Markets
A friend-only prediction layer on every round, tournament, season, and trip. No bookmaker, no vig, no algorithm quoting odds. Pari-mutuel pots, handicap-aware slates, and the scorecard is the oracle.
Round Markets
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The Problem With Sportsbooks
DraftKings sells you a transaction with a faceless book on Scottie Scheffler. There's no edge there - the book knows more than you, the vig eats the rest, and you're one of millions of strangers betting on someone you've never met.
Markets sells you a transaction with your specific friend Dave, on his Saturday round at his home course, where he's three beers in by the back nine. The information asymmetry is the entire point. You know Dave. The book does not.
How Markets Works
The slate is the centerpiece. Everything else stacks on top.
Questions
Markets is a friend-only prediction layer that sits on top of every round, tournament, season, and trip. You pick on your friends' performance, the pot pays itself, and the scorecard is the oracle. There is no house, no vig, and no algorithm quoting odds.
A sportsbook is a transaction with a faceless book on a pro you don't know. Markets is a transaction with your specific friend, on their specific round, where you have the information edge because you know them. The pot is split among the people who called it correctly. No bookmaker.
A slate is one market per round, opened when the round is created and locked at first tee. Each leg is a yes/no question on one hole for one player. You answer every leg in one sitting; the slate stays on your screen as the round plays and lights up correct or wrong as scores land. Most-correct legs wins the pot. Ties split.
The slate scales the question to the player's handicap so every leg has real variance. A 5 handicap gets 'birdie or better?' A 12 handicap gets 'par or better?' A 20 handicap gets 'bogey or better?' Same slate; calibrated questions per player.
Every round also opens with one OVER/UNDER per participant. The line is automatically set to course par plus the player's handicap, rounded to the nearest half-stroke so it never pushes. Pick over or under, stake some XP, settle when the scorecard finalizes.
The stake is XP, not dollars. Markets is the social layer - calibration leaderboards, hit-rate streaks, tier badges, public friend profiles. No real-money wagers. If you want stakes on the line, that's the separate round-entry system - played in cfUSD play money with no cash value.
Pari-mutuel. The people who called it correctly split the pot proportional to their stake. If three friends staked 100 XP each and one called it right, the winner takes the full 300 XP. If two called it right, they split 150/150. Streak bonuses layer on top (3 in a row = 25 XP bonus, 5 = 75, 10 = 250, 20 = 1,000).
Picks are visible to the round's participants and your friends. We added an explicit doxxing-prevention guard so strangers can't look up your slate via a raw market ID. Public friend profiles show lifetime calibration, hit rate, and recent picks - opt-in to that level of visibility on your settings page.
If fewer than 3 entries are placed before the slate locks, the market voids automatically and everyone gets their stake back. We'd rather refund a thin slate than run one with no liquidity.
Yes. The Caddie generates calibrated counter-picks per leg using PGA Tour and recreational baselines (par-3 birdie ~22%, par-5 ~50%, OVER/UNDER via normal distribution). You can see its pick before you lock in your own. Disagree with the Caddie and you fade it; agree and you copy it - both are first-class actions.
Get started
Slates open the moment a friend creates a round. Pick on every leg in one sitting and watch them flip live.
Friend-only · XP, not real money · No house
Free · No download · Works in your browser
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