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Draft season

Your fantasy league needs side action.

Your fantasy app runs the matchups. GroupStakes runs the markets about the league — who shows up to the draft, who rage-quits by week 8, whose bold preseason take survives September. Members bet points, not money, and the leaderboard runs all the way to January.

The main event

The League Hedge

Every fantasy league has standings. The hedge gives you a second set. One tap posts the board: who wins this league? — every manager on it by name. Put your points behind somebody. One rule, and the app enforces it: it can't be you.

Picks are blind. Nobody sees where the points went until the board locks two days later — then every pick flips face-up at once, and the group chat detonates. From there, two races run to January: your team, and your judgment.

1

Draft ends, board goes up

Rosters are set, everyone's a genius for 48 more hours. One tap on the League Hedge template puts the whole roster on the board.

2

Back somebody else

Stake points on the manager you believe in — heavy on a favorite or a flier on chaos. The app locks you out of your own name. Sorry buddy.

3

Blind until it locks

Picks stay hidden while the board is open. Two days after the draft it locks, and everybody's pick is revealed at the same moment — before a single snap.

4

Settles championship week

The board rides to January. The right call on the worst draft in the room pays longshot odds — settlement night is the finale.

who wins this league?
the whole roster on the board · blind until lock · settles championship week

Draft week

The draft is the Super Bowl of the friend group. Post these the day the date gets picked — the app's Draft Week template pack has one-tap versions.

01
will tanner miss the draft?
yesno

the classic. someone in your league is a tanner.

02
does the draft actually start on time?
yesno
03
does anyone get autodrafted?
yesno

falling asleep counts. bad wifi counts. we've seen both.

04
does anyone take a kicker before round 12?
yesno
05
first “that's a reach” text: before or after round 3?
beforeafter

custom side labels: the market speaks draft-room.

06
does kowalski show up late to his own draft slot?
yesno
07
does the draft run past midnight?
yesno
08
does sal declare his team “the best draft I've ever had”?
yesno

he says it every year. the market is about whether he says it again.

The weekly rhythm

One or two of these a week keeps the league loud from kickoff to Monday night. Name the sides after the managers — that's the whole trick.

09
week 1: kyle vs tanner — who takes it?
kyletanner

the rivalry matchup, every single week. rotate through the schedule.

10
does anyone start a player on bye this week?
yesno
11
high score this week: over or under 130?
overunder
12
does jess set a lineup before sunday morning?
yesno
13
does the monday night comeback actually happen?
yesno

post it sunday night when somebody's down 18 with two players left.

14
kowalski–sal game: combined points over or under 210?
overunder
15
does the loser of the rivalry game blame injuries in the chat?
yesno
16
waiver war: do three or more claims land on the same guy?
yesno

Season-long futures

Post these in September, settle them in January. Long markets are the connective tissue of a season — every Sunday moves the price in somebody's head.

17
does the #1 overall pick finish as the league's points leader?
yesno

the “who leads the league in points” debate, made bettable.

18
is big mike's team still top-3 in points at thanksgiving?
yesno
19
does a real trade happen before the deadline?
yesno

not a pity trade. the chat decides what counts — before the market posts.

20
does anyone start 5-0?
yesno
21
does last year's champ make the playoffs?
yesno
22
does the commish's team miss the playoffs?
yesno

tag the commish as the action. transparency is the banter.

23
does last place actually do the punishment?
yesno

the most important market in fantasy. hold the line.

The degenerate corner

Markets about the league's soul. This is where the season's best screenshots come from.

24
chat messages during the sunday slate: over or under 200?
overunder
25
does jess threaten to quit the league by week 8?
yesno

companion market: is jess back by wednesday. always yes.

26
does the toilet bowl get taken seriously?
yesno
27
first “this league is rigged” text: before or after week 6?
beforeafter
28
does anyone leave a 50-burger on the bench this season?
yesno

50+ points riding the pine in a single week. it'll happen. it always happens.

29
does the group watch at least one game together in person?
yesno
30
does last place spin the wheel of shame at next year's draft?
yesno

it's a groupstakes thing. the wheel remembers.

Run of show

The commissioner's season calendar

1

Draft night

Post the League Hedge board — one tap, the whole roster's on it — plus two or three draft-week markets. The close-time chips have a “draft night” preset for a reason.

2

Every sunday

One rivalry matchup with the managers' names on the sides, closing at sunday kickoff. Ninety seconds of work, a full day of trash talk.

3

Thanksgiving check-in

The season's midpoint. Settle what's settleable, post a second wave of futures, and remind everyone where the hedge board stands.

4

Championship week

Settle the hedge board at the party, in person if you can. Then run it back — new seasons are free, and the wheel of shame needs a spinner.

The matchups have an app. Now the league does too.

Post the hedge board this draft season. Your friends join free with a code — and want more than football? Steal from the 50 market ideas.

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points, not money. bragging rights very much included.