College basketball · Through Selection Sunday
How to play NCAA Assassins
Draft teams, collect their wins, and see which of them survive the weekly assassins.
The game in 10 seconds
- Draft Division I basketball teams with your friends. Every win by one of your surviving teams earns you 1 point.
- Every Monday morning, the league learns which undrafted teams are assassins for the week.
- If an assassin beats one of your teams, that team is eliminated. You keep the points it already earned.
- Most points at the end of the season wins.
The twist
An assassin is a real opponent on somebody’s schedule. It can threaten any drafted team it faces that week—even teams belonging to different people. One upset can sting the whole league.
The full rules
- Leagues have 4 to 11 members. The number of teams you draft depends on league size, and the draft snakes back and forth.
- You can add AI opponents before the draft. They draft alongside everyone else.
- Every Monday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, Sloopio randomly draws up to one undrafted assassin for each member from the known games against that member’s surviving teams that week. If there is no eligible opponent for a member, no extra assassin is drawn for them.
- An assassin belongs to the league, not to the member whose schedule produced it. It can eliminate any drafted team it beats during that week.
- Only games already on the schedule when Monday’s draw happens can produce assassins that week. There are no surprise additions later in the week.
- Your teams earn 1 point for each win against another Division I team, including wins in conference tournaments. Wins against non-Division I teams do not score.
- An eliminated team stops earning points after the game in which it lost to an assassin. Your earlier points stay on the scoreboard.
- A league drafted after the season begins starts scoring in the next Monday-through-Sunday week.
- Scoring ends on Selection Sunday. The NCAA tournament does not count.
- If members tie on points, the member with more surviving teams wins the tiebreaker. If they are still tied, they share the finish.
Ready to play?
Create your free beta account or sign in, then create a private league or join one with an invite code.