THE TOUTING CONTEST

How a week is scored. Each pick earns his ROI% in that week’s small-dollar Millionaire Maker, with DraftKings’ rake taken out. ROI is the prize money won by every lineup that rostered him, against what those lineups paid in, from DraftKings’ public standings. The rake comes out because it’s paid no matter who you pick: DraftKings keeps about 15 cents of every dollar, so with it in, the whole field starts around −15% before a snap is played. With it out, the field as a whole sits at 0. A pick that paid back exactly what the field paid back scores 0. Beat the field and he’s green. Lose to the field and he’s red. The Player ROI page keeps the rake in, so its number for the same player runs lower (JSN’s Week 2 is +416% there and +494% here). No cap: the real number, all of it. Floored at −100% per pick, because a lineup can’t lose more than its ticket. A pick the field owned under 1% doesn’t count either way (0). Your week is the sum of your three. The pool is the Milly’s own player list — the Sunday afternoon games only, QB, RB, WR, TE and DST (no kickers), posted each week once DraftKings publishes salaries. Locks Sunday 1:00 PM Eastern. Edit as often as you like before that, including after you’ve seen TwoGun’s three. Visibility is yours: public now, public after lock, or private, per week, changeable forever — and “public” means public to the people who entered that week; nobody else sees anyone’s picks, ever. Scores are yours alone: the public board is each week’s top three and the season’s top ten, nobody else’s number is shown to anyone but them. Medals: a week’s top three earn gold, silver and bronze with the week number on it, kept in your account, and each one feeds your EXP meter. Ties go to whoever locked in first. TwoGun takes no medal and no row; his number prints under the board every week, win or lose. TwoGunGPT plays too: the site’s AI files its own three every week, picked on its own — nobody tells it who, TwoGun included. Friday night, with one more look Saturday night. No medal and no row for it either; its number prints under the board next to his. Private is private: a week that’s private when picks lock is out of the standings — no podium, no medal, not in the season line — and you still get your own score. Public or public-after-lock both count. The season board is one switch and counts every week you played in the standings. The prize: Week 8’s winner gets a free $20 Milly Maker ticket (full rules). Other weeks are for bragging rights.