About Draftdle

A daily sports game: pick a sport, see two players, and pick the one you'd draft. The player more people pick wins. Ten pairs a day, plus Endless runs with leaderboards.

How to play

Pick a sport, then pick one of two players: the one you'd draft. There's no right answer except the crowd's: the player more Draftdle players picked wins the pair. For a retired player, picture them at their best.

Daily has ten pairs, the same for everyone, easy to hard by how lopsided the vote was. You score a point each time you side with the crowd. A new set starts at midnight in your time zone.

Endless keeps going as long as you like. A miss resets your streak; your agreement percentage keeps counting. Reach 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 or 1,000 scored picks in one run, or a streak of 5 or more, to post to that sport's boards. Now and then Endless asks a question with no winner yet: it doesn't count for or against you, and it decides future answers.

Where the answers come from

Every tap in Daily and Endless is stored as an anonymous vote. Each night the votes are totalled. A pair gets a crowd verdict once at least 40 people have voted on it (25 in a sport's first two weeks). For pairs with fewer votes, Endless predicts the crowd from how each player has done against everyone else. A Daily only uses pairs with a real crowd verdict of at least 55%.

A new sport starts with a scouting phase: every question is a data question until each headline player has about 30 votes. Then scoring and the boards open, and the sport's Daily follows once 100 pairs have a crowd verdict.

Where the players come from

Names, positions, career years and teams come from Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, and are refreshed weekly. Which players count as headliners depends on how many Wikipedia languages have an article about them. Photos load from league sites where they have one, otherwise from Wikimedia Commons, credited on the reveal. Draftdle isn't affiliated with any league, team or player.

Questions, corrections or a player we got wrong: info@counterspell.dev.

Made by Counterspell.