Build a team of real short track speed skaters, earn points from actual competition results, and compete for the top of the leaderboard.
Short Track Manager is a fantasy sports game built around the World Tour season. You assemble a squad of real short track speed skaters and earn points whenever they podium in a live competition. The better your picks — and your transfer timing — the higher you climb on the global leaderboard.
Every manager starts with a $100M budget to fill 13 roster slots:
Each athlete and relay team has a price. You must keep your total spend at or under $100M. There is no minimum spend — find the best value to maximise your point haul.
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.
On the Athletes page, each card may display a badge showing the athlete's best ISU world ranking across all distances they compete in (500m, 1000m, 1500m). This is their standing in the real-world ISU rankings — not a fantasy league rank.
After each competition's results are published — and before the next event goes live — a transfer window opens. You can swap athletes in and out to react to form, injuries, and price shifts.
Window timing: opens when competition results are finalised; locks the moment a competition status changes to "live". Plan ahead!
The winner earns 10,000 pts and each subsequent place earns approximately 85% of the one above — rewards extend all the way down to last place. Both individual and relay events use the same formula.
| Place | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 10,000 |
| 2nd | 8,500 |
| 3rd | 7,225 |
| 5th | 5,220 |
| 10th | 2,316 |
| 20th | 456 |
| 30th | ~186 |
| 50th | ~46 |
| 68th – last | 1 |
Ranks 1–20 use a ×0.85 geometric series; ranks 21–50 use ×0.90; ranks 51–68 decrement by 1 down to a minimum of 1. Everyone from 68th onwards earns 1 point. DNS / DNF / DQ earns 0 points.
Your three relay slots — Women's 3000m Relay, Men's 5000m Relay, and Mixed Relay — score points using the exact same formula as individual athletes. If your chosen country's relay team finishes 1st, you earn 10,000 pts from that slot; 2nd earns 8,500 pts, and so on.
Relay results do not contribute to per-athlete or team bonus thresholds.
On top of placement points, athletes and teams can earn bonus points for exceptional performances in a single competition.
Set a world record — stacks with other bonuses; each WR fires separately
Finish in the top 3 in all three distances (500m, 1000m, 1500m)
Finish top 10 in all three distances (only if Hat Trick is not earned)
4 or more podium finishes (top 3) across your 10 individual athletes
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.