Fantasy for dance night
Draft the celeb.
Draft the pro.
Split the score.
Every couple on the show is two separate picks. Snake draft them with your friends, take a cut of every judges' score your dancers earn, and watch your roster shrink every time the vote goes the wrong way. Free, and it runs all season.
Already been invited to a league? Enter your invite code.
A league is a draft with friends, two of you or ten, and about half an hour. Solo takes about two minutes — four celebrities, four pros, locked in before the next episode — and runs itself from there. Weekly Picks is three picks for one week, so it doesn't matter how far into the season you found us.
How it works
- 1
Draft every dancer
Each couple is two separate picks: the celebrity and the pro. Snake draft with your friends until every roster is full.
- 2
Split the score
A couple's judges' score is split between its two owners — 60% to whoever has the pro, 40% to whoever has the celebrity. Your league can change the split.
- 3
Survive the vote
When a couple is sent home, both halves stop scoring for good. No waivers, no free agents, no replacements.
- 4
Win the season
Points pile up week by week. Highest season total takes it, and every episode crowns a week winner along the way.
See who's playing
Public leaderboards rank every league playing the same size and split, live all season.
Questions
Why are couples split into two picks?
Because that is the interesting decision. A brilliant pro can carry a beginner, and a natural celebrity can make an unknown pro look like a genius. Splitting them means two managers share every score, and the draft is about who you believe in rather than who is famous.
What does 60/40 mean, and can we change it?
Every judged point a couple earns is divided between its owners: 60% to the pro's owner, 40% to the celebrity's. A 24-point dance pays 14.4 and 9.6. The commissioner can set the pro's share anywhere from 50% to 80% before the draft starts, and if you own both halves you collect the lot.
What happens when my dancer is eliminated?
They score for the episode they went home in, then nothing ever again. Both halves of the couple go cold at once, so an elimination usually hurts two managers. Shrinking rosters are the game: by the finale most teams are running on one or two dancers.
Can I trade or pick up free agents?
No. There are no trades, no waivers and no replacements. What you draft is what you have for the rest of the season.
What if the cast doesn't divide evenly?
Everyone gets the same number of slots — N celebrities and N pros, where N is the cast size divided by the number of managers, rounded down. Whoever is left over goes undrafted and scores for nobody.
Can I start a league mid-season?
Yes, and you pick how much of the season counts. “From our draft” scores only the episodes airing after your draft finishes, so you start level with each other. “Full season” counts every week, including the ones already aired — your draft pool is still the couples left in the running, so the points earned by dancers already sent home go unclaimed. Either way you draft from whoever is still competing, and every standings page shows which weeks your league counts.
What is Weekly Picks?
A one-week game. You make three picks from the couples still in the running — a pro, who scores 60% of their couple's judged total, a celebrity, who scores 40%, and a couple, where you take both halves and collect the whole score. Lock them in whenever you are ready, or leave them and they lock themselves when that week's episode starts. Then the board goes public, and the season tally counts weeks won. You can start in any week; there is nothing to catch up on.
What is the going-home bonus?
Name the couple you think the audience sends home this week and it is worth a flat 10 points if you are right, nothing if you are not. It is the one part of the game the judges don't decide. It is a bonus rather than a fourth pick: three picks with no call is a complete entry that scores normally, and the call is the one thing that can double up, because it may name a couple you already hold in a scoring slot — a hedge rather than a contradiction. A double elimination pays if you named either couple, and a week that sends nobody home pays nobody and marks nobody wrong.
Why do the three picks have to be different couples?
Because otherwise there is no decision to make: the best play would always be to put the strongest couple in all three slots, which is a copy and paste rather than a prediction. One couple, one slot. The picker greys out a couple's other two roles once you have used it.
What if one of my picks doesn't dance that week?
They score 0 for that slot. Weeks where some couples sit out are part of the show, and the risk is yours — the other two picks still score, so an entry is rarely a write-off. A week broadcast over two nights is still one week: every dance in it counts towards the same score.
Can I play Weekly Picks and be in a league?
Yes, and solo as well. They are three separate games on the same scores: a league is a season-long draft against friends, solo is one roster for the whole run, and Weekly Picks is this week only. Nothing you do in one affects the others.
What is solo mode?
A pick'em for one. You choose four celebrities and four pros from the cast, lock them in, and score all season by the same rules a league uses — no draft, no waiting for anyone else. There is one public solo leaderboard per season, and it takes about two minutes to enter.
Can I play solo and be in a league?
Yes, and they don't interfere. Your solo entry is one per season and lives on the solo leaderboard; your leagues are separate rosters with their own drafts and standings. Plenty of people use solo as the warm-up while they round up friends.
Why aren't solo picks exclusive?
Because there is no draft to make them exclusive. In a league the order decides who gets whom; in solo everybody picks from the whole cast, so any number of entries can hold the same dancer and each is paid their full share. What separates entries is conviction: the 60/40 split is fixed, so taking both halves of one couple pays the whole judged total and spends two of your eight slots on a single result.
Can I change my solo picks?
Until you lock them, yes — they stay private and editable. Locking is explicit, and an entry also locks itself the moment the next episode starts airing, so nobody picks during a show. After that the picks are public and final for the season, and your entry scores every episode from the lock onwards.
How do I join a friend's league?
Open the invite link they send you and sign in with your email — there is nothing to install. If all you have is the six-character code, enter it on the join page and it will take you to the same place.
Do I need to know anything about dancing?
No. The judges do the scoring; you just pick who you think will last. Knowing a paso doble from a quickstep is optional, and half the fun is arguing about it in the group chat.
Is this official?
No. This is an unofficial fan game, not affiliated with or endorsed by Dancing with the Stars, its producers, networks, or rights holders.