This screen allows the user to see when the next game week deadline is, and move to the squad selection screen.

The “gameweeks” should just be pulled from Sorare – we are just following their timing format, so this should hopefully make things easier? We should not have to create our own timings etc.

Leaderboards – this will pull the users Sorare score from the team they select from our selection screen, adding each players score into a team score for the week. They will need to see their Score for the game week totalled. 

But as this stage I imagine we work primarily on a monthly leaderboard with prizes. So the monthly leaderboard will total all weekly scores in that month. I am not sure if a key already exists in the Sorare api for a monthly score. If not – let me know and we could consider sticking to a weekly format, but monthly is better as it makes prizes a lot cheaper.

If there is no automatic way of getting a monthly total, we could possibly total this ourselves? Any gameweek starting in that month would belong to that month i.e if the gameweek took place over 29th March to 4th April that gameweek would count towards March. 

And then there will be a Leaderboard for overall season standings – the sum total of all weekly or monthly scores with a prize for the overall Seasonal winner.

At first, we should probably start with just one division. But if we can build in capacity to add other divisions with slightly different rules that is great.

The main selling point of our League is the ability to customise the rules to suit the UK/European market, making it more accessible and more fun. We will need to be able to set the rules of our league and then amend them in future in response to user feedback – and according to Sorare, this should be possible and they told me it was “easy”. 

Our unique rules: (Subject to change after a beta and user feedback)

– Ability to select any white “common” card player in your squad, enabling more freedom to play for free without using obscure players (as an intro). Unlike the Rare and above cards, these cards do not exist on the blockchain and do not “belong” to the user, it is just a free pool. Ubisoft have done this so it must be possible somehow.

– Select 11 players and 4 substitutes, unlike Sorares 5 players only. 

– Must have 1 goalkeeper, at least 3 defenders and 1 forward in your starting 11. 

– Bench must have 1 substitute goalkeeper, 1 defender, 1 midfielder, 1 forward. 

– Must have ability to select a “captain” (this is standard)

– A substitute replaces any player who Does Not Play (DNP), like for like (e.g the defender replaces the defender and cannot replace the midfielder). 

– Only players from the top 5 European Leagues AND the smaller European leagues. Sorare categorise these as “European Champions” e.g big 5 main Leagues and “European Challengers” (smaller leagues)”. So, you should be able to just select these two groups, rather than specifiying every individual league.

– Maximum of 3 Rare cards in your squad (we will need to edit this later to make it more). No Super Rare Cards. No Unique Cards. 

– Disable card XP modifier to level the playing field (we may want to adjust this later)

– Reduce scarcity penalty for using “Common” white cards from 45% to 10%. (If it is possible to give no penalty to common cards, and give rare cards a 10% BONUS instead – this is better for marketing, but I am not sure if this is possible).