Games & data
The Tyson Games Starting Lineup
Seven players, seven nicknames, and a set of trading cards built from the daily leaderboard. Meet the lineup and the rivalries behind the numbers.
After looking at the daily leaderboard, I started thinking about the players as a sports team. We have specialists, consistent finishers, and challengers closing in on the favorites. That seemed like a good excuse to make trading cards.
Here is a first set of seven, complete with nicknames, strength radars, and statistics on the back. Select a name to see that player's card. The nicknames are for fun; the results come from the same October 5–17 snapshot as the original analysis.
Front
2026
Opponents beaten · center 0% / edge 100%
Tyson
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| Daily game / mode | Starts | Wins | Top 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector Deck · Basic | 13 | 3 | 10 |
| Vector Deck · Advanced | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| Vector Deck · Valerie | 13 | 10 | 13 |
| Target Number · 24 (1–13) | 13 | 6 | 11 |
| Target Number · Krypto | 13 | 2 | 12 |
| Pineapple · Daily | 13 | 3 | 5 |
| Wordgrid · Daily | 13 | 0 | 6 |
| Glyph Shift · Regular | 13 | 0 | 0 |
— = no results in this period
Public daily results, October 5–17, 2026. Radar values average the share of opponents beaten on each played board, counting ties as half. Unplayed modes have no plotted value. Podiums include wins. Card numbers identify the collection, not leaderboard rank.
The rivalries behind the cards
Individual cards tell only part of the story. The interesting part is how these players match up with each other.
Pattern Master vs. The Benchmark
I won 34 boards to Joyce's 28, but she earned more leaderboard points: 767 to my 747. My strongest results were concentrated in Advanced and Valerie Vector Deck, with ten wins in each. Joyce reached the podium 85 times to my 68. Our contest is about whether winning more often can make up for finishing farther back on the other days—or in my case, in the other games.
The sisters' championship
Joyce and Candice took the top two places in Glyph Shift on all 13 days. Candice edged her sister seven wins to six. The median ratio between second and third place was about five to one in raw game score. We were all on the same leaderboard, but these two had a remarkably close contest of their own at the top.
The Word Hunter breaks through
Joyce won 12 of 13 Wordgrid boards. ddz finished second for seven consecutive days, then took first on October 17: 1,823 to 1,758. A 65-point win is a good ending for this set of cards, and a good starting point for the next chapter of that rivalry.
Hao: the Number Wizard's home court
Krypto is where Hao sets the pace. He won eight of the 13 boards and reached the podium on every one. Joyce and I had two wins each; Candice took the remaining one. Switch to Target Number 24, though, and the contest gets much closer: I won six boards to Hao's five, and we each reached the podium 11 times. He has a clear advantage in one arithmetic mode and is right on my heels in the other. The Number Wizard gives the Pattern Master plenty to think about once the shapes turn into numbers.
Victor: the Triple Threat plays spoiler
Victor won three Basic Vector Deck boards in nine starts, matching my three wins in 13. On the nine boards we both played, he finished ahead of me five times. He also won two Target Number 24 boards—the only wins in that mode that did not go to Hao or me. And behind Joyce and Candice in Glyph Shift, Victor finished third eight times in 11 starts. His card has several ways to collect points: beat me at Basic, interrupt the arithmetic rivalry, or take a place just behind the sisters. That is a good case for the Triple Threat name.
Reading the stats
Each radar uses the same eight game and mode axes. Farther from the center means the player beat a larger share of that day's opponents, averaged across the boards they played in that mode. The center is 0% and the outer edge is 100%; tied opponents count as half. This lets us compare games with different scoring systems and field sizes. It measures results relative to this group, rather than an absolute skill rating. Hollow points have fewer than five starts. Unplayed modes stay blank, so leyanlo's smaller set of games does not turn into an invented eight-sided profile.
A start is one recorded daily result in a game or mode. A win is a first-place finish, and a podium is any top-three finish, including a win. Tied finishes use the leaderboard's published ranks. A dash means the player had no results in that mode during this period; it is not a loss.
These are 13-day totals, spanning parts of two weekly leaderboards, rather than current standings or career records. The full sample contains 574 public results across 104 daily boards and 16 players; this collection features seven of them. The card numbers are collection numbers, not ranks. The results may change the next time we do this, and the nicknames may have to change with them.
Sources: the original analysis, the public results CSV, and the Tyson Games leaderboards.