Draft legends. Let the record prove it.

Four things, all from the same archive. The daily board deals one shared eleven that everybody in the world gets that day. A free run deals you fresh eras every time. Blind draft hides the numbers so you pick on reputation alone. Salary cap gives you a budget and makes you choose who you cannot afford.

To the era when the club game and the international game were already serious competitions, and forward to players still on the pitch. Every card is one real season a player actually had, with the goals, assists, appearances or clean sheets that season produced.

Each season is rated against the football of its own decade, not against today. A striker from a low-scoring era is judged by what leading the line meant then, so his card is not quietly punished for a tactical world he never played in. That is the only comparison that is honest across a century.

The major European leagues where most of the sport's recorded history sits, plus the international game. Each club chapter is identified by its city and years — Manchester, Madrid, Milan and the rest — so the player pool follows the real historical era.

One eleven, live for the calendar day, identical for everyone who opens it. You draft it once, the season runs, and your result goes on that day's shared table. It is the version worth arguing about, because your friend faced exactly the same choices you did.

Yes, and skipping one is the classic way to lose a season you should have won. A keeper is scored on clean sheets rather than goals, so the seat cannot be filled with a famous attacker — it has to be filled with someone who actually kept them out.

446 clubs are on the board — the broadest pool on the site by some distance — each split into its real eras. That breadth is why a spin can land anywhere from a Spanish giant of the 2000s to an English side of the 1970s.

Yes. An all-time eleven can hold a 1970s defender beside a modern forward, because each seat comes from the era spun rather than from a single season's squad.

Shape. An eleven that is all attackers has nothing behind it when the season runs, so the board rewards filling the spine — goalkeeper, centre-back, midfield — before spending picks on the famous names further forward.

No, and with the widest club list here you are more likely to be dealt a era you remember than one you do not. Knowing one league's history deeply is a genuine advantage whenever the reel lands there.

FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, PFA Team of the Year and the rest. Soccer keeps no single hall of fame, so competition honours are the entire record of what a player was thought to be.

From 1929, across leagues that developed separately and rarely met. There is no single hall of fame, so the competition record itself is the measure of a career.