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Fantasy NASL A fantasy league based on the North American StarLeague playable at http://fantasystarcraft.net/ .
Introduction
A fantasy league is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport. This guide provides detailed statistics and analysis to maximize your chances for winning season 1 of fantasy NASL.
More information
Official Fantasy NASL teamliquid thread
Fantasy NASL rules
NASL format
NASL results & standings
NASL player spreadsheet by Bobster
Detailed work sheet
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/D8eWll.jpg)
Salary cap analysis
The entire NASL league is valued at 8350![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/a/a4/Minerals.gif) , but each fantasy team is restricted to a salary cap of 1500. There are 51 players (including 1 open winner) in the league distributed into 5 divisions. Players available for draft are:
+ Show Spoiler +- 500 : 1 player
- 400 : 1 player
- 350 : 1 player
- 300 : 2 player
- 250 : 9 player
- 200 : 8 player
- 150 : 9 player
- 100 : 6 player
- 50 : 14 player (including 1 open winner)
3 points are awarded for each division match win and 5 for every grand final match win, while 1 point is deducted for every lost. No points are awarded or deducted for playoff matches. Additionally, 12 points are awarded for top two seed in each division. Total points awarded league-wide for division play will be between 1020 and 1470 points, with additional 148 to 232 points for the grand final bracket, for a grand total of 1168 to 1702 points possible league-wide.
The expected value of a 1500 team is between 211 and 308 points. For example, a team that drafted nine 150, one 100, and one 50 player with 50% overall winrate and two players advancing to ro8 of the grand finals will score approximately 216 to 326 points. For an average team, each point is valued at between 4.9 and 7.1.
Points system analysis
The points distribution chart provide detail cost comparison for the players in various scenarios. Yellow cells indicate a player overperform his salary, gray cells perform roughly as expected, while red cells indicate the player underperform his valuation. It is important to note that a particularly low performing player can actually deduct points from the team total. A play that sweeps the tournament can score up to 111 points, a player that lost all sets will be deducted -18.
Division Play
+ Show Spoiler +- 9 wins: 49.5 (45 ~ 54) points
- 8 wins: 43.5 (38 ~ 49) points
- 7 wins: 37.5 (31 ~ 44) points
- 6 wins: 31.5 (24 ~ 39) points
- 5 wins: 25.5 (17 ~ 34) points
- 4 wins: 19.5 (10 ~ 29) points
- 3 wins: 13.5 (3 ~ 24) points
- 2 wins: 7.5 (-4 ~ 19) points
- 1 win: 1.5 (-11 ~ 14) points
- 0 win: -4.5 (-18 ~ 9) points
Additional 12 points are awarded for top two seed in division play.
Grand Final
+ Show Spoiler +Consolatory match are played to determine 3rd/4th placement. - 1st: 51.5 (48 ~ 55) points
- 2nd: 36.5 (27 ~ 46) points
- 3rd: 35 (28 ~ 42) points
- 4th: 23 (12 ~ 34) points
- ro8: 10 (7 ~ 10) points
- ro16: 0.5 (-2 ~ 3) points
The minimum division wins needed to to justify player salary:
- 50: 2 wins
- 100: 4 wins
- 150: 5 wins
- 200: 6 wins (or 5 wins + top 2 seed)
- 250: 7 wins (or 5 wins + top 2 seed)
- 300: 6 wins + top 2 seed
- 350: 7 wins + top 2 seed
- 400: 9 win + top 2 seed (automatic)
- 500: round of 8 in Grand Finals
Division comparisons
No division are particularly imbalanced in race distribution. Additionally, each division has exactly two Koreans, one 'underdog', and one 'fan favorite.' All divisions are valued roughly equally, except for Division 3, which has a total salary of 1250 compared to the average 1700 of other divisions.
Expert advice
- The lower salary players are overall better value with significant upside potential. However, care should be taken to avoid any player that may end up winless.
- Division 3 are particularly undervalued, load up on the cheap points available in that division. A complete draft of division 3 will provide at least 200 to 255 points with 250 left in the salary cap.
- Keep in mind that division play tend to produce more 5-5 players than 0 or 10 wins.
- Pick many dark horses, one luckly pick can net up to 111 points. This fantasy system inherently favors quantity over quality.
Expert picks
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 Sheth - Best 50 contender in division A with very high TLPD.I value; strong against ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Picon_small.png) .
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 KiWiKaKi - Best 150 contender in division A; Very high TLPD.I value and in very good form; recently placed 2nd MLG Dallas and likely top seed for this division.
 qxc - 150 in division B; Perform well in recent tournaments using constant aggression; ability to play from behind implies high win rate. Very high TLPD.I value with consistent participation in online and offline tournaments; likely to qualify into Grand Finales through the playoffs.
- All of division C are high value targets and likely to overperform.
- HasuObs - highest TLPD.I ranking for 50. Likely darkhouse for division D.
- BRAT_OK - 200 in division D; highest overall TLPD.I and consistent high tournament finishes.
- Open Bracket Winner - Good for completing the salary cap; near guranteed points with zero downside.
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Division & Player Stats
Division 1 - 1600
3 2![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) 4![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Zicon_small.png) 1![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ricon_small.png)
+ Show Spoiler +Cost: 50 Sheth - FXOpen, USA ViBE - sixjax Gaming, USA Artosis - sixjax Gaming, USA Cost: 150 KiWiKaKi - ROOT Gaming, Canada Grubby - independent, Netherlands Cost: 200 TLO - Team Liquid, Germany Fenix - Fnatics, Peru Cost: 250 Moon - WeMadFOX, Korea MorroW - Mousesports, Sweden RainBOw - StarTale, Korea
Division 2 - 1850
4 3 3 0
+ Show Spoiler +Cost: 50 DarKFoRcE - Team ALTERNATE, Germany MoMaN - Cyber Nation, France Cost: 150 CrunCher - Complexity Gaming, USA qxc - FXOpen, USA iNcontroL - Evil Geniuses, USA Cost: 200 TT1 - Fnatics, Canada SjoW - team-dignitas, Sweden Ensnare - Old Generation Starcrafters, Korea Cost: 300 White-Ra - Team Duckload, Ukraine Cost: 400 July - StarTale, Korea
Division 3 - 1250
3 4 3 0
+ Show Spoiler +Cost: 50 dde - sixjax Gaming, Canada KawaiiRice - Fnatics, USA Axslav - Evil Geniuses, USA Strelok - Mousesports, Ukraine SLush - ROOT Gaming, Canada Cost: 100 NaNiwa - team-dignitas, Sweden Cost: 150 HayprO - Team Liquid, Sweden Cost: 200 Squirtle - StarTale, Korea mOOnGLaDe - FXOpen, Australia Cost: 350 NaDa - Old Generation Starcrafters, Korea
Division 4 - 1800
3 4 3 0
+ Show Spoiler +Cost: 50 HasuObs - Mousesports, Germany CatZ - ROOT Gaming, Peru Cost: 100 Machine - Evil Geniuses, USA Stalife - Complexity Gaming, Canada Cost: 150 GoOdy - ESC Gaming, Germany SeleCT - team-dignitas, USA Cost: 200 BRAT_OK - Radical Online X-tremists, Russia Cost: 250 Ace - StarTale, Korea Ret - Team Liquid, Netherlands Cost: 500 MC - Old Generation Starcrafters, Korea
Division 5 - 1750
3 4 3 0
+ Show Spoiler +Cost: 50 MaNa - Mousesports, Poland Cost: 100 Socke - Team ALTERNATE, Germany ClouD - Meet Your Makers, Italy PainUser - Lazarus Gaming, USA Cost: 150 Drewbie - ROOT Gaming, Canada Cost: 200 Tyler - Team Liquid, USA Cost: 250 Sen - Fnatics, Taiwan Zenio - Old Generation Starcrafters, Korea BoxeR - SlayerS, Korea Cost: 300 IdrA - Evil Geniuses, USA
Cost: 50
Open Bracket Winner
+ Show Spoiler + Rating Service |
TLPD International |
TLPD Korea |
GosuGamers ELO |
SC2 Money Rankings |
SC2Ranks World Ranking: Season 1 |
Fantasy NASL Salary |
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FAQ
Should I draft MC?
There is no doubt that MC is the favorite to sweep the tournament and the most likely to achieve a full 111 points. If he did not drop a single game, his points are valued at 4.5 per, a comparably bargain. However, the downside is quite high if MC falls even slightly short of perfect. Comparable value can be achieved with an 8 win ro8 finish for a 300 player, with much lower downside. Furthermore, betting a third of your salary cap on MC means your team's performance rise and falls with MC, a comparatively risky move with low multipler.
Should I just fill up with 50![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/a/a4/Minerals.gif?) and 100 players
A high yield bet, but chances are a few of lowest value players will end up at the bottom of the bracket. Not only will they underperform, they can quiet possibly end up deducting points from your team total.
Wouldn't drafting an completely unknown open winner be risky and losing out on the division points?
The worst possible standing the open winner can do is -2, while a division player can possibly end up with -18 points. Therefore relatively speaking open winner is a safer bet, and almost guaranteed to be better than fallowing 50. Here are the cost pf points earned by an open winner in the grand finals:
- 1st: 1.0
- 2nd: 1.4
- 3rd: 1.4
- 4th: 2.2
- ro8: 6.0
- ro16: 0
Disclaimer: I have no affliation with www.fantasystarcraft.net .
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i think the cost for players need major editing... whoever made it has a very large NA bias and seems to know next to nothing about europeans: Mana, socke, cloud, naniwa, hasu, strelok are all way too cheap and incontrol, grubby, fenix seem overpriced
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naniwa and kiwikaki are quite a bargain. I guess everyone will buy them.
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I wish this guy was an oddsmaker
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This would be awesome if the player values weren't COMPLETELY out of whack.
I also am not really fond of being able to get (or so it seems) as many players as you want.
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Like many said before me the prices are really interesting for some players to not get them :'d. I'll pay 50 for Artosis or all the cheap Europeans. For th people that are interested in the prices.
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500 - MC
400 - July
350 - Nada
300 - White-Ra
300 - IdrA
250 - Ace
250 - Sen
250 - Rainbow
250 - Ret
250 - Boxer
250 - Morrow
250 - Moon
250 - Zenio
250 - SjoW
200 - Tyler
200 - Ensnare
200 - mOOnglade
200 - TT1
200 - Fenix
200 - TLO
200 - Brat_Ok
200 - Squirtle
150 - QXC
150 - Haypro
150 - SeleCT
150 - Grubby
150 - KiWiKaKi
150 - Cruncher
150 - Drewbie
150 - Goody
150 - iNcontroL
100 - Naniwa
100 - Machine
100 - Socke
100 - PainUser
100 - ClouD
100 - Stalife
50 - CatZ
50 - KawaiiRice
50 - Slush
50 - HasuObs
50 - Mana
50 - Strelok
50 - MoMan
50 - Sheth
50 - Open Tournament Winner
50 - Artosis
50 - Axslav
50 - ViBe
50 - DarkForce
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thanks for the guide it helped a lot
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Wow this guide is well done, excellent work!
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Nice guide, I changed my team a little because of this.
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Edit: Misunderstood rules about open tournament winner.
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Nice guide. Helped me decide my team.
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This is a sweet guide!
We have posted a link to it on our site 
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I have never been able to figure out how to play fantasy, as is reflected in my abysmal SCBW TL FPL scores. Good luck with your fantasy league though.
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I like the guide. And while I know the writer of the guide did not select the price I think that the price setting was done with a fan appeal more so than a skill bias. I.E. more North Americans will know North Americans. Now obviously MC breaks the rule but since he has won 2 GSL's he has gotten a good deal of notoriety. As an example what has naniwa won prior to MLG Dallas? I have no idea I am sure there was something but I don't know what it is. I expect that future price setting of NASL players will adjust based on tournament performance. Also, I believe that July is set waaaaay too high but for me that is based off of one set of games I watched him literally hand to MC. However he also has quite a bit of notoriety.
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Turns out by far the best thing to do was to buy all of the cheap players.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/D8eWl.jpg)
