Billionaire Fantasy League

The game

• Pick 5 billionaires with salaries adding up to 100 cap points or less. One is your captain and scores 1.5×.
• A week is Monday to Friday, US market days. Your lineup locks Monday at 9:30 AM New York time. Saving after the lock sets your team for the next week.
• Starting mid-week? Your first save also enters you in the current week, scoring from the next trading day (late entry).
• Salaries follow Forbes rank among draftable people: ranks 1–5 cost 30, 6–10 cost 26, 11–20 cost 22, 21–35 cost 18, 36–50 cost 14, 51–75 cost 10, 76–100 cost 7. They are frozen when the week opens. After four weeks of results, salaries move up to ±4 by recent form.

Scoring, per person, per trading day

Benchmarks

• S&P 500 (SPY): SPY's daily return × 100, times 5 so it compares with a five-pick team (no captain).
• Top 5 richest: the five highest-ranked draftable people, with the richest as captain. It ignores the cap.
• Perfect team: the best possible five under the cap with the best captain, worked out after the week ends.

Method notes

• A portfolio is the person's current controlling stakes and holdings on their profile that trade on a US exchange, including US lines of foreign companies (ADRs) used for daily moves only.
• When every holding has an exact disclosed share count, holdings are weighted by value (value-weighted). Otherwise the companies a person controls together count for 75% and their other stakes for 25%, with each group split by value when every holding in it has a share count and equally when not (controls-weighted, 75/25). Someone with only one group puts 100% in it. Each player card shows the method and the weights.
• A quote that did not trade that day counts as 0%. Days with no market (weekends and holidays) do not score.
• Private companies, funds and family holdings have no daily price, so people whose wealth is mostly private cannot be drafted.
• Lineup projections and the matchup win chance are simple estimates from recent points. They are not forecasts.