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NBA Fantasy Games

Draft basketball rosters from all-time team and season spins. Stack stat-sheet stuffers and chase the highest fantasy score in the building.

How it works

Pick a mode, build the roster, chase the leaderboard.

Every NBA game starts with a constrained board and turns it into a roster-building challenge. Daily boards are one-and-done; unlimited modes let you keep practicing.

Daily
One official board

Same setup for everyone. One attempt. Public leaderboard.

Unlimited
Practice any time

Spin, draft, and replay the modes without burning a daily attempt.

Scores
Saved to your profile

Signed-in runs feed your history, personal bests, and leaderboard rank.

NBA game modes

Choose your format

Each card explains the roster rules, scoring setup, and what makes the mode different.

Daily Challenge

One official board is drawn every day and shared by everyone - the same teams, seasons, and spins for the whole community, so the leaderboard is a true apples-to-apples race. You get a single attempt, and the game type itself rotates day to day.

Format
Same board for every player
Attempts
1 per day
Scope
A random division or conference × a season era
Modes
Fantasy Spin, Draft, or Ultimate Team
Play Daily Challenge

Fantasy Spin

Spin a random team and season, draft one of its players into an open slot, and repeat until the lineup is full. Well-rounded box-score lines pay off most.

Lineup
G · G · G · F · F · F · C · UTIL
Each spin
1 random team + 1 random season
Re-spins
1 team + 1 season per game
Scoring
Combined full-season fantasy points
Seasons
2022-2026 (single season or all combined)
Play Fantasy Spin

Stat Guesser

A classic guess-the-line game. Pick Normal or Ball Knowledge, get a qualified starter, and read their season from the stats shown. The closer your guesses land, the more you score.

Modes
Normal (re-spin) or Ball Knowledge (no re-spin)
Players
Qualified starters - minimum games and playing time
Guess
Season totals or per-game averages
Per player
3 stat guesses
Scoring
Scales with how close you land - bullseye = +25
Play Stat Guesser

Ultimate Team

Spin to draft a starting five plus a 6th Man, then work the trade deadline to upgrade your weak spots. Scores are pure on-court production, prorated for availability.

Lineup
PG · SG · SF · PF · C · 6th Man
Scoring
Roster's combined PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK
Availability
Prorated over an 82-game season (games played)
Trade deadline
Trade up to 2 players · spin up to 3 teams
Goal
Chase a perfect 82-0 season
Play Ultimate Team
Know your numbers

Scoring, dialed in

What a bad, good, and great score looks like for every position, in both scoring systems.

AvoidOKGoodGreatElite
Fantasy points

Cumulative full-season scoring. You stack entire player-seasons, so totals climb into the hundreds (or thousands) and reward volume plus durability across a whole year.

Production (prod)

Powers Ultimate Team. Production is scaled to a per-game basis and projected into a win-loss record, so the numbers are smaller. Read it as how good a player is per game, with availability prorating the total.

Fantasy scoring

Full-season fantasy points

Combined full-season fantasy points. Well-rounded box-score lines that stay healthy pile up fast.

  • 1 team spin
  • 1 season spin
All positions
<2800 FPTSAvoid
Between 2800-3200 FPTSGood
Between 3200-3500 FPTSGreat
Above 3500 FPTSElite

Ultimate production (prod)

Per-game prod, chasing 82-0

Per-game production. Coaches top out around 25 (rare); cream-of-the-crop players clear 40.

  • 2 trades, 3 team spins
  • Holding is fine, only trade if you want to
  • You can send both trades to one team
Coach
Tops out around 25 (rare). Avoid negatives.
negative
Avoid
1-7
OK
8-15
Good
15+
Elite
Players
All positions.
<25Avoid
Between 25-27OK
Between 27-33Good
Between 33.5-40Great
Above 40Elite

How coaches score. Coach and manager scores blend career pedigree and accomplishments up to that season, with that season's record factored in slightly. Same idea across every sport.

Stat Guesser scoring

Guess-the-line, 3 guesses per player

A classic guess-the-line game. You get a qualified starter and read their season from the stats shown. The closer you land on each total or average, the more points you bank.

NormalRe-spin allowed

Rolls qualified starters (minimum games and playing time). Stumped on a player you do not know? Use your re-spin.

Ball KnowledgeNo re-spin

Same guess-the-line format with no re-spin. Every player you are dealt counts, so it comes down to pure recall.

Per player
3 stat guesses
Guess type
Season totals or per-game averages
Closeness
More points the closer you land
Bullseye
Auto +25 on an exact hit
In Ultimate, swing on the unknowns

Not sure on a player? Take the shot anyway, you can always trade them away later. Was it Etienne in '23 or '24 that went off? Take the risk.

In Fantasy, save your spins

You get an extra team spin and season spin. Try to hold them for the end to chase a late upgrade, unless you genuinely cannot find a good pick early.

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