01-25-2024, 04:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2024, 10:53 AM by lemonoppy. Edited 4 times in total.)
Welcome to the first annual lemonoppy ISFL Stock Market Game!
What’s this stock market? Well, just like its real life analogue, it’s a gambling mechanism!
People have been clamouring for the stock market to return, but that probably won’t happen for a whole host of reasons, but that doesn’t mean we can’t run a stock market gambling game!
Reply to the post and/or make your first Buy/Sell order using this form here to join in the fun: https://forms.gle/VrFnkrax5yWUhebG7
Buy/Sells will be processed after each stream, you can buy and sell all season long.
How it works
You put in 2.5 million ISFL dollars and then you get a budget of $25.000 to buy team stonks.
Team prices are determined solely by their elo, which is updated after every game. If a team wins, they gain “value” and vice versa for the loser.
At any time, you can buy/sell your shares and then buy/sell more shares for the next week’s games!
Based on your final ranking at the end of the regular season, you will get a share of the final pot:
1st - 40%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%
4th + 5th - 5% each
I'm aware I've posted this kinda late so sign-ups will end on midnight EST Friday Feb. 2, after the games are streamed!
Please feel free to submit buys starting now!
Team Prices:
Each team can win “up to” 32 points of share value a match, although they will probably be earning closer to the median of $16.
With elo, the bigger the difference in rating between you and the opponent, the larger (or smaller) your change will be.
If you’re rated 100 points above your opponent, you will earn fewer points for beating them compared to if you beat an opponent who is rated higher than you! And of course, if you lose to a team rated lower than you, you will lose more points.
The teams were originally seeded at $1000/share, and I’ve input the last 3 seasons of games (S43-45) to pre-seed the share prices.
The sheet quite literally does everything for us when I input game results, so it’ll be all live!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
You can make and unlimited amount of buys/sells using this form here: https://forms.gle/VrFnkrax5yWUhebG7
If you’d like to play, please reply to this post and I’ll ping everyone in a big User Bets post and we’ll get it all figured out.
FAQ:
Is this like the old stock market?
Kinda! It uses the same elo stuff, but this is seasonal, the amount of money you can win is limited to the amount of players who play, it's a really big user bet basically, no infinite wealth gen.
Can I enter twice?
Nope! One entry per user!
Is there any kind of "shorting" mechanism?
Nope, there's an unlimited number of shares per team and we aren't running any kind of shorting stuff. Just buy the opposing team's shares!
Fun Stats!
Well, now that we have all this game data, we can of course find some fun stats! Also, I’m doing this on a loaner computer who’s ‘S’ and ‘T’ keys are kinda fucked so Sarasota was realllllly annoying since my keyboard kept inputting ‘SARA’ in the spreadsheet.
As we can see in the above price chart, NOLA has dropped below our view, not super great, but they’re on the up!
NOLA hit its lowest mark during Season 45 after Week 3 when they went into New York and lost 13-30, bringing their price to $763.71. They did rebound next week though, with a 34-17 win at San Jose to bring them to $784.11.
On the other side, if we look at the top 10 prices, we’ve got Baltimore and Cape Town dominating, Baltimore holds spots 1, 3, and 7 while CTC takes the other 7.
S44 W14 BAL $1,177.84
S45 W1 CTC $1,175.40
S44 W13 BAL $1,173.40
S44 W14 CTC $1,171.78
S44 W13 CTC $1,167.41
S44 W9 CTC $1,164.90
S44 W12 BAL $1,163.94
S44 W6 CTC $1,161.29
S44 W12 CTC $1,160.15
S44 W16 CTC $1,159.47
S45 W16 COL has the only instance of 69 points scored (nice), when they blew out CTC when the Crash went to Sasquatch county.
Adding Jordan Bamford to the AZ roster gave them a 25 point bump, that’s a full win in value. The anti Kadarius Toney you might call him.
The highest amount earned in one week was after S45 W8, when NOLA came out with a W at home against the visiting Yeti. With a $231.49 value gap between those two teams, the Second Line played against a top side and won in front of their fans, a total of $28.21 gained out of a possible $32. I don’t think we’ll ever see a higher number than that.
I welcome everyone to play this season’s Stock Market Game for a share of the pot, glory, and eternal bragging rights!
What’s this stock market? Well, just like its real life analogue, it’s a gambling mechanism!
People have been clamouring for the stock market to return, but that probably won’t happen for a whole host of reasons, but that doesn’t mean we can’t run a stock market gambling game!
Reply to the post and/or make your first Buy/Sell order using this form here to join in the fun: https://forms.gle/VrFnkrax5yWUhebG7
Buy/Sells will be processed after each stream, you can buy and sell all season long.
How it works
You put in 2.5 million ISFL dollars and then you get a budget of $25.000 to buy team stonks.
Team prices are determined solely by their elo, which is updated after every game. If a team wins, they gain “value” and vice versa for the loser.
At any time, you can buy/sell your shares and then buy/sell more shares for the next week’s games!
Based on your final ranking at the end of the regular season, you will get a share of the final pot:
1st - 40%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%
4th + 5th - 5% each
I'm aware I've posted this kinda late so sign-ups will end on midnight EST Friday Feb. 2, after the games are streamed!
Please feel free to submit buys starting now!
Team Prices:
Each team can win “up to” 32 points of share value a match, although they will probably be earning closer to the median of $16.
With elo, the bigger the difference in rating between you and the opponent, the larger (or smaller) your change will be.
If you’re rated 100 points above your opponent, you will earn fewer points for beating them compared to if you beat an opponent who is rated higher than you! And of course, if you lose to a team rated lower than you, you will lose more points.
The teams were originally seeded at $1000/share, and I’ve input the last 3 seasons of games (S43-45) to pre-seed the share prices.
The sheet quite literally does everything for us when I input game results, so it’ll be all live!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
You can make and unlimited amount of buys/sells using this form here: https://forms.gle/VrFnkrax5yWUhebG7
If you’d like to play, please reply to this post and I’ll ping everyone in a big User Bets post and we’ll get it all figured out.
FAQ:
Is this like the old stock market?
Kinda! It uses the same elo stuff, but this is seasonal, the amount of money you can win is limited to the amount of players who play, it's a really big user bet basically, no infinite wealth gen.
Can I enter twice?
Nope! One entry per user!
Is there any kind of "shorting" mechanism?
Nope, there's an unlimited number of shares per team and we aren't running any kind of shorting stuff. Just buy the opposing team's shares!
Fun Stats!
Well, now that we have all this game data, we can of course find some fun stats! Also, I’m doing this on a loaner computer who’s ‘S’ and ‘T’ keys are kinda fucked so Sarasota was realllllly annoying since my keyboard kept inputting ‘SARA’ in the spreadsheet.
As we can see in the above price chart, NOLA has dropped below our view, not super great, but they’re on the up!
NOLA hit its lowest mark during Season 45 after Week 3 when they went into New York and lost 13-30, bringing their price to $763.71. They did rebound next week though, with a 34-17 win at San Jose to bring them to $784.11.
On the other side, if we look at the top 10 prices, we’ve got Baltimore and Cape Town dominating, Baltimore holds spots 1, 3, and 7 while CTC takes the other 7.
S44 W14 BAL $1,177.84
S45 W1 CTC $1,175.40
S44 W13 BAL $1,173.40
S44 W14 CTC $1,171.78
S44 W13 CTC $1,167.41
S44 W9 CTC $1,164.90
S44 W12 BAL $1,163.94
S44 W6 CTC $1,161.29
S44 W12 CTC $1,160.15
S44 W16 CTC $1,159.47
S45 W16 COL has the only instance of 69 points scored (nice), when they blew out CTC when the Crash went to Sasquatch county.
Adding Jordan Bamford to the AZ roster gave them a 25 point bump, that’s a full win in value. The anti Kadarius Toney you might call him.
The highest amount earned in one week was after S45 W8, when NOLA came out with a W at home against the visiting Yeti. With a $231.49 value gap between those two teams, the Second Line played against a top side and won in front of their fans, a total of $28.21 gained out of a possible $32. I don’t think we’ll ever see a higher number than that.
I welcome everyone to play this season’s Stock Market Game for a share of the pot, glory, and eternal bragging rights!
Ultimus: S46, S47
ISFL Most Dedicated Member: S46
Gemini Awards: S42 Best Article (Series), S44 Best Article (Limited), S46 Best Author, S47 Best Author, S48 Best Article (Limited)
DSFL Most Dedicated Member: S42
Getting Defensive Podcast: S42 New Player Silver Medalist
ISFL All-Rookie Team: WR1 (S45)
DSFL Offensive Player of the Year: S43
DSFL First-team All-Pro: S43, S44
DSFL Pro Bowl: S42, S43, S44
S43 R1.01 - Arizona Outlaws
S42 R1.04 - Minnesota Grey Ducks
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