The Mon Petit Prono site, for free predictions between friends or colleagues on World Cup matches, was very successful during the competition with 1.8 million users.
The surprises since the start of the competition have allowed non-football insiders, nicknamed the "Josiane of accounting" to dominate their more knowledgeable friends or colleagues.
To the detriment of purists, who struggle to appear well in the ranking, enough to create a certain dose of "seum".
If the match Tunisia – France (1-0) remains across the throat of the French Football Federation after the decision of FIFA to reject the appeal on the canceled goal of Antoine Griezmann, it is also synonymous with a big blow for the players of Mon Petit Prono, this site for free predictions between friends or colleagues on World Cup matches.
As for Caroline, who began her predictions at the very end of the group stages with this match between Tunisia and France.
She doesn't know anything about it, but one of her friends tells her about the “Coca-Cola” bonus, which allows her to double the points of her prediction and she decides to go for it by betting the Eagles of Carthage as winners.
In a prediction on a single match, she goes first in her group.
Baptiste doesn't know anything about football either, to the point of having to ask his friends about the offside rule.
Still, he is well ahead of his group of colleagues.
“Currently, I have 1.065pts and I am ranked 17.481st.
My ranking I owe it to the match between Tunisia and France.
I had gone 2-1 for Tunisia at the start, and a colleague suggested that I bet 1-0 if I wanted to bet Tunisia.
I put in my Coca-Cola bonus, and it was the robbery of the century….
480 pts in the near!
“, he revels in it.
The “Josianes of accounting”
Nice shots made by inexperienced football players, the "Josiane de la compta" as they are called on social networks: These people who never watch football but who outclass all their knowledge thanks to an improbable bet like the victory of the Saudi Arabia against Argentina, Japan on Germany or Spain, that of South Korea on Portugal, or Tunisia on France, therefore.
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“I am Josiane from accounting.
No need to have followed all of the L1, the Champions League, and the World Cup since 1938 to see that a rating of 160 points against a rating of 12 points is tempting.
Josiane may be bad at football, but Josiane is brave in logic, ”says Laura, full of humor.
More players, and rooms at the coffee machine
Indeed, the particularity of this World Cup means that it is better to play the big odds, as explained by Julien, Community and Digital Manager of Mon Petit Prono, and Mon Petit Gazon, the fantasy football game: "This argument is indeed valid for this competition, but it is the context which imposes it, with many surprises in the results.
It was calculated that if the players had done the same for the Euro, they would not even have 50% of the points they earned this time.
There are many surprises that defy logic, during the Euro if you bet on surprises, you would have finished around 700,000th place”.
These surprises allow the uninitiated to perform, and above all to talk about it.
“Normally we already receive a lot of messages all year round with MPG, people love to share their weekend victory.
For this World Cup, it's increased tenfold by 5 or 10. They come to tell their story or that of a colleague, each small personal victory is often shared on social networks, ”explains Julien.
This is precisely what the prognosis application is looking for, "a game that wants to be free", unlike sports betting, and which therefore needs a "maximum of users".
Both to multiply “rooms at the coffee machine through a good time without commitment”, but also to earn money.
And it works since Mon Petit Gazon brings together around 700,000 players, when nearly 1.8 million people attend Mon Petit Prono during this World Cup in Qatar, compared to 1.1 million for Euro 2021.
The "seum" of connoisseurs
But the World Cup in Qatar does not only make people happy, ask the Belgians, the Germans, the Spaniards, or Didier, player of Mon Petit Prono.
“You only have to look at the leaders in the general classification to realize that it is better to play against the odds than the favorite teams… The seum in this application is for players who have played the game seriously.
In 2024 we will test scorecast [another application], even if MPP decides to reduce the ratings of the challengers”, regrets the one who must also have a little Belgian blood.
The Mon Petit Prono team is no better off.
Of the 19 people in the company, only one is ranked among the top 100,000, enough to "share the same frustration as that of the players".
Don't talk to poor Julien about it.
“Personally, I spend my day sharing successes, even though I'm only in 350,000th place and I only felt one big odd.
It's fun, but also a little frustrating when you eat football 24 hours a day.
But I find exactly what we want to share with the players: That it's not the best who wins, but that everyone has fun.
We are not going to disgust a person who follows football once every four years, ”says the community manager.
Let the purists be reassured, with the poster for the quarter-finals, little room for surprises, and therefore the big odds.
Apart from that of Morocco against Portugal.
Enough to give the "Josiane de la compta" a little more lead in the standings.
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