MOST ACTIVE LEAGUES
Ranked by League Pulse: exports, games played, owners
showing up, filled seats and league talk, out of 100. The games count is on the right,
and one tap away as its own ranking.
A game counts only when two members actually played each other —
a box score behind it, and a person holding the controller on both sides.
A simmed game exports exactly like a played one; it does not count here.
755 verified games across this board.
1
118
LAST 30 DAYS
118 all time
83% between members · 29 owners
2
160
LAST 30 DAYS
160 all time
77% between members · 28 owners
3
64
LAST 30 DAYS
64 all time
94% between members · 31 owners
4
11
LAST 30 DAYS
11 all time
5
129
LAST 30 DAYS
129 all time
6
272
LAST 30 DAYS
272 all time
7
1
LAST 30 DAYS
1 all time
50% between members · 3 owners
WHAT COUNTS, AND WHY
Madden. A regular-season game with a final score,
in a week the league exported a box score for. The stats come out of the
companion app — nobody types them. A week of finished games with no stats
behind it is a week somebody advanced past, and it does not count here.
NBA 2K. A game with a confirmed box-score read. 2K has no export, so the evidence is the photograph: both halves filed, and normally filed by two different people, each shooting his own screen. Two independent readings of two different screens have to agree before the game is real — which is a harder thing to fake than an export.
A simmed week is not a played week. Madden exports stat rows for a game the CPU decided in four seconds exactly as it does for a game two men sat down and played, and nothing in the export tells them apart. So a game counts only when both teams have a human owner in the league. A thirty-two team franchise with nine members has twenty-three CPU teams, and a season simmed through them is hundreds of finished, exported, entirely unplayed games — none of which count. What survives is the games members actually played each other, which is also the number a recruit is asking about.
Preseason does not count, because it is free and infinite. Members do not count, because a roster of names is easy to gather. Posts, bets and chat do not count — those measure a chat room. This board measures games.
The last-30-days column is what does the ranking, so a league in its fourth season cannot sit on top forever on the strength of games played two years ago. Recomputed every ten minutes.
NBA 2K. A game with a confirmed box-score read. 2K has no export, so the evidence is the photograph: both halves filed, and normally filed by two different people, each shooting his own screen. Two independent readings of two different screens have to agree before the game is real — which is a harder thing to fake than an export.
A simmed week is not a played week. Madden exports stat rows for a game the CPU decided in four seconds exactly as it does for a game two men sat down and played, and nothing in the export tells them apart. So a game counts only when both teams have a human owner in the league. A thirty-two team franchise with nine members has twenty-three CPU teams, and a season simmed through them is hundreds of finished, exported, entirely unplayed games — none of which count. What survives is the games members actually played each other, which is also the number a recruit is asking about.
Preseason does not count, because it is free and infinite. Members do not count, because a roster of names is easy to gather. Posts, bets and chat do not count — those measure a chat room. This board measures games.
The last-30-days column is what does the ranking, so a league in its fourth season cannot sit on top forever on the strength of games played two years ago. Recomputed every ten minutes.