ESPN meets NASDAQ
It's fantasy football. The players are stocks.
Five slots, one cap, one captain. You score the basis points your picks move, cut by however many managers took the same name. Being right is not enough. You have to be right and early. A blitz settles on the bell ten minutes later. The season settles Friday.
- 195
- players
- 60
- in blitz
- 10 min
- per blitz
- 720
- rounds / week
A legal blitz lineup
priced off the tapeYou cannot field five stars. That is the game.
The number on each card is its rank by dollar volume, so 1 is the most traded name on the chain. Salary follows volume, which is why the blue chips cost what blue chips cost.
You only score what the lobby left behind.
Nothing moves much in ten minutes, so starting whatever is green is not a strategy. Your points are cut by however many other managers started the same name, and the whole lobby can see the same chalk you can.
Both managers below started the same player, and it ran +40.0 basis points for both of them. One of them got a rounding error. The other won the round.
Chalk. Everybody saw the same thing you did.
The whole lobby had it
The same call, thirty two times the score.
Almost nobody had it
points = bps moved × (1 − ownership) × (captain ? 2 : 1)
Ownership is the only number you can act on before a round opens, so it is on every card the whole time you are building, and it turns red past half the lobby. The chalk report in the lobby shows what everyone else is piling into.
A roster, not a basket.
A position here is both things at once: a slot on your roster and a price band on the board. That is why the colours on a card run expensive to cheap. Slots are what stop the best lineup being whatever the five best names happen to be.
- QB
Franchise
One slot, and the priciest names on the board. You get exactly one, so the rest of the cap has to go somewhere less obvious.
12k to 18ksalary range13in blitz - RB
Workhorse
The middle of the board, and where most of a sensible lineup gets built.
9ksalary10in blitz - WR
Deep threat
Two slots, at the cheap end. This is where you find the names nobody else took.
4k to 6.5ksalary range28in blitz - DEF
Defense
Every ETF and fund. Only fits your FLEX, so playing it safe costs you your free slot.
6.5k to 18ksalary range9in blitz
Four clocks, one game.
Every format is the same five slots and the same cap. What changes is how long you are committed for and how deep into the board you are allowed to draft.
| Format | Clock | Pool | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blitz Back to back, around the clock. This is the one that proves the thing pays out, because you watch it happen five times before you have thought about entering anything bigger. | 10 minutes | top 60 | 720 a week |
| Power Hour Long enough for the mid caps to actually move, short enough to play on a break. | 60 minutes | top 120 | 120 a week |
| The Session One lineup, one regular trading day. The lottery tickets are live here, because a whole session dwarfs their spread. | 9:30 to 16:00 ET | the full board | 5 a week |
| The Season Drafted live on Sunday night. Snake order, no salary cap: if someone takes the top name, nobody else can have it until Friday. | Sunday to Friday | the full board | 1 a week |
Blitz results earn your draft position.
The ten minute game is not a side mode, it is qualifying. Grind blitzes all week and you climb the ladder. Show up on Sunday night with the first pick, or show up and draft last. The short loop is how you earn the thing that actually matters.
These tokens trade around the clock from Sunday evening to Friday evening, so a blitz runs at three in the morning if you do. The weekend is the only dead air, which is exactly what makes Sunday night worth showing up for.
Open the draft roomSunday night, round 1
12 managers- 1gasfee.eth214 blitzes
- 2liquidated187 blitzes
- 3you96 blitzes
- 4tendies.sol81 blitzes
- 5chalkeater44 blitzes
An example board, not a live one. Seats are set by your finishing positions across the blitz rounds you played that week.
Every one of these is a player.
195 tokenized stocks and ETFs, read live off Robinhood Chain. A chipmaker is a franchise quarterback. An index fund is a defense. A treasury fund is the punt you take when you are protecting a lead.
The boring decisions, made on purpose.
Most of the work in a game like this is in the edge cases, because that is where a result quietly becomes wrong while still looking completely fine.
- A stock split cannot wipe you out
- Scoring runs on token value, not share price. CrowdStrike is sitting at a multiplier of 4.0 from a forward split right now. Score the raw price and everybody holding it reads as down 75% for no reason at all.
- A halt voids, it does not score flat
- Otherwise halting becomes a weapon: take a lead, and any pick that stops printing is free protection for it. A halted name is removed from the result instead.
- An unknown is never a zero
- If a quote cannot be read, that pick voids and your lineup shows a partial rather than a total. A number that looks like a real result but is not is worse than no number.
- Blitz only drafts liquid names
- The ten minute pool is the top 60 by dollar volume. Further down the board a ten minute move is smaller than the spread, and you would be scoring quote flicker rather than the market.
What is not finished
- At the weekend the tape is simulated, so a score from a shut market is not a real market result. Every screen says so while it is.
- Fields and draft rooms are filled with bots until enough people are playing. Every standings row says which is which, and the draft order names them.