Settlement rules

Version 7 · effective August 27, 2026

These rules are published before they apply and are never changed retroactively. If something has to change, it changes from the following week and this page says so.

Where scores come from

We do not compute fantasy points. A duel between two managers in the same league is settled using the points that league produced under its own scoring settings, exactly as the platform reports them. Both sides are scored by the same engine, so there is nothing to argue about.

When a duel is settled

NFL weeks are settled from the platform snapshot taken Tuesday at 12:00 PM ET, after the league's stat corrections have run. Premier League gameweeks are settled after bonus points are finalized. A duel is settled once; re-running the job never changes a settled result.

Ties

Equal scores are a push: no winner, no loser, and the head-to-head record is unchanged. A push counts toward the three duels you have to play to be ranked, but it does not move your percentage either way.

The scoring week

One cut-off for every sport: Tuesday 6:00 PM ET. A scoring week runs from one Tuesday evening to the next, and a duel belongs to the week its settlement fell in — not the week its games were played in.

Sports finish at different moments, so a single round of fixtures would otherwise land in two different tables: an FPL gameweek confirmed on Monday in one, an NFL week snapshotted Tuesday noon in the next. Tuesday evening sits after every sport's settlement for the same round, so one weekend of games counts as one week for everybody. FPL's occasional midweek gameweek settles Thursday and joins the following week, together with that weekend.

The weekly standings

Win percentage, over at least three duels in the week. Play three or more duels that settle inside the scoring week and you are ranked; play fewer and you are not. Volume is neutral by design — 5-1 and 10-2 are the same number — so nobody wins the week by having more time than everybody else.

Tie-breaks, in this order: more decided duels this week, then all-time win percentage, then the average all-time percentage of the people you beat this week, then how many different people you have beaten all-time, then who registered first. Every step but the last is a measure of play, and the last is fixed in advance. There is no draw anywhere in this rule and no editorial choice at any point — the standings are computed by script from settled duels.

Nobody is ever eliminated. When the cut-off passes, the standings empty and everyone starts the next week at zero.

Being drawn an opponent

You can ask us to find you someone to duel each week instead of challenging a leaguemate. You are asked once; after that it runs on its own, and you can turn it off whenever you like.

The draw is blind. Your opponent is picked at random from everyone who opted in and whose league scores by exactly the same rules as yours. We do not match by strength, we do not pick who you play, and there is no arrangement under which anyone is steered toward or away from anybody.

Identical scoring, never adjusted. Both sides are scored by their own league, under settings that match yours item for item — we do not convert, normalize or weight a single point. Leagues whose scoring differs are never drawn against each other, however close it looks.

You are never drawn against your own other team, against someone you are already playing that week, or against a team nobody is managing. Your first drawn duel does not count toward your percentage — a free look before it matters.

Last Manager Standing

Your league's free survivor pool: the lowest score of the week is out, and the last manager standing takes it. Tied at the bottom and everybody tied goes out together — that is what survivor means. If everyone ties, nobody goes out and the week carries, because a pool with no survivor has no winner.

Standing means still managing a team. When one player is left who is still setting a lineup and the rest have been abandoned, the pool ends there and that player wins. Playing four more weeks against empty rosters decides nothing. If nobody is left managing, nobody wins it.

A duel counts when both teams are being managed

An abandoned fantasy team still scores — the players keep playing whether or not anyone is watching. So beating three managers who stopped in October would otherwise be a perfect record every week, for doing nothing.

A team is treated as unmanaged when its lineup is left with two or more players who scored nothing, two weeks running — a bye or an injury nobody covered, twice. One such week is bad luck and counts normally.

Beating an unmanaged team counts toward the three duels you have to play, but not toward your percentage — the same as a tie. Your own losses always stand, whether or not your team was managed: nobody erases a defeat by walking away from it.

Decided when the duel settles and never revisited, so tidying a roster in December cannot change a September result. It affects what counts, never what you are allowed to do — challenge and play anyone you like. On platforms that substitute for absent players automatically, every team counts as managed, because we will not take a result away on a guess.

What the week pays

$50 to the top of the standings, and a place in the launch contest to the top three. One ticket per person per season: if you already have one, it passes to the next player down, because the point is to fill the launch contest with different people.

The cash rotates. Whoever took the money last week keeps their place and their record but not the cash two weeks running; it goes to the next eligible player. A payouts page showing one name every week is not evidence that we pay.

Annual limit. No individual is awarded more than $1,999 in prizes in a calendar year. A player who would exceed it keeps the win and the place; the money moves down the standings. The cap is deliberate rather than mean: $2,000 in a year is where a US payer has to file a 1099 for payments made from 2026, and staying under it means we never ask a free-season player for their Social Security number.

If a league changes its own scoring

A commissioner can change scoring settings whenever they like — it is their league, and we only read it. If that happens during a scoring week, duels inside that league still settle on the points the platform produced, because those are the points both managers played for.

That league's players are excluded from that week's prizes. Not a punishment: the standings compare people across leagues, and a league whose scoring moved mid-week is not comparable to one whose scoring stood still. The following week they are back in, with no record lost.

Postponed or cancelled games

We mirror the source platform word for word. If the platform counts a game, we count it; if it voids one, so do we.

Rule changes

Any change is announced here with a date and applies from the next week onward. Results already settled stay settled.