A fantasy stock league to play with friends.

The League is fantasy football with stocks: you draft a roster, set a lineup each week and play one opponent head to head. It is free, there is no money in it, and it never touches your investing record.

How a league works

• A league has 2 to 16 teams. One person starts it and the others join with an invite code.
• Teams pick stocks in a snake draft, and each stock has one owner in the league.
• Every week you play one opponent. Lineups lock at Monday’s open and the week settles at Friday’s close, on real prices.
• The season ends in playoffs between the teams with the best records.

How a week is scored

• A matchup has three categories, and the team that wins two of them wins the week.
• Return: the weighted return of your lineup for the week.
• Drawdown: how far your lineup fell from its high point during the week. The smaller fall wins.
• Beating the market: how many of your starters did better than the S&P 500.
• You set a weight on each starter, between 5% and 35%, so a lineup is a small portfolio and one stock cannot carry it.

What it is not

• There is no money: no entry fee, no prize and no betting. You play for the standings.
• Nothing in the League reaches your Sifter Card, the record a student can show an employer. It is a game, so it is safe to lose.
• It is not investment advice, and no real trades are placed.

Questions

Is there a fantasy stock league I can play with college friends?

Yes. On Sifter one person starts a league and shares its invite code, and from 2 to 16 friends join. You draft stocks, set a lineup each week and play head to head until the playoffs. It is free for students.

Does it cost anything, and can we play for money?

It is free, and there is no money in it at all: no entry fee and no prize. That is a rule of the game, not a setting.

How long does a week take?

A few minutes. You set your lineup before Monday’s open, the stocks do the rest, and the week settles after Friday’s close with a short write-up of each matchup.

Can a whole investment club play?

Yes. Any group can run a league. Two student funds can also play each other in a SIF Meet, where each member plays their own matchups and the fund’s score adds up its best players’ wins.

Will a bad season hurt my record?

No. The League is kept apart from the Training Floor, where the calls that build a Sifter Card are made. Nothing from a league appears on a card.

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