Rules & Payouts
What it costs, how you score, and what you win.
01 The Buy-In
$100 per team for the entire season. One payment up front, no weekly fees, no rebuys. Every dollar goes into the prize pool and every dollar comes back out at the end of the season — the season's best single week and 3rd place each get their buy-in back, and the rest is split between 1st and 2nd.
02 Payouts
Two teams get their money back off the top: the season-long high score — the single best weekly DraftKings score anyone posts all season — and 3rd place in the final standings. Each collects its $100 buy-in back, so one great week, or a podium finish, pays for your season.
| Off the Top | Refund |
|---|---|
| Season High Score | $100 |
| 3rd Place | $100 |
These are separate prizes: a team that posts the season high score and finishes in the money collects both.
The remaining $700 is split between the top two on final season standings, 70 / 30.
| Finish | Share | Payout |
|---|---|---|
| 1 1st Place | 70% of $700 | $490 |
| 2 2nd Place | 30% of $700 | $210 |
Everyone below 3rd finishes out of the money. Shares are percentages of the $700 left after the two refunds, not of the full pool. Payouts are settled once the final week is scored and posted to the standings.
03 Weekly Scoring
Each week you enter a DraftKings daily fantasy lineup. Your raw DraftKings score for that week is all that matters — there are no head-to-head matchups. Teams are ranked highest score to lowest, and that finishing position earns league points:
League points accumulate all season. The team with the most league points at the end wins — not the team with the most raw fantasy points. If you do not enter a lineup for a week, you score zero points for that week — you are simply left out of that week's ranking, and everyone who did play keeps the position they earned.
04 Standings & Tiebreakers
- Season standings are sorted by total league points.
- If two teams tie on league points, the higher total raw DraftKings score wins the tiebreak. If that is also level, most weekly wins takes it.
- If two teams tie on score in a single week, they share the better finishing position and both earn its points. The next team drops to the position below the tied group — two teams tied for 1st both take 10 points, and the next team finishes 3rd.
- "Wins" on the standings page counts the weeks a team finished first outright or tied for first.
- Miss a week and you score no points for it. There is no penalty beyond the zero.
05 Scoring Updates
Results are pulled live from the league's Google Sheet. Once the commissioner pastes a week's DraftKings results into the sheet, the standings here update within about 30 seconds — no deploy, no waiting.