Daily Challenge
Everyone gets the same hidden cards for the day. Reveal a player at each position, decide whether to keep them or risk a switch, and build the best team you can. The challenge is judging when a good card is good enough.
Your first game, step by step
Choose your sport
Daily Challenge is available for NBA, NFL and MLB. Each sport has its own board and leaderboard. A new board arrives at midnight Eastern.
Reveal one of three cards
At the current position, choose a hidden card to see your player. The three options draw from different quality ranges, and their display order is shuffled.
Keep or switch once
Keep the revealed player, or switch to another hidden card. A switch immediately locks the new player. You cannot switch back after seeing who it is.
Complete your team
Work through the positions and review the players you have locked. When the lineup is complete, the game shows your projected season and result actions. Completed picks cannot be changed.
Which positions do you pick?
There is no salary cap in Daily Challenge. The lineup is different from Double Team and Draft Class.
- NBA: PG, SG, SF, PF, C and a sixth man — six picks. Sixth-man cards require an established bench role across multiple seasons and verified award votes in the evaluated season. A career starter’s brief bench stint does not qualify.
- NFL: head coach, QB, WR, RB, TE, offensive lineman, defensive lineman, linebacker and defensive back — nine picks. The coach comes first. Group representatives stand in for positions with multiple players in a full team.
- MLB: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, DH, starting pitcher and closer — eleven picks. Fielding positions follow established career roles. DH does not receive fielding credit.
How the hidden cards are chosen
Each position has its own eligible pool. NBA and NFL draw from the 75th–100th, 60th–82nd and 45th–72nd percentiles. Baseball uses a broader historical pool and more separated ranges: 80th–100th for a star, 35th–60th for support, and 0th–25th for an ordinary regular. These are ranks within that position’s pool, not player ratings or Hall of Fame labels.
NBA and NFL ranges overlap and can widen slightly. Baseball’s separated ranges make the keep-or-switch decision riskier. The display order is shuffled, so the first card is not automatically the best. Baseball also reduces the draw weight of players in the previous seven published boards; repeats remain possible, but are much less likely. Teams and eras are not forced into equal shares.
A person appears only once on a board, including the hidden options. Most cards use historical peak evidence. NFL offensive linemen are a disclosed exception, using verified current-roster blocking assessments because equivalent historical coverage is unavailable.
When should you switch?
Decide whether the player you revealed is strong enough for the team you are building. Switching is a risk, not an upgrade button. You do not know which of the remaining cards is better, and the new card locks immediately.
For example, revealing an excellent starting pitcher may be a good reason to keep the card. A less convincing pitcher might tempt you to switch, but the next option can still be weaker. There is no salary saving to weigh against that decision.
How your result is ranked
NBA projects 82 games, NFL 17 and MLB 162. These are deterministic season projections: the same lineup under the same saved scoring version receives the same record. Daily has no additional playoff lottery.
The leaderboard ranks record first, then projected point or run difference, then fewer switches. Exact ties share a rank. The displayed score is 100 per win in NBA and MLB; NFL awards 200 per win and 100 per tie. Scores are not compared across sports.
The model considers sport-specific contributions. NBA includes a bounded lineup-fit adjustment; NFL separates offensive and defensive roles and calibrates Daily records against 1,457 historical team-seasons, with a 16-win ceiling; MLB combines hitting, pitching and supported fielding evidence. Career totals shown on cards are information about the player, not the scoring formula.
One attempt, a saved team, and a shareable result
Each browser profile has one attempt per sport per challenge date. Progress saves on the server, so return using the same browser identity to finish. Completed games stay locked. Clearing browser identity creates a new anonymous profile rather than recovering the old one.
Share your result link or roster image from the result actions. Friends following the challenge link can play the same dated board. An archived board counts against its original date, not today’s standings. Saved boards keep their original cards and scoring when the game is updated.