# A fantasy stock league to play with friends.

*The League · https://sifter.finance/fantasy-stock-league*

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.