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Fantasy Proleague Round 4 Preview
First, congratulations Nikk for winning Fantasy Winner's League with a close finish that was down to the last day's games. Check out the Round 3 thread for any information on that.
With fantasy Winner's League behind us now its time to start looking towards the next round of fantasy proleague. This round brings many new changes and a brand new interface; we're moving to an automated web app this round (no more epic excel spreadsheet's for HotBid to update). This next round should be very exciting and I hope everyone enjoys it. Next round will start April 11th, until then check out Semioldguy's Fantasy WL Playoffs or spend the time planning your team.
Summary:
- You choose 6 players & 1 team that score points when they play well.
- You pick 3 players that lose you points when they play well.
- Players & teams can be traded between weeks for those valued less than them.
Scoring
Scoring will be similar to Round 2 with team points getting a slight boost:
Player Scoring:
Non-Ace Lineup Appearance: 1 Point
Game Win (Ace included): 2 Points
Game Loss (Ace included): -1 Points
Ace Match Appearance: 2 Points
3-Game Win Streak: 1 Point
6-Game Win Streak: 2 Points
9-Game Win Streak: 3 Points
Break Another's Streak: 1 Point
Team Win: 1 Point
DQ/Forfeit: -4 Points
Team Scoring:
3-0 Victory: 8 Points
3-1 Victory: 6 Points
3-2 Victory: 4 Points
2-3 Defeat: 2 Point
1-3 Defeat: 0 Points
0-3 Defeat: -2 Points
Team Selection
Just like last round you will be forming a Main Team consisting of 6 players (1 designated captain, used for tie breakers) and 1 Proleague team costing a maximum of 30 points who will contributed points to your team based on their performance. New to this round however is the addition of a Anti Team, this consists of 3 players costing a Minimum of 13 points; your Anti Team players will be subtracting their point total from your total score (time to start looking for those overpriced players heading in to a slump). Note that the Anti Team and Anti Team selections are not related to each other, you may not however have a player on both your Main Team and Anti Team (you're not stupid right?). Your Main Team must still follow the rule of having one of each race; however the Anti Team is not limited by this restriction so you can pick 3 Protoss players if you so wish.
Trading
Again, just like last round, you will have an oppurtunity each week to trade players from both your Main and Anti teams. Unlike last season however, instead of Semioldguy generating a list of possible trades, each player will have a Trade Value that will fluctuate based on their performance over the course of the round and will start at their cost. Between weeks you can trade any player on your Main Team for someone with a lower (or equal) Adjusted Trade Value. Anti Team trading is the same except you must trade for someone of higher value. Trades are made using an Adjusted Trade Value which takes into account how many games each player has left. You will be limited to a maximum of 2 Main Team trades and 1 Anti Team trade per week and you can not trade away your captain from your Main Team; also, your Main Team must still contain one player of each race.
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Trade Value = (P / (4.56 / 11)) / M * M/11 + C * (11 - M)/11
P = Player's points.
M = number of matches played.
C = Player's original cost
4.56 is the number of points a 1 point cost player is expected to score over the entire round
11 is the total number of matches each team plays in a round.
(4.56 / 11 ~= .41)
Basically, this is figuring out what a player's point cost would be given their current performance (ie someone scoring 4.56 points in one game would have a cost of 11) this is then weighted with their original cost; the weights are percentage of games played for the "new" cost and percentage of games left for the original cost. I hope this makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
As an example let's say
Leta (9 cost) plays in two matches the first week going 1-0 with a Team win in the first match and 2-0 in the second with an ace win and team win (4 pts 1st game, 9 pts 2nd game [3 wins * 2, 2 lineups * 1, 1 ace * 2, 2 team wins * 1, 1 Three Win Streak * 1]) = 13 pts for week 1 with two matches played out of 11 for the round:
T = (13 / .41) / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * (11-2/11)
T = 31.4 / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = ?
T = 15.7 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = (At this point we can see he has an estimated cost of 15.7 if he continues on this scoring trend whereas his original cost is 9--these are then weighted based on games played and games left)
T = 2.85 + 7.4
Trade Value = 10.21 (Leta's trade value at the end of week one with him scoring 13 pts over 2 games)
Trade Value is directly comparable with a players original cost thus someone with a Trade Value of 9 is rated the same as a player that started at Cost 9.
Adjusted Trade Value is what is used in the actual trade calculations and is simply Trade Value * Number of Games Left.
Thus,Leta at 10.21 with 9 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 91.89; say 
free plays one game in week 1 and his new trade value is 9.5 (just picked this randomly fyi), free with 10 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 95. Notice how free's Adjusted Trade Value is higher than Leta's because he has the extra game left to score additional points in.
P = Player's points.
M = number of matches played.
C = Player's original cost
4.56 is the number of points a 1 point cost player is expected to score over the entire round
11 is the total number of matches each team plays in a round.
(4.56 / 11 ~= .41)
Basically, this is figuring out what a player's point cost would be given their current performance (ie someone scoring 4.56 points in one game would have a cost of 11) this is then weighted with their original cost; the weights are percentage of games played for the "new" cost and percentage of games left for the original cost. I hope this makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
As an example let's say
Leta (9 cost) plays in two matches the first week going 1-0 with a Team win in the first match and 2-0 in the second with an ace win and team win (4 pts 1st game, 9 pts 2nd game [3 wins * 2, 2 lineups * 1, 1 ace * 2, 2 team wins * 1, 1 Three Win Streak * 1]) = 13 pts for week 1 with two matches played out of 11 for the round:T = (13 / .41) / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * (11-2/11)
T = 31.4 / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = ?
T = 15.7 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = (At this point we can see he has an estimated cost of 15.7 if he continues on this scoring trend whereas his original cost is 9--these are then weighted based on games played and games left)
T = 2.85 + 7.4
Trade Value = 10.21 (
Leta's trade value at the end of week one with him scoring 13 pts over 2 games)Trade Value is directly comparable with a players original cost thus someone with a Trade Value of 9 is rated the same as a player that started at Cost 9.
Adjusted Trade Value is what is used in the actual trade calculations and is simply Trade Value * Number of Games Left.
Thus,
Leta at 10.21 with 9 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 91.89; say free plays one game in week 1 and his new trade value is 9.5 (just picked this randomly fyi), free with 10 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 95. Notice how free's Adjusted Trade Value is higher than Leta's because he has the extra game left to score additional points in.Groups
This round you will also be able to join groups to be able to compare your results with a smaller subset of the players, for example there might be a staff group, a first time fpl player's group; anything you want to group by.
Interface Preview
Standings Page:
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Fantasy/preview2.jpg)
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Player stats:
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Fantasy/preview1.jpg)
Note that this is showing WL stats, next rounds display will be slightly different
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Team view:
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Fantasy/preview3.jpg)
Standings Page:
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▲T - Main Team score
▼T - Anti Team score
Tr - # of Trades made
Tr± - Point gain/loss from all trades
Day/Week - Point gain this last day/week
Day±/Week± - Rank gain this last day/week
High - Highest rank
W1+ - Rank at the end of week n
▼T - Anti Team score
Tr - # of Trades made
Tr± - Point gain/loss from all trades
Day/Week - Point gain this last day/week
Day±/Week± - Rank gain this last day/week
High - Highest rank
W1+ - Rank at the end of week n
Player stats:
Note that this is showing WL stats, next rounds display will be slightly different
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Wk - Point gain this week
Wk± - Rank gain this last week
LA - Lineup appearances
W-L - Wins/Losses
SB - Streak breaks
TW - Team wins
Cur - Current streak
TrVal - Trade Value
TrVal± - Trade value change this week
Adj TrVal - Trade value adjusted for number of remaining games (TrVal * Games left)
Wk± - Rank gain this last week
LA - Lineup appearances
W-L - Wins/Losses
SB - Streak breaks
TW - Team wins
Cur - Current streak
TrVal - Trade Value
TrVal± - Trade value change this week
Adj TrVal - Trade value adjusted for number of remaining games (TrVal * Games left)
Team view:
All of the table headers are sortable so you can investigate any of the stats that are tracked.
Price List
Be sure to check out next rounds rosters.
Player prices:
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Bisu 11Flash 11
Jaedong 10Leta 9free 8HiyA 8hyvaa 8JangBi 8Light 7Mind 7BeSt 6Iris 6Sea.Really 6YellOw[ArnC] 6Anytime 5Calm 5EffOrt 5fantasy 5great 5July 5Kal 5Luxury 5Sea[Shield] 5sKyHigh 5ZerO 5firebathero 4go.go 4keke 4Much 4Notice 4PianO 4SangHo 4sAviOr 4Shine[kaL] 4Stork 4UpMagiC 4Canata 3fOrGG 3GuemChi 3HoeJJa 3Hwasin 3iloveoov 3Kwanro 3Lomo 3Movie 3NaDa 3Reach 3RorO 3Young 3815 2BackHo 2Bogus 2By.Snow 2Casy 2Child 2Devil 2Doctor.K 2Dongrae 2FireFist 2ggaemo 2GGPlay 2HoGiL 2Hyuk 2HyuN 2Jaehoon 2Juni 2Killer 2Memory 2Midas 2Miracle 2MuJuK 2MVP 2Nbs 2NeeL[fOu] 2oDin 2OO[S.G] 2Orion 2PerfectMan 2Pusan 2Saint 2SaiR 2Tempest 2Thezerg 2ToSky 2type-b 2Violet 2yoOn 2910 1Action 1BaBy 1BoxeR 1by.hero 1Chalrenge 1Chavi 1Clay 1DaezanG 1Fancy 1Favian 1FrOzean 1GanZi 1GosI[Flying] 1HakSoo 1han 1Haran 1herb 1HoOny 1Horang2 1Justin 1koala 1Last 1LuCifer 1maGma 1Modesty 1OversKy 1Peace 1PuMa 1Rage 1Rock 1RuBy 1Say[Join] 1Shark 1Shine 1Shuttle 1SoO 1Neo.G_Soulkey 1Special 1Suny 1Tazza 1Tester 1Trap 1TT 1ZergBong 1ClouD 0fOru 0GoRush 0Sunny 0YellOw 0Team Prices
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Signups should be available within the week (there will be an automated entry form), until then start planning your team
