How does my weight loss affect the score?

As long as you record your weight prior to the start of your team's weekly fixture, weight loss of any amount can count towards your team's overall score. 

To qualify for scoring, your current weight must be both lower than the previous week and lower than your weight at the start of the current season. 

A qualifying loss of any amount will net your team half a bonus point, which will round up to the nearest whole point when all the bonuses for your team are added together, up to a maximum of 5 bonus points for your team overall. We call this a team bonus.

If you accrue 3 non-consecutive team bonuses in a season, you'll receive an additional full bonus point towards your team's overall score. We call this a hat trick bonus. 

If your weight matches or beats one of your pre-calculated incremental 5% weight loss milestone targets, you'll receive a one-time 3-point bonus for your team in addition to any other team or hat trick bonuses you may have been awarded on the same week. We call this a milestone bonus. 

If your weight matches or beats your pre-calculated target for a healthy BMI of 25 (based on a healthy weight for your height) you'll receive a one-time 3-point bonus. We call this a maintenance bonus. 

This means an individual player can score between 0.5 and 4.5 bonus goals via weight loss for their team on any given week.

Points will not be awarded to players whose current weight exceeds their weight at the start of the current season. 

Once players drop below their healthy BMI target weight, they graduate to our maintenance scoring system. These players can no longer earn any 3-point bonuses as they no longer have any milestones to reach, so to compensate for this, players in maintenance receive a full 1-point team bonus rather than the 0.5 team bonus players normally receive. 

If you are a player in maintenance, you'll receive a 1-point team bonus each week when you log any weight that is under your BMI 25 target, whether it's a loss or a gain against the previous week, or your weight at the start of the season. 

Players on maintenance can still acquire hat trick bonuses in the same manner as before, i.e. by scoring 3 non-consecutive team bonuses in the same season.