Fantasy Dota



Fantasy Dota is a feature that lets players create their own team of professional players within a Fantasy League, and compete with other players in the league based on points earned by their team. Points are earned whenever a professional player participates in any Tournament match. It is similar to Fantasy Baseball.

Various in-game rewards can be earned by participating in Fantasy Dota. Dota Plus members may earn shards by participating in Fantasy Dota for the Dota Pro Circuit.

General Information

 * Players can create one Fantasy League each after purchasing a ticket.
 * Players who have a ticket can join any number of leagues.
 * Each league can hold up to 10 members, therefore 10 teams.
 * After a league is created, players can invite friends for a timed Live Draft to select professional players for their Fantasy Teams.
 * Each professional player can only be drafted by one person.
 * Players who miss the drafting time will have randomly selected team members.
 * Members who miss the Live Draft will have random players picked by the system.
 * Players who have been kicked out of a league will have their Fantasy Season ticket refunded.


 * The system will automatically match teams in the same league against each other every week.
 * The team with the most points at the end of the week (Sunday at midnight) wins that round.
 * Settings, including scoring can be customized by the league commissioner (the player who created the league).


 * Valve provides an official web interface for tracking Fantasy statistics.

Roster



 * Each team can have up to 8 players.
 * Rosters can be changed once per day.
 * Team members are locked for the day once that individual has started scoring.

Roles

 * Professional players are categorized into Core and Support roles.
 * Core: Mid-lane, off-lane, or carry players.
 * Support: Support players.
 * Roles do not affect scoring.
 * Each Fantasy Team must include the following combination of professional players by their roles:

Free Agents

 * Teams can drop a professional player from its roster and pick up another player that is not owned by any other team (a "free agent").
 * These requests are processed nightly.
 * Only one request can be active at a time.
 * If multiple teams attempt to pick up the same player, priority is given to the team with the worst record.
 * Player trading is not currently supported.

Scoring


Each professional player will earn a score based on their in-game performance. After each match, a team's score is the total sum of all its 5 active members.


 * In a best-of-three series, each player earns points only for their highest-scoring games.
 * Winning or losing does not affect a player's score.
 * Stand-ins will not earn any points.
 * Matches played in Premium and Professional tournaments count towards players' scores.
 * By default, Premium tournaments count for 100% points and Professional Tournaments count for 25% points.

Default Score Chart

 * Score values can be customized by the league commissioner.

History

 * An early version of Fantasy Dota was included with The International 2013 Interactive Compendium, but was not considered a separate feature.