How to play
Every week you fill nine roster slots from a $50,000 budget. Whoever's nine score the most fantasy points that week wins the pot. Entry is €5, and the pot splits 60 / 30 / 10 between the top three.
The catch is the budget. Every player has a price, and the best ones cost so much that taking two of them leaves you scraping the bottom everywhere else. A good coupon means finding players who will outscore what they cost.
The week runs Wednesday to Tuesday
| Wednesday | Prices are published and you get an email with your personal link. The coupon opens. |
|---|---|
| First kickoff | Everything locks. No submissions, no edits. |
| Sunday, Monday | Games are played. Everyone's coupons become visible now that nobody can copy. |
| Tuesday | Scores are calculated, the table goes out, and Kevin settles up. |
Your link is your identity
There's no password and no login screen. The link in your weekly email is personal to you: it opens your coupon, and it's the only way to submit one. Nobody else can see your picks before the deadline, and you can't see theirs.
So keep it to yourself. Anyone with your link can submit as you. If you lose it or send it to the wrong person, ask Kevin to issue a new one and the old link stops working immediately.
Filling in the nine slots
| QB | One quarterback |
|---|---|
| RB1, RB2 | Two running backs |
| WR1, WR2, WR3 | Three wide receivers |
| TE | One tight end |
| FLEX | One more running back, wide receiver or tight end |
| DST | One team defence |
This is DraftKings' Classic roster. Your nine slots are on the left of the coupon and every player in Sunday's games is on the right, dearest first, with what they cost. Search by name or team, or use the position tabs, then press the slot you want them in. Press the × beside a pick to drop them.
The budget is what makes it hard
Your nine picks must add up to $50,000 or less. The counter under your lineup tracks what you have spent and what is left, and it updates as you pick. Anyone you can no longer afford has their price shown in red, though you can still pick them and drop somebody else.
Two more rules stop a coupon riding on a single fixture:
- Your nine must come from at least two different teams.
- They must come from at least two different games.
- No player twice.
An example
The best quarterback and the best running back on a slate can cost $8,000 apiece. Take both and you have around $34,000 for seven more slots, which is roughly $4,800 each — below the going rate for a starting receiver. So either you pay up for two stars and fill the rest with cheap players who might not play much, or you spread the money and take nine solid ones.
You don't have to work any of this out yourself. The coupon checks your picks as you make them and tells you which rule you've broken, so you can build the team by trial and error. It won't let you submit an illegal one.
Where the prices come from
This app sets them, from projected points. Within each position the players are ranked by how much they are projected to score, and then charged down a price list taken from a real DraftKings slate: the top projected running back costs what DraftKings charged for its top running back, the second gets the second price, and so on.
So the prices are not DraftKings' prices for these players — if you look a player up on DraftKings the number will differ. What is borrowed is the shape: the same spread from about $8,000 down to $2,000, which is what makes a $50,000 budget a real constraint rather than a formality.
They are set once, when the week opens on Wednesday morning, and never recalculated. A projection that moves on Saturday cannot push a coupon you have already submitted over the budget. The price you saw is the price you paid.
Scoring is full PPR
A reception is worth a point, on top of the usual yardage and touchdown scoring. Your total is the sum of your nine players. Highest total wins; if two coupons tie, the one with the higher single-player score takes it.
A player who doesn't play scores nothing, and there are no substitutes, so check the injury news before the deadline. Negative scores happen — a quarterback throwing interceptions can finish below zero.
Where to look
- Coupon — make and edit your picks until the deadline.
- Entries — everyone's coupons, once the week has locked.
- Results — the week's table, with a player-by-player breakdown of each coupon.
- Standings — the season so far: points, weekly finishes, what you've paid in and what you've won.
The money is handled offline
The app tracks who paid in and who won, and nothing else. Kevin collects the €5 and pays out the top three. Take any question about money to him.
Getting to your coupon
Your coupon lives behind a personal link that arrives by email every Wednesday — search your email for “NFL coupon”. Bookmark the page once you're there and you won't need the email again. Lost it, or think someone else has seen it? Ask Kevin for a replacement; the old link stops working the moment he issues a new one.