Complete Guide to Short Track Manager

How Short Track Manager Works

Build a team of real short track speed skaters, earn points from actual competition results, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.

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Draft Your Squad
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Earn Race Points
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Make Transfers
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Overview

Short Track Manager turns the real World Tour into your game. Draft a squad of real speed skaters, and every time one of them podiums in a live competition their result is banked as your points.

Sharper picks and better-timed transfers send you up the global leaderboard. Here's the spec you start with.

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Building Your Team

Every manager starts with a 100M budget to fill 13 roster slots:

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5 Male Athletes
Individual competitors
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5 Female Athletes
Individual competitors
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3 Relay Teams
Mixed, Men's 5000m, Women's 3000m

Each athlete and relay team has a price. You must keep your total spend at or under 100M. There is no minimum spend โ€” find the best value to maximise your point haul.

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Athlete Prices

Prices are based on a rolling sum of ranking points across the athlete's four most recent competitions. Prices update after each competition weekend, so strong performances push athletes into higher tiers.

Dominant
25M
Champion
22M
Superstar
18M
Elite
14M
Strong
10M
Mid-tier
7M
Competitive
5M
Fringe
3M
Entry
2M
Base
1M
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Athlete Ranking Badges

On the Athletes page, each card may display a badge showing the athlete's best international world ranking across all distances they compete in (500m, 1000m, 1500m). This is their standing in the real-world international rankings โ€” not a game rank.

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Top 1โ€“3
Best rank โ‰ค 3
World top 3 in at least one distance
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#4 โ€“ #10
Best rank 4โ€“10
World top 10 in at least one distance
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#11 โ€“ #25
Best rank 11โ€“25
Ranked but outside the elite tier
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Unranked
Best rank > 25
No badge displayed on athlete card
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Transfers

After each competition's results are published โ€” and before the next event goes live โ€” a transfer window opens. You can swap athletes in and out to react to form, injuries, and price shifts.

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Results Published
Competition ends
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Window Opens
Transfers available
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Make Transfers
Up to 2 free swaps
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Window Locks
Next comp goes live
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No transfer fees
Sell at current price, buy at current price โ€” budget changes only by the price difference.
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2 transfers per window
Use them wisely โ€” the window closes the moment a competition goes live.

Window timing: opens when competition results are finalised; locks the moment a competition status changes to "live". Plan ahead!

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Points Scoring

The winner earns 100,000 pts and each subsequent place earns approximately 85% of the one above โ€” rewards extend all the way down to last place. Both individual and relay events use the same formula.

PlacePoints
1st
100,000
2nd
85,000
3rd
72,250
5th
52,201
10th
23,162
20th
4,560
30th
~898
50th
~35
68th
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Every place is worth 85% of the one above it โ€” a single ร—0.85 geometric curve from 1st (100,000) on down the field, fading to 0 by around 77th. DNS / DNF / DQ earn 0 points.

Relay Team Scoring

Your three relay slots โ€” Women's 3000m Relay, Men's 5000m Relay, and Mixed Relay โ€” score points using the exact same formula as individual athletes. If your chosen country's relay team finishes 1st, you earn 100,000 pts from that slot; 2nd earns 85,000 pts, and so on.

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Women's 3000m Relay
Up to 100,000 pts per event
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Men's 5000m Relay
Up to 100,000 pts per event
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Mixed Relay
Up to 100,000 pts per event

Relay results do not contribute to per-athlete or team bonus thresholds.

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Bonus Points

On top of placement points, athletes and teams can earn bonus points for exceptional performances in a single competition.

Per-Athlete Bonuses

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World Record+1,000,000 pts

Set a world record โ€” stacks with other bonuses; each WR fires separately

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Hat Trick+500,000 pts

Finish in the top 3 in all three distances (500m, 1000m, 1500m)

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Top-10 Triple+200,000 pts

Finish top 10 in all three distances (only if Hat Trick is not earned)

Team Bonuses

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Team Podium+150,000 pts

4 or more podium finishes (top 3) across your 10 individual athletes

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Team Top-10+100,000 pts

7 or more top-10 finishes across your 10 individual athletes

Both team bonuses can fire in the same competition. Relay teams do not count towards team bonus thresholds.

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Private Leagues

Compete head-to-head with friends in a private league. Each league has its own independent team, budget, standings, and activity feed โ€” completely separate from your global rank.

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Standard League
  • โ€ขBuild your roster freely via the Team Builder
  • โ€ขTransfer window limits apply after the league starts
  • โ€ขCreator can "Start League" to lock all rosters
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Draft League (Snake)
  • โ€ขSnake draft assigns rosters โ€” no free picking
  • โ€ขAthletes are exclusive once drafted by a manager
  • โ€ข12-hour pick timer per turn; free-agent draft windows between competitions

Creating & Joining

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Joining (any tier)
Enter a 12-character invite code (e.g. a1b2c3d4e5f6). Open leagues grant instant access; invite-only leagues create a pending request for the creator to approve.
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Creating (Pro only)
Pro subscribers can create 1 league with up to 15 members. View Pro plans to unlock league creation.

Scoring is identical to global. Same international ranking formula, same per-athlete bonuses (Hat Trick +500,000, Top-10 Triple +200,000, World Record +1,000,000), same team bonuses (Team Podium +150,000, Team Top-10 +100,000). Achievement badges apply to the global team only.

Draft League Rules

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Snake Pattern

Pick order is randomly set once and locked. Even rounds follow the same order; odd rounds reverse it โ€” a classic snake draft.

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13 Picks Per Manager

5 male athletes + 5 female athletes + 3 relay teams โ€” the full standard 13-slot roster, covered in one draft.

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Athlete Exclusivity

Once an athlete is drafted, they cannot be picked by any other manager in the league for the rest of the draft.

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Relay Cap of 2

Any specific relay team (e.g. Netherlands Men's 5000m) can appear on at most 2 rosters in the same league.

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12-Hour Pick Timer

Each turn has a 12-hour window with a push notification at the start and a 1-hour warning. Miss it and the slot is skipped โ€” empty slots can be filled via normal transfers after the draft.

League Admin Controls (Creator)

โœ๏ธRename leagueBefore start only
๐Ÿ“ŒSet pinned messageBefore start only
๐Ÿ”’Toggle invite-onlyAlways
โœ…Approve / reject join requestsAlways
๐ŸšซRemove membersBefore start only
๐Ÿ”‘Regenerate join codeAlways
๐Ÿ—‘๏ธDelete leagueAlways
๐Ÿš€Start League (standard)Irreversible โ€” locks rosters

Subscription Tiers

FeatureBasicPro
Join leagues (invite code)โœ“โœ“
Create leaguesโ€”1 league
Max members per leagueโ€”15
Transfers per window27

Pro is a one-time seasonal subscription.

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