Once again, we are back with another big national with Big House 4! Fortunately, Robin “Juggleguy” Harn has closed registration early, so that fantasy drafts can be done early. With that being said, here’s a template for you and your friends to use.

Link here

As a quick recap, here’s a “how to play” Fantasy Smash guide

What is Fantasy Smash?

Similar to sports, a fantasy league helps add excitement and tests the knowledge of each player’s skill level. For a tournament, each person drafts players that they believe will do the best in the given tournament. The person will be given a certain number of points depending on how well the player performs. The team with the most points wins the fantasy draft

Prize Distribution

If you are playing for $$,  give out 70% for 1st and 30% for 2nd (you can adjust %s for # of entrants to whatever you see fit)

How to Play:

Step 1: Get the Template from Google Docs

Link here

Step 2: Find a group of smashers

Gather a group of fellow Smash Enthusiasts, wager a little money ($10-20) to keep it entertaining and start a draft pool!

Step 3: Determine the Draft order

There are some inherit advantages to picking in a particular spot, so to ensure that there is a fair system in place, you can bid for the preferred spot in the auction at the expense of losing points in the end.

For example, I bid 36 points for 1st Pick. Peter bids 40 pts. As a result, Peter wins the 1st pick, but will lose 40 pts in his final point total

You can decide how to determine this, but typically doing an auction for each pick is the fairest as it ensures that everyone had a chance to get whatever pick they wanted. The point distribution (See below) tends to favor the people who pick 1st or 2nd, so as a precautionary measure, the auction for position seems to be the most fair.

Step 4: Draft!

Once the pick order is done, you can begin drafting. The 1st pick should pick his player and then contact/poke the next player in line to make their pick. This process should be done for 8-10 rounds (depending on the # of relevant notable players entering the tournament)

The order of a draft is snake style. A player who gets the 1st pick of a particular round will be the last one to pick in the following round.

For Example: (4 person draft)
Player A chooses M2K first.
Player B chooses Mang0 second
Player C chooses Dr. PeePee third
Player D chooses HungryBox fourth
Since Player D chose last, he will choose first in the next round
Player D chooses Shroomed 5th, Player C chooses Hax 6th and so on

Step 5: Scoring

Once the tournament is finished, note the placements of each of the players and calculate your final score. The team with the most points wins.

Big House 4 Scoring Template

Placing Points Eliminated
1st 500 Winner of the Big House 4
2nd 450 Eliminated in Grand Finals
3rd 410 Eliminated in Loser’s Finals
4th 380 Eliminated in Loser’s Semis
5th 350 Eliminated in Loser’s R6
7th 320 Eliminated in Loser’s R5
9th 290 Eliminated in Loser’s R4
13th 260 Eliminated in Loser’s R3
17th 230 Eliminated in Loser’s R2
25th 200 Eliminated in Loser’s R1
33rd 150 5th in Phase 2 Bracket Pools
49th 130 7th in Phase 2 Bracket Pools
65th 100 9th in Phase 2 Bracket Pools
97th 70 13th in Phase 2 Bracket Pools
129th 50 17th in Phase 2 Bracket Pools
193rd or Worse 0 Didn’t make it out of Phase 1 Round Robin Pools

Example Scoring

Team A’s players Placing Points
Armada 2nd 450
S2J 7th 320
Silent Wolf 17th 230
DaShizWiz 25th 200
Toph 49th 130
Eddy Mexico 65th 100
Violence Didn’t make pools 0
OkamiBW 97th 70
Bid for position 34
TOTAL Pts: 1466