Decoding Results Slips: A Glossary of Settlement Codes and Symbols

Results slips, whether the traditional printed sheet or a modern digital settlement page, carry a surprising amount of shorthand packed into a small space. For a newer player, that shorthand can make an otherwise simple results page look like a cryptic puzzle. This glossary breaks down the most common codes and symbols you’re likely to run into, in plain, everyday English.

Match-Status Codes

• P-P (Postponed) — the match didn’t take place as scheduled. Traditional print sheets used this exact abbreviation; digital platforms often spell it out but the underlying meaning is identical.
• ABAN (Abandoned) — the match started but was stopped before completion and not resumed in time for settlement, typically due to weather, floodlight failure, or another serious disruption.
• VOID — the fixture has been excluded from scoring for that coupon, most often because it was postponed outside the settlement window or abandoned without a confirmed result.
• PANEL RES (Panel Result) — a result credited through formal adjudication rather than actual play, historically tied to the Pools Panel’s role in settling a backlog of postponed winter fixtures.
• NEUTRAL — occasionally used to flag that a fixture was played at a neutral venue, generally a note for context rather than something that changes how the match is scored.

Scoring and Points Codes

• SD (Score Draw) — both teams scored and the match finished level, typically earning the top points tier under the classic Treble Chance method.
• NSD (No-Score Draw) — the match finished 0-0, earning a lower points tier than a score draw under that same classic method.
• HW / AW (Home Win / Away Win) — straightforward result codes indicating which side won, typically earning no Treble Chance points under the classic scoring method even though the result obviously still matters for other markets.
• PTS — shorthand for the running points total across your selected fixtures, used to determine dividend eligibility.

Dividend and Payout Codes

• DIV 1 / DIV 2 / DIV 3 — tiered dividend levels, with Division 1 (or First Dividend) typically reserved for the maximum points total and lower tiers catching near-miss totals just below it.
• ROLL — indicates a dividend tier wasn’t claimed that week and has been carried forward (rolled over) into a future week’s pool, where the specific product offers this feature.
• FLOOR — a guaranteed minimum payout level for a qualifying points total, where the specific product commits to one, protecting against an unusually thin split in a crowded week.

Why These Codes Still Appear on Digital Platforms

You might expect modern, fully digital settlement systems to have dropped these old abbreviations in favour of plain-language labels, and some have moved partway in that direction. But a lot of the shorthand persists, partly out of continuity with decades of established convention that regular, long-term players already recognise instantly, and partly because compact codes are simply easier to fit into a dense results table covering dozens of fixtures at once without the page becoming unreadable.

It’s also worth knowing that not every product uses identical abbreviations for the same concept. One platform’s “NSD” might appear as “0-0” or “GLS” (goalless) on another. The underlying settlement logic tends to be broadly similar across products built around the classic Treble Chance method, but the exact labelling is always worth double-checking against that specific product’s own published key, especially the first few times you use a new platform.

A Few Less Common but Useful Codes

• SUSP (Suspended) — used when a match is halted mid-play with the expectation it will resume later that day or on a different date, distinct from a full abandonment where no resumption is planned.
• CORR (Correction) — occasionally appears where an initial results feed contained an error later corrected, usually alongside a note on when the correction was applied and whether it affected any dividend already calculated.
• EXT (Extended / Extra Time) — sometimes shown purely for information on cup fixtures to indicate the match went beyond ninety minutes, even though, as covered elsewhere, this has no bearing on how the fixture is actually scored for coupon settlement.
• PEN (Penalties) — similarly informational on cup results pages, flagging that a shootout decided the tie, again without affecting the 90-minute score used for settlement.

These less common codes won’t appear every week, but they’re exactly the kind that catch players off guard when they do show up unexpectedly on a results page during a chaotic cup round or a week affected by a genuine data correction. Knowing roughly what they mean in advance means you’re not left guessing at exactly the point you’re trying to confirm whether your coupon has qualified for a dividend.

A Practical Habit Worth Building

Keep a short personal reference list of the exact codes used by whichever product you play regularly, since relying purely on memory from a different platform you’ve used in the past is a common source of confusion. A five-minute read of the published key the first time you use a new coupon product saves a lot of head-scratching later, particularly during a chaotic postponement-heavy week when several unusual codes might appear on the same results page at once. It’s a small bit of upfront homework that pays off disproportionately on exactly the weeks when the results page is hardest to read quickly, and it’s also worth re-checking the key occasionally, since products do sometimes revise their notation conventions when they update their platforms or settlement systems over time.

Responsible play note: understanding notation helps you read your coupon accurately, but it doesn’t change the underlying unpredictability of results. Stake sensibly, and remember pools play is for those aged 18 and over.