---
title: "PlayClass"
description: "one class a play reads against the rivals and the tide: table stakes, benchmark, beta, alpha, expansion or hedge; a class is a hypothesis read on the beat, never typed"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/playclass
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# PlayClass

one class a play reads against the rivals and the tide: table stakes, benchmark, beta, alpha, expansion or hedge; a class is a hypothesis read on the beat, never typed

[figure: PlayClass is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | strategy |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `order` | `count` | yes |  |
| `what` | `text` | yes |  |
| `assigned_by` | `text` | yes | the reading that assigns it |
| `decays_to` | [PlayClass](/concepts/playclass) | no | the class it falls to as the rivals copy it |
| `measure` | `text` | yes | what is read to assign it |
| `in_the_sources_words` | `text` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns PlayClass directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.