How a player can earn points:
There are 2 ways a player can earn points. First, they simply earn points for goals and assists they score in playoff games. Goals and assists are weighted equally. Second, they can also earn bonus points for a team win and a series win which I’ll breakdown below.
Round 1 – .25 points per game won ( games 1-3 ). .50 points for winning the series.
Round 2 – .50 points per game won ( games 1-3 ). 1.00 points for winning the series.
Round 3 – .75 points per game won ( games 1-3 ). 1.50 points for winning the series.
Round 4 – 1.00 points per game won ( games 1-3). 2.00 points for winning the series.
So a player that scores 1 goal and 2 assists in a round 1 playoff game that his team wins earns 3.25 points in total. 3 points for the scoring they did plus a bonus .25 points for the win.
There are also penalties for losing a playoff series as follows.
Round 1 – minus 1.00 point.
Round 2 – minus .75 points.
Round 3 – minus .50 points.
Round 4 – minus .25 points.
If a player scores points but loses the last game in playoff series and is eliminated, then they will have the penalty applied to their total points for that game. For example, they score 1 goal in the game they are eliminated in for the 3rd round, which is a penalty of .50 points, giving them a total of 1 – .50 points or just .50 points in total. It is possible to have a negative score for a game if a player doesn’t score and is eliminated from the playoffs.
How scoring changes the player’s stock price:
At the beginning of the playoffs, all player’s have a starting price of $1 per share. The stock price of a player will go up as they score points and bonus points in the playoffs, and will go down if they do not score points. A much more detailed explanation of how this works can be found here. Points scored in a game are weighted more into a player’s stock price than bonus points. In order for a player’s stock price to increase, they need to score at least 1 point in a game. Bonus points for wins by themselves won’t increase a player’s stock price, but they will reduce how much it goes down. An exception would be the 2 point bonus a player gets for winning the final round.
Buying and selling stock:
After you have registered and gotten an trading account, you will have $10,000 in play money to work with. If you register after the playoffs have started, you still can participate and be eligible for any prizes that are still available.
All player’s stock are available to buy and sell at any time except while they are playing in a game. At the time they are playing in a game, their stock is unavailable to either buy or sell. Once their game is finished, and their stock price has been adjusted accordingly, they are available again to buy or sell.
To buy and sell a player’s stock, go to the transactions page. You can type in the name of the player you wish to buy or select them from the drop down menu. If you are selling stock in a player you already own, then you can either look them up in your portfolio page and click on their name, or select their name on the transactions page and your holdings of that player’s stock will be shown. You will then be prompted to either buy or sell shares of that player’s stock.
There are no commissions for either buying or selling stock.
Transaction limitations:
You can purchase as many shares of any player as you like, up to a maximum of 10% of your total portfolio. So to start, you can buy up to $1,000 worth of any 1 player’s stock. You can buy stock in as many as 25 players at any one time.
Starting in the 3rd round of the playoffs, the maximum amount that you can hold in any one player’s stock will increase to 20% of your total portfolio. This reflects the fact that there are now fewer players still playing in the playoffs.
Your transactions are limited only by the number of games in a playoff round any individual player has played. So your portfolio limit of 10% per player ( 20 % in rounds 3 and 4 ) apply on a game by game basis. For example, on day 1 let’s say 4 different games are played. If you have stock in players for any of those games, you cannot sell their stock and re-invest the money into other players who haven’t played their first game in the playoffs yet beyond the maximum of 10% of your portfolio. In other words, the 10% limit carries over from 1 player who has played 1 game to another player who hasn’t played 1 game yet. You can only reinvest this money in a player who has played the same number of games to prevent “double dipping”. ( More on this here )
Any transactions that do not break the “double dipping” rule are completely within the rules and you are free to re-balance your portfolio in any way you wish between games.
If you already hold the maximum of 25 players, and you wish to purchase another player, you will be prompted to sell stock in 1 player before buying in another so that your portfolio remains at the 25 player limit.