Rules

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years of age to open an account, participate in contests, or win prizes offered by the Web Site. In jurisdictions, territories, and locations where the minimum age for permissible use of the Web Site by you is greater than 18 years old, you must meet the age requirement in your local jurisdiction or territory. You must be at least 19 years of age at time of contest registration if you are a legal resident of Alabama or Nebraska. Legal Residents of all 50 states and Washington DC, excluding Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Vermont, are eligible to open an account and participate in contests offered by the Web Site. Legal residents of the excluded states are ineligible for prizes offered by the Web Site, and are not allowed to open or maintain accounts on the Web Site. Legal Residents of Canada are eligible to open an account and participate in contests offered by the Web Site.

You may establish only one account per person to participate in the activities offered on the Web Site. In the event Daily Joust discovers that you have opened more than one account per person, in addition to any other rights that Daily Joust may have, Daily Joust reserves the right to suspend or terminate any or all of your accounts and terminate, and withhold or revoke the awarding of any prizes.

Daily Joust Inc. employees may use the Web Site for the purpose of testing the user experience, but may not withdraw money or prizes for themselves.

Legal Requirements

All local, state, federal, and provincial laws and regulations apply.  Contests at Daily Joust may not be used for any form of gambling.  Taxes for all prizes won on Daily Joust, if any, are the sole responsibility of the prizewinner.  Fantasy sports contests on Daily Joust are void where prohibited by law.  Contests offered by Daily Joust are designed to be in full compliance with the UIGEA of 2006.  Any contests that are found by Daily Joust to not be in compliance with the UIGEA will be voided or cancelled.  Any individual fantasy teams found by Daily Joust to be not in compliance with the UIGEA will be disqualified from the contest, and ineligible for any prizes.

User Accounts

Users may open an account at dailyjoust.com for free.  We require certain information for opening an account and require that the user keep this information up to date.  Please refer to our Privacy Policy for details.  To participate in a contest and to gain access to certain features on the Web Site you must have an open account with Daily Joust.

Types of Contests

Daily Joust offers various fee based fantasy sports contests, and promotional free contests.  We also occasionally offer deposit bonuses in the form of Bonus Bucks with your initial deposit so you may try out our contests at no risk.

Funding Accounts

Accounts may be funded using the deposit methods available like major credit cards or PayPal.  There is a $10 minimum and $1500 maximum in a 24 hour period of time.  Additionally, no more than $5000 may be deposited in any 7 day period to a user’s account.  If you would like your deposit limits increased please contact support@dailyjoust.com.  For security reasons the user’s name, address and email address on the account must match the information supplied by the user’s financial institution.

Bonus Money

Daily Joust offers a virtual currency called Bonus Bucks.  Bonus Bucks are awarded for various site activities, promotions and accomplishments.  Bonus Bucks cannot be withdrawn but may be used in lieu of cash to cover a contest entry fee, and hence turned into cash via prize winnings.  Bonus Bucks can also be transferred between user accounts.

Withdrawal of Funds

Cash can be withdrawn from a Daily Joust account balance at any time.  Just click on the Withdraw Funds link on the My Account page and enter the amount you wish to withdraw.  Valid withdrawal requests will be immediately debited from the users account.  An email confirmation of the withdrawal will be sent as soon as the request is received.  We will transfer the money to you via your PayPal account the next business day.    One free withdrawal from a Daily Joust account may be made every seven days.  After the first free withdrawal, Daily Joust will charge a $10 fee for each subsequent withdrawal in the same seven day period.  The minimum withdrawal amount is $25 unless the withdrawal is for the entire balance of the account.

Daily Joust reserves the right to withhold funds up to 90 days to investigate an account if it has reason to suspect the account of fraudulent activity.

Contest Entry

By entering a contest, a user agrees to be bound by these Rules and by the Terms of Use.  All decisions made by Daily Joust regarding contests, scoring, and prizes are final and binding.  All contests offered on Daily Joust are games of skill and any use of the Daily Joust website or contests for gambling purposes is prohibited.  In order to register for any real money contest you must have enough cash or Bonus Bucks in your Daily Joust account at the time of registration.  The contest entry fee will be deducted from the your account at that time you confirm your registration by submitting a team.  You can edit previously submitted teams prior to the starting time of the contest, at which time entries are locked.  Once you have submitted a team, the entry cannot be cancelled, only edited.  All users are presented with the same set of players, salaries, and salary constraints prior to the start of a specific contest.  If the posted maximum number of entrants, as noted on the specific Contest Details, for a contest is obtained at any point during the registration process, the contest will then be closed to new registrants.  Certain tournament-style contests allow for multiple team entry by a single user, as noted on the specific Contest Details.  Each team entry by a user in a single multiple-entry contest requires a separate entry fee.

Ineligible Fantasy Teams

All fantasy teams selected for Daily Joust cash entry contests must not consist entirely of players from a single team, game, or event.  The team registration process on Daily Joust will indicate when a team is not in compliance with this rule and will not allow entry of the team.  If for any reason, a team entered into a contest does consist entirely of players from a single team, game or event that team will be disqualified from the contest.  Disqualified teams will not be eligible for any prizes for that contest and users will not be refunded any entry fees associated with the contest.

Contest Cancellation

Daily Joust will cancel any contest if the minimum number of entrants, as noted on the specific Contest Details, is not obtained prior to the start of the contest, at which point all registered users will be notified of the cancellation.  Daily Joust reserves the right to cancel any contest at any time in the event that any real-world games or events are cancelled, suspended, or postponed.  Daily Joust reserves the right to cancel at any time any contests that have no entrants.  Daily Joust will make all cancellation decisions at its sole discretion.  Any user registered for a cancelled contest will receive a full refund of their entry fee.  Daily Joust is not responsible for any losses, expenses, or liability incurred to the user due to the cancellation of any contest.  

Official Scoring

Live scores and statistics for teams and individual players can be viewed on the contest home page while the contest is running.  All live scoring on Daily Joust is solely for your enjoyment.  Although quite accurate, the scores shown are not official and are to be used for informational purposes only.  Players will score points based on their performance in the game that occurs on the date of the contest they are registered for.  If a real-world game is cancelled or not played for any reason, they will receive zero points for that game.  If a real-world game is postponed or suspended and subsequently resumed more than 12 hours later, any statistics accumulated after the resumption will not count toward the player’s point total for the contest.  In the event of an in-game suspension where player statistics are official and will be counted towards their season totals, and an official box score is delivered via our feed prior to two hours after the last game in that contest end, the fantasy scoring based on the official statistics will be counted.  Once official scores have been posted and the contest is listed as recently finished, completed, or past any further scoring changes will not affect the scores or prizes of any contest.  It is the user’s responsibility to be aware of possible postponements or cancellations and adjust their fantasy teams as required prior to the start of the contest.

MLB scoring is as follows:

Scoring for hitting (C, 1B/DH, 2B, 3B, SS, OF)

Total Bases (TB) = 1 pt for each base (Single = 1, Double = 2, Triple = 3, Home Run = 4)

Hit (H) = 1 pt
Run Scored (R) = 2 pts
Run Batted In (RBI) = 2 pts
Stolen Base (SB) = 2 pts
Walk (BB) = 1 pt
Hit By Pitch (HBP) = 1 pt
Sacrifice (SAC) = 1 pt
Strike Out (SO) = minus 1 pt
Grounded Into Double Play (GIDP) = minus 1 pt

Scoring for pitching (SP or P)

Inning Pitched (IP) = 1 pt for every out (i.e. 3 pts for each IP)
Strike Out (SO) = 1 pt
Earned Runs (ER) = minus 2 pts
Hit (H) = - minus 1 pt
Walk (BB) = minus1 pt
Hit Batsman (HBP) = minus 1 pt
Win (W) = 7 pts

Pitchers do not receive points for hitting, and hitters do not receive points for pitching.

In the case of MLB double headers, where a real-world team plays more than one game in a single day AND both games are included in the contest, batters will only be eligible to receive points for their performance in the FIRST game of the double header.  Starting pitchers (SP) will be eligible to receive points in the first, if any, game they actually make a start.

NCAA College Football (CFB) and NFL scoring:

NCAA College Basketball (CBB) scoring:

1 pt scored = 1 pt

(e.g. Free Throw Made = 1, Field Goal Made = 2, 3 Point Field Goal Made = 3)

Given the lack of available live statistical coverage of regular season college basketball games, points scored is the only statistic we are using.

Prize Disbursement

All completed contests on Daily Joust will pay the guaranteed prizes that are shown on the contest homepage (Contest Details) in advance of the contest.  In the event of a tie for any of the prize positions, the prize will be divided equally among those tied.  Prizes will be credited after Daily Joust receives the feed of the final game or event’s official box score, typically within one to six hours after the last game.  Daily Joust reserves the right to delay the prize disbursement to the following business day at our sole discretion.

Tie-breakers

In the event of a tie between two or more teams for a prize position, the following tie-breaker rules are used to determine the prize disbursement.

As part of a specific multi-player contest’s entry, Daily Joust may require the user to answer a tie-breaker question (e.g. How many points will my fantasy team score?).  In the event of a tie for prize positions, the tied user closest to the actual number wins the higher prize position.

In Solo contests there is no tie-breaker, the user either achieves the target or not.

In Head-To-Head (aka Heads Up) contests, ties are attempted to be broken by the following algorithm:

1. highest individual player score, next highest, etc down to the last player
2. if above doesn’t break tie, it is a tie and users split the prize

In League contests, ties are attempted to be broken by the following algorithm:

1. lowest difference between actual score and tie-breaker question, if any
2. for remaining tied users, highest individual player score, next highest, etc down to the last player
3. if above doesn’t break tie, it is a tie and users split the prize