How it works

Skill-based ranking contests

RankArena asks one question: how well do you know players and their matchups?

Rank all 10

Everyone gets the same 10 players. Put the most yards at #1.

Lowest score wins

Exact ranks add 0. Lowest total wins.

Early access beta

Contests have no payouts or cash prizes during beta period

Weekly

Everyone gets the same 10 quarterbacks. Rank all 10 and save your board before the weekly deadline. You can make changes until then. All 10 picks lock together. Lower scores are better.

Daily

Reveal a historical NFL week and rank all 10 players by yards in 2 minutes. Submit your board or let the timer finish. Each blank adds 9 points. One attempt per day. Lower scores are better.

You may manually look up publicly available historical statistics during Daily. Bots, automated retrieval or solving, AI-generated rankings, help from another person, and coordinated entries are prohibited.

Daily resets at midnight Eastern Time. An attempt started before reset keeps its full 2 minutes. Leaving or disconnecting does not pause the timer. Only the last board saved by the server before the deadline counts.

Rank at least one player to count toward your Daily streak. Partial boards count; entirely blank boards still receive a score but do not extend a streak. View current and longest streaks, best score and recent games in Results → Daily.

Your Daily standing compares total scores, with equal scores sharing a place. It is marked “So far” until the day closes and all permitted attempts finish. “Ahead of” appears after 20 results and counts only contestants with a higher score.

Read Daily rules

How to enter

Step 1

Choose your game

Predict passing yards in Weekly or rank historical yards in Daily.

Step 2

Build your board

Rank all 10 players. Put the most yards at #1.

Step 3

Get your score

Your score compares your board with the actual player order. The closer your ranks, the lower your score.

Step 4

See where you finished

Weekly scores and group standings appear on the contest page and stay provisional until results are verified. Daily scores appear when you submit or time runs out.

View example

How scoring works

Rank differential

Add the distance between each selected rank and the official final rank.

Lowest score wins

The best board has the lowest total differential across the 10 ranked picks.

Rank differential example

Each board rank is compared to the official final rank for that stat.

Selected player	Your rank	Final rank	Difference
Josh Allen	1st	2nd	1
Joe Burrow	2nd	1st	1
Patrick Mahomes	3rd	8th	5
Total for these 3 picks			7 points

Add the differences across all 10 ranked picks. Lower total scores are better. Daily adds 9 points per blank. Weekly requires a complete saved board.

In case of a tie...

For the current ten-player Weekly game: Lower scores rank higher. Contestants with the same total score share the same standing. No tiebreakers apply.

For example, two contestants tied for second share second place. The next contestant is fourth. Earlier 20-player contests retain their original tiebreakers.

Read the Week 8 standings clarification

Players tied on yards share a rank range. A placement inside that range adds zero points. A placement outside adds the distance to the nearest end.

Read the format-specific scoring rules