Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
The short version of everything: how the draft works, what perfect means, and how to drag your friends into it.
What is Draft Challenger?
An all-time sports drafting game that plays in the browser. Each round spins a real franchise era — a city and a window of years — and lays out that squad with real season statistics. You draft the roster seat by seat, a full season simulates, and the record on the board is the verdict.
How does a draft work?
Tap any open seat to spin an era, pick a player from that era’s squad, and move on. Fill the board — twelve seats in football, ten in basketball, a full lineup and rotation in baseball — then the season plays out. The weakest seat drags hardest, so one soft pick can end a run.
What counts as a perfect season?
Winning every game, playoffs included. Each sport has its own number: 20-0 in the NFL (17 regular-season wins plus three playoff rounds), 82-0 and the playoffs in the NBA, 162-0 in baseball, 15-0 in college football, an unbeaten Invincibles season in soccer.
How rare is a perfect season?
Roughly 1 in 20 finished runs goes the distance. The difficulty is tuned openly against the rating math — perfect stays an achievement, not a participation stamp.
How do the ratings work?
Every player-season is rated on how good it actually was — production, honors, reputation — measured against its own era, so a 1970s great and a modern star meet on level ground. The full method is public on the how-ratings-work page.
Which sports can I play?
Six: football, basketball, baseball, college football, golf and soccer. Every sport has its own board, its own leaderboard, and its own Daily.
What is the Daily Draft?
One board a day, the same spins for everyone in the world, and a single attempt at it. Play it daily and you build a streak; miss a day and the streak resets. The daily leaderboard is a fair race because everyone drafts the exact same board.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything plays in the browser and your streaks and boards save to your device. An account just carries your streak and handle across devices.
Does it cost anything?
No — it plays in the browser with nothing to buy. Anything you can earn in the game is earned by playing, never purchased.
Can I play with friends?
Several ways: challenge a friend — send your finished board and they draft your exact spins, with a running series record between you; join the Live Draft, where everyone online shares a fresh board every ten minutes; bracket your group in a Knockout; or check in for the hourly tournament.
I found a mistake in the history — who do I tell?
help@draftchallenger.com. The game is built from the public record and corrections make it better; if a stat or fact looks wrong, we want to know.
Deeper reading: how to play, how the ratings work, how to build a perfect roster, and about the project.