Twenty-odd competitions, one number, in four steps.
| 1. Count what happened | Every sport has its own scoresheet — a touchdown is worth four or six, a goal three to six depending where the scorer plays, a stage win at a Masters 1000 two hundred. These are raw points, and they are only comparable inside one sport. |
| 2. Put every sport on the same scale | Raw totals are not comparable: a tennis champion collects 2,000 points in a fortnight and an NHL forward perhaps 250 across a whole season. So each total is divided by a benchmark for that sport and position and multiplied by 100. The benchmark is what a genuinely elite season looks like there — measured across many past seasons by the kind of player who actually gets drafted, and set at the level only the top one per cent of them reach. |
| What 100 means | 100 is that elite season. 50 is half of one. Above 100 is not an error and is not capped — it means a season better than 99 out of 100 draftable ones, which is what a genuinely great year should look like. Every slot on every roster is measured this way, so a golfer's 74 and a centre-back's 74 mean the same thing. |
| 3. Points stay with whoever owned the slot | A slot is credited with what its occupant earned while it sat there. Trade a player in March and the points they scored for you in October stay with you; the manager who receives them starts from the day of the trade. |
| 4. Best ball — there is nothing to set | Each category counts only its best few slots, and the selection moves on its own as scores move. There is no lineup to submit and no way to leave points on your bench. |
| 5. One best-performances slot per team sport | The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and club-soccer player categories each count one player's best few games instead of a season — the best 3 NFL weeks, for instance, on the same 0-100 scale. Which player fills it is decided the same way as everything else: whichever arrangement scores most. |
Type a line and see what it is worth, raw and on the 0-100 scale. The arithmetic is the pipeline's own: these are the same weights that score the season.
What each thing that happens on the field is worth, before any of the above. Open the sport you care about.
A club is paid per match, and a match is worth more the bigger the competition it was played in. The figures below are what a win is worth in each; a lesser result is a share of it.
Players are paid match by match for playing, for what they did with the ball and without it, and for a standout game. FotMob's figures. Goalkeepers are not rostered.
A team is paid for winning, for winning big, and for how far it goes in January.
Half-PPR: the ordinary fantasy football scale, with half a point a catch. Only quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and tight ends score.
Wins, the NBA Cup, and the playoffs. The Play-In pays only as consolation: it is dropped the moment the team reaches the playoffs proper.
The usual box score, plus a bonus for filling more than one column.
162 games make wins cheap, so October is where the points are.
Batting and pitching are scored on separate scales, because they are not the same currency. Note that an at-bat costs a point: the scale rewards reaching base, not swinging.
The league's own standings points, then the playoffs.
Skaters only — the league does not roster goalies.
Wins are the bulk of it, and the bar for a blowout is lower against a conference opponent because the opponent is better.
Thirty-odd games make a single win worth little, so March is where a season is decided.
The regular season is a long grind that pays little; the postseason is three rounds and pays most of the score.
A national team plays a handful of tournaments across a four-year cycle, so it is scored by how far it went rather than by how many matches it won. Each match is scored exactly like a club match, then multiplied twice: by the stage it was played at and by the size of the competition.
Finishing position only. Nothing else about a round matters, and nothing below 30th place scores at all.
The tours' own ranking points, paid a round at a time: winning a match is worth what reaching the next round adds. The figures below are the increments, and they add up to the event's face value.
NASCAR and Formula 1 share one roster slot and one scale, so each series keeps its own championship points and the two are pooled.
Each team sport's player category has one slot that counts a player's best games instead of a whole season. A player hurt in week three still adds the weeks they played; a player with a few huge games and a quiet season still adds those games. It is worth a fraction of a season — about 16 points on average by the end of a year, against 100 for an elite season — and not nothing.
Playoff production is credited as a bonus rather than as extra games. The size of the bonus depends on how much was still unknown when you drafted: a competition whose field nobody could predict pays more than one whose field was already settled.
Nothing here is in force and nothing was played for this season. It is written down so that a decision worked out carefully is not argued again from memory every August.
60 slots, 51 of them counting: 45 for a full season and 6 for best performances.
| Type | Category | Slots | Full season | Best perf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Club Soccer Top 3 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Team | Club Soccer Other | 4 | 4 | — |
| Team | NFL | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NBA | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | MLB | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NHL | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NCAAF | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NCAAM | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NCAAW | 2 | 2 | — |
| Team | NCAA Baseball | 1 | 1 | — |
| Team | NCAA Softball | 1 | 1 | — |
| Team | Intl Soccer | 2 | 2 | — |
| Player | Club Soccer Top 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Player | Club Soccer Other | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Player | NFL | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Player | NBA | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Player | MLB | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Player | NHL | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Player | PGA | 3 | 2 | — |
| Player | Tennis | 3 | 2 | — |
| Player | Motorsports | 2 | 1 | — |
The benchmarks in step 2 are worked out and frozen before the season, then reused unchanged all year. That is what stops the standings quietly rewriting themselves: a score that was 63 in October is still 63 in June unless the player's own totals changed.
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