FutureSports and the NHL Announce Exclusive Partnership to Create Broad-Based Indexes

CME FutureSports Performance Indexes will underpin the world's first index-based hockey futures contracts offered by CME Group

FutureSports, the new independent index administrator transforming professional and college sports statistics into rules-based, benchmark financial indexes, and the National Hockey League (NHL), today announced an exclusive agreement providing FutureSports with official real-time NHL statistics that the company will use to create new broad-based CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI) tailored to NHL teams and players. 
FutureSports Performance Indexes are benchmarks designed to systematically measure the cumulative performance of teams and athletes in prominent sports leagues. The play-by-play indexes that move throughout the course of each game within the upcoming season will provide hedging vehicles and new investment opportunities.
CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives exchange, will be listing monthly and quarterly cash-settled futures contracts, pending regulatory review, based on the CME FSPI NHL benchmarks in time for the 2026-2027 season.

I think that's pretty clear. What surprises me about this is that the NHL is the first sport to come in on this venture, and the NHL is not usually first at doing things. (I literally went outside to touch grass after reading that.)

If you are unfortunate enough to be an elite pre-draft player, you get to play hockey in August:

I scrolled down this post, saw the gist in one chart, shook my head sadly and said, yup, it's August (that's why we do the T25):

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And today is the gone from the list post, drop by and remember some guys you didn't even know were gone.

That is it, have a great day.

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