The leaderboard writes itself. Here’s how.

A winner is a contestant whose XI outscored the field. The desk publishes winners with the contest format they played, the size of the contest, and the headline pick that drove their score. We do not publish the contestant’s identity beyond their handle; the wallet settlement is between the contestant and the operator.

The desk reads winners for two things: which selection patterns reward the contest format, and which contest formats reward the captaincy method. The archive on this hub is sorted by week; the format-wise read is below.

The leaderboard teaches the same lesson over and over: the captain pick matters more than the rest of the XI combined. A 2x on a player who outscores the field by 30 points is worth more than a steady XI across eleven players. The desk reads this as a strong argument for high-conviction captaincy picks in low-variance formats and conservative picks in high-variance formats.

Three patterns we see in the archive:

• Head-to-head contests reward the bold pick. The winner-takes-the-prize structure means a single high-variance swing beats a steady XI.
• 50/50 contests reward the floor. The top-half-payouts structure means a steady XI with a safe captaincy swing beats a high-variance XI.
• Leagues reward compound thinking. The ranked payout structure means a multi-entry XI with two distinct captaincy swings beats a single-entry XI with one swing.