Vertize Sports is two things at the same time. It is somewhere to check a score, a table or a schedule. And it is somewhere to ask what happens next, then answer it yourself, game by game.
The first half is what you would expect from a sports site: fixtures, results, league tables, full season schedules, rankings and leaderboards, across twelve sports — soccer, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, Aussie rules, rugby league, rugby union, tennis, motorsport, golf and MMA. Forty-two competitions are live right now: twenty in soccer, from the Premier League and LaLiga down to League Two and the National League, plus MLS, the A-League and the domestic cups, and the rest across the other eleven sports.
The second half is the part that took the work, and it is the reason the site exists.
The simulators
Most competitions here have a simulator attached to them. You do not start from a blank page. The season so far is already in place, with every result that has actually happened filled in and locked. What is left is everything still to be played, and that part is yours.
They come in five shapes, because five kinds of competition need five kinds of tool:
- League simulators, for soccer. You go matchday by matchday, type a scoreline into each match, and the table rebuilds itself underneath as you type. The promotion, European and relegation zones move with it.
- Season simulators, for the North American leagues and the NBL. The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA and NBL are not played in tidy matchdays, so these work night by night instead, and rebuild the standings as you go.
- Ladder predictors, for Australian football and rugby league. You tip the winner of each game, the model writes a score you can change, and the ladder settles with percentage or points difference. Out of season, you can replay the last season from any round.
- Table predictors, for rugby union. The same idea, with the tries counted too, because the bonus points depend on them.
- Cup simulators, for knockout football. You pick who goes through in each tie and the bracket carries the winners forward — including into rounds that have not been drawn in real life yet.
What is locked, and why
Matches that have already been played cannot be edited. That is deliberate, and it is the rule the whole site is built on: results are facts, not predictions. A simulator that lets you rewrite last weekend is a toy. One that starts from the real table and asks what you would do with the rest of the season is a question worth answering.
So the table you begin with is the real one, with the real points, and the first thing you can change is the first thing that has not happened yet.
The button that fills it in for you
Typing out thirty remaining matchdays by hand is a lot to ask, so most simulators have a button that fills in the rest for you. It is not a random number generator.
Every team carries a rating centred on zero. The difference between two ratings becomes an expected goal count for each side, and the actual scoreline is drawn from a Poisson distribution, which is the shape goals genuinely follow in football. The two baseline numbers — 1.50 goals for the home side, 1.25 for the away side — sit close to what Premier League teams averaged in 2025-26, about 1.5 at home and 1.2 away, as our goals per game and home advantage counts show. Put two identical teams against each other and the model returns exactly those figures, which means home advantage here comes out of the data rather than out of a number someone nudged until it looked about right.
The sports decided on points work on the same principle with different maths. A basketball or football score is not a handful of rare events, so the model draws a margin and a game total and splits them into two scores. The home edge and the spread of both numbers are measured game by game over the last full season. That is why home ice is worth only 0.13 goals in the NHL model, why about one NHL game in four goes to overtime with the loser still taking a point, and why NFL scores are rounded to totals that football can actually produce. Each sport's guide lists its own numbers: NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and WNBA. The methodology page explains how the models are built.
Where there are no ratings solid enough to stand behind, the button simply does not appear. We would rather not offer the feature at all than offer it while quietly making the numbers up.
And it is a draw, not a verdict. Run it twice and you will get two different seasons, which is the honest way to represent a competition nobody has played yet.
Where the numbers come from
Scores, fixtures, tables and venues come from live data feeds. The pages of a competition in play usually refresh every 30 to 60 minutes, and those of a league between seasons, or of months already played, every six hours. Pages are generated in advance and served ready-made, which is why they open quickly even when one of them is carrying an entire season of games.
Kick-off times for the North American leagues are shown in US Eastern rather than in your own clock, and that is on purpose. An NBA game starting at 9:30pm Eastern falls after midnight UTC, so in a browser-local view a single night of basketball splits across two calendar dates and stops looking like a night at all. Soccer fixtures are shown in UTC, the Australian competitions in Sydney time, and rugby union in UK or New Zealand time, depending on the competition.
Nothing you type is saved
There is no account, no sign-up and no paywall. There is also nowhere for your season to go: the results you enter live in the browser tab and nothing more. They are not written to a server, they are not stored on your device, and they are not attached to you in any way.
The practical consequence is worth knowing before you spend an hour on a bracket — refreshing the page starts you over from the real standings. The upside is that you can be as reckless as you like. Relegate the champions. It costs nothing.
Finding your way around
Every address on the site follows the same shape: the sport, then what you want from it. So /nfl/schedule is the NFL schedule, /soccer/table is the Premier League table, and /nba/simulator is where you play out the NBA season. Individual competitions sit one level deeper, which is how you reach /soccer/fixtures/la-liga or /soccer/simulator/serie-a.
The menu moves between sports: a column on the left on a wide screen, a drawer on a phone. Under the sport you are in, it lists that sport's sections and its competitions, and every one of them has data behind it.
What the blog is for
The blog is where the things a table cannot explain on its own live: how a playoff seeding actually resolves, what a tiebreaker does when three teams finish level, why a bracket is drawn the way it is. Every sport has its own blog in its menu, and the data pieces say in a closing note how their numbers were counted. Each sport also has a guide that walks through its pages, how its season is decided and where its simulator stops:
- Soccer: fixtures, tables and simulators for twenty competitions, from the Premier League to MLS.
- NFL: the schedule by week and a simulator that rebuilds the AFC and NFC standings.
- College football: the FBS schedule by week, the polls and how the Playoff field is chosen.
- NBA: the schedule by night, the play-in and a conference-standings simulator.
- College basketball: every game with a Top 25 team, the polls and the road to March.
- WNBA: the schedule, the playoff bracket and a standings simulator.
- MLB: the 162-game schedule, a simulator and the postseason bracket.
- NHL: the schedule, four standings views and a simulator that awards the overtime point.
- Tennis: ATP and WTA scores and draws, and how to read them.
- Motorsport: the Formula 1 calendar and both championship tables, plus NASCAR and IndyCar.
- Golf: the leaderboard and the calendars of four tours.
- UFC: every event with its full card, and how fights are scored and end.
- The Australian and rugby pages follow the same layout: the AFL ladder and its predictor, the NRL ladder, the NBL ladder and the rugby union tables.
Pick a sport from the menu and take a season apart. That is what it is for.