How to play

Pickleball Traders is a friends-and-family beta. Credits are game money. There is no cash-out and no deposit.

The book

Sign up and you get 50,000 credits. That is the whole stake. Weeks do not pay the book, and badges do not either.

Usernames are 3–20 characters: letters, numbers, and underscores. The form checks that before it asks the server.

Write down the recovery code shown once at signup. Password reset is on the reset page. An email address is optional and stays private. A reset link is mailed only after sending is turned on. Until then, use the recovery code. If that is lost, Chris can issue a one-time code from the admin desk.

Buying and the 1% sell fee

A buy takes shares at the quote on the board. There is no buy fee.

A sell pays the same quote minus 1%. Sell 1,000 credits of stock and the book receives 990.

You can hold as many players as the cash allows. There is no eight-player squad and no captain.

How a price moves

The opening quote is the 3 Oct 2026 Fantasy League price divided by 10. A $400,000 player is 40,000 credits. The $1,000 floor is 100 credits.

Those quotes already include stored results from 9 January 2026 through 27 September 2026. Results after that move the quote again when a finished PPA event, the PPA ticker, or MLP scores publish a final. The price moves page lists each change with the match that caused it.

A result moves a quoted player by up to 8% of their own quote, and by no more than 3% of the other side’s quote. A win adds that amount. A loss subtracts it. If a feed is down, the quote stays where the last real result left it.

The week

A week starts Monday 00:00 UK time. The Week page shows that week number, players whose quotes moved on finals inside the week, and matches or events the tours have actually listed.

The weekly leaderboard ranks the percent move since the Monday lock. The season board ranks the move since the 50,000 credit start.

Five badges

Badges live on the Challenges page. They do not add credits.

  • First book to reach 1,000,000 credits.
  • First book to reach 100,000 credits, which is double the start.
  • Hold at least one share of a PPA title winner at the moment that final is recorded.
  • Hidden gem: the best percent gain on a position whose average buy was under 1,000 credits.
  • Inside a private league, the first member to 250,000 credits.
Leaderboard and private leagues

Rank is percent gain, so a bigger book does not outrank a smaller one that grew faster from the same start.

Create a league, copy the invite link, and send it. Anyone with an account can join. Their board sits beside the global board. The sample account is marked Sample so a new tester can tell it from a person.

FAQ

Can I cash out? No. Credits never leave the game.

Why did a price not move this week? Only a published final moves it. A scheduled match, a cancelled feed, or a week with no results leaves the quote alone.

I forgot my password. Use the recovery code from signup, or the forgot-password page when email sending is on. If the code is gone, ask Chris. He can issue a code that works once, for 48 hours, and only for your username.

Something looks wrong. Send a note. It is stored for the desk admin. It is not emailed.