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Superbru

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Short description: Sports prediction website founded in South Africa

Superbru
Logo for website Superbru.png
Type of site
Sports Prediction
Founded2006
OwnerSportEngage Ltd
ParentSportsEngage Ltd
Websitewww.superbru.com
Current statusRunning

Superbru is a sports prediction website,[1] founded in 2006,[2][3] owned by SportEngage Ltd.[4][5] Predictions generally revolve around major competitions such as the FIFA World Cup,[6][7] English Premier League,[8] or Wimbledon, across different sports, such as rugby league and cycling.[citation needed]

Superbru has been used to show how data scientists can correctly predict scores; such as Principa out-predicting 99.68% of human predictions for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.[9][10] As of 2018, Superbru has over 1.5 million registered users.[11][12]

History

SuperBru was founded in 2001 as a Super 12's prediction game, in the University of Cape Town, as a paper based league. In 2003, the game was merged online, with access not available to the public. In 2006, Superbru was opened; with financial support from web design company Nevado, and later created a United Kingdom version, called Sports Guru.[lower-alpha 1] In 2011, Superbru moved away from Nevado, creating SportsEngage, financing the website.[11]

Notes

  1. ↑ SportsGuru would later merge into Superbru in 2012.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Super Rugby fantasy league with SuperBru". Stuff. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/77178451/super-rugby-fantasy-league-with-superbru. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Superbru - Copyright Notice". superbru.com. https://www.superbru.com/home/copyright.php. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  3. ↑ "Superbru Predictions - SA Rugbymag". SA Rugbymag. http://www.sarugbymag.co.za/superbru/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  4. ↑ "SportEngage". sportengage.com. http://www.sportengage.com/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  5. ↑ Muller, Antoinette. "How pre-World Cup statistical predictions got it terribly wrong". Daily Maverick. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-07-08-how-pre-world-cup-statistical-predictions-compare-standings/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  6. ↑ "Winner of 2017 office Superbru pool reckons he ‘knows a thing or two’". Sport. https://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/BetCentre/winner-of-2017-office-superbru-pool-reckons-he-knows-a-thing-or-two-20180219. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  7. ↑ "These SA data scientists have had great success with predicting World Cup scores - and they believe they know who will win the tournament". businessinsider.co.za. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/these-sa-data-scientists-say-france-will-win-the-2018-fifa-world-cup-2-0-against-croatia-based-on-this-method-2018-7. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  8. ↑ "Weekend Premier League Predictions With Superbru". Breathe Chelsea. https://www.breathechelsea.com/weekend-premier-league-predictions-with-superbru-2/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  9. ↑ Muller, Antoinette (25 July 2018). "A data company predicted Japan's win over Boks and is beating the Rugby World Cup bookies". The South African. https://www.thesouthafrican.com/a-data-company-predicted-japans-win-over-boks-and-is-beating-the-rugby-world-cup-bookies/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  10. ↑ ITWeb; Moyo, Admire. "Analytics, machine learning predict World Cup scores". ITWeb. https://www.itweb.co.za/content/LPp6VMr4AYbvDKQz. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Superbru - About Us". superbru.com. https://www.superbru.com/home/about.php. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 
  12. ↑ "A winning strategy for investing and Superbru". Moneyweb. https://www.moneyweb.co.za/uncategorized/a-winning-strategy-for-investing-and-superbru-2/. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 

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