HOW THE MONEY WORKS
Like the big fantasy sites — except your balance sits in a wallet only you control, and every pot lives in a public contract that can only pay the people who entered. Every payout is on the public record.
Where does my entry fee go?
Into an escrow smart contract on Robinhood Chain — never into our accounts. The contract is written so it can only ever pay the people who actually entered a contest. You can read it yourself at 0xb84C7A6c415Fb6A3e8319994619Efa89E1f1a7df.
How long does my money sit if the table doesn't fill?
Until the card's entry deadline: its first kickoff. If the table isn't full by then, the contract automatically sends your full entry back to your wallet within a few minutes. No fee on refunds, nothing to claim. There is no early exit before the deadline — your buy-in is part of what convinces the next manager to sit. Stuck waiting? Use Invite friends and make your own opponent.
What are the fees?
A 9% fee comes out of the pot when a contest settles, and the contract caps it at 10% forever. Prizes shown on every card are already net of the fee. Refunds are never charged anything.
How does scoring work?
Half-PPR, the same rules for free and paid games:
- Passing — 1 pt per 25 yards · TD +4 · INT −2 · 2-pt conv +2
- Rushing — 1 pt per 10 yards · TD +6 · 2-pt conv +2
- Receiving — +0.5 per catch · 1 pt per 10 yards · TD +6 · 2-pt conv +2
- Fumble lost — −2 · Return TD — +6
Scores update live during games. Contests settle on the final box scores once every game in the window is over.
When do winners get paid?
Minutes after the last game of your contest's window goes final — not days. We score the finished box scores the moment every game in your window is over, and the contract sends winnings straight to your wallet. There is no withdrawal request and no waiting on us. (If a name on a roster can't be matched cleanly, that one contest waits for the official weekly stats instead. Late beats wrong.)
Can there be bots in a paid game?
Never. Every seat in a cash contest has to be bought by a real person. Once the last seat is paid for, the draft starts two minutes later — and everyone gets an email and a phone alert the moment that countdown begins, so it can't start while you're looking away. If everybody taps I'm ready before then, it starts right away. Bots exist only in free points games.
Alerts — what will you send me?
Only things about games you're in or your own account:
- Your draft is about to start — two minutes before the first pick.
- Results and refunds — what you scored, where you finished, what you won, or that an entry came back to you.
- Game day — kickoff and lead changes in your contests. You can switch these off.
- Death Scramble — whether you survived the week, and when the re-draft is.
- Account security — if your sign-in or payout wallet changes.
No marketing. Turn alerts on from your account page, and off in the same place whenever you like.
On an iPhone there's one extra step. Apple only allows notifications from a site that's been added to your home screen: open scrambledraft.com in Safari, tap the share button, choose Add to Home Screen, then open Scramble from that icon and turn alerts on. Android and desktop work straight from the browser.
You can play without them — we email the important ones too, and if you miss picks the clock drafts for you rather than leaving your roster empty.
I've never touched crypto — can I still play for money?
Yes. The whole journey, start to finish:
- Sign in with your email. We quietly create a wallet for you in the background — no app to install, no seed phrase to write down. You will not see the word "blockchain" once.
- Play free games right away. Nothing else needed — same drafts, played for points.
- Feeling brave? Fund it once. Your wallet starts empty. In the Robinhood app, buy USDG (a token that is always worth $1), hit Send, choose Robinhood Chain as the network, and paste the address shown under Deposit. Send a couple dollars of ETH the same way, once — it covers the network's fraction-of-a-cent fees. Ten minutes, the first time. Two, ever after.
- Tap a $5 game and draft. Win, and the money lands back in your wallet automatically — no claiming, no waiting on us.
- Getting your money out is step 3 in reverse: tap Deposit → Withdraw, paste your Robinhood app's USDG deposit address (network: Robinhood Chain), hit Send. It lands in your Robinhood account in about a minute and sells for dollars there — two minutes, any time, no permission needed from us.
That is the entire crypto part. Everything after step 3 is just fantasy football.
How do I add money?
- Tap Deposit to see your wallet address.
- Buy USDG in the Robinhood app, choose Send/Withdraw, pick Robinhood Chain as the network, paste your address.
- Send a couple dollars of ETH the same way, once — it pays the network's tiny transaction fees.
How do I withdraw?
Deposit → Withdraw. Get your USDG deposit address from the Robinhood app (network: Robinhood Chain), paste it, send. It lands in your Robinhood account in about a minute and sells for what it says.
Is the wallet really mine?
Yes. If we made one for you at sign-in, you can export its private key into Rabby or MetaMask any time and take it anywhere. We never see the key.
What are Calls?
Pick 2–6 players, more or less on each line. Hit every pick and you're paid the multiplier on the slip, up to 50×. Calls are played in $RIGGLED and lock at each game's kickoff.
Anytime TD: any touchdown he scores — rushing, receiving or a return. Passing TDs don't count.
How do voids work?
A leg voids when that player has no stat line — inactive, scratched, benched, or the game itself was postponed, cancelled, suspended or forfeited. Same rule pre-game and live.
A void doesn't kill your slip — it shrinks it. Your payout is recalculated at the smaller number of legs that actually counted.
Shrink below 2 live legs — or down to one team on a multi-team slip — and the whole slip refunds instead of grading.
Once a slip settles, a stat correction that comes in later never reopens it.
UFC: if a fight ends early, stats count as they stand; a cancelled or changed fight voids.
Where are the full rules?
Eligibility, entries, prizes, refunds and fair play all live in the Terms of play.
Something not answered here? The red report button in any draft room reaches us directly.
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