Voting with a code

You do not need an account, an app, or to give anybody your email address. That is the design, not an oversight.

If you have a code

Your code looks like 4K2PB-9XR07 — ten characters in two groups of five, usually with a square printed next to it.

Point your phone's camera at the square. It opens the ballot with the code already in it.

Or type the address printed underneath: bestandfairest.app/v/ and your code. Both work; the square just saves the typing.

The code has no I, L, O or U in it, on purpose — so there is nothing to confuse with 1 or 0. If you type a 1 where the code has an I, it still works.

Then pick your players in order, best first, and send it.

The rules of a code

• One code, one ballot. It is spent the moment your vote is written.
• It stops working when the round closes. A code for last week's game is no use this week.
• It is not tied to you. There is no account behind it, so there is nothing linking your ballot to your name — not for the club, not for anybody.

If you lose it before you have used it, ask whoever handed it out. If you have already voted with it, it is spent and a new one is a second vote, which is exactly what the club should not be giving you.

Can the club see how I voted?

No. A ballot cast with a code has no account behind it at all, and no screen anywhere in the app puts a name against a ballot.

The club can see how many codes it issued and how many came back. It cannot see which ballot was yours.

If your code was issued to you by name — which is how Players' Player codes work, so each player gets exactly one — then the club knows that you have voted, in the same way it would know you had posted a form. It still does not know what is on it.

If you have a paper slip

Some clubs vote on paper, because not everybody has a phone and not every ground has signal.

Write a name or a squad number on each line and hand the slip back to the club. The number printed at the top is how the club knows the slip has come back; it is not something to type into a website, and it will not work if you try.

A squad number is the safest thing to write. A surname works. Initials often do not — if the club has a Callister and a Corlett, "C" will be handed back to whoever is typing the slips with a note saying be specific, and they will have to guess or come and find you.

What happens next

Your votes go into the count with everyone else's. Nobody at the club sees a running total as it builds — that is sealed until the season ends.

The result goes up on the club's page when the season is finished, and usually gets read out at the presentation evening first.