"Six years of spreadsheets. One month of building. Never again."
Since 2021, CT has been running a playoff fantasy football league. Manually. People email their picks. CT types the picks into a Google Sheet. Every Sunday during the playoffs, CT manually looks up every stat line for every player on every roster and updates the numbers by hand. Then CT announces standings in the group chat. Like a town crier. Reading from a scroll.
Six seasons. Six Januaries of cross-referencing box scores at midnight, praying not to fat-finger someone's receiving yards and start a controversy. The league has twelve members, a real competitive history, and a dynasty player (Gerard Balsamo, two titles, three finals appearances). It deserved better infrastructure than a Google Sheet and CT's eyeballs.
The reason no fantasy platform supports this league is that the rules are specific. Not complicated — specific. Cumulative scoring across the entire postseason with no weekly resets. A four-substitution budget for the whole playoffs, used either when a player's team is eliminated or voluntarily as a strategic upgrade — same cost either way. PPR scoring with 2-point conversion math that requires subtracting out the yards and reception points already awarded, or you're double-counting. The kind of rules that make complete sense over beers and make every fantasy app's settings page completely useless.
CT built a custom platform to replace the spreadsheet. Players now register their own seven-player rosters (QB, two RBs, two WRs, TE, FLEX) directly on the site. No more emails. No more CT manually typing "Josh Allen" into a cell at 1am because someone sent their picks as a bulleted text message with no last names.
A public leaderboard shows live standings so league members can stop texting the commissioner. A player results page shows how every drafted player is scoring across all rounds. An admin panel lets CT enter stats after each round — still manual, but once into a real interface instead of hunting through a spreadsheet. And a Hall of Champions page documents every winner and runner-up since 2021, including CT's own 2024 championship, which is now a matter of permanent public record.
The scoring engine is the part CT is quietly most proud of. The 2-point conversion math is genuinely non-trivial: the system must calculate base PPR and yardage points, identify what portion of those points came on 2-point plays, and subtract that amount out so only the conversion bonus is credited. This logic has to run correctly or someone gets credited for a touchdown they didn't score, which in a twelve-person group chat produces consequences disproportionate to the error.
CT has been doing this math by hand for six years. It is now code. The substitution tracking engine enforces the four-sub budget across voluntary and forced substitutions, maintains pick deadlines per round, and validates roster legality at submission. The site is hosted on Railway. There is no database. It simply works.
The entire platform was architected in a thirty-minute planning conversation and built in ten prompts. This is mentioned not to brag but to explain why the valuation is what it is.
There are an estimated 50 million fantasy football players in the United States. A meaningful subset of them run custom formats — dynasty leagues, keeper leagues, playoff-only formats, formats with rules their platforms cannot support — and manage those formats through some combination of Google Sheets, manual emails, and group chat announcements. These commissioners are CT. There are many of them. They are all tired.
The immediate market is the twelve guys who have been arguing about playoff fantasy since 2021 and now have a real website. The expansion market is every other commissioner doing the same thing CT was doing. The path to that market is unclear. CT has not thought about it extensively. The site works, though.
CT — Founder, Developer, Commissioner, and 2024 Champion. Has been running this league since 2021, which means CT has more operational experience with this specific product than any other human being on earth. Built the platform to stop annoying himself every January. It worked. Will use it again next January. Has strong feelings about 2-point conversion scoring that have been validated by the fact that the math is now correct automatically.