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Fantasy sports software

Match day is the load test.

Everyone enters in the last ten minutes and everyone watches the same leaderboard. We build fantasy platforms where scoring, contests and settlement hold up on the evening that actually matters.

How a project runs
  • Experienced engineers
  • NDA before day one
  • You own the code
  • Audit trail on every payout

At lock

Entries queued, never dropped

In play

Scores pushed, not polled

At settlement

Reconciled to the paisa

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Four formats, four different engines

A daily mega contest and a season-long draft share a brand and almost no data model. Pick the closest to what you're launching.

A packed stadium under floodlights Mega contests

Hundreds of thousands of entries, one leaderboard.

Large public contests where the hard parts are entry throughput at lock time, a leaderboard that updates without melting, and settlement that reconciles to the paisa.

  • High-throughput entry handling
  • Leaderboard at scale
  • Tiered prize breakdowns
  • Reconciled settlement
Friends watching a match together on a phone Private leagues

Twelve friends and a group chat.

Invite-code leagues with their own rules and prize pools โ€” the format that drives retention, because people come back for the people.

  • Invite codes and joins
  • Custom rules per league
  • Private prize pools
  • League chat and standings
A live match in progress Head-to-head

One opponent, one result.

Fast one-versus-one contests with matchmaking, rematches and a result that lands the moment the match ends.

  • Matchmaking and rematch
  • Skill or stake banding
  • Instant result on completion
  • Streaks and rivalries

A squad you manage for months.

Draft or salary-cap formats with transfers, waivers and weekly deadlines โ€” a different data model from daily contests, and worth designing as such.

  • Draft or salary cap
  • Transfers and waivers
  • Weekly deadlines
  • Season leaderboards
What we build

Six systems behind one contest

Scoring and prizes get the attention; wallets, eligibility and fair play decide whether you keep operating.

Fans watching a live match on their phones

Scoring engine

Configurable rules per sport and per contest, applied to live events so a point lands when the ball does.

  • Per-sport rule sets
  • Captain / vice-captain multipliers
  • Replay and recalculation

Contest and prize engine

Entry fees, tiered prize breakdowns, caps, cancellations and refunds, defined once rather than hard-coded per contest.

  • Prize tier templates
  • Entry caps and auto-cancel
  • Refund rules on abandonment

Wallet and payouts

Deposits, winnings and bonus balances held separately, with withdrawals that pass through your approval rules.

  • Segregated balance types
  • Deposit and withdrawal flows
  • Payout approvals and limits

Identity and eligibility

KYC, age checks and location rules enforced at entry, with every decision recorded for later inspection.

  • KYC vendor integration
  • Age and self-exclusion checks
  • State and geo rules at entry

Live data pipeline

Feeds from providers normalised into your own event model, so a provider outage is a degraded screen, not a wrong result.

  • Provider-agnostic event model
  • Replay from raw feed
  • Fallback and manual override

Fair play and risk

Collusion patterns, multi-accounting and bonus abuse surfaced for a human to review, with actions logged.

  • Device and payment fingerprints
  • Multi-account signals
  • Reviewer queue with audit
One match, end to end

From lineups to money in a wallet

Five stages, each with its own failure mode โ€” and each designed so a retry never double-charges or double-pays.

Match-day blueprintWhat the platform does between first entry and final payout
  1. 01

    Lineups

    Squads built, credits checked, teams saved and edited until lock.

  2. 02

    Lock

    Entries close at first ball; late writes are rejected, not queued.

  3. 03

    Live scoring

    Feed events scored against your rules and pushed to open apps.

  4. 04

    Leaderboard

    Ranks recomputed continuously, with ties resolved by stated rules.

  5. 05

    Settlement

    Prizes applied to wallets, TDS handled, statements generated.

  • Idempotent entries
  • Raw feed stored before scoring
  • Websocket push to open apps
  • Tie-break rules stated up front
  • Daily gateway reconciliation
  • Abandonment rules per contest
Designing for the spike

Traffic isn't a curve here. It's a wall.

Four design decisions do most of the work. We make them explicit in the proposal, then load-test against your own expected concurrency before launch.

Everything happens at once

Traffic is not a curve โ€” it is a spike at lock and another at the final ball. We design entry and settlement paths to be queued and idempotent rather than hoping for headroom.

Reads vastly outnumber writes

Leaderboards and live scores are cached and pushed over websockets; the database is reserved for money and entries.

Provider feeds fail

Events are stored raw before they are interpreted, so scoring can be replayed and corrected without guessing what arrived.

Money needs its own path

Wallet operations are transactional and reconciled against the payment gateway daily, separately from gameplay traffic.

A live cricket match under floodlights

Before launch

We agree the concurrency you expect for your biggest fixture, then test entry, scoring and settlement at that level โ€” and fix what breaks while it costs nothing.

Money and eligibility

The controls your counsel will ask about

We build the mechanisms; your legal advisors decide the policy. Both are easier when the platform records every decision.

KYC and age

Identity and age verified through your chosen vendor before a paid entry, with the decision and documents retained per your policy.

Location rules

Entry blocked where you say it must be, by state or region, with the check recorded against the attempt.

Tax handling

TDS on winnings computed at settlement, with statements users can download and finance can reconcile.

Audit trail

Every contest, score revision, manual override and payout approval is logged with who did it and when.

We are engineers, not your lawyers: where real-money contests are permitted, and on what terms, is advice you should take from counsel in each market you enter.

Integrations

The services a fantasy platform leans on

Feeds, payments, identity and the infrastructure that carries a spike.

Data feeds

  • Sportradar
  • CricAPI
  • SportMonks
  • Custom scrapers

Payments

  • UPI
  • Razorpay
  • Cashfree
  • Net banking
  • Payout APIs

Identity

  • Aadhaar-based KYC
  • PAN verification
  • Liveness checks
  • Device fingerprint

Engagement

  • Push
  • WhatsApp
  • SMS
  • In-app inbox

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Redis
  • Kafka / queues
  • WebSocket clusters

Analytics

  • Event pipeline
  • Cohort reporting
  • Risk dashboards
  • Raw exports
How a project runs

The same four steps, every time

So you always know what happens next, what it costs and when you'll see it working.

  1. 01

    Product review

    A free 30-minute call with a senior engineer. We map your formats, your sports and where money enters and leaves.

  2. 02

    Fixed-scope proposal

    Modules, timeline and cost in writing within 5 business days, including what we would leave out of version one.

  3. 03

    Build in the open

    Short cycles with a demo every week. You run a contest end to end, including a settlement, in the real system.

  4. 04

    Launch and look after it

    We ship, then stay on through the first seasons โ€” new sports, new formats, new scale.

Ways to work together

Pick what fits where you are

How we workFixed-scope buildRecommendedDedicated teamScale or rescue an existing app
Best whenFormats, sports and the money model are settled.The product is still finding its format.Match days hurt, or settlement is manual.
You getScope, milestones and a fixed price before work starts.A named team, weekly demos, re-planning each sprint.A load and code review, a risk list, then fixes in order.
In one lineA defined platform with a written scope, timeline and price.Senior engineers as an extension of your team, month to month.A live platform reviewed honestly โ€” scoring, scale and settlement โ€” then fixed or rebuilt where it needs it.
FAQ

Questions about fantasy platforms

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Yes. Cricket, football, basketball, kabaddi and custom sports, each with its own configurable scoring rules, squad constraints and multipliers, running on one platform rather than separate builds.

Tell us what broke on your last big fixture.

A free 30-minute product review with a senior engineer โ€” honest advice on build, scale or rescue, with no sales pitch.

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