About Promethium

Promethium didn’t start as a business plan. It started as a bet between a father and son.

Six years ago, my dad and I were looking for a way to make the Super Bowl more interesting — especially in the years we didn’t much care who was playing. So we made a deal: we’d each draft a fantasy team out of that one game, loser buys dinner. Simple as that. It worked. Suddenly even a lopsided blowout had something riding on it, and we had a genuinely great time doing it. We liked the rules so much that, years later, they’re still basically unchanged — the same draft format that decided a dinner bill now anchors our very first full season league.

Why we built it

For years, this stayed a friendly competition between my father and me. That changed with a conversation at a bar. I told a friend about our little ritual, and he didn’t just think it was fun — he wanted in, and he wanted to know how he could run his own. That was the push I needed. We decided it was worth building for real, so I set out to turn a scrappy spreadsheet habit into an actual product. It took a lot longer than I expected, and I learned more than I bargained for — but that’s exactly what made it fun.

What's next

Now Promethium is live, our first annual league is underway, and we’re having a blast watching everyone bring their own strategy to a format we used to run by hand. We’re only a few weeks in, and already it’s clear this is bigger than one Super Bowl bet. We’re excited to see where it goes from here.