Spin
A spin lands on one national team from one tournament year. Era setup decides which tournament years can appear.
How to play
Draft sixteen players and exactly one manager from seventeen spins, then run that squad through the 2026 bracket. Same seed, picks, data and rules always replay the same result.
Pick
Take one legal player choice, or spend the spin on a manager. Once your manager is drafted, later spins offer players only.
Place
Your locked formation gives you eleven starters and five bench slots. Player picks lock to a slot as you place them.
Simulate
The finished squad plays three group matches and five knockout rounds. A flawless run is 8-0.
Draft modes
Classic
Each spin shows up to three players from the rolled nation-year, plus its manager if you still need one. Ratings, positions and Synergy stay visible. This is the sighted choose-from-3 draft.
Open Draft
Each spin draws a nation. You may pick any available player from that nation's era-filtered roster, deduped by player, or one of that nation's managers.
Memory
The same choose-from-3 draft as Classic, but ratings and Synergy numbers stay hidden until after the simulation reveal. This is the blind draft.
Blind Open
Each spin draws a nation, then shows that nation's full era-filtered roster with ratings hidden. You still see names, positions, nation, era and club line; ratings and Synergy reveal after the run.
Setup choices
- Era
- Choose All-time (1930–2026), Post-2000 (2002–26), Post-2010 (2014–26), or Modern (2018–26). Era changes the spin pool and the Open Draft roster.
- Draft order
- Squad First spins before you choose a slot. Position First commits the slot before the spin.
- Rating basis
- Career rates each card by whole-career stature. Current rates the player at that tournament's strength where the data supports it.
- Line strength
- Rating by Line uses the sim's 0–100 line-strength channels; it is not the same number as a card's OVR.
Visual keys
Position shapes
- GKGoalkeepers
- DFDefenders
- MFMidfielders
- FWForwards
Rating swatches
Historical nations may show a modern successor flag when no accurate bundled asset is available; the flag title says so.
Rules that matter
- One player can appear only once in your squad, even if they have multiple cards.
- You must finish with sixteen players and exactly one manager.
- Synergy rewards national links among starters and between the manager and XI. Team boost is the readable form of the underlying strength multiplier.
- Out-of-position picks are allowed, but the simulation penalizes poor fit.
Leaderboards
Classic and Memory can post to Casual or Ranked boards. Open Draft and Blind Open are casual-only and do not submit to ranked boards. Leaderboards are separated by lane, draft mode, draft order, era and rating basis.
Reference standing
Every finished run shows “Beat ~X% of reference drafts.” Your score is placed on a curve of simulated drafts run on this engine, not a ranking against other players. The Daily board’s “Top X% of today’s field” is the separate, posted-field standing.
Daily Draft
Daily Draft gives everyone the same Classic, Squad First, Career, All-time draft for the UTC day. A new shared draft opens at 00:00 UTC.
Sharing
Share links carry the seed, picks and version anchors. If the receiving site has different data or rules, it says so instead of faking a replay.