Each player's "stock price" in millions of pounds. Starts at £100M baseline. Floor £25M, ceiling £250M.

The Thursday Footy Markets league index — average market value across all players who have played at least once. Like the S&P 500.

Current Value divided by total goals scored. Lower is better — surfaces players providing more goals per £M of value. ∞ means hasn't scored.

Volatility relative to the average played player. β=1.0 is typical, β>2.0 is wild, β<0.5 is rock steady.

Risk-adjusted return — total Δ from baseline divided by volatility. Higher = consistent gains. Negative = losing more than the volatility justifies.

OVERBOUGHT = recent surge, possibly due for a correction. OVERSOLD = recent crash, candidate for a bounce. Mean-reversion signal.

Composite of momentum (last 3 weeks' net Δ), valuation (vs league avg), and form (last 3 played). Five tiers: STRONG BUY · BUY · HOLD · SELL · STRONG SELL. Each rating ships with a one-line thesis. Real, not flattering.

Quarterly release. Each player gets a card: EPS (goals/game), Revenue (sum of weekly Δ), P/E (annualized), Quarterly P&L, Guidance (BEAT ≥ +£15M · MEET · MISS ≤ −£15M).

Sub-£75M player rips a hat-trick in a single week. Cellar-dweller goes off — explosive upside.

£150M+ player drops ≥ £20M in one week. Top-heavy collapse — premium valuation meets brutal correction.

A player's first appearance of the season. The IPO Board tracks debut performance — Day 1 Δ vs the £100M starting price. W1 = "League Listing Day" (mass IPO).

Auto-classified by goals/game ratio. STRIKER (≥0.9), ALLROUNDER (0.3-0.9), DEFENDER (<0.3), GHOST (no games yet).

Hasn't played a match in 3+ weeks. The market is taking a wait-and-see view.

What % of your team's total goals you typically provide when you play.

Open / High / Low / Close. Open = prior week close. Close = this week's close. (We compute values once per week so high/low collapse to those.)

Form-weighted ranking — sum of last 3 weeks' Δ. Differs from value rankings because someone can be high-value but cooling off.

Win = +£10M base · Loss = -£8M base · Draw = 0. Modified by Strength of Opposition (0.7×–1.3× multiplier).

+£2M per goal. Hat-trick (3+ in match) = +£5M extra.

Multiplier on the base W/L. Beating a stronger team = bigger gain; losing to a weaker team = bigger drop.

Win when your team's avg value is >£20M below opponent's = +£5M to +£15M extra.

3+ wins in a row builds bonus (+£2M per streak game beyond 2, capped +£8M). 3+ losses in a row builds penalty (-£2M per game, capped -£8M).

Won AND scored = +£2M. Lost AND scored 0 = -£2M.

Lose by 5+ goals = additional -£3M for every player on the losing side. v1.3: winners now also get +£1M per goal of margin (capped at +£5M).

Skip a match week (after first appearance) = -£0.5M. v1.3: Pre-Listing players (never played) take no penalty — they sit at baseline £100M until they IPO.

v1.4: Your team conceded ≤3 goals = +£2M to every player on the team. Relaxed from 0-conceded so the bonus fires more often in 7-aside scoring games. Strong defense gets rewarded even when a couple slip through.

v1.3: You played, won, and didn't score = +£2M. Recognizes the unsung — defenders, midfielders, anyone who held the line without putting their name on the scoresheet.

v1.3: Auto-classified DEFENDER (career goals/match < 0.3) gets +£1M every time their team wins. Implicitly rewards consistent defenders.

v1.3: A player exists on the roster but hasn't played a match yet, so they have no market value. They appear in the Pre-Listing waiting room. First match = IPO at £100M.