Loserball is a reverse fantasy sports game that rewards players for predicting poor on-field performances. The 2026 season launch is free to play, offers weekly cash prizes, supports private leagues, and runs through the NFL playoffs.
Loserball flips fantasy football: players pick likely failures—turnovers, missed kicks, poor QBR—and earn points when things go badly.
The 2026 season is free to enter with $1,000 in weekly prizes, weekly contests, private leagues, and a season-long competition through the playoffs.
Loserball is a reverse fantasy sports game that returned for the 2026 NFL season. Instead of rewarding great performances, Loserball awards points when players and teams perform poorly—think turnovers, blown opportunities, missed kicks, and other on-field failures. The game positions itself as a different way to follow football: you win when things go wrong.
Loserball's 2026 launch is free to play. The platform offers weekly free-to-play contests with $1,000 in prizes each week. Players can also create private leagues to play with friends. The season-long competition runs through the NFL playoffs, so selections and scoring carry across regular season and postseason weeks.
Players make weekly selections across categories that track negative outcomes in NFL games. Rather than drafting stars, users pick players or teams they expect to underperform. Points are awarded for measurable failures: bad quarterback games, turnovers, missed kicks, and comparable "catastrophes" on the field. The site maintains weekly contest boards plus tracking for season-long results.
Jonathan Gruber is named as Founder and CEO of Loserball and is quoted framing the concept as valuing the skill in predicting failure as much as predicting greatness. The advisory and leadership team listed in the announcement includes Rick Wolf (FSGA founding board member and two-time Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame inductee), Ed Moed (CEO of Hot Paper Lantern), and advertising creative Ari Merkin. Rick Wolf is also noted as a co-founder of National Fantasy Football Draft Day.
Loserball's prior appearances and recognition include participation in the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association pitch competition and at ICE Barcelona. Media coverage cited in the release includes Yahoo Sports, Action Network, and Gaming Today.
Prizes, play options, and contact details
The release gives a direct call to play at Loserball.com and closes with the branded sign-off: "Stay Terrible. #playloserball." Media contact listed is Ed Moed with an email routed through Hot Paper Lantern.
Visit Loserball.com to review contest rules, sign up for weekly contests, and set up private leagues. If you cover fantasy or social-sports trends, note the free entry model and weekly prize structure when evaluating adoption and player engagement over the early weeks of the NFL season.
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