Leaderboards

For every closed gameweek we read the reward tiers of each competition leaderboard and the exact score of the last manager who still got paid. Averaged over the season, that is the number you need to plan a lineup: how many SO5 points for cash, how many for essence. The range shows how much it moves from week to week.

The team columns answer the other half: we read the actual lineups of managers who finished in the money, price all five cards at today's FMV and take the median. That is what a winning squad costs to assemble right now, not what its owner once paid.

// Top earners

Which players actually bring the rewards home? Every winning lineup's prize is split across its cards by their share of the points: a player who scored 80 of the lineup's 400 points is credited with 20 %. Summed over the season, per competition and rarity. Pick a competition below, or click one in the table above.

// How to read this

• Cash from = average score of the lowest-ranked manager who received USD in that leaderboard; the small range is min–max across gameweeks. Score above it and, historically, you were in the money.
• Essence from = same for the lowest tier that paid essence (card shards). Card prizes exist too but are not shown here.
• Cash team / Essence team = median cost of the lineups that actually won in that band, priced at today's FMV across all five cards. Only fully priced lineups count, so a squad with an unpriced card never drags the number down.
• Cheapest 20 % / cheapest winner = how cheap it got. One in five cash winning lineups cost the first number or less; the second is the single cheapest lineup that took money all season. Read them together: the cheapest winner shows what is possible on a good weekend, the 20 % mark shows what is repeatable. Both exist only for cash, where we price every single paying rank. Essence ranks run into the thousands and are sampled, so a minimum there would describe our sample, not the field.
• Top earners = every winning lineup's prize split across its cards by their share of the points, summed over the season. Cash counts every rank that was paid in USD, essence every rank that received essence, which in the big competitions means tens of thousands of lineups per gameweek. Unique competitions pay their essence as Super Rare essence, because there is no Unique essence.
• Squad size differs: All Star and Under 23 are played with seven cards, every other competition with five. Their team cost is naturally higher, so compare within a competition rather than across.
• Paid ranks = how deep the cash tiers reach (e.g. top 125). Leaderboards with more lineups pay more ranks but need higher scores.
• Gameweeks in international breaks have fewer competitions — that is why some rows have fewer GWs than others.