The Board is the set of games you choose from when you make a play. Where those games come from, and how they're arranged, depends on the league's sports, its schedule, and its game-selection mode. This page explains the pieces behind the Board.
Every league is built on top of one or more event pools — the set of real games and matchups the league can draw from, based on the sport (or sports) it covers. A single-sport NFL league pulls from NFL games; a multi-sport league combines the eligible games from each of its sports into one pool. The pool is what determines which matchups can possibly appear on your Board.
A league's schedule governs when it's active and when games are actually available to play. Depending on how the owner set it up, a league might offer a Board every day there are games, group play into weekly windows, or run on custom dates. The schedule is why the Board is full on some days and light — or empty — on others: it only surfaces games that fall inside the league's active window.
Once the eligible games are known, the league's game-selection mode decides how they reach you: all of them (Show All / All Required), a number you choose (Flex Play), or an automatically built set (Random). Those modes are covered in Creating & Configuring Leagues and Making a Play. The rest of this page is about that last one — how a Random board is assembled.
Trivia leagues build their Boards from the question pool instead of an event pool — and questions have no off-season, so a trivia Board exists every single day. The builder honors the league's audience and age group (an all-ages league can only serve kid-safe questions), the league's question source (our pool, the league's own questions, or both), and then enforces variety: it oversamples candidates and seats the most dissimilar set, so no two questions on one Board share a topic, and two "X is better than Y" debates never sit together. Mustard-versus-catsup followed by pizza-versus-hot-dogs is, by policy, impossible.
In a Random league, the system builds your board for you — but the selection is guided, not purely random. Two light balancing rules keep a random board varied:
Every active sport is represented. In a multi-sport league — say one running both NFL and MLB — a random play is built so that each active sport shows up. In a three-game play across NFL and MLB, for example, you'll get at least one game from each, with the remaining leg filled from the combined pool.
Pick types are mixed. When a league offers both spreads and totals, the builder nudges a play away from becoming all one type. If a three-game play is shaping up to be all spreads, the last leg is steered to a total instead, so the board isn't lopsided toward a single kind of pick.
The effect is a board that feels fresh and varied each day rather than a run of near-identical picks — weighting, but a light touch. This balancing is automatic; it isn't a set of dials an owner configures per league.