Glossary
The fantasy terms you'll see in Onze.
Playing
- Onze
- Portuguese and French for eleven, the size of a soccer team.
- League
- The competition a group plays together, created and run by one of them.
- Manager
- A person playing a league. Each manager runs one team.
- Commissioner
- A manager who runs the league and sets its rules. A league can have more than one.
- Squad, or roster
- Every player a team owns, starters and substitutes.
- Starting XI, or starting lineup
- The players who score this round. XI is soccer for eleven.
- Formation
- How soccer starters are arranged: defenders, midfielders, forwards.
- Captain
- The soccer starter whose points count double.
- Vice-captain
- The backup captain, doubled if the captain does not play.
- League pts
- A team's season total in a league, under its house rules.
- Pts
- One player's points, or one team's points in a single round.
- Squad pts
- What every player a team owns scored, bench included, whether or not they started.
- Round, week or matchday
- One block of real fixtures that scores together.
- Live
- A match in play now, its points still moving.
- Provisional
- Scores that can still change, because a match is unfinished or its stats aren't in yet.
- Final
- Scores of a round whose every match has finished with its stats in.
- Corrected
- A final round whose stats were corrected later, listed in each league's House rules history.
- Deadline, or lock
- The moment a lineup freezes for the round.
- Fixture difficulty
- The next opponent's current league position: tough in the top quarter, easy in the bottom quarter, medium between.
- Credits
- The budget spent on players in a salary-cap league.
- Price
- What a player costs in credits, set within their position.
- Draft
- An opening event where managers take turns picking from one shared pool.
- Snake draft
- A draft whose pick order reverses every round.
- Mock draft
- A practice draft against the computer, where nothing counts.
- Keeper
- A player held from last season instead of returning to the draft pool.
- Waivers
- A holding period on dropped players, with claims settled together.
- Trade
- A swap of players between two teams in the same league.
- Gameweek
- Set a new lineup and captain every round.
- Best Ball
- You pick the squad; we play your best legal lineup every round.
- Head-to-head
- The mode where each team faces one other manager per round.
- Round-robin
- The fixture pattern where everyone plays everyone once.
- W / D / L
- Wins, draws and losses.
- Survivor
- The mode where teams below the round's median are knocked out.
- Bonus points
- The 3, 2 and 1 extra points for a soccer match's three best performers.
- Clean sheet
- A soccer keeper or defender ending a match with no goals conceded.
- FLEX
- A starting slot for a running back, wide receiver or tight end.
- D/ST
- Defense and special teams, started as a single player.
- QB, RB, WR, TE, K
- Quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end, kicker.
- IR slot
- An injured-reserve slot, where a parked player scores nothing.
- PPR
- Points per reception: a point per catch under full PPR, half a point under half PPR.
- Bye week
- The week an NFL team does not play, so its players score nothing.
- Discover
- The page listing public leagues anyone can join.
- Pin
- Marking a league as a regular so it sorts to the top of the lobby.
- Report
- Flagging a team name or message to the moderators.
- Block
- Hiding another manager so they can no longer reach you.
Chips
- Chip
- A once-a-season power-up that changes one thing about one round.
- Wildcard
- The chip that makes every move free for one round.
- Free hit
- The chip that gives one free round, then restores the old squad.
- Bench boost
- The chip that scores the substitutes as well as the starters.
- Triple captain
- The chip that pays the captain triple instead of double.
House rules
- House rules
- A league's own settings, readable by every manager from the league page.
- Ruleset
- Every scoring and roster setting a league runs on.
- Constitution
- The written record of a league's rules and every change to them.
- Lock cadence
- Which clock a league locks against: once a round, or each kickoff.
- Salary cap
- The fixed budget every squad is built from.
- Waiver priority
- The order that settles waiver claims in a league that does not bid.
- FAAB
- Free agent acquisition budget: a pot of pretend money for waiver bids.
- Veto
- Canceling a trade the two managers had already agreed.
- Vote
- A rule change a manager proposes mid-season and the league votes on.
- Division
- A group of teams inside a bigger league, with its own table.
- Playoffs
- An optional knockout at the end of the season.
- Custom bonuses
- Extra points a commissioner invents on top of the standard scoring.
- Punishments
- Points a commissioner takes away for something embarrassing.
- Bench composition
- How substitutes are counted: a plain list, or named slots by position.
Match stats
Attacking G = Goals A = Assists SOT = Shot on Target SOFF = Shot off Target PW = Penalty Won PM = Penalty Missed
Defending CS = Clean Sheet OG = Own Goal TCK = Tackle INT = Interception GC = Goals Conceded
Discipline YC = Yellow Card RC = Red Card FD = Foul Drawn FC = Foul Committed PC = Penalty Conceded 2Y = Red Card (2nd Yellow) OFS = Offside
General SV = Saves MIN = Minutes Played PSV = Penalty Saved
Next-fixture codes
- @ BOT
- Away to the club with code BOT.
- vs MIR
- At home against the club with code MIR.
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