Glossary of Terms

Roster Contest – this is a daily fantasy sports contest where users draft a team of players that compose their fantasy lineup.

Parimutuel Contest – a parimutuel pool is a betting method in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets. For more information on parimutuel betting on CoinRoster, see our parimutuel betting section.

Voting Round – this is a betting round that determines the outcome of a crowd settled contest.

Betting Round – this is the betting round when users bet on which outcome will be determined in a crowd settled contest.

Multi-Stat – this is a fantasy sports scoring method that assigns different points for different statistics such as 5 points for a goal and 1 point for an assist.

Score to Par – this is a fantasy sports scoring method that assigns fantasy points based on a golfer’s raw score to par. CoinRoster’s Score to Par scoring method is dynamic as it assigns a score of zero for the player in last place and all other fantasy points are based off the worst place score. So if the worst place golfer is +5 and the leading golfer is -5, then the last place golfer will have a fantasy score of zero, and the first place golfer will have a fantasy score of 10.

Contest – refers to any CoinRoster parimutuel pool or fantasy game.

Category – refers to the grouping of contests, such as Fantasy Golf, Golf Props, and Hockey Props.

User – is an account with CoinRoster.

Player – is a real life participant in a sporting event.

Affiliate – a user who refers other users to CoinRoster.

RosterCoins – is the currency used by CoinRoster to reward users for referring friends, creating contests, and voting.  RosterCoins have the same value as bitcoins.

Bitcoins a crypto currency used on CoinRoster.

Settlement Methods – refers to the way a contest is settled. There are three different settlement methods: auto settled, user settled, and crowd settled.