Player Guide · Rules
Podium Draft is a fantasy draft game built around real competitive fitness events. You pick a team of real athletes, they compete in the real world, and you earn points based on how they finish.
No betting. No entry fees. No prizes. Just the game — and the bragging rights that come with picking the right team.
Draft smart. Watch closer. Compete against everyone else who thinks they know fitness better than you do.
Register at app.podiumdraft.com with your email, a display name, and a username. It takes two minutes.
From your dashboard, find an open competition and click Enter. Each competition has its own athlete roster and XP budget.
Pick 3 male mains, 3 female mains, 1 male wildcard, and 1 female wildcard — all within your budget. Choose carefully.
Pick one athlete from your team and one event number. If they place in that event, their points double. This is your edge pick.
Points update in real time as event results come in. Check the leaderboard. See how your picks stack up against every other manager.
Every competition comes with an XP budget. Every athlete on the roster has a cost in XP. You cannot go over budget — so every pick is a trade-off.
You cannot select the same athlete in two slots. You cannot place a female athlete in a male slot or vice versa.
High-cost Veterans offer reliability. Low-cost Rookies carry multipliers that can blow up your score — or fizzle. The best teams balance both.
Status is set by the competition admin based on the athlete's competitive history at this level. It does not change mid-competition.
Every event, athletes earn base points based on their finishing position. Base points are then multiplied depending on the slot they're in and their status.
Points decrease by 3 per position from 1st through 30th. Athletes finishing outside the top 30 or who do not finish (DNF) score zero for that event.
Multipliers apply on top of base points. They are the engine of the game — the difference between a safe pick and a high-risk, high-reward play.
PWP and slot multipliers do not stack with each other — PWP applies to the base points only for that one event. All other events use the slot multiplier as normal.
Before each competition day locks, you nominate one athlete from your team and one event number. If that athlete places in that specific event, their base points are doubled for that event only.
You nominate Tia-Clair Toomey for Event 3. She finishes 2nd (97 base pts). With PWP active, she scores 194 pts for that event instead of the standard Veteran main rate of 97 pts.
At the end of each competition day, bonus XP is awarded automatically. Bonus XP adds directly to your budget, giving you more spending power for team changes on subsequent days.
Bonus XP is visible on your competition page. It carries into the next day's budget and can be used to upgrade your team during the selection window.
Multi-day competitions run across several days of events. Each day has a lockout time — once locked, your team and PWP selection for that day are final.
Ranks all managers in a competition by total points — the sum of all day scores plus any Bonus XP earned. Updated after every scored event.
The season leaderboard aggregates your total XP across all competitions you've entered. The more competitions you play, the more you can accumulate.
Your leaderboard row shows a delta figure after each event — the points you earned from the most recently scored event. A quick read on whether your picks are working in the current session.
If you believe a score has been entered incorrectly, email admin@podiumdraft.com with the subject line "DISPUTE" before the competition ends. We aim to respond within 24 hours during an active event. See the full Dispute Resolution page for details.