About – AFL Tipping

What is this site?

AFL Tipping is a private competition platform for Australian Rules Football fans. Each week you tip (predict) the winner of every AFL match for that round. The more correct tips you land, the higher you climb on the leaderboard. Tips lock out 24 hours before each game's bounce — so no last-minute cheating.

At the end of the season the player with the most points wins the bragging rights. Simple, free, and built for the love of footy.

2026 AFL Tipping Season — by the numbers

18

Teams

25

Rounds

207

Matches

28

Played

2

Tippers

8

Tips placed

Features

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Weekly tipping

Tip every match per round with a clean pick-your-team card UI. Tips auto-lock 24 hours before bounce.

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Live leaderboard

Scores update automatically after each game. Only active participants appear — no ghost accounts padding the table.

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Live fixture sync

Match schedules and results are pulled automatically from the Squiggle AFL API, keeping everything up to date throughout the season.

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Reminders

Forgot to tip? The system sends you an email (or SMS if configured) before tips close — only if you haven't already locked them in.

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Admin controls

Admins can add or remove users, manage notification settings, and keep the competition running without touching the database.

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Mobile friendly

Fully responsive — tip from your phone on the way to the game just as easily as from your desk.

Built with

Laravel 13 PHP 8.3 Bootstrap 5 Squiggle AFL API SQLite / MySQL Laravel Breeze

Built on the latest Laravel release using Eloquent ORM, Blade templating, artisan scheduling, and Laravel's notification system for email and SMS delivery.

Made by Eddie

This site is a personal portfolio project — something I built because I love footy and I love building things. It's a real, fully-featured web application I designed, architected, and shipped from scratch.

I'm a developer who enjoys building practical tools that people actually use. This project demonstrates full-stack Laravel development: database design, API integration, authentication, scheduling, notifications, and a clean UI — all production-ready.