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Same Board Duel: Send a Friend the Exact Same Draft
By PENG CHAI · Published
A Same Board Duel freezes one draft board — same seed, same versioned candidate contract, same ruleset version — into a link you can send a friend. You both draft the same candidates and make your own calls. Same board means comparable runs, not identical results and not a promise of perfect fairness.
Creating a duel
Finish a run, then create a Same Board Challenge from the result. The game freezes the board you played and generates a link. Your friend opens the link, drafts from the same candidates, and plays their own season.
What is frozen — and what is not
Frozen: the candidate set, the candidate order, the seed, and the ruleset version. Not frozen: your picks, your refreshes, your three Big Calls, and the outcome. The duel compares decisions, not dice.
How to read the comparison
After both runs complete, compare where your choices split: the round where your friend took stability and you took upside, the slump call that changed the middle of the season, the playoff decision that separated the reports. The value of a duel is the divergence, not the score.
The link is not a lock
Anyone with the unguessable link may view the generated result until it expires or is deleted. Do not treat the link as private access control, and do not share anything sensitive alongside it.
The full duel flow is in How It Plays; the draft itself is described on the basketball draft game page; ready when you are — start your build.