Draft the schools. Win the week.

The opponent's LSS rank and where the game was played set its tier, and the tier sets what a win pays and what a loss costs.

• A win pays its margin, doubled against the best teams: 2 points for every point of margin against a Q1 opponent, 1.5 against Q2, 1 against Q3 and 0.5 against Q4.
• The margin counts up to 20 and no one game pays more than 30, so a Q1 win maxes out at 30 with a 15-point margin and a Q4 blowout tops out at 10.
• Losses cost you, and they sting more against the weak: 1 point to a Q1 team, 2.5 to Q2, 3.5 to Q3 and 5 to Q4. Lose to a school outside Division I and it costs 8.
• Win a conference tournament and you bank 5 more.
• In the NCAA finale every win is worth 10 and a First Four win is worth 1. Losses in March cost nothing.
• Start up to 10 schools a week. Leave a slot empty if you like; it just scores nothing.
• Each school locks for the week at its first tip, so you can keep shuffling until the ball goes up. A school with no game that week never locks.
• Week 1 runs Sunday, Nov 1 to Sunday, Nov 8. Every week after that runs Monday to Sunday, Eastern.
• A game against a team without a rank yet scores as Q4 and gets corrected once the rank lands.
• The cut grows with the league: in 8 to 10 team leagues, top 4 auto-qualify, seeds 5-10 race through Championship Week for 2 spots; in 11 to 20, top 6 auto-qualify, seeds 7-20 race through Championship Week for 2 spots.