Basket Wars
userpaper modeWeekly seasons, categories, ranking metrics, and share cards — all simulated.
Season structure
Basket Wars runs in weekly seasons: Monday 00:00 UTC through Sunday 23:59 UTC. Standings on the Hissboard recompute daily; winners are crowned at Sunday close. Any published Hiss with canonical assets, complete risk notes, and at least two holdings is eligible. Formulas are published and versioned, and never change mid-season.
Categories
| Category | What wins | Measured how |
|---|---|---|
| Top Hiss | Highest simulated return | Time-weighted simulated PnL over the week |
| Safest Hiss | Smallest max drawdown | Simulated peak-to-trough over the week, ballast disclosed |
| Most Forked | Most unique forks this week | Unique forker accounts, anti-sybil filtered |
| Funniest Hiss | Best meme that still ships a valid manifest | Community vote + moderator sanity check |
| Most Cursed | The thesis nobody asked for, executed flawlessly | Community vote among valid manifests |
| Best Thesis | Clearest written thesis and risk disclosure | Rubric-scored completeness, honesty, specificity |
| Best Agent-Built Hiss | Strongest Strategist-generated basket | Deep HISS Score + memo quality rubric |
Ranking metrics
- Simulated PnL — time-weighted return over the season window using oracle prices (mock oracle in the current public build).
- Drawdown — max simulated peak-to-trough over the same window.
- HISS Score — the published composite from HISS Score; the Highest-Score path into Best Agent-Built and Best Thesis rankings.
- Fork counts — unique forkers, deduplicated and sybil-filtered.
Standings show the raw inputs — prices used, timestamps, drawdown paths, fork ledger — not just ranks. If an oracle degrades mid-week, the last valid price carries and the entry is flagged "oracle-degraded" for everyone equally.
Share cards
Every entry gets a share card — an SVG snapshot of the basket, its weights, its HISS Score, and its simulated stats, watermarked "SIMULATED". Cards are built for CT: post the card, catch forks, climb the Most Forked board. Fetch them from GET /api/share-card?slug=… (see the API reference).