OWN YOUR TEAM.
Swoops is the basketball simulation game and virtual league that lets you own, manage, coach, and profit from your own digital basketball team.

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create your team.
buy your players.
COMPETE for a title.
make money.
Jump in, THE WATER’S WARM.
And since we launched in January, it’s only getting warmer.
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branded teams
named players
make the team your TEAM.
Before you step on the court, your team deserves a name and logo. Within your team's locker room, you'll be able customize each. Check out some of the SWOOPS community owned franchises below, click to see/follow their personal team Twitter pages.
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BUY one-of-one PLAYERS.
We call our basketball playing robots, Swoopsters. Each Swoopster is a one-of-one, all of which are owned by members of our community. Once you own a Swoopster, it is 100% yours to do with as you choose. This is where your front office skills come in. Play them, trade them, or sell them to a competitor to put real money into your pocket.









Swoopsters will either be a guard, forward, center, or a combination of two positions (e.g. G/F or F/C). A Swoopster with such multi-positional eligibility can be played at either position, enhancing its value.
As its owner, you have the right to name your player. It is a single-instance, irreversible action, meaning that once completed, the name will stay with the player even through transferred ownership.
A player’s season number represents the season that player is currently in. Rookies enter in season one.
Similar to real-world college sports recruiting ratings, Swoopsters are rated from one to five stars — with five being the strongest rating.
For every year of experience, one additional skill will reveal. A 5-season veteran, for example, will have 5 skills revealed, and a 7-season veteran will have 7 skills revealed.
A player's top-3 highest rated skill scores are colored gold on your player card, and accompanied by a trophy icon.
The DNA of a Swoopster includes 15 skill ratings that help determine performance on the court.
Rookie Swoopsters start with one revealed skill scores. Every season a new skill score is revealed. Skill score with '??' signify an attribute that has yet to be revealed.

COMPETE TO win.
Every SWOOPS season comes down to the Swooper Bowl, a 64-team tournament, pitting the most successful Swoops franchises from the regular season against each other for the chance to take home the crown and pocket some cash.
MAKE MONEY.
You wouldn’t be a real team owner without the ability to turn a profit. Within the SWOOPS universe owners have a multitude of ways to generate revenue.

SEASON SCHEDULE.

WEEK 1

WEEK2 - WEEK 11

WEEK 12

WEEK 13

WHAT’S NEXT?
QUESTIONS and answers.
Swoops is a basketball simulation game and virtual league that lets you own, manage, coach, and profit from your own basketball team. The more you win, the more chances you have to make real money.
During each season, you'll be able to pit your team of Swoopsters against other players in a number of different modes, including a seasonal matchmaking, various levels of daily and weekly tournaments, and the live streamed, 64-team, $20,000 prize pool, end-of-season Swooper Bowl!
At the conclusion of each season, the team at Swoops comes together to painstakingly decide who will be crowned the MVP, DPOY, Owner of the Year, and more. After owners lobby for their players, spirited debates are had and the votes are tallied. The winners are then announced during the seasonal Swoopy Awards livestream - a truly can’t miss event.
If you love basketball and the idea of owning and competing with your own team, figuring out the best lineup combinations, making the right moves to acquire new Swoopsters, and competing for a chance at real money, Swoops offers not just the perfect game, and league, for you, but a tight-knit community of helpful team owners who are just as passionate as you are.
Swoopsters are the players that make up each team in Swoops. Swoopsters are generated using a modeling system that takes in hundreds of different data points and stylistic influences in order to create a realistic and wholly unique basketball playing machine. No two Swoopsters will ever be exactly the same.
When looking at your Swoopster, you’ll notice they have 15 different "main attributes'' that help to define their playstyle and performance on the court, such as three-point rating, interior defense, and basketball IQ. However, that’s just the beginning of understanding your player, and the puzzle of learning how and why they play the way they do can be as addictive as the games themselves.
Once a Swoopster is created, all of the data that defines them from their ratings and attributes, to their appearance, name, and all the secret behind-the-scenes sauce that makes up a Swoopster is encrypted and securely stored on a blockchain — essentially a publicly visible database that cannot be altered or modified.
Basically, the technical work we do behind the scenes is what makes it so you can have 100% ownership and rights to your players and team.
In other games, you have an account, character, and items that are “yours” but are really just assets of the game company that are ultimately owned by them — not you. No matter how much time or money you spend on a game, if that company chooses to close your account there is no way to recoup your investment. Oftentimes, companies will even make it against their rules to buy, sell, or trade things inside of their game on an external market.
At Swoops, that's the last thing we want to do — so when we say team and player ownership, what we mean is giving you complete control and full rights to your account, team, and Swoopsters. That way you are free to buy, own, sell, and trade your players without any interference from Swoops or anyone else.
Your account and everything stored on it is entirely outside of the Swoops ecosystem. That means if we were to treat Swoops like other games, all the information of your account and Swoopsters are still safely stored with you outside of Swoops, and we couldn't take anything away from you even if we tried.
When you sign up for Swoops, a digital wallet is created for you (if you don't already have one), and that wallet becomes how you log in to Swoops. You can think of that wallet as a safety deposit box that only you have the key to — except instead of your grandfather’s gold watch and some emergency cash, it securely stores data. Not just Swoops data, but all sorts of different things can be stored in there.
We facilitate the creation of that wallet through a third party as a way to establish an account that is unowned by Swoops, that we have no influence over, and that exists in perpetuity. Nothing will ever cause it to close or disappear, and it can be used to log in to many more places other than Swoops’s ecosystem.
Earlier, it was mentioned that Swoopsters data is stored on a blockchain. That is done because for one, storing it that way makes it not replicable, meaning nobody can fake a Swoopster or generate their own. Secondly, that's the type of data that can be sent to the safety deposit box, verified that it exists inside of it, and once verified you are the only person who can allow it to be taken out or moved.
When you log in to Swoops with your account, we read the wallet ID and ask permission to look inside the box to see if there's Swoopster data in there. If granted permission, all we can do is look. When you allow us to look, that's how we can verify what’s in there, read the data, and tell who owns which Swoopster.
The first way is completing our tutorial, which will grant you a free Swoopster.
The second way is by purchasing one on the marketplace where other team owners will put their Swoopsters up for sale, auction, or take offers on. You can browse those marketplaces to see all sorts of different Swoopsters, their attributes, and their stats. And if you want to purchase one, those marketplaces will safely and securely transfer the money and Swoopster data between owners.
The third way is by participating in the new Swoopster drop before each season. Whereas sports leagues will have a draft to acquire new players each year, Swoops has a set amount of brand new, rookie Swoopsters that will be created and sold for a low base cost before the next season begins. This gives everyone the same chance to add to their team regardless of their prior season’s performance and to help establish new teams as well.
Unlike a sports draft where scouts have years of footage to establish how good incoming rookies might be and if they want to select them, incoming Swoops rookies are unknown during the new player drop. It’s sort of like buying a pack of trading cards where you don’t know what’s inside.
Sometimes, you’ll collect a rare 5-star player, and other times, you’ll acquire a more common 1-star player. After the new player drop ends and all Swoopsters have been purchased, there is a highly anticipated preseason Reveal Day when all the new Swoopsters are unveiled at the same time and owners will see what kind of talent has joined their team.
On the navigation bar above, you can hit the 'Learn' button to take you to a number of blog posts that explain the nuances of Swoopsters, the league, and the game itself. We really encourage you to join the Swoops Discord as well, where you can ask questions and team owners and staff will be eager to answer and discuss anything you have in mind.
Learning about the game, your players, their styles and preferences, how to maximize them, what kind of lineups work the best, and figuring out how to approach your opponent is all part of Swoops.
Whether you’re a data-driven analytics lover, a competitive sports junkie, a market-scouring deal broker, a sports betting savant, or just a pure hoops lover, Swoops offers something for everyone.
Lace ‘em up, get on the court, and come be the next team everyone is talking about!