Your team's daily score comes from two things: how your CEOs' companies performed in the market, and how your CEOs were covered in the press.
| Category | Share of Scoring | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Stock Performance | 50% | Daily percentage change in company stock price |
| News Sentiment | 50% | Tone of press coverage over the past week |
| Compensation | Not yet | Planned, but not currently scored — see below |
Stock and news are balanced so that across a full season each one accounts for roughly half of all the points that move around the league. It is not a per-day guarantee, and the two use different formulas — so on any single day one component will usually be larger than the other. The balance is what's tuned, not the daily split.
Each trading day we take the percentage change in the company's stock price and multiply it by 10.
Stock Points = percentage change × 10 (rounded to the nearest whole point)
| Stock Change | Points Earned |
|---|---|
| +5.0% | +50 points |
| +2.3% | +23 points |
| +1.0% | +10 points |
| 0% | 0 points |
| -1.0% | -10 points |
| -2.3% | -23 points |
| -5.0% | -50 points |
There's no cap on stock points. A company that moves 12% in a day is worth 120 points, up or down.
If Tim Cook's Apple closes up 2.5%, that CEO earns +25 points for the day.
Every trading day, each CEO is scored on the tone of their press coverage over the previous seven calendar days — not just that day's headlines.
Scoring only same-day articles made news almost irrelevant: most CEOs have no coverage on most days, so the component sat idle and then occasionally exploded. A rolling window asks a better question — how has this CEO been covered lately? — and means a strong week of press pays off across the week rather than in a single spike.
Yes, one article counts on more than one day. A story published Tuesday is part of your CEO's coverage through the following Monday. That's deliberate, not double-counting: we're measuring the state of a CEO's press, not tallying individual articles. Because news breaks on weekends too, the window runs on calendar days — Friday's story is still the story on Monday.
We collect articles about each CEO and their company from financial news sources and classify each one as positive, negative, or neutral. Neutral coverage scores nothing. Positive and negative articles are then weighted by how established the source is:
| Source Tier | Counts As |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 — major financial outlets | 1.0 article |
| Tier 2 — everything else reputable | 0.5 article |
| Blocked sources | 0 — no effect at all |
News Points = (weighted positives − weighted negatives) × 36
Capped at +120 and −120, so no single run of coverage can decide a season on its own.
Over the past week, Satya Nadella has two positive Tier 1 articles, one positive Tier 2 article, and one negative Tier 1 article.
Positives: 2.0 + 0.5 = 2.5. Negatives: 1.0. Net: 1.5 × 36 = +54 points, and he earns that on every trading day the window covers.
Executive pay is part of the long-term plan for this game, but it is not currently worth any points, and we'd rather say so than list a weight we aren't honouring.
The reason is that the meaningful signal is the change in a CEO's compensation, and that needs two years of proxy filings to compute. Scoring the level of pay instead would just reward being well paid, which isn't a performance. When a second year of data is in place, compensation will come back with a weight derived from what that data actually shows — and stock and news will be rebalanced in the same change.
Daily Score = Stock Points + News Points
Full example — Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
Your team's daily score is the sum across every CEO on your active roster.
