How scoring works in Gorilla Draft
Gorilla Draft scores whole teams, not players. Every win a team records is worth a fixed number of points that is published before the season starts, and that number is different in each sport for one reason: a season is a different length in each sport.
One strong season is worth about 1000 points
An NFL team plays 17 regular season games. A baseball team plays 162. If a win paid the same in both, a single baseball team would out-score an entire football roster by the end of April, and nobody would draft a quarterback again.
So the engine fixes the destination rather than the step. A strong regular season is worth roughly 1000 points in every sport. Each sport has a benchmark for what a strong season looks like, and the value of one win is simply 1000 divided by that benchmark.
points per win = 1000 ÷ benchmark season
An NFL benchmark of 11.9 wins makes a win worth 84.03. A baseball benchmark of 97.7 wins makes a win worth 10.24. Both add up to about the same place after a full season, which is what lets a league mix sports without one of them quietly deciding the title.
The published rate card
These are the live values. They are set before a draft and do not move underneath a league that has already picked.
| Sport | Points per win | Points per draw | Benchmark season |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premier League | 35.29 | 11.76 | 85 credit |
| Major League Baseball | 10.24 | cannot draw | 97.7 wins |
| Major League Soccer | 50.00 | 16.67 | 60 credit |
| NBA | 16.10 | cannot draw | 62.1 wins |
| College Football (FBS) | 87.72 | 43.86 | 11.4 wins |
| College Basketball (Men's) | 35.71 | cannot draw | 28 wins |
| NFL | 84.03 | 42.02 | 11.9 wins |
| NHL | 19.84 | cannot draw | 50.4 wins |
| Champions League | 166.67 | 55.56 | 18 credit |
| WNBA | 29.07 | cannot draw | 34.4 wins |
Soccer benchmarks are quoted in credit rather than wins, because a soccer win is worth 3 credit and a draw 1. The Premier League's 85 credit is roughly 28 wins and a draw.
Draws
A drawn game pays half of a win in the sports that can draw. Five sports carry a draw rate and only four can actually use it: college football abolished the tie in 1996, so its draw rate exists in the table but no game can ever earn it. Baseball, basketball and hockey resolve every game, so they publish no draw value at all rather than a zero, because "this sport cannot draw" and "somebody left this blank" must not look the same.
The postseason is a separate 500
Winning matters more in January than in August, so the playoffs are paid from their own budget rather than as more regular season wins. A championship is worth 500 points, and every round before it pays on a ladder that halves as the field doubles.
postseason points = 500 ÷ 2⌈log2 p⌉
Reaching the final pays 250. The last four pay 125. The last eight pay 62.50, and the ladder runs down to sixteenth place. One ladder is shared by all ten sports, so a deep run in hockey is worth what a deep run in baseball is worth, which is the same idea as the regular season rate card applied to a bracket.
When your scoring starts
A league scores games from its own start date, not from the first day of the sport's season. A league created in August does not retroactively collect a team's wins from March. The window is fixed when the draft begins so that the table cannot move under a league that is already playing.