How It Works

Everything you need to know about the five tabs, picks, Gravity, locks, challenges, streaks, the Orbit, and Fanbases.

1. Finding Your Way Around

The Fan Orbit has five tabs across the bottom of the screen (mobile) and the top of the interface (desktop). Each opens a focused view — no menus to dig through.

• Picks — today's games, the Daily Slate, your active picks, and the Orbit Shop. The core loop lives here.
• News — headlines across every sport you follow. Toggle sport pills inline to filter. Tapping any story opens a full article panel.
• Live — live scores and upcoming games. Use the filter icon to narrow by sport. Tap any game to open its Game Room.
• Board — the leaderboard. Toggle between individual standings (Gravity earned, pick record, streak) and Fanbase standings (your team's collective accuracy vs. every other fanbase, across daily, weekly, monthly, season, and all-time cuts).
• Feed — community activity: picks, results, challenge outcomes, streak milestones, parlay hits. React or follow from here. Three views: Everyone, Following, and My Teams.

On desktop, the Treemap is always visible as the background. Activating a tab slides the corresponding panel in from the left without leaving the live view. Clicking the active tab again collapses the panel back to full Treemap.

Your Orbit

Tap your avatar pill in the top-right corner to enter your Orbit — a full-page 3D destination centered on your planet. From here you can access four sections via overlay:

• Customize — change your planet color and type, add trails, satellites, a mascot, data rings, and a highlights screen
• Receipts — your curated trophy case of best picks
• Badges — all earned badges across every category
• Stats — your full pick history, accuracy, streaks, and sport breakdown

The in-scene HUD at the bottom of the Orbit view lets you navigate to your Space Station, check live scores, browse news and odds, enter Fly Mode, and track your planet's evolution — without leaving the 3D view.

Your Profile

Tap the caret next to your avatar and select My Profile, or tap any username anywhere in the app. Your profile shows your identity card with pick record, badges, receipts preview, and team allegiances. Anyone can visit your profile or your Orbit directly via your username link.

2. News, Scores & Odds

The Fan Orbit is your sports home base. Open it up and you'll find the latest news across every sport: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college, Premier League, MLS, and more. Follow your favorite teams to personalize what you see first.

Live scores update throughout the day. Odds are pulled in real time so you can see the lines before you make your picks. Everything lives in one place.

3. Make Picks

Pick the winner of any game. No spreads, no point totals. Just pick who wins. Every correct pick earns you Gravity, the currency that powers everything on The Fan Orbit.

The Daily Slate

Every day, 3 featured games appear as Today's Slate. The same 3 games for every user, so streaks, records, and bragging rights are directly comparable. Pick all 3 to keep your streak alive. Get all 3 right for a bonus.

The Lock System

Every pick starts at Lock 1 (standard). Feeling confident? Upgrade your lock level before the game starts.

Lock Level	If Correct	If Wrong	Limit
🔒 Lock 1	+1G	No penalty	Unlimited
🔒🔒 Lock 2	+2G	-1G	Unlimited
🔒🔒🔒 Lock 3	+3G (+4G Pro/HOF)	-2G	1 per day

Lock 3 is your Lock of the Day. Use it wisely. You can change your lock level up or down anytime before the game starts.

Want a second Lock of the Day? Purchase Extra 3-Lock in the Orbit Shop for 10 Gravity. It lasts 7 days and gives you 2 Lock of the Day picks per day instead of 1.

Underdog Picks

Pick the underdog and you earn +1 bonus Gravity if they pull off the upset. This stacks with your lock level, so a Lock 3 underdog upset pays +4G (or +5G for Pro/HOF).

Parlay Chains

Chain 2 to 5 picks together into a parlay. All legs must hit for the payout. The more legs, the bigger the multiplier.

4. Gravity

Gravity is the currency that powers The Fan Orbit. You earn it by being right. It can't be bought with real money and can't be cashed out. The competition is real because all Gravity must be earned.

How You Earn Gravity

Action	Gravity
Correct pick (Lock 1)	+1G
Correct pick (Lock 2)	+2G
Correct pick (Lock 3)	+3G (+4G Pro/HOF)
Perfect slate (all 3 correct)	+2G bonus
Underdog upset correct	+1G bonus, stacks with lock level
Rookie Boost (first 5 correct picks)	+3G per correct pick
Win a challenge wager	+opponent's wager amount
Streak milestones	+2G to +100G, grows with streak length

How You Lose Gravity

Action	Gravity
Wrong pick (Lock 1)	No penalty
Wrong pick (Lock 2)	-1G
Wrong pick (Lock 3)	-2G
Lose a challenge wager	Your wager amount

What You Spend Gravity On

• Orbit Shop cosmetics: trails (25G), mascot (130G), highlights screen (175G), celebrations (60 to 120G), data rings (100G)
• Extra 3-Lock: 10G for a second Lock of the Day pick for 7 days
• Extra Parlay Slot: 15G to run 4 active parlays instead of 3 for 7 days
• Feed Pin: 20G to pin a receipt to the top of your profile for 7 days
• Constellation Message: 25G to write a message in the stars behind your planet, up to 30 characters
• Streak Shields: protect your streak if you miss a day, 30G each, hold up to 2
• Challenge wagers: put Gravity on the line against friends, winner takes all

5. Streaks

Your streak tracks consecutive days completing the Daily Slate. Pick all 3 games every day to keep it alive. Miss a day and it resets to zero.

• Streak Shields protect your streak for one missed day. Hold up to 2 at a time, 30G each in the Orbit Shop.
• Milestone celebrations at Days 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 50, 100, 200, and 365, with Gravity bonuses that grow the longer your streak runs.
• Your streak counter shows on your profile and changes color as it grows.
• Morning email reminders warn you when your streak is at risk.

6. Challenges

Challenge any user to a head-to-head picking competition. Both players pick the same set of games. Whoever gets more correct wins.

Wagers

Put Gravity on the line. Both players put up the same amount and the winner takes it all. Choose a preset (Friendly at 10, Competitive at 25, High Stakes at 50) or set any custom amount up to your balance.

Group Challenges

Create a group challenge and invite up to 8 friends. Everyone picks the same games and the pot splits among the top finishers. Creating group challenges requires the Hall of Fame tier, but anyone can join one.

7. The Orbit

Tap your avatar pill in the top-right corner to enter your Orbit — a full-page 3D space centered on your planet. Four sections are accessible from here as overlays:

• Customize — trails, satellites, a space mascot, data rings (news, schedule, odds), and a highlights screen. All purchasable with Gravity in the Orbit Shop.
• Receipts — your curated trophy case of best picks, displayed over your planet.
• Badges — every badge you've earned, organized by category.
• Stats — full pick history, accuracy by sport, streak records, and challenge history.

The GlobeView HUD at the bottom of the Orbit screen lets you switch between your planet, your Space Station, live scores, news, odds, Fly Mode, and your planet's Evolution track — all without leaving the 3D view.

• Your Planet is procedurally generated and evolves through 10 discrete stages as you earn Gravity: Pebble, Flood, Shore, Awakening, Terrestrial, Living World, Aurora, Polar, Legend, and Apex. Each stage is a distinct visual leap — starting as bare rock and ending with polar auroras, ice caps, and companion moonlets in orbit. A ceremony fires when you hit a new stage. Terrain features reflect your history (golden peaks for wins, reddish craters for losses) and stat moons orbit alongside your stats.
• Your Space Station is a personal interior you walk through with WASD controls on desktop or a virtual joystick on mobile. Decorate with wall art, banners, rugs, a YouTube video, and a Spotify or Apple Music player. Visit other users' stations via their profile link.
• Fly Mode lets you descend to your planet's surface in a ship with altitude and speed controls.

8. Badges

Earn badges across 6 categories: prediction milestones, streak achievements, challenge accomplishments, community engagement, special events, and tier status. Badges display on your profile, share cards, and the Hall of Fame section of The Board.

9. Receipts

Pin your best winning picks as receipts. This is your curated trophy case, displayed on your profile. Each receipt uses a receipt-stub design with monospace scores and a "CALLED IT" stamp. Share them as images. Pinned receipts also appear as glowing markers on your planet surface.

• Save a receipt from any winning pick: on the pick card, in your profile, or from the Last Night recap
• Your receipt case holds 10 (free) or 25 (Pro/HOF) receipts
• Pin one receipt to the top of your profile for 7 days for 20G
• Earn badges at 1, 5, 10, and 25 receipts

10. Feed & Community

The feed shows live activity across The Fan Orbit: picks, results, lock-level calls, upsets, challenge outcomes, and parlay hits. React to events with fire, skull, crown, or clown.

Three feed views: Everyone shows all activity, Following shows people you follow, and My Teams shows activity from fans who share your favorite teams.

Game Rooms show live consensus, scores, and pick status for games in progress.

11. Rivals

Challenge someone 3 times and you become rivals. The Rivals tab under Compete shows all your rivalries with full stats: challenge record, aggregate pick record, accuracy comparison, and total Gravity exchanged. Hit the rematch button to keep the rivalry going.

12. Last Night Recap

Open the app in the morning and get a quick summary of how you did. You'll see your record, each pick's result, and your current streak. Shows once per day and auto-dismisses after a few seconds. You can also save winning picks as receipts directly from the recap.

13. The Board

The Board is the leaderboard. Use the toggle at the top to switch between individual standings and Fanbase standings. Individual rankings show Gravity earned, pick record, and streak. Fanbase standings rank every team's collective accuracy across daily, weekly, monthly, season, and all-time cuts — something is always moving.

14. Fanbases

A Fanbase is the collective of all Fan Orbit users who share a primary team allegiance — the Lakers Fanbase, the Eagles Fanbase, the Yankees Fanbase. Your picks don't just affect your personal rank; they count toward your Fanbase's standing against every other team's fanbase on the platform.

Pick your primary team per sport during onboarding (one per league, with a one-week cooldown to change). You'll see your Fanbase's current rank on your profile, on the Board, and on your planet — a subtle atmosphere tint and SDF flag mark your allegiance. The moment you join, you're mid-competition.

• Fanbase standings update daily across five timeframes: today, this week, this month, this season, and all-time
• Public standings are browsable at /standings and per team at /fanbase/team
• When your Fanbase enters the top 10 or moves significantly, it posts to the feed automatically
• Your ordinal rank within your Fanbase appears on your profile — "Nth fan of the Lakers"

15. Tiers

The Fan Orbit offers three tiers. Paid tiers are one-time purchases. No subscriptions. No renewals. No surprise charges.

16. Referrals

Refer 3 friends who each complete a challenge and make 10+ picks, and you earn the Hall of Fame tier permanently, plus a Pioneer badge. That's a $29.99 value, earned by growing the community.