How to Play

Base Price

Set at the start of each season from consensus expert rankings (ADP). Elite players start around $100. Deep bench players start as low as $2. Base prices do not change during the season.

Performance Multiplier

This is the engine. It starts at 1.0 for every player and shifts each week based on actual vs. projected fantasy points:

• Outperform projections — multiplier rises. Price goes up after settlement.
• Underperform projections — multiplier falls. Price drops after settlement.
• Meet projections exactly — no change.
• Bye week — no change.

The multiplier is sticky — strong past performance carries forward and only fades if the player continues to underperform. Clamped between 0.2× and 2.0×.

Injuries & Bye Weeks

If a player does not record any stats for the week — due to injury, coach's decision, or a bye — they are treated the same as a bye week: no change to the performance multiplier, no change to price. This applies whether they were projected for 5 points or 15.

• Long holders — if your player misses a game, your price is stable. No downside from the miss itself, but you also see no growth. A player who misses several weeks will not gain a multiplier boost until they actually perform again.
• Short sellers — an injured player who does not play produces no stats, which means no underperformance signal and no multiplier drop. Your short gains nothing while daily interest charges accumulate. See Section 5 for more detail.
• Bye weeks — all players on a team share the same bye week. Their multiplier holds exactly where it is through the bye. The market treats it as a neutral week.
• Projections and injuries — player projections are sourced from Sleeper and fetched several times early in the week. If a player is projected for points but ruled out before Sunday, the latest available projection is used at settlement. A player with a revised-down projection who still plays is more likely to underperform; one who is ruled out entirely is treated as a bye regardless of their projection.

No Trade Impact on Price

Buying or selling shares does not move the price. Everyone pays the same current price for buys and receives the same price for sells. Prices only change at weekly price settlement (Tuesday).

By default, leagues enable Deferred Demand mode, which adds a small demand component (up to +30% premium) based on how many shares of that player are held across the league. Demand prices are updated after each daily fill run as shares change hands, and again at weekly price settlement. Individual trades have no immediate price impact — only the batch fill process moves demand.

Limited Share Float

Each player has a finite number of shares available per league: League Size × 100 shares. Once all shares are held by members, no more buys are possible until someone sells. Selling returns shares to the float immediately.

How It Works

• Positions targeted: QB, WR, and RB only. TE, K, and DST are excluded from automatic selections.
• Selection strategy: The system buys the highest-ranked available players first, diversifying across positions so no single position exceeds 40% of your round budget.
• Budget: Autodraft attempts to spend your full round cap (including any rollover) each round.
• Priority queue: Auto-generated orders respect the same priority queue as manual orders. Your priority position determines fill order regardless of how your orders were created.

Controlling Autodraft

• Toggle autodraft on or off from the IPO lobby before the draft starts, or from the IPO live page sidebar during any round.
• If you want to pass on a round without triggering autodraft, lock in with no orders. Locking in signals you are present and choosing to pass.
• Submitting even one manual order for a round disables autodraft for that round — the system only acts when you submit nothing.

No First-Mover Advantage

Orders sit in a queue and are processed together in a daily batch. You never need to race to be first — an order placed days in advance is treated identically to one placed an hour before the fill run.

The daily fill run executes automatically at 4 AM ET while the market is open. A fill run also fires immediately when the market reopens after weekly price settlement on Tuesday — so post-settlement orders don't sit until 4 AM.

Priority Queue

When multiple members want the same player and the float is limited, a rotating priority queue determines fill order:

• Priority is assigned 1 through N (1 = fills first).
• After each fill run, the last-place member moves to first place, and everyone else shifts down one position.
• This mirrors the waiver wire in traditional fantasy: whoever was last to benefit gets the next advantage. No one is permanently disadvantaged.

Player Lock After Games

Once a player's game goes final, they are locked for trading until Tuesday's weekly price settlement. This applies to all order types — buy, sell, short, and cover.

This prevents front-running the price update. If you know a Thursday night player had a breakout game, you cannot queue a buy before the price moves — you have to wait until settlement reprices them, at which point everyone is on equal footing for the new week.

Players whose game has not yet kicked off this week are not locked. You can queue orders on Sunday players freely on Thursday or Friday.

During Market Halts (Games in Progress)

You can still queue orders while games are in progress, but only for players whose game has not yet gone final. Orders queue and fill in the next daily fill run once the market reopens. Existing holdings are unaffected during halts.

Cancelling Orders

You can cancel any pending order before it fills from the order history panel on your portfolio page.