A tournament is a single-elimination bracket. You draft a fresh roster each round, go head to head with one opponent, and the higher score advances. Lose once and you are out.
Because every round is a fresh draft, a bad round cannot be inherited from a good one. Reaching the final on the back of one enormous week counts for nothing once the next round starts.
Tapping a matchup opens the full boxscore: both rosters side by side, slot by slot, with each player's projection next to their actual points and their live stat line underneath. Before kickoff you can see exactly where you are favoured and where you are not; during the games you can watch it move.
A league is a season — it absorbs a bad week and rewards consistency across many of them. A tournament is decided in a handful of rounds, and one bad roster ends it.
That changes how you draft. In a league, taking the safe, high-floor player over the volatile one is usually right. In a bracket, if you are the underdog, the volatile player is often the only pick that can actually win you the round.
Whoever creates a tournament runs it, with the same tools a league commissioner has: invite by link or email, private entry with a password, injury settings, handing a team to a different account, and Admin mode roster edits — which, as in leagues, are permanently labelled Admin change so the whole bracket can see one was made.
The roster shape is theirs to set too, slot type by slot type — up to four each of QB, RB, WR, TE, FLEX and SUPERFLEX, to a maximum of twelve slots — so a bracket can be run on something far deeper or stranger than the standard five.
Each tournament has its own chat, including an @everyone mention for round deadlines.
New here? Start with How to Play, or read the scoring rules.