Games
Roster Relay: connect two players, one teammate at a time.
Roster Relay asks you to build a chain between two players by finding people who appeared for the same franchise in the same season.
How to play
- Choose a player who shares a qualifying franchise-season with the starting player.
- Continue the chain until the final player is linked.
- Every connection is checked against the game’s roster records. Wrong guesses are free.
What counts as a link
Roster Relay supports MLB by default, with NBA and NFL options. A link counts when both players appeared for the same franchise in the same season, within the league you selected. The game shows the shared team-season after a link is accepted, so you can see why it counted.
Scoring and efficiency
Getting to the endpoint is only part of the challenge. Rarity estimates how recognizable an intermediate player is using league-specific fame and career data. The starting and final players do not score, and repeating the same roster connection does not earn extra credit. These are game measures, not judgments about a player’s value.
Data boundaries and corrections
Trades, partial seasons, changing franchise names, duplicate names, and source disagreements can make a connection less straightforward than it looks. Roster Relay follows one clear game rule instead of claiming one universal historical truth. If a connection seems incorrect, include the two players, league, and proposed shared season in a correction report. Past puzzles are available inside the game.
Behind Roster Relay
Notes on the decisions, edge cases, and small systems behind the game.
- Why Roster Relay Rarity Measures Fame, Not Just Career LengthHow Roster Relay tries to reward obscure sports memory without pretending to mathematically solve fame.
- How Roster Relay Chooses a Daily PuzzleRecognizable endpoints, route length, hub resistance, cooldowns, and why variety matters when choosing a Roster Relay puzzle.
- The Roster Relay Scoring LoopholeWhy repeatedly naming players from the same roster was fun but shouldn’t pad Links or Rarity, and how the scoring changed.
- Why “They Were Teammates” Is Harder Than It SoundsFranchise moves, trades, overlapping seasons, duplicate connections, and the messy sports data behind a simple Roster Relay rule.