In 2023, the league voted overwhelming to change the $10 bonus each week from “Most Points Scored” to a rotating list of achievements. Below are the achievements chosen by the commissioner for the 2026 season.
| Wk | Challenge | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pocket Aces | Two highest-scoring starters who combine for the most points |
| 2 | Deuce-to-Seven | Most starters who score between 2.0 and 7.0 points |
| 3 | In-Between | Team that scores closest to midpoint between first two scores |
| 4 | Hold ‘Em | Most points contributed by a group of five starters this season |
| 5 | Razz | Lowest scoring five starters who combine for the least points |
| 6 | Six Handed | Highest scoring team among the current playoff teams |
| 7 | Seven-Yard Stud | RB with the most rushes over 7 yards |
| 8 | Hi-Lo 8 | Split pot between team with most starters over 8 points and most players under 8 points |
| 9 | Pot Limit | Team who finishes closest in points to the season average among all teams |
| 10 | Omaha | Most combined points from the two highest scoring players in RB, both WR, and TE slots |
| 11 | Blackjack | Starter who gets closest to 21.0 points without going over |
| 12 | Go Fish! | GM who most accurately guesses their points before the week |
| 13 | Freezeout™ | See Freezeout™ rules below |
| 14 | Bounty | See Bounty rules below |
Additional Information
Week 1 – Pocket Aces
Category – Multi-Player
Time Frame – Single Week
Prize: $10
Win Condition – The two highest scoring starters on a team will have their point totals for the week added. The highest combined total wins.
Ethos – Pocket Aces rewards teams for rostering multiple good players.
Background – “Pocket Aces” refers to being dealt a pair of Aces as your two private “hole card” in a game of poker. In variations like Texas Hold’em, it is the strongest possible starting hand. In this challenge, your aces are represented by your two highest scoring starters.
Winning Players – Josh Allen (41.66), Derrick Henry (36.8)
Winning GM: – TheCarlos
Week 2 – Deuce-to-Seven
Category – Multi-Player
Time Frame – Single Week
Prize: $10
Win Condition – The team with the most starters who score between 2.0 and 7.0 points (inclusive) wins.
Ethos – Deuce-to-Seven favors top heavy teams, “bad teams,” and high ceiling/low floor players.
Background – Deuce-to-Seven, A.K.A. “Kansas City lowball,” is a lowball poker variant that is the direct opposite of standard poker. The worst hand in standard poker, 7-5-4-3-2 unsuited, is the best possible hand in deuce-to-seven.
Number of Players – 5
Winning GM – CoachesCoach
Week 3 – In-Between
Category – Team
Time Frame – Multi-Week
Prize: $10
Win Condition – The team who scores closest to the midpoint between their first two scores.
Ethos – In-Between rewards teams who are able to achieve consistent output.
Background – “In-Between,” or “Acey-Deucy,” is a card game created by Satan to take your money by exploiting man’s innate inability to calculate basic odds.
Winning GM – LBTown
Midpoint – 91.68
Week 3 Score – 90.54
Difference – 1.14
Week 4 – Hold ‘Em
Category – Multi-Player
Time Frame – Multi-Week
Prize: $10
Win Condition – The team with the five starters who contributed the most points through the first five weeks. Only points generated while in the starting lineup count.
Ethos – Hold ‘Em rewards teams for rostering, and starting, multiple quality players early in the year.
Background – Texas hold ’em is the most popular variant of poker, in which players compete to create the best five card hand. In this challenge, teams compete to create the best set of five starters by holding them in the starting lineup each week.
Winning GM:
Starters –
Combined Points –
Week 5 – Razz
Category – Multi-Player
Time Frame – Single Week
Prize: $10
Win Condition – The team with the five starters who contributed the least combined points in week five.
Tiebreaker – The team that scores the least total amount of points.
Ethos – Razz favors top heavy teams and offers possible consolation to outright bad teams.
Background – Razz is a form of lowball stud poker. The object of Razz is to make the lowest possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt.
Winning GM:
Starters –
Combined Points –
Week 13 – Freezeout™
One buy-in. One winner. No second chances.
Category – Team
Time Frame – Regular Season
Prize – $40
Win Condition – Freezeout is a survivor-style side game that will run during the 2026 season. The two lowest scoring teams in week one are eliminated.
Starting week two, the single lowest-scoring team will be eliminated each week from the survivors until only the winner remains after week thirteen.
Ethos – Freezeout™ rewards balanced teams who are able to maintain a high floor.
Background – A freezeout poker tournament is a poker tournament in which each player only gets one entry.
Eliminated Teams:
| Week | Eliminated Team |
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| 1 | RestingHollow |
| 1 | Eliel |
| 2 | GreysonH |
| 3 | DHenman |
| 4 | RKMay |
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Week 14 – Bounty
Big losses and bigger wins.
Category – Team
Time Frame – Regular Season
Prize – $40
Win Condition – Each team begins the season with 1 “bounty chip.” An additional bounty chip is added to every team each week. When a team wins their matchup, they take half the bounty chips held by the loser (rounded up).
Ethos – Bounty rewards teams with high ceilings who are able to win big matchups.
Background – A bounty in poker is a cash amount or reward assigned to each player in a knockout tournament and paid out to the player who eliminates them.
Week 5 Chip Count
| Team | Chips |
|---|---|
| DReid | 10 |
| Dylan614 | 8 |
| Eliel | 8 |
| HaffCaff | 7 |
| TWatkins | 6 |
| GarrettMattingly | 5 |
| GreysonH | 4 |
| CoachesCoach | 4 |
| RestingHollow | 4 |
| TarmoTim | 3 |
| JamesMyers | 3 |
| LBTown | 3 |
| DHenman | 2 |
| TheCarlos | 2 |
| Kenjifonn | 2 |
| RKMay | 1 |
