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Realcappers App Looks to Entertain and Educate Fight Fans
Realcappers is a sports prediction app that seems like part social network, part Verdict MMA that looks to reward its users who feel like they know the fight game. Launched last year, Realcappers allows users to make their picks for fights, and explain why they made the pick they made.
Everyone makes picks for fights. It’s something many hardcore bettors go to handicappers for but with the fan base now being bigger than it’s ever been, how do you know who to trust? Realcappers looks to fix that with its user base of “real humans, real knowledge, and understanding the fight game” according to their website.
The way the app works, you look at a fight card for an upcoming event and make your picks but you have to add details as to why you believe the pick you made will happen. This is where you get to flex your knowledge of the fight game. If you have ever read a prediction piece, this essentially lets you write your own, right from your mobile device.
Reacappers founder Alex Proh said, “We’re just getting started. So we’re exploring what’s needed, what people like.”
UFC cards are almost every weekend, and the schedule and fight cards show in the app with available odds to help you make your picks. But there is no gambling, the app looks to help you learn from your own picks and the picks of other Realcappers. “ We kind of want to take a little bit different direction and see how we can make it really fun, really help people be more invested in the fights.”
So how do they do that? Proh says, “Our first version was like, just membership fee. Everybody has access to you, and if you are really good, we’re like, why can’t you benefit from this? And that’s what our new model then became, was like, we actually people will be able to subscribe, to you for a week, and say they’re paying $7.99 for a week, you get half. So for us, we needed to figure out the way we collect $7.99 for a week, and then we’d give you half of that.”
Again, that’s only for users who subscribe to other users. As a user the app is free and you can see what other users pick for events for nothing, but if you see someone who looks like they’re really good you have the option to subscribe to them. Users with subscribers would see the payment come into their PayPal account.
The app is still in its infancy and again, free to use. The potential to build your reputation as a “Realcapper” is already there. The app is worth playing with and sending feedback to Proh could help the app evolve into something to help fans and fighters.
Proh says if the app takes off, he would like to be able to use the app to help fighters. “There are a lot of fighters who are just starting right, and we want to make sure that, if we as a community, at some point like, we enjoy what they do, we enjoy how they fight, we can contribute to them somehow through maybe tipping, or maybe, like, just sharing, Like ‘we want your predictions,’ (fighters) maybe we can figure out how we can give more to a fighter.” Fighters are posting picks for events on social medis all the time and who knows fighting better than they do?
So if you want to jump in and try it out check out Realcappers.com and grab the app available for both Android and iOS. See the full interview with Alex Proh below:
