Most prediction products treat sports as a single bet: who wins the match. That's one moment of tension in a three-hour game. RIVAL's Live Match Mode is built around a different idea — every over, every powerplay, every chase has its own moment to call.
What it looks like during a match
While an IPL match is live, short-window questions appear in real time:
- Will Kohli score 10+ runs in the next two overs?
- Will this over go for 15+ runs?
- Will the chasing team be ahead of the run rate at the 15-over mark?
Each question has a short window to answer and resolves within minutes of the relevant moment passing — no waiting until full-time to find out if you called it.
Why short windows matter
Long-horizon predictions ("who wins the match") reward people who already follow the sport closely. Short-window, live predictions reward people who are watching right now — reacting to form, momentum, and game state as it happens. That's a much bigger, much more engaged audience, and it's where the real social competition lives: a group chat watching the same over, all locking in predictions before the next ball.
Built for leagues, not just individuals
Live Match Mode plugs directly into Private Leagues — your IPL Gang League can track who called the most live moments correctly across a match, not just who picked the winner. Over a full season, that turns into a genuinely earned "who actually knows cricket" leaderboard among your friends.
This is the feature we think will separate RIVAL from anything that treats sports prediction as a single static question. Cricket — and most live sports — isn't one decision. It's hundreds of small ones, and most fans are making calls about them out loud anyway. RIVAL just keeps score.
For more on why this works better with a private group than a public leaderboard, see our guide to social prediction apps.