Case study

SMX Fantasy League: a season-long platform we built and run

SMX Fantasy League is a fantasy league platform for supercross and motocross fans, designed, built, and operated by Hayden Software Solutions. It handles everything a league needs from the first draft to the final standings, and it's a working example of what we can build for a local business.

Designed & built By Hayden Software Solutions
Operated Maintained and supported in-house
Live at smxfantasyleague.com
The challenge

Replace the group text and the spreadsheet

Friends who want to compete in a fantasy league over a racing season usually end up juggling group texts, shared spreadsheets, and someone manually adding up points every week. Drafts are hard to schedule, rules get argued about, and the person keeping score eventually burns out.

The goal was a single, dependable place where a league can be set up in minutes, drafted live, and then largely run itself: results published, standings updated, and everyone able to see exactly where they stand.

What we built

Everything a league needs, in one place

Live drafts

Members draft their teams together in real time, with a draft order, a pick clock for every turn, and an automatic pick if the clock runs out, so the draft never stalls waiting on one person.

Three league formats

Supercross, motocross, and a combined year-long SMX format, each with its own season calendar and scoring, all running side by side on the same platform.

Private and public leagues

League creators choose whether their league is invite-only or open for anyone to find and join, set the size of the league, and manage its members and draft schedule.

Roster swaps

Once the season is underway, members can swap a rider out for an available replacement, with a confirmation step before anything changes.

Rider power rankings

Riders are ranked for each league format, and the ranking appears right beside every available rider during the draft and when choosing a roster swap, with the top-ranked riders listed first, so picks are informed instead of guesses.

Weekly results and standings

Each race week, the points breakdown by team and by rider is published and the league standings update automatically, including tiebreakers, with no spreadsheets to maintain.

Season analytics

Interactive charts show how every member's points have trended, week by week or as a running total, with the option to focus on just the teams you care about.

League chat and activity feed

Each league has its own conversation, plus a running activity feed of drafts, roster moves, and membership changes, with optional email updates so everyone stays in the loop.

Plain-language rules

Dedicated rules and scoring pages explain how each league format works, so new members can get started without asking the organizer.

What it means for your business

The same building blocks, applied to your work

A fantasy league is a fun subject, but the underlying problems are the ones local businesses run into every day. The capabilities behind this platform translate directly:

Have a process that lives in spreadsheets, email threads, or someone's head? Tell us about it. We'd be glad to talk through what a purpose-built system could look like.

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