Assign all 48 teams to players before the tournament. Generate a random draft to start, then change any pick from the dropdowns — each team can only be held by one player at a time. Edits sync live to everyone.
Every team starts in the Group Stage. As a team advances, update its status to "Made Round of 32 — Still In," etc. — round-beyond-projection bonuses lock in as soon as that round is reached, even before elimination. When a team is finally knocked out (or wins it all), set its status to the round it went out in (or Champion). Use W·D·L for total results, and the KO field to record how many of those wins came in the knockout rounds (worth far more than group wins) — group wins are simply W minus KO. Market points lock in progressively; win points accrue live.
A full bracket-valid projection for all 48 teams, ranked by pre-tournament betting odds: 1 champion, 1 runner-up, 2 more semifinalists, 4 more quarterfinalists, and 8 more in the Round of 16 — that's the 16 teams projected to reach the Round of 16 or better. Below them, 16 teams are projected to qualify for the knockouts and exit in the Round of 32, and the final 16 are projected to miss the knockouts entirely (group-stage exit). The 32 qualifiers match the real format: each group's top 2, plus the 8 best third-place teams. The longer the odds, the bigger the underdog win multiplier.
Win Points
Win points are earned every game, then multiplied by the team's underdog multiplier. Knockout wins are worth far more than group wins, so the deep rounds carry the tournament.
Market Performance
Rounds: Group → R32 → R16 → QF → SF → Final → Champion. Asymmetric by design — upsets reward more than underperformance punishes. The +8 round-beyond-projection bonus locks in the moment a team reaches that round — even while still alive. The −4 shortfall penalty only locks in once a team is actually eliminated, since it could still catch up.
Underdog Multiplier
Applied to win points only, set by pre-tournament projection.
| Projected champion / finalist | 1× |
| Projected semifinalist | 1× |
| Projected quarterfinalist | 1× |
| Projected round of 16 | 1.5× |
| Round of 32 exit (qualifies) | 3.5× |
| Group stage exit (misses) | 6× |