About Sports Arcade

Sports Arcade is a sports trivia game built around one idea: anyone can name the superstar, so the superstar barely counts. Every prompt asks you to name a player who fits, such as "a player who played for both Ajax and Barcelona" or "a center who went to Kentucky". A correct answer moves your player up the field, and the more obscure the player you name, the further you go.

Three sports

Soccer: more than 90,000 players across the Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, MLS, the Champions League and international football.
Basketball: more than 4,700 NBA players from every era, with teams, colleges, positions and awards.
Football: more than 20,000 NFL players, with teams, colleges, positions and honours.

Ways to play

Daily run: the same seven prompts for everyone, every day. Thirty seconds each. One shot.
Race: up to four players answer the same ten prompts at the same time. First across the line wins.
Auction Draft: two managers get $25 each to bid on random players, build a five, and watch the match play out with a full box score.
Practice: unlimited runs, filtered by competition.

How rarity is measured

Each player gets a fame score based on how widely they're covered across Wikipedia's language editions. When you answer, we compare your pick with every other valid answer to that prompt. If almost every other valid answer is more famous than yours, that's a deep cut, and it's worth far more. See How to play for the full scoring.

Where the data comes from

Player careers, positions, nationalities and honours come from Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, with hand-checked fixes on top. If you spot a mistake, tell us.

Sports Arcade is independent and isn't affiliated with any league, team or player.