Add a new championship race to your fantasy leagues.

What is FantasyStakes

A new championship built inside your fantasy league.

FantasyStakes adds a separate virtual-credit competition alongside the league you already play, with its own standings race and FantasyStakes Championship.

FantasyStakes uses your league’s scoring settings and lineups together with player projections to simulate outcomes and generate calculated moneylines, spreads and over/unders for head-to-head Matchups and league-wide Prop Pools.

Every result moves the larger FantasyStakes race — changing your competitive position, the standings and the championship picture.

Why play FantasyStakes

More reasons to care about every week.

Your scheduled fantasy matchup is only one part of the week. FantasyStakes lets you challenge rivals you are not scheduled to play, take positions on calculated markets and compete in custom league pools built around that week’s action.

That means more teams matter, more outcomes matter and more league rivalries stay active. A bad start in your regular matchup does not have to mean your week is over.

Sportsbook-style action. Fantasy competition.

Familiar mechanics. A very different game.

FantasyStakes uses familiar sportsbook-style mechanics: calculated odds, moneylines, spreads and over/unders. But FantasyStakes is not a real-money sportsbook.

There is no house taking the other side, no vig, no cash wagering, no deposits and no payouts through FantasyStakes. You compete directly with other GMs in your league using virtual credits.

The objective is not to cash out a wager. Your results accumulate inside the FantasyStakes game, shape the standings and drive a separate championship race.

How you compete

Two ways to put your week in play.

FantasyStakes Matchups are one-vs-one. FantasyStakes Prop Pools are one-vs-everyone. Both use virtual credits and feed the larger FantasyStakes game.

How the game works

Start equal. Compete every week. Chase the championship.

Every GM starts with the same Season Opening Allocation of virtual credits. Those credits are the game resource you use to compete in FantasyStakes Matchups, Prop Pools and other governed league competition.

As results settle, your FantasyStakes performance changes with them. Every week can move the standings, change the championship picture and create new opportunities to compete.

The FantasyStakes Championship is the title everyone is chasing. At season end, FantasyStakes Reconciliation provides the complete record of how the league-wide virtual-credit economy finished.

Know your game

A few terms make the whole game easier to follow.

Your Wallet is the virtual credits you still have available to use. In Play is the amount currently committed to unresolved action. Your Weekly Minimum keeps everyone participating in qualifying competition.

Standings show the FantasyStakes championship race. FantasyStakes Reconciliation is the final accounting of where the league-wide virtual-credit economy ended after all governed results.

Getting started

Your commissioner connects the league. You join the competition.

Your commissioner connects the fantasy league and configures the FantasyStakes game. FantasyStakes then builds the experience around your league’s teams, scoring system and weekly schedule.

You do not need a new draft, waiver system or fantasy roster. FantasyStakes works alongside the fantasy league you already play.

When you enter FantasyStakes, the app gives you four simple areas: one for competition, one for standings, one for weekly results and one for your account.

The guided player walkthrough shows exactly where to go, what the main screens mean and how to make your first FantasyStakes play.

How to play

The basic loop is simple.

1. 1

   Start with virtual credits.

   Every GM begins from the same configured starting point.

2. 2

   Choose how to compete.

   Go head-to-head through FantasyStakes Matchups or go one-vs-everyone through FantasyStakes Prop Pools.

3. 3

   Put credits into action.

   Make your selection and commit virtual credits to the competition.

4. 4

   Follow the result.

   FantasyStakes tracks the competition as it moves from open to live to settled.

5. 5

   Watch the race move.

   Settled results change your FantasyStakes performance, standings and championship picture.

See it in action

Explore the game. Then connect your league.

New here? Open FantasyStakes and look around. It shows Matchups, Prop Pools, standings, weekly results and the championship race together in one sample league.

Ready to test your league? Sign in with Yahoo using the same account you use for fantasy football. Think of FantasyStakes like a companion app that connects to the league you already play.

No Yahoo account required to look around. No real money. Just a complete FantasyStakes sample league.

For testers

First set up FantasyStakes. Then help us break it.

FantasyStakes complements Yahoo Fantasy Sports — it doesn’t replace it. Keep using Yahoo to manage your roster, set your lineup and make player transactions. FantasyStakes uses your league and lineup data to power the game.

For Phase 1, there are four things we need you to do:

1. 1

   Sign in with Yahoo.

   Use the same Yahoo account you use for your fantasy football league.

2. 2

   Add FantasyStakes to your Home Screen.

   iPhone: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen. Android: Chrome → Menu → Add to Home screen or Install app.

3. 3

   Set your lineup in Yahoo.

   Keep using Yahoo Fantasy Sports to manage your team and set your starting lineup. FantasyStakes needs those starting lineups to unlock its Sportsbook market pricing.

4. 4

   Then help us break FantasyStakes.

   Explore Standings, Action, Wrap Up, Account and Gear. If anything looks wrong, shows incorrect league data, feels confusing or does not work the way you expect, send us a screenshot and tell us what you were trying to do.