Superbru Insights for a number of major tournaments, as well as an ad-free experience.

Initially, until we've had additional time to integrate the feature and gain app store approval, upgrading to Superbru Premium will not be possible within the new Football and Rugby apps meaning if you are keen to become a Superbru Premium user, the best way in which to do so is via our website here.

We've avoided raising the monthly subscription fee for Superbru Premium for a number of years now despite the current economic climate, but a small increase is expected in the coming months. With that in mind, now is a good time to upgrade to a monthly or annual subscription at the current rate, which represents excellent value ahead of the new football season as well as the Rugby and Cricket World Cups.

Miscellaneous

This article is probably already long enough for you all so I'll leave you to explore the app yourselves as soon as it's available (the roll-out will be gradual) but you will hopefully find Superbru Football to be a generally smoother, faster experience than the original Superbru app.

League creation is easier than ever and includes more features from our full website than before, while other previously web-only features such as editing your profile photo will also be available in the new app directly from your camera roll or even from your camera itself for those that are confident enough to pop a selfie and instantly upload.

We hope Superbru Football improves your experience on our platform throughout the 2023/24 season! The app should appear as being available to you all in the next day or two once the relevant stores have begun the roll-out.

Please note: Should you have any issues with this inaugural version of Superbru Football, please provide feedback to support@superbru.com or via the dedicated feedback tab we have built into the side menu section of Superbru Football for the first few weeks so that we can ensure the updates that we already plan to drop in the following weeks with further improvements can also include fixes to any problems you have found.