Common questions.
Grouped by category — getting started, plans and pricing, Prime Pick, data and accuracy, and payment. Each feature also has its own deeper FAQ on its own page, linked below where relevant.
Getting started
Do I need to pay to use FDVS?
No — Free covers the daily consensus board, basic form strips, community vote totals, and one saved fixture watchlist, and it's built to be genuinely useful on its own rather than a limited preview.
What do I get by registering?
Registration unlocks your own saved watchlist, community voting, and the ability to upgrade to Plus, Pro, or unlock a Prime Pick later. It takes under a minute and doesn't require a card.
Which leagues does FDVS cover?
Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and more, with coverage expanding as data depth allows. A newly added league is held to the same minimum-sample standard as everything else before its numbers are treated as fully reliable.
Is FDVS a tipster service?
No — FDVS publishes ratings, consensus reads, and analysis, not guaranteed tips. See About and Methodology for how the underlying numbers are actually built.
Plans & pricing
What's the difference between Plus and Pro?
Plus adds the deeper visual breakdowns — radar, xG, odds drift, unlimited watchlists. Pro adds the raw 40-source breakdown, reputation-weighted community line, an earlier daily refresh, data exports, and API access. Full comparison on FDVS Pro.
Can I pay weekly instead of monthly?
Yes — Plus and Pro are both available from 1 Week up to 1 Year, with the per-period rate improving the longer you commit. See Pricing for the full breakdown by billing period and currency.
Is pricing the same everywhere?
No — pricing is adjusted per market rather than a flat currency conversion, currently covering USD, NGN, and several African currencies. See Pricing for the full list and the reasoning behind it.
Can I cancel or switch plans anytime?
Yes — moving between Free, Plus, and Pro is normal and has no lock-in. Starting on a lower tier and upgrading later once a specific feature becomes worth it is a completely reasonable way to use FDVS.
Prime Pick
What is a Prime Pick?
A short, deliberately curated list of fixtures where both the statistical model and the editorial desk independently land on real conviction inside a 1.70–2.50 odds band. Full detail on Prime Picks.
Do I need a subscription to buy one?
No — Prime Pick is priced per pick and available on any plan, including Free. It's a separate purchase from the Plus and Pro subscription tiers.
Why are there so few picks some days?
The bar is deliberately high — most fixtures, most days, simply don't clear both the model's confidence threshold and the editorial desk's independent review. Publishing nothing on a given day is normal, not a malfunction.
Data & accuracy
How accurate is FDVS's consensus?
We check this by calibration band rather than one headline number — whether a 70% consensus actually wins close to seven times in ten across a real sample. Full explanation on AI Research, with the live numbers on AI Reports.
Does FDVS show its misses, or just its wins?
Every graded fixture stays on the Results page — hit or miss. A record that only kept the wins wouldn't be a record worth trusting.
What's the six-axis rating system?
Every tracked club is rated across Attack, Defense, Form, xG, Set Pieces and Discipline rather than one blended score. Full breakdown on Methodology.
How often do ratings update?
Form and xG update after each matchday; the other four axes shift more gradually as fresh results replace older ones. The standard refresh runs once daily; Pro's runs earlier, before 6am.
Payment
What payment methods are supported?
Card (via Flutterwave), PayPal, Crypto, Bank Transfer, and Mobile Money (M-Pesa, MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money and similar). See Payment for the full breakdown of each.
Is there a review step before I'm charged?
Yes — every paid plan and every Prime Pick routes through a checkout review page first, showing exactly what you're about to pay for in your selected currency before you proceed to the actual payment step.
Do prices shown match what I'll actually be charged?
USD is the currency FDVS currently bills in — other currencies shown are illustrative pricing adjusted for each market, not yet live localized billing. This is stated plainly wherever pricing is shown.
Still have a question?
Every feature page has its own deeper FAQ, or start with the free tier and see for yourself.
Create your accountWhy this FAQ is short and general, while every feature page has its own deeper one
This page is the front door — quick answers to the questions that come up before you've picked a specific feature to dig into. Once you're inside a feature, that page's own FAQ takes over with the level of depth a general page couldn't reasonably hold.
This page answers the questions that come up before someone has picked a specific feature to dig into — what's free, how billing works, whether the platform shows its misses. Once you're actually looking at a specific feature — Pro, Advanced Dashboards, Data Exports, the API — that page's own FAQ goes deeper than a general page reasonably could. Neither replaces the other; they're built for different moments in how someone actually uses the site, and trying to make one page do both jobs would likely do neither one well.
Why we didn't put every question on one page
A single FAQ covering everything from account basics to API rate limits would either stay shallow on everything or become long enough that finding a specific answer takes longer than just reading the relevant page directly. Splitting by depth — general questions here, feature-specific detail on each feature's own page — means a general visitor gets a short, scannable list, and someone already deep into a specific feature gets the level of detail that page actually deserves. Trying to serve both audiences on one page would have shortchanged whichever one wasn't the priority at the time, and neither deserves to be the compromise. A page that tries to be everything to everyone usually ends up being genuinely useful to no one.
Why category grouping instead of one long list
Twenty questions in a single flat list is harder to scan than the same twenty grouped into five clear categories — Getting Started, Plans & Pricing, Prime Pick, Data & Accuracy, Payment. If you already know which category your question falls into, grouping gets you there faster than reading through unrelated questions first. It also makes the page easier to extend later — a new question has an obvious category to join rather than needing to be squeezed into an already-long undifferentiated list, which tends to be where FAQ pages quietly become unusable over time, one appended question at a time.
Why links point to specific pages instead of repeating full answers
Several answers here are intentionally short, pointing to a fuller page rather than restating everything that page already covers. Duplicating a full explanation in two places risks the two versions quietly drifting apart over time — one clear source, linked from wherever it's relevant, stays easier to keep accurate than the same content maintained in several places at once. If the pricing page's currency list changes, for instance, this page's brief answer stays correct without needing a separate update, because it points to the source rather than repeating it — one update in one place, rather than remembering every other page that also mentioned the same detail.
What belongs here versus on Methodology
Methodology is the complete technical reference — every formula, every calibration band, every update schedule in full detail. This page covers the same topics at the level someone would actually ask about them in conversation, without needing the full technical depth behind each answer. Both exist because they serve different moments: this page for a quick question, Methodology for the complete picture. Someone asking "how often do ratings update" wants the short answer given here; someone asking "why is Form specifically a five-match window" wants Methodology's fuller explanation of the reasoning behind that specific choice, not a one-line summary of it.
If your question isn't here
Every feature page — Pro, Advanced Dashboards, Data Exports, API Access, Prime Picks — has its own FAQ section covering that specific feature in more depth than a general page could reasonably hold. If a question is specific enough to one feature, that page's own FAQ is usually the faster place to check than searching this one. This page is deliberately the front door, not the whole house — a starting point that gets you to the right room, not a substitute for the room itself.
Keeping this page short on purpose
Eighteen questions across five categories is close to the practical ceiling for a page meant to be scanned in under a minute — adding more would start working against the exact goal this page exists for. When a new question comes up often enough to belong here, something else usually needs to be trimmed or moved to a feature-specific page to make room, rather than simply appending indefinitely and letting the page grow past the point of actually being quick to scan.