GUIDE · DAILY

The A-Squad Daily Challenge, Streaks and 9:00 ET

Published by A-Squad · Updated September 2026

Every morning at 9:00 Eastern, A-Squad mints one set of six spins and hands the same six to everyone who plays that day. You draft your squad from those spins, we project an 84-game season for it, and your record goes on the daily board beside everyone else who took the same hand. It is the closest thing the game has to a shared rink.

This guide covers how the daily is made, why it rolls over when it does, what counts as your ranked attempt, how streaks build and reset, the check we run on every seed, and how sharing avoids spoilers.

One seed for everyone

The daily is minted on our server at rollover, not on your phone. The seed is tied to the day and to the data pack that was current when it was made, so it cannot drift if we update player statistics later on. Every player who opens the daily gets the same six buckets, in the same order, with the same players available in each. Your re-rolls draw from the same pinned material too, so two people who re-roll the same spin in the same round see the same replacement.

That matters because it turns the daily into a pure test of drafting. In a normal run, part of your record is the spins themselves. In the daily the only variable is what you did with them: which slot you gave to which card, when you spent a re-roll, and whether you noticed the goalie hiding in round four. When you finish above someone on the board, you out-drafted them on identical spins.

Why 9:00 ET

We roll over at 9:00 Eastern because most of our players are in North America and the new spins should be waiting when the day starts. A midnight rollover looks tidy on paper, but it rewards whoever is awake at 12:01 and splits a west-coast evening across two different days. Nine in Toronto is six in Vancouver: the spins are there with the coffee, and nobody stays up for them.

The daily page carries a countdown labelled NEXT SPINS that ticks down to the next rollover in hours, minutes and seconds. When it reaches zero the seed changes, the board starts fresh, and yesterday’s spins are gone. We do not keep past dailies playable, so if you want today’s hand, today is the day to take it.

One ranked attempt

Your first completed daily run is your official one. It is the run that lands on the board, counts toward your streak, and pays the daily coin award. Once it is in, you can play the same spins again as often as you like, but those later attempts are practice: they never move the board, they never overwrite your record, and they never touch your streak. If a second try could replace the first, the board would measure patience rather than drafting.

You do not need an account to rank. Guests draft, submit and appear on the board like anyone else, under a name they choose or simply as a guest. If you sign in later, your guest history follows you to the account, today’s ranked attempt included.

Streaks

A streak counts consecutive days with a ranked daily attempt. Days are counted on the 9:00 ET clock, so a run finished at 8:55 in the morning belongs to yesterday’s daily and a run at 9:05 belongs to today’s. Miss a day and the streak resets to one the next time you play, but your best streak is kept and shown alongside the current one.

Seven days in a row pays a bonus of 50 coins.

Thirty days in a row pays a bonus of 250 coins.

Milestones are paid once, on the day you reach them. Rebuilding a streak after a miss takes real days; there is no shortcut.

Streaks belong to the identity that earned them, and guests can build one before ever signing in. When a guest signs in, the guest streak and any streak already on the account are merged, and the higher of the two is kept, for the current run and for the best. You never lose days by creating an account.

We check every daily

Early on, one daily seed happened to offer a lineup so strong that the obvious pick at each slot produced a perfect 84-0-0 season, and several players on the same board found it. A challenge where the answer is written on the spins is not much of a challenge. So every daily seed is now played out by a solver before it goes live.

The solver takes the candidate spins, plays them out the way a capable drafter would, and reports the best record it finds. If that record is a perfect season, we discard the seed and mint another for the same day, deterministically. We repeat until the solver comes up short of perfection. In plain words: the daily is never a giveaway. A perfect daily is still possible, because the solver is a strong drafter rather than a flawless one, but it will take a read that the obvious line missed.

Coins on the daily

Every completed run earns a small coin award, and the ranked daily adds 15 on top. Finish with a top grade and there is a quality bonus as well: 15 for DYNASTY, 50 for HISTORIC and 250 for a PERFECT season. Awards for runs are capped at 50 coins a day, so grinding the same spins is not a strategy. The streak milestones above sit outside that cap and are paid in full.

One thing coins never do is touch the daily. Coins are earned by playing, never bought, and they spend on extra re-rolls in unranked practice only. The daily and every challenge keep the fixed re-roll budget, and there is nothing to spend inside them.