Sports contests · Free to play · Retail
Players fill out a bracket the way they always have. Each pick has a live price, so their score moves during games, and they can buy and sell between rounds. You can run it free to play, on social or sweeps coins, or at the sportsbook counter with printed tickets. A classic points version runs on the same system for players who want the bracket they already know.
A simulated tournament is playing in real time. It starts with the 12 Opening Round games, locks every bracket when the 64 are set, fast-forwards the Round of 64, then plays the rest live. Hover over any slot to see prices. Switch between Market and Classic scoring at the top left of the controls. Crowd shows what the pool picked, and Mine shows one player's bracket.
Classic or market
Some players want the bracket they fill out every year. Others want prices and trading. Both versions use the same picks screen, tickets, TV wall and prize setup, so an operator can run them side by side and let players choose.
Each pick costs between 1 and 99, based on the model and on what the pool is picking. A correct pick pays 100. Duke to win its first game costs 98 and earns 2. UC San Diego costs 25 and earns 75.
Prices update with live win probability. A player's Final Four pick gains or loses value while a Round of 32 game is still being played, which gives people a reason to watch games beyond their own teams.
When a round ends, players can sell picks that are losing value and buy teams that are still alive. If your champion loses on the first Friday, you still have cash and positions to work with on Saturday.
Formats
Brackets come first because bowl season and March are close. The same pricing works for the weekly contests operators already run in the fall.
The College Football Playoff and bowls in December and January, then the 76-team tournament in March.
Every game on the slate has a price. Players can trade until kickoff, so a bad early window can be fixed with the late games.
Each week's pick has a price. Cheaper teams score more when they win, so the pool isn't all on the same favorite.
Pricing
Prices are set before the tournament starts. Favorites are expensive and pay back very little. A player who calls an upset that most of the pool missed moves up the standings quickly.
Busted brackets
A player's Final Four pick can lose early and they keep playing. The position goes to zero, and everything else in their bracket is still live.
Trading is a market feature. Classic contests open a second-chance bracket at the Sweet 16 instead.
Players buy at the ask and sell at the bid. The two-point spread is the operator's margin, whether the contest runs on free coins, sweeps coins or cash.
Free to play
There's no entry fee. Players get 10,000 coins to build and trade their bracket, and the operator or a sponsor funds the prizes. A sportsbook can use it to sign up players before March. A media company can use it to keep an audience around for three weeks.
Each round has its own leaderboard, so a player who started badly can still win something that weekend.
When a player's champion loses, they get 2,000 coins at the next trade window to spend on teams still alive.
When a cheap pick comes in, the player gets a card to post with the price they paid.
A second-chance bracket opens at the Sweet 16 for anyone who missed the start.
For operators with a book, a position can become a real futures bet in one tap.
Retail
A player can enter at a kiosk or with a sportsbook writer and leave with a thermal ticket. Scanning the QR code opens their bracket on their phone. When the tournament is over, the cage scans the ticket and pays it. The board runs on the TV wall the whole time.
Paid entries only where paid contests are legal. Players can also build a bracket on their phone and show the code at the kiosk.
Pool odds
Each team ends up with one price, set by everyone's brackets. A media partner can show it on air or embed it in an article, and players get a share card when a cheap pick comes in.
The share card is built from the player's own picks. The lower third uses the same number in a broadcast graphic.
Calendar
The College Football Playoff stays at 12 teams with four byes, and each bowl game can be its own pick. The 2027 men's and women's tournaments grow to 76 teams with 12 Opening Round games. The engine handles any field size, so one system covers both.
Seeds 1 to 4 get byes, so they skip the first ring. Bowl games run alongside as single-game picks.
Most bracket games were built around a printed 64-team sheet. The board above shows the Opening Round as an outer ring, and its winners drop into the bracket.
Where it runs
We host the contest, price it, grade it and run the feeds. You pick the currency and the look.
The board above goes fullscreen for sportsbook screens, bars and watch parties, with the feed along the bottom.
Your team doesn't build or price anything. You set the prizes, pick the currency and promote it.
Click a color scheme and the whole page changes. Licensees bring their own colors, type and name.
Licensing
To run brackets for bowl season, you'd want to be live in early December. We host it, price it and grade it. You choose free to play, coins, or paid pools where they're legal, and put your brand on it.